听懂老外聊生活英语对话 社交 45：短信、彩信，无声的祝福

　　Topic45 短信、彩信，无声的祝福

　　情境导读

　　Mary和Cherry在讨论现在人们用手机频发短信的现象，很多人用这个方式互相问候、拜年，Cherry也是“拇指族”的一员。

　　英语情景会话

　　(以下M代表Mary.C代表Cherry)

　　C: Hi, Mary. happy birthday! Have you received my message?

　　M: Thank you! Yes, I received.Cherry. I think you are one of "clan of the thumbs" now.

　　C: What does it mean?

　　M: That is a newly coined word. It means people send messages with the tip of their fingers, especially thumbs. Now more and more people tent to use short messages.

　　C: Yeah. It's very convenient and I can do it anywhere.

　　M: And now many people use short messages to pay a New Year call. We also can download rings and pictures to the cell phone, and send them to our friends.

　　C: That's multi-media massage. It costs more than text messages.

　　M: But it's more interesting.

　　C: I almost can't live without messages now.

　　M: I can see. You're always busy editing messages.

　　英语笔记

　　1.clan of the thumbs 意思为“拇指一族”。

　　2.of 弱读，只读/v/的音。

　　3.这里tent to 中的/d/发音省略，to 也发生弱化，读作/tentə/。

　　4.pay a call 是指“拜访”;pay a New Year call 意思是“打电话拜年”。

　　5.注意这里的text/tekst/不要和test/test/、tax/tæks/混淆。

　　英语语音语调

　　of的弱读(一)

　　口语中，of前面如果是一个完全阻碍的清辅音时，如/t/，/p/等.of/əv/中的/ə/常会省去;这时，如果of后面接的是一个元音或浊辅音，如/ɔ:/,/ð/,/v/等时，of便只保留/v/，如：

　　That's my point of /v/ view.

　　这是我的观点，

　　tip of /v/ their fingers

　　他们的指尖

　　如果后面是个清辅音时，如/θ/，/s/，/k/等，of便发音为/f/，如：

　　I need a cup of /f/ coffee.

　　我要一杯咖啡。