「晨读音频」

Hello English learners! Welcome back to our channel. I’m Lily.

大家早上好，欢迎回到我们的频道，我是Lily。

And we’re bringing you another great elementary lesson.

我们带来了另一堂很棒的基础课程。

This lesson is so useful. This is language that you can probably use every single day.

这节课很有用, 能学到一种你每天都可能会用到的语言。

Because today’s topic is small talk.

因为我们今天的主题是small talk。

So, what is small talk?

所以什么是small talk呢？

Well, small talk is small conversation that you would have with people that you don’t know very well.

Small talk 是指你和不太熟悉的人的闲聊或寒暄。

Okay, so, let’s listen to our dialogue we’ll come back in a minute and talk about it.

好的，我们先来听一下对话，再来讨论吧。

「对话文本」

Okay, this is a little bit awkward. Mr. Anderson really didn’t wanna talk to him, did he?

真是有一点尴尬。安德森先生真的不想跟他说话，是吧？

Now let’s look at some pronunciation tips in this dialogue.

接下来我们来看看对话中的发音要点。

「重要发音技巧」

1. I barely even got out of the bed!

连读分析：

got + out + of 之间是两次辅元连读：

got 和 out 之间是一次辅元连读，读作/ ɡɑːt / + / aʊt /。

out 和 of 之间是一次辅元连读，读作/ aʊt / + / ʌv /。

got out of 连起来可以读作 / ɡɑːt / + / aʊt / + / ʌv /。

复述：I barely even got out of the bed!

2. Did you catch the news this morning? I heard that there was a fire on Byron Street.

辅音和半元音连读：

did + you之间是辅音和半元音的连读，/ d / + / j / =  / dʒ /。

复述：Did you catch the news…

失爆分析：

heard + that: heard 的爆破音/d/ 遇见that的辅音 /ð/，气流被堵住，只有口型不发音。一起读成/ hɜːr (d) / + / ðæt /。

that + there: 紧接着，that的爆破音/t/遇见了there的辅音/ð/，气流被堵住，/t/只有口型不发音，一起读成/ ðæ(t) / + / ðər /。

heard + that + there: 一起读成/ hɜːr (d) / + / ðæ(t) / + / ðər /。

复述：I heard that there was a fire on Byron Street.

「核心单词掌握」

Alright, what do we have today in language takeaway?

好了，今天有什么语言要点呢？

Let’s see our first one.

我们来看第一个。

1. barely even 几乎不

So, how do we use barely even? It’s a little bit difficult.

所以我们怎么使用“barely even”呢？有一点点难。

It’s really similar to almost couldn’t or almost nothing or almost can’t.

它很像“almost couldn’t”或“almost nothing”或“almost can’t”。

So, we use it usually in a negative sense.

所以，我们通常在否定中用到它。

例如：

I was so busy today. I could barely even eat my lunch.

我今天很忙，连午饭都没吃。

It was so dark. I could barely even see.

太黑了，我几乎看不见。

Alright, let’s take a look at our next one.

好了，让我们来看看下一个单词。

2. catch / kætʃ / 接住；抓住

Did you catch the news? It means did you hear the news.

Did you catch the news? 的意思是：你听到这个新闻了吗？

So, how else can we use this, did you catch?

那我们还能怎么用did you catch这词呢？

A really common one is: I didn’t catch your name.

最常见的是：我没听清你的名字。

And we can also say：I didn’t catch what he said.

我们还可以说：我没听清他说的话。

Okay. Let’s look at our next word.

好吧，我们来看下一个单词。

3. by the way 顺便说一句

Okay, so, let’s listen to some examples first.

好的，所以我们先来听几个例子。 

例1:

Are you going to be at the meeting today?

你今天要参加会议吗？

Yeah, I’ll be there. Oh, by the way, did you hear what happened today?

是的，我会去的。对了，你听说今天的事了吗？

例2:

By the way, I almost forgot to tell you, Maggie called.

对了，我差点忘了告诉你，Maggie 打电话来了。

Okay, so, I see that when we say by the way, we’re introducing a point after we’ve already talked about something.