Well hey there! I"m Emma from mmmEnglish! In today"s pronunciation lesson, we"re going to practise English words with silent letters in them.
大家好啊！我是 Emma，欢迎来到美味英语频道！在今天的发音课程中，我们将练习其中带有不发音字母的英语单词。
It"s true, silent letters are cheeky little buggers. They always confuse my students and they"re always tripping them up.
没错，无声字母是厚脸皮的小东西。它们总是让我的学生感到困惑，给他们的学习使绊子。
But silent letters are in well over half of all English words so while they"re annoying, you"ve got to get used to them if you want to improve your pronunciation and speak English clearly. I"m sure you"re already thinking of a few.
但是，不发音的字母占所有英语单词的一半以上，因此，尽管它们真的很烦人，如果你想提高自己的发音水平，让自己的英语说得更加清楚，就必须习惯它们。我敢肯定你已经想到一些了。
Can you think of some English words that have silent letters in them? Especially ones that you keep pronouncing incorrectly.
你能想到一些带有不发音字母的英语单词吗？尤其是你的发音一直不对的那些。
Let me know about it down in the comments and hopefully, fingers crossed, we"re gonna get some practice with them in today"s lesson. And while I could give you a big list of rules to try and study, the best way to learn the correct pronunciation is to hear and to see them being used in context and actually practising the sounds yourself.
请在评论中告诉我吧，希望在今天的课程中，我们能练习到其中的一些。虽然我可以给大家列出来一大串的规则进行尝试和学习，但是学习正确发音的最好方法是听和看它们在语境中是如何使用的，并且要自己去练习发音。
So I"ve got one small request of you, please. I want you to practise along with me in this lesson all the way through to the end.
因此呢，我要给大家提一个小小的要求。我希望你在本节课程中一起和我练习，直到课程结束。
I want you to listen to me first. In each sentence, there is going to be multiple words with the same silent letter.
我想让大家先听我说。在每个句子中，可能会有很多个单词，它们都有相同的不发音的字母。
So your first challenge is to guess what the silent letter is only by listening. If you do, you score a point.
所以，你的第一个挑战是通过听来猜测不发音的字母是什么。如果做对了的话，你就将获得一分。
Make sure you keep count so that you know how you did at the end of the lesson. I"ll also share some tips with you so you know how to pronounce these words right every time.
一定要保持计数哦，这样在课程结束时你就可以知道自己的表现啦。我还将和大家分享一些技巧，这样你每次都能知道如何正确发音。
Okay so you need to listen and try to guess which silent letter occurs multiple times in this sentence, listening first. I know you knocked your knee while kneading the dough.
好的，所以你需要好好听，尝试猜测该句子中多次出现的是哪个不发音的字幕，我们先来听。我知道你在揉面团时敲了一下膝盖。
Do you know? I know you knocked your knee while kneading the dough.
你知道吗？我知道你在揉面团时敲了一下膝盖。
We"ve got know, knocked, knee and knead or kneading. I know this is a really simple one to get started with but there are several common English words that have a silent letter K and notice that it always happens before an N.
这里面有：知道，敲，膝盖，揉或揉。我知道这个非常简单，但是有很多常见的英语单词都带有一个不发音字母K，请注意哦，它总是在N之前出现。
Try these ones out with me. Knife.
请和我一起尝试一下。刀。
Knot. Knowledge.
结。知识。
Knack. Knuckle.
诀窍。指关节。
Knob. Knit.
旋钮。针织。
I know you knocked your knee while kneading the dough. Your turn.
我知道你在揉面团时敲了一下膝盖。轮到你了。
Listen. I had the most delicious sandwich last Wednesday when I was on a date with a handsome boy.
认真听。上周三和一个英俊的男孩约会的时候，我吃到了最好吃的三明治。
What letter is the silent letter there? Did you guess D?
这里的不发音字母是什么？你猜的是 D 吗？
I had the most delicious sandwich last Wednesday when I was on a date with a handsome boy. Try them out with me.
上周三和一个英俊的男孩约会的时候，我吃到了最好吃的三明治。和我一起试一下。
Sandwich. Wednesday.
三明治。星期三。
Handsome. Handkerchief is another but there"s no D sound there.
英俊的。手帕是另一个，但是那里没有 D 音。
We don"t hear D D D. We don"t say /wdnzde/ or /hadktf/.
我们没有听到D 音。我们不说： /wdnzde/ 或 /hadktf/。
It"s just /wnzde/, /haktf/. No D at all.
是/wnzde/, /haktf/。完全没有 D 音。
Listen. There were lamb crumbs under the plumber"s numb thumb.
认真听。水管工的麻木的拇指下有羊肉屑。
Can you guess it? You got it, there were a few silent B"s in there.
你能猜出来吗？你答对了，这里面有几个不发音的 B。
There were lamb crumbs under the plumber"s numb thumb. Your turn.
水管工的麻木的拇指下有羊肉屑。轮到你了。
Notice that all of these silent B"s have an M before it. Lamb.
请注意哦，所有这些不发音的 B 之前都有一个 M。羊肉。
Crumb. Numb.
屑。麻木的。
Plumber. Thumb.
水管工。拇指。
So this is a good clue. There are lots of English words that follow this same pattern.
因此这是一个很好的线索。许多英语单词都遵循相同的模式。
It"s not /klmb/, but /klm/. Not /dmb/, /dm/.
不是/klmb/，而是/klm/.不是/dmb/, 而是/dm/。
Bomb. Comb.
炸弹。梳子。
Limb. Tomb.
肢体。墓穴。
Happens quite a bit. But just when you start feeling comfortable with this pattern and you think: you know what I"ve got this rule, I"ve got it, I"m going to jump in and let you know that there are some exceptions.
这种情况挺多的。但是，当你开始对这种结构感到轻松自如的时候，你想：我懂了这个规则了，我完全掌握了，我就会过来告诉你其实是有很多例外的。
Listen carefully to hear the B sound as I say these words. Amber.
当我说这些单词的时候，请仔细听 B 音。琥珀。
Clamber. Slumber.
攀爬。睡眠。
Now I want you to try this one. Plumber.
现在我想让你尝试一下。水管工。
This one.?Climber.
这一个。登山者。
Nice one. Listen.
很不错。认真听。
This is a subtle reminder about the debt I doubted you would repay. Any idea what that silent letter could be?
我想稍微提醒一下我怀疑你可能要偿还的债务。知道不发音的字母可能是什么吗？
Still a B. This is a subtle reminder about the debt I doubted you would repay.
仍然是 B。我想稍微提醒一下我怀疑你可能要偿还的债务。
B can be silent when it"s before a T as well. Subtle.
B 在 T 之前也可以是不发音的。微妙的。
Debt. Doubted.
债务。怀疑。
Listen. That"s a clue, actually.
认真听。其实是有个线索的。
Soften your voice and listen to the whistle of that bird. So which letter is it?
小点声，听听那只鸟的叫声。是哪个字母呢？
Soften your voice and listen to the whistle of that bird. Soften.
小点声，听听那只鸟的叫声。使……轻柔。
Listen. Whistle.
听。叫声。
It"s the T that"s silent in all of them and you can practise some more words with me now. Castle.
里面的 T 都是不发音的，现在可以和我一起练习更多的单词吧。城堡。
Christmas. Fasten.
圣诞。系紧。
Glisten. Wrestle.
闪亮。搏斗。
Apostle. So you can see that a T is sometimes silent after an S.
使徒。因此，你可以看到 T 在 S 之后有时会是不发音的。
But that rule isn"t perfect, is it? Because soften and often don"t follow it.
但是那条规则并不完美，对吧？因为soften 和 often 并不遵循这条规则。
Though often is a bit of an exception because it can be pronounced often with a silent T or it can be pronounced as often. You"ll hear native speakers saying both.
尽管 often 一般来说是个例外，因为它的 T 既可以不发音，也可以发出来。你会听到母语人士这两种都会说。
Now it"s a little tricky with adjectives like soft and moist because you can hear that T sound at the end of the word when it"s an adjective but when they become verbs and that T moves to the middle of the word, the sound disappears. We say soften, not sof-ten.
对于像柔软的和潮湿的这样的形容词来说，情况有点复杂，因为当它是一个形容词时，你可以在单词的末尾听到 T 的发音，但是当它们变成动词并且 T 移到单词的中间时，这个音就会消失。我们说的是 soften，而不是 sof-ten。
We say moisten not mois-ten. Listen.
我们说的是 moisten，而不是mois-ten。认真听。
We"re going in no particular order here. I wrote the wrong answer at question two.
我们在这里没有特别的顺序。我第二个问题的答案写错了。
Can you hear it? Probably not because it"s silent.
你能听出来吗？可能并没有，因为它是不发音的。
I wrote the wrong answer at question two. Your turn.
我第二个问题的答案写错了。轮到你了。
So the letter W is always silent when it"s at the start of the word and in front of the letter R like in write, wrote, wrist, wrong. Sometimes you don"t hear it when it"s in front of a H at the start of the word either like who or whoever, whole.
因此，字母 W 在单词的开头和字母 R 的前面时都是不发音的，例如：写，写，手腕，错误的。有时，当它在单词开头并以 H 开头时，你也听不到这个音，例如：谁，无论是谁，整个的。
But that rule is broken completely by words like wheat and whip where it"s actually the H that"s silent. But a silent W pops up a little more frequently than you realise in words like two, sword and answer.
但这条规则会被类似于小麦、鞭子这种词打破，因为在这种情况下，H 是不发音的。但是，W 不发音的情况其实比你能够意识到的要高得多，比如说在：二、剑和回答这样的单词里面。
You don"t hear it at all. Here we go again.
你根本听不到它。让我们继续。
The psychologist will start a coup if they don"t provide a receipt for the telephone bill. It"s those silent P"s, isn"t it?
如果他们不提供电话费收据的话，心理学家们将发动政变。这里的 P 的不发音的，对吧？
The psychologist will start a coup if they don"t provide a receipt for the telephone bill. We"ve got psychologists, coup, and receipt.
如果他们不提供电话费收据的话，心理学家们将发动政变。我们有：心理学家、政变和收据。
We don"t hear that P at all, absolutely not at the start, in the middle or at the end of a word. So listen.
我们根本听不到 P 这个音，不管是在单词的开头，中间还是结尾。好好听。
Different scientific scenarios fascinate me. Can you guess which one it is?
不同的科学场景让我着迷。你能猜出是哪一个吗？
Which is the silent letter in there? Different scientific scenarios fascinate me.
这里的不发音字母是哪一个？不同的科学场景让我着迷。
It"s that letter C. It"s usually silent when it appears after an S.
就是字母C。当它出现在S后面时，通常是不发音的。
Scientific. Scenarios.
科学的。情景。
Fascinate. Great work!
吸引。真不错！
Can you think of any other examples that have this same combination S with a silent C? Muscles.
你能想到其他任何的 S 加不发音的 C 的组合的例子吗？肌肉。
Scissors. Scene.
剪刀。场景。
I mean really that C just doesn"t need to be there because S is doing all of the work making the sound anyway right. It"s quite superfluous.
其实 C 根本不需要出现，因为 S 承担了全部的发音工作。它是多余的。
In fact, that is an excellent way to describe the C in all of these words, it"s superfluous. It"s there but it doesn"t need to be.
实际上，那是一个描述 C 在这些单词中的作用的非常好的方式，它是多余的。它在那里，但并没有必要存在。
It"s just an extra thing, right? It"s unnecessary.
它是额外的存在，对吧？并没有必要。
The same thing can be said for the C in a choir. Pointless.
合唱团中的 C 也是同样的情况。没有意义。
Superfluous. Doesn"t need to be there but it is.
多余的。不需要在那里，但它确实存在。
Okay listen, I"m going to do this one twice because it"s long. Could we talk as we walk through the palm trees for half an hour?
好的，认真听，我要重复两次，因为这个句子很长。我们可以在穿过棕榈树的半个小时聊一聊吗？
Can you guess? Could we talk as we walk through the palm trees for half an hour?
你能猜到吗？我们可以在穿过棕榈树的半个小时聊一聊吗？
Which letter is silent five times in that sentence? I"m going to show you just how often an L can be silent in English words.
那句话中哪个出现了五次的字母是不发音的？我将向大家展示 L 在英语单词中不发音是多么地常见。
We"ve got could, should, and would. We don"t hear that L at all.
我们有：可以，应该和将。我们根本听不到 L 的音。
Calf and half, chalk, talk, walk, calm, palm, salmon, yolk. All of those words have silent L"s in them and they"re reasonably common.
小牛，一半，粉笔，谈论，步行，冷静，棕榈，三文鱼，蛋黄。所有这些单词中都带有不发音的 L，它们非常常见。
Listen. There are enough signs that this might be a design by the foreign minister"s daughter.
认真听。有很多迹象表明，这可能是外交大臣的女儿设计的。
It"s a little tricky, that one. There are quite a few different things going on there.
这个有点小复杂。里面出现的东西挺多的。
But I wonder if you can guess which letter is the silent one in there. It happens several times.
但我想知道你是否能猜出其中哪个字母是不发音的。它出现了好几次。
There are enough signs that this might be a design by the foreign minister"s daughter. It"s that G.
有很多迹象表明，这可能是外交大臣的女儿设计的。是 G。
Sign. Might.
标志，可能。
Design. Foreign and daughter.
设计。国外的和女儿。
So what patterns can we see here? We can see that the G is often silent when it"s before an N and you"ve probably noticed that the combination of G and H in a word can be silent too and this happens a lot.
那么我们在这里可以看到什么模式呢？我们可以看到，G 在 N 之前通常是不发音的，你可能已经注意到在一个单词中 G 和 H 的组合也可以是不发音的，并且这种情况经常发生。
In fact, -GH is not usually pronounced after a vowel like in through, though, high, light, bright, right, all of these examples, though sometimes it"s not silent at all like in cough and enough where that -GH is pronounced as a /f/. Honestly, even if you whisper we can hear an echo.
实际上，-GH 在元音之后通常并不发音，比如说在：通过，虽然，高的，亮的，明亮的，正确的当中，所有这些例子都是如此，尽管有时它并不是不发音的，比如说在咳嗽和足够的当中，-GH 被发为/f/音。老实说，即使你在耳语，我们也能听到回声。
Did you guess it? Honestly, even if you whisper we can hear an echo.
你猜对了吗？老实说，即使你在耳语，我们也能听到回声。
/nstli/, not /hnstli/, /nstli/. Whisper.
是/nstli/, 不是 /hnstli/, /nstli/.耳语。
Echo. The letter H can be silent, too, and in a few different ways.
回声。字母 H 也可以是不发音的，在很多不同的情况下。
Sometimes it"s not pronounced at the start of words like honest, honour and hour. And it can also be silent if it comes after a C, G or R like in choir, echo, ghost, rhythm.
有时在单词的开头不发音，比如说在：诚实，荣誉，小时这些单词中。如果它紧随 C，G 或 R 之后，也可以是不发音的，例如：唱诗班，回声，鬼怪，韵律。
Okay listen up. I"d rather we wait until February to clear the air.
好的，认真听哦。我宁愿我们到二月再澄清真相。
Can you guess? It"s a bit of a tricky one.
你能猜到吗？这有点点复杂。
I"d rather we wait until February to clear the air. So February is most definitely the purest silent R in this sentence.
我宁愿我们到二月再澄清真相。二月是这个句子中最纯净的不发音的 R 音。
February not February. February.
2月不是2月。二月。
But in my Australian accent and in most British English accents, the silent R is much more common than in American accents because we don"t pronounce the R at the end of words like rather, clear, air. Try with me.
但是在我的澳大利亚口音和大多数英式英语口音中，不发音的 R 比美式口音更常见，因为我们不发单词末尾的 R 音，比如说：宁可，清楚的，空气。和我一起试一下。
Water. Mother.
水。母亲。
Fear. Laughter.
恐惧。笑声。
You don"t hear that -ER sound at the end of any of those words, it"s silent. Here we go again.
在所有这些单词的末尾你都听不到 -ER 音，它是不发音的。让我们再来一次。
That damn column was damaged by the autumn winds. Got it?
那该死的柱子被秋风刮坏了。做对了吗？
That damn column was damaged by the autumn winds. So just like silent B"s, N is silent at the end of a word when it follows M.
那该死的柱子被秋风刮坏了。因此，就像不发音的 B 一样，当 N 位于一个词的末尾，并且跟在 M 后面时，N 也是不发音的。
Damn. Autumn.
该死的。秋季。
Column. Hymn.
柱子。圣歌。
Condemn. Solemn.
谴责。庄严的。
You don"t hear it there at all, it"s not autumn just autumn. So you might ask what the heck is it doing there anyway?
你根本听不到它，不是秋天，而是秋天。你可能会问，它在这里到底有什么意义呢？
Look to be honest, I don"t know but it is. You can"t forget about it when you"re writing but you can definitely forget about it as you"re speaking.
老实说，我也不知道，但事实就是如此。你在写作时不能把它给忘了，但是在讲话时还是可以忘记它的。
Okay this is the last one for today. What letter is the common silent letter there?
好的，这是今天的最后一个啦。这里非常常见的不发音的字母是什么？
It"s that S. It"s silent in words like island, debris aisle, even.
是S。在类似于这些词里，它是不发音的，比如说：岛屿、残骸、走道和甚至。
The storm left debris and damage across the whole island. Your turn.
风暴在整个岛上留下残骸和损坏。轮到你了。
I hope that you enjoyed that lesson. Make sure you let me know, like the video or drop me a comment down below to tell me.
我希望你喜欢这节课程。一定要让我知道哦，可以给视频点个赞，或者是在下面评论告诉我。
Were you able to guess most of those silent letters just by listening or did it become a little bit easier when you saw the word appear up on screen?
We went through a hundred and fifteen words with silent letters in them which is pretty epic, so well done for sticking with me.
你是通过听就能猜出大多数不发音的字母，还是当你看到单词出现在屏幕上的时候会更容易一些？我们学习了115个里面带有不发音的字母的单词，真是漫长又艰辛的过程啊，和我一起坚持下来的你们真不错。
Of course, this video focused on silent consonants but I"ve got another one coming out soon that will focus on silent vowels in English words.
So if you"ve got questions about silent letters in English pronunciation, then make sure you drop them down in the comments below, make sure you subscribe to the mmmEnglish channel and then come and check out a new lesson with me right here.
当然了，这个视频的重点是不发音的辅音，但我很快就会发布另一个视频，这个视频的重点是英语单词的不发音元音。因此，如果你对英语发音中的不发音字母有疑问的话，请一定要写在下面的评论中哦，一定要订阅美味英语频道，然后和我一起看看这节新的课程吧。
