这个贴得仔细回！！

谢谢lilac09的回复，也刚刚听了你的新闻朗读，非常流畅。

 

1. St是Saint的缩写/seint/，mm都发成了/sent/

这个我又听了一遍，确实如妹妹所说，可能某种程度上我就没有把他们区分开来。我有个问题请教：

就是在 Great St. Bernard Pass 这个词组里，是不是Great 和 Pass 应该重读？

2. pAss 这个a在美美中都发bufferfly a的音，象bag中的a，不是"啊"的音，以此类推还有last，past等词，都是同样的，如果您想学美音的话

这个我的嘴张得不够开，发音应该在鼻腔

 

3.privacy - 读的有点不对

这个错在privAcy，我读成EI，好像还加了个R在后面，应该是schwa音。

4. 整体上还可以再流畅一些，mm读的很老实的说：）

这个关系到linking 和intonation，还有弱读等好多问题。我仔细分析了一下三种情况，分别用bold，underline，和highlighted标出。好多还是不能确定，尤其是intonation。如果您有时间，可以帮忙看看。

 

{Two-word phrases, intonation and phrasing; Word connections; The American T} 

Lesson 8 A famous[1] monastery 

What are the St.[2] Bernard[3] dogs used for?

The Great St. Bernard Pass[4] connects Switzerland to Italy.

At 2473 metres, it is the high^(y)est mountain pass[5] in Europe.

The famous monastery of St. Bernard[6], which was founded in the eleventh century, lies about a mile away.  

For hundreds of years, St. Bernard dogs[7] have saved the lives of travelers crossing the dangerous Pass.

These friendly dogs, which were first brought from Asia, were used as watchdogs even in Roman times.

Now that a tunnel has been built through the mountains, the Pass is less dangerous, but each year, the dogs are still sent out into the snow whenever a traveler is in difficulty. 

Despite the new tunnel, there are still a few people who rashly attempt to cross the Pass on foot.

During the summer months the monastery is very busy, for it is visited by thousands of people who cross the Pass in cars.

As there^(y) are so many people about, the dogs have to be kept in a special enclosure.  

In winter, however, life at the monastery is quite different.

The temperature drops to minus 30 degrees and very few people attempt to cross the Pass.

The monks prefer winter to summer for they have more privacy[8].

The dogs have greater freedom, too, for they^(y) are allowed to wander outside their enclosure.

The only regular visitors to the monastery in winter are parties of skiers who go there^(y) at Christmas and Easter.

These young people, who love the peace of the mountains, always receive a warm welcome at St. Bernard’s monastery.

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[1] \ˈfā-məs\

[2]  \ˈsānt\

[3]Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist (1090 – August 20, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order.

[4] Great St Bernard Pass is a pass connecting Martigny, Canton Valais in Switzerland to Aosta in Italy.

[5] \ˈpas\

[6] \ber-ˈnär\, “d” is silent.

[7] The St. Bernard is a very large breed of working dog from the Swiss Alps, originally bred for rescue.

[8] \ˈprī-və-sē\