对于多数中国人来说,学习英语遇到的第一个发音问题是感觉断句不到位,即便背的很熟的一段话,让人听着也觉得有点“结巴”,那么有什么办法可以解决这个问题呢?当然有,那就是绕口令(Tongue Twister)。学说英语绕口令,无论从练习口齿的伶俐性还是了解英语语言的特点来说,都是一个极好的素材 ,它就象打乒乓球的正手扣杀一样,是非常重要且正规的基础训练,背上几十个,你会受益非浅。请按字母顺序选择并反复模仿练习:
A
A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.
A big black bug bit a big black bear. Where's the big black bear the big black bug bit?
A bitter biting bittern bit a better brother bittern, and the bitter better bittern bit the bitter biter back. And the bitter bittern, bitten, by the better bitten bittern, said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"
A bloke's back bike brake block broke.
A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.
A flea and a fly flew up in a flue. Said the flea, "Let us fly!" Said the fly, "Let us flee!" So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
A flea and a fly were trapped in a flue, and they tried to flee for their life. The flea said to the fly "Let's flee!" and the fly said to the flea "Let's fly!" Finally both the flea and fly managed to flee through a flaw in the flue.
A laurel-crowned clown!
A lusty lady loved a lawyer and longed to lure him from his laboratory.
A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is pleased to be placed.
A skunk sat on a stump. The skunk thought the stump stunk, and the stump thought the skunk stunk.
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
A tidy tiger tied a tie tighter to tidy her tiny tail.
A tree toad loved a she-toad who lived up in a tree. He was a two-toed tree toad but a three-toed toad was she. The two-toed tree toad tried to win the three-toed she-toad's heart, for the two-toed tree toad loved the ground that the three-toed tree toad trod. But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain. He couldn't please her whim. From her tree toad bower with her three-toed power the she-toad vetoed him.
A tutor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to their tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
All I want is a proper cup of coffee made in a proper copper coffee pot, you can believe it or not, but I just want a cup of coffee in a proper coffee pot. Tin coffee pots or iron coffee pots are of no use to me. If I can't have a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea!
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts, with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts, he thrusts his fist against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Are our oars oak?
A Finnish fisher named Fisher failed to fish any fish one Friday afternoon and finally he found out a big fissure in his fishing-net.
A snow-white swan swiftly to catch a slowly-swimming snake in a lake.
A writer named Wright was instructing his little son how to write Wright right. He said: "It is not right to write Wright as 'rite'---try to write Wright aright!"
A tall eastern girl named Short long loved a big Mr. Little. But Little, thinking little of Short, loved a little lass named Long. To belittle Long. Short announced She would marry Little before long. This caused Little shortly to marry Long. To make a long story short, did tall Short love big Little less because Little loved little Long more?
B
Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
Betty beat a bit of butter to make a better batter.
Betty better butter Brad's bread.
Black bugs' blood.
Brad's big black bath brush broke.
Bright blows the broom on the brook's bare brown banks.
Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons - balancing them badly.
Betty Botter had some butter, "But," she said, "this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter -- that would make my batter better."
Bob bought a big bag of buns to bait the bears' babies.
Bill's big brother is building a beautiful building between two big brick blocks.
C.
Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
Cedar shingles should be shaved and saved.
Cheap ship trip.
Cheryl's chilly cheap chip shop sells Cheryl's cheap chips.
Chop shops stock chops.
Crisp crusts crackle crunchily.
D.
Diligence dismisseth despondency.
Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps.
Double bubble gum bubbles double.
Dust is a disk's worst enemy.
E.
Ed had edited it.
F.
Flash message!
Flee from fog to fight flu fast.
Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.
Freshly fried fresh flesh.
Freshly-fried flying fish.
Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.
Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't fuzzy. Was he?
G.
Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar.
Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle.
Give me the gift of a grip top sock: a drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock.
Give Mr. Snipa's wife's knife a swipe.
Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
Good blood, bad blood.
Greek grapes.
H.
He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
I.
I am not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate. I am only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's running late.
I cannot bear to see a bear bear down upon a hare. When bare of hair he strips the hare, Right there I cry, "Forbear!"
I correctly recollect Rebecca MacGregor's reckoning.
I saw Esau kissing Kate. I saw Esau, he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet, I sit.
I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.
I wish you were a fish in my dish.
If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
If you notice this notice you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
If a shipshape ship shop stocks six shipshape shop-soiled ships, how many shipshape shop-soiled ships would six shipshape ship shops stock?
Irish wristwatch.
Is there a pleasant peasant present?
Is this your sister's sixth zither, sir?
J.
Just think, that sphinx has a sphincter that stinks!
K.
Knapsack straps.
Knife and a fork, bottle and a cork, that is the way you spell New York.
L.
Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup.
Listen to the local yokel yodel.
Lovely lemon liniment.
M.
Meet Sir Cecil Thistlethwaite, the celebrated theological statistician.
Mix, Miss Mix!
Moose noshing much mush.
Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but moses supposes erroneously. For moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses as moses supposes his toeses to be!
Mrs. Smith's Fish Sauce Shop.
My dame hath a lame tame crane. My dame hath a crane that is lame.
Mr. Cook said to a cook: "Look at this cook-book. It's very good." So the cook took the advice of Mr. Cook and bought the book.
N.
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
O.
Of all the felt I ever felt, I never felt a piece of felt which felt as fine as that felt felt, when first I felt that felt hat's felt.
Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos.
Once upon a barren moor there dwelt a bear, also a boar. The bear could not bear the boar. The boar thought the bear a bore. At last the bear could bear no more of that boar that bored him on the moor, and so one morn he bored the boar - that boar will bore the bear no more.
One smart fellow, he felt smart. Two smart fellows, they felt smart. Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.
One-One was a racehorse. Two-Two was one, too. When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too.
P.
Pacific Lithograph.
Peggy Babcock.
Plague-bearing prairie dogs.
Please pay promptly.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper prepared by his parents and put them in a big paper plate.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Q.
Quick kiss. Quicker kiss.
R.
Real weird rear wheels.
Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.
Robin Redbreast's bad breath.
S.
Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.
Sarah sitting in her sitting room, all she does is sits and shifts, all she does is sits and shifts.
Say this sharply, say this sweetly, Say this shortly, say this softly. Say this sixteen times in succession.
Selfish shellfish.
She said she should sit.
She sees cheese.
She sells seashells by the sea shore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
She sifted thistles through her thistle-sifter.
Sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack. Sheep should sleep in a shed.
Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers.
Shredded Swiss cheese.
Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.
Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep. The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south. These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack; sheep should sleep in a shed.
Silly sheep weep and sleep.
Six sharp smart sharks.
Six shimmering sharks' sharply striking shins.
Six short slow shepherds.
Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.
Six sticky sucker sticks.
Six twin screwed steel steam cruisers.
Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.
"Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised. "Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink."
So she bought a bit of butter,
better than her bitter butter,
and she baked it in her batter,
and the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter.
T.
Thank the other three brothers of their father's mother's brother's side.
The blue bluebird blinks.
The cat catchers can't catch caught cats.
The crow flew over the river with a lump of raw liver.
The epitome of femininity.
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders.
The sun shines on shop signs.
The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.
There was cinnamon in the aluminum pan.
Thieves seize skis.
Three gray geese in the green grass grazing. Gray were the geese and green was the grass.
Tim, the thin twin tinsmith.
Tiny orangutan tongues!
Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
Tragedy strategy.
U.
Unique New York.
Urgent detergent!
W.
We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.
Who washed Washington's white woollen underwear when Washington's washer woman went west?
Will you, William?
Where is the watch I put in my pocket to take to the shop because it had stopped?
You sent me your bill, Berry,
Before it was due, Berry;
Your father, the elder Berry,
Isn't such a goose, Berry.