My husband and I used to promote our business by dropping
advertising pamphlets house-to-house.
We usually walked together, once in a while splitting up and meeting again a few blocks down the road.
One morning, however ,we seemed to have lost each other. I stood on a corner for some time, and decided to track down my husband by following his pamphlets deleveries.
After looking into four or five letter boxes, I was met by a police officer who had obviousley been observing my actions.
Embarrassed, I approached him and blurted, “ Well, you see, I’m looking for my husband.”
He raised an eyebrow and said
“Does he usually hide in letter boxes ?”
eyebrow – pamphlet - blurt
Daniel Doan * Paula Le
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Phát âm :
| Từ | số âm tiết | Âm tiết được nhấn mạnh |
| pampflet | pam-pflet | /ˈpæmpflət/ |
| eyebrow | eye-brow | /ˈaɪˌbraʊ/ |
| blurt | blurt | /blɜː(r)t/ |
pampflet : thin book with a paper cover, usually given free to people (sách ít trang bià bằng giấy mỏng ,thường biếu không)
Pampflet có 2 âm tiết pam và pflet ; vì âm tiết pam được nhấn mạnh nên e trong âm tiết pflet (không nhấn mạnh) được phát âm là /ə/ (schwa)
blurt (out) : say suddenly or without thinking ( buột miệng)
