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Jim Henson, creator of creator of the muppets--from Kermit the Frog to Sesame Street --is born in Greenville Mississippi.
Muppet [ˈmʌpɪt] n. 提线木偶
Mississippi:元音全是i,辅音字母除了首字母M全是双写。
The abbreviation is MS.
14-s和元音后浊化辅音,but in the 连读,few years 连读
Asian tiger mosquitoes are native to the tropics of the southeast Asia but in the past few years they‘ve spread all across the southeastern United States.
亚洲虎纹曾在热带东南亚特有,但是在过去的几年里,它们也在美洲的整个东南部分布。
[məˈskiːtoʊ]
这里[ kiːtoʊ]都浊化a cute name for mosquitoes:skeeters.
And it comes from the pronunciation: mosquitoes→skeetoes→skeeters.
native to 这里native后听着有/d/音,原因是to发/d'/
but in
the
1.connect t and in,
2.n cancels th.
pas
tfew years
few years连起来读,否则容易读成 few ears