(单词翻译:单击)
Hello. I'm John Russell.
大家好，我是约翰·罗素。
Let's continue our exploration of consonant sounds.
让我们继续探索辅音。
In a previous video, I described the places where air is blocked in order to form the consonant sounds of American English.
在之前的视频中，我讲到了为了形成美式英语的辅音发音而阻塞空气的位置。
Let's explore one of those places today — the lips.
今天让我们探索一下其中一个位置——嘴唇。
Consonant sounds can involve both lips or the lower lip and upper teeth.
辅音发音可涉及上嘴唇或下唇和上牙。
Let's talk about sounds involving both lips.
让我们来谈谈涉及两个嘴唇的声音。
For sounds /p/, /b/, /m/ are examples of sounds that require you to use both of your lips to block air..
例如/p/、/b/、/m/发音时就需要用上下嘴唇来阻挡气流。
Consider these common American names.
想想这些常见的美国名字。
/p/ as in Paul, /b/ as in Bob, /m/ as in Matt.
比如Paul、Bob、Matt。
Now, let's talk about consonant sounds that involve the bottom lip and the upper teeth.
现在，让我们来谈谈涉及下唇和上牙的辅音。
Common sounds that require you to block air with the lip and teeth are the /f/ and /v/ sounnds.
常见的需要嘴唇和牙齿阻挡空气的音是/f/和/v/的音。
These sounds may be difficult for you, but they are well worth practicing.
这些发音对你来说可能很难，但它们非常值得练习。
They are quite common — think about common words such as far and very. far very
它们很常见，想一想常见的单词，如“far远”和“very 非常”。
You may have noticed something curious about the consonant sounds that I discussed today.
你们可能已经注意到我今天讨论的辅音有一些奇怪的地方。
The English letters are the same as the phonetic spelling.
英文字母和音标的写法一样。
If you have watched the videos on vowel sounds, you know that vowel sounds have many difficult spelling patterns.
如果你看过关于元音发音的视频，你肯定知道元音有很多很难的拼写模式。
So at least with respect to spelling, consonant sounds are not too bad.
所以至少就拼写而言，辅音不算太难。
That's all for today.
以上就是今天的全部内容。
Keep up the good work.
继续加油吧。
