注意一下:除content word外 (名词,动词,形容词,副词,指示代词),其他的词(介词,连词,代词,冠词,等)如果不是强调,都轻读。下面该轻读得都用斜体标出来了:
`This is the `V`O`A `Special^`English `Economics Re`port.
`Here are some^of the `top eco`nomic `stories^of `two thousand `ten. The `world `continued to `struggle with^a `slow re`covery from the `financial `crisis two years earlier. `Greece ad`mitted to `bigger-than-expected `budget deficits. In`vestors `punished Greece with `much` higher borrowing `costs. The `sixteen `countries that `use the `euro `joined the Inter`national `Monetary `Fund in `offering `loans of^about one hundred forty billion `dollars in `May.
变音:
Of = > / v/
符号表示:
^ 表示连读:some^of
Italics 表示轻读, 例如 to
` 重读音节:`two
_ 失去爆破:thousand, 这个‘d’读得很轻,可以只作它的发音动作,不发出声音来。