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Today we're going to take a look at why studying English pronunciation can be so hard.
今天我们来看看为什么学习英语发音这么难。
Let's step through a series of words and see what happens to the sounds as we change some of the letters.
通过列举出一连串的单词，看看当改变单词中的一些字母时，单词的发音会发生怎样的变化。
Through. Step through. That's a good place to start.
比方说Through这个单词。Step through。开头比较适合讲这个单词。
Through, a preposition, a handy little word, begins with the unvoiced TH.
Through是介词，也是一个经常使用的小词，清辅音th位于词首。
Th, the R consonant, thr-, and the oo vowel. Through. Through.
清辅音th，浊辅音r，合起来读thr-和元音字母组合oo。Through。Through。
Now what would happen if we drop the R? Thoo, thoo, no, that's not right.
如果我们现在把浊辅音r去掉，会发生什么呢？Thoo，不，那发音就是不对的。
Through, drop the R, not thoo, but actually, though. So, the TH, th, th, is now voiced.
Through，去掉浊辅音r，不读成thoo，但实际上，读though。所以，现在就是浊辅音th。
And the vowel sound has changed to the OH diphthong.
元音就变成了OH双元音。
Though. Ok. What would happen if we add a T?
读Though。好。如果我们加一个清辅音t，会发生什么呢？
Thowt. Thowt. No, that's not right. That word is pronounced 'thought'.
读成Thowt。不，这样的发音不对。那个词应该读成thought。
Ok, so we've switched back to an unvoiced TH, now we have the AW vowel, and a final T.
好了，我们切换到之前有清辅音th的情况，现在我们有一个元音aw和词尾的清辅音t。
Thought. Thought. Ok.
读成Thought，好。
So what would happen if we drop the TH and add a B?
那么，如果我们用B替换掉Th，会发生什么呢?
Thought becomes bought. And that IS how that word is pronounced. Excellent! Bought.
那么Thought就变成了bought。这个单词就是这么发音的。太棒了！Bought。
Now what would happen if we drop the final T? Bought becomes bah.
如果我们现在去掉词尾的t，会发生什么呢？那么Bought变成了bah。
But it doesn't, it's not pronounced 'bah'. It's pronounced bough.
但这个单词不读成bah，读成bough。
Ok, so the AW vowel changes to the 'ow' diphthong. Bough, bough.
好的，所以元音aw变成双元音ow。Bough，Bough。
Ok. What would happen now if we switched out the B for a C?
好。如果我们现在把B换成C，会发生什么呢？
Bough becomes cow. Yes! Cow is a word.
那么Bough就变成了cow。是的！Cow也是一个单词。
But wait, that's now how cow is spelled, this is how cow is spelled.
但是等等，cow这个单词是这样拼写的。
So this, even though it was bough, isn't cow, it's cough.
所以，即使是bough的话，不是cow，那就是cough。
Cough. So we have the AW vowel, and somehow, an F consonant has crept in.
cough。所以我们有了元音aw，不知何故，清辅音f也读出来了。
Cough. Ok, cough. What would happen then if we drop the C, add an EN?
cough。好的，cough。如果我们用en替换掉C，会发生什么呢？
Since it was cough, surely this must be enough. No, that's not what it is. It's enough.
既然之前是cough，那么现在这个肯定是enough。不，不是那样读的。应该读成enough。
So the AW vowel changes to the UH vowel. But somehow that F sound stays in there.
所以元音aw变成了元音UH。但不知何故，那个清辅音f还是读出来了。
Enough, enough. And I think that's about what I've had.
Enough，Enough。我能想到的单词就是这些了。
I think I've had about enough of OUGH and its thousands of pronunciations. That's it, I'm out.
我想我已经听腻了ough字母组合的单词，以及这些单词的读法。就这样，我出去了。
