Tongue Twisters (A-W)

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!"

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-L
Just think, that sphinx has a sphincter that stinks!

试想想，那个狮身人面像的括约肌发臭了！

Knapsack straps.

背包带子。

Knife and a fork, bottle and a cork, that is the way you spell New York.

刀子和叉子，瓶子和木塞，这是你拼写纽约的方法。

Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes.

克里斯克理高小心地嚼甘蔗。

Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup.

莉莉替小历蒂盛小扁豆汤。

Listen to the local yokel yodel.

听听那个本地土包子唱的岳得尔调。

Lovely lemon liniment.

可爱的柠檬搽剂。