冠词a an 练习（不定冠词A和An的正确用法）

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冠词a an 练习

Well, hey there I'm Emma from mmmEnglish. Today we are talking about English articles.

大家好，我是 Emma，欢迎来到美味英语频道。今天我们讨论的是英语的冠词。

Those little tiny but super important words that you will need to use in almost every English sentence. Here's the thing, if you're making mistakes with articles in your spoken English, it's unlikely that native speakers will correct you because, let's be honest, we can usually work out what you mean despite your mistakes, but they will be noticed.

这些虽小但却超级重要的单词，几乎在每个英语句子中都需要用到它们。事情是这样的，如果你在英语口语中犯了冠词错误的话，以英语为母语的人不太可能会去纠正你，因为说实话，尽管你犯了错误，但是我们一般都能理解你的意思，但这些小错误是会被注意到的。

There are two types of articles in English: definite and indefinite. Today we're going to focus on the indefinite article and that is 'a/an'.

英语中有两种类型的冠词：定冠词和不定冠词。今天我们要关注的是不定冠词，也就是“a/an”。

You'll see that when my next video comes out it is a deep dive into the definite article 'the'. So make sure you're subscribed, that you turn on notifications, so that you don't miss out.

而我的下一个视频将深入讲解定冠词“the”。所以一定要订阅哦，打开通知就不会错过啦。

I want you to be able to watch this complete package of lessons about articles. Let's get into the first one.

我希望大家能够看完这一系列关于冠词的完整课程。让我们先来进行第一课吧。

Okay, in this lesson I have four simple rules to help you use indefinite articles accurately. I'm also going to show you how to pronounce a and an naturally when you speak, and at the end I have a quiz to help you practice everything you learn just to make sure all of these rules are locked into your memory and you can use them when you need them.

好的，在这一课中，我准备了四条简单的规则来帮助大家准确使用不定冠词。我还会告诉大家在说话时如何自然地发出 a 和 an 的音，最后会有一个小测验，帮助你练习你学到的所有内容，帮助大家看看这些规则是不是都已经牢牢地记住了，这样就可以在需要时使用它们。

Let's start with the basics. There are two indefinite articles.

让我们从最基础的开始吧。有两个不定冠词。

You should know this by now because i've already mentioned them. Tell me, what are they?

你现在应该知道是什么了，因为我刚才已经提到了它们。告诉我，是什么呢？

A, an. But do you know when and why we need to use each one?

是 a 和 an。但你知道我们何时以及为何需要使用其中一种吗？

We use a with nouns that begin with a consonant sound. A cat.

我们将“a”用于以辅音开头的名词。一只猫。

A mirror. A fan.

一面镜子。一个粉丝。

A zoo. All of these nouns start with a consonant: c, m, f, z.

一个动物园。所有这些名词都以辅音开头：C、M、F、Z。

We use an before nouns that begin with a vowel sound. An apple.

我们在以元音开头的名词前使用“an”。一个苹果。

An ice cream. An orange.

一个冰激凌。一个橙子。

An umbrella. So we use an before a word that starts with a vowel: a, i, o, and u.

一把雨伞。所以我们在以元音开头的单词前使用“an”：也就是 a、i、o 和 u。

But there is something super important that you need to remember here and that is that we're talking about vowel and consonant sounds not letters. I know it sounds crazy but not all vowel letters are pronounced as vowel sounds and some consonant letters are actually silent and they're not pronounced at all.

但是，在这里你需要记住一件超级重要的事情，那就是我们正在谈论元音和辅音，而不是字母。我知道这听起来很疯狂，但并不是所有的元音字母都能发成元音，有些辅音字母实际上是不发音的。

Let me show you what I mean. University.

让我给大家看看我到底是什么意思。大学。

Umbrella. So the u in university is pronounced "you". University.

雨伞。所以大学里的“u”读的是/ju:/的音。大学。

As if it's written with the consonant letter y. That sound y.

其实就类似于辅音字母 y。/y/的这个音。

We say university. So the article we use is a university.

我们说的是大学。所以我们使用的冠词是“a”。

Now the u in umbrella is pronounced /ʌ/. Umbrella. So this time the u is pronounced as a vowel sound, so we need to use an an umbrella.

雨伞中的 u 读出来的是/ʌ/的音。雨伞。这次 u 的发音是元音，所以我们需要用 an 来修饰伞。

It's the same with these two examples: orange and one-off event. So the o in orange is pronounced /o/.

这两个例子是一样的：橙色和一次性事件。橙子中的 o 发的是 o 音。

That's a vowel sound. An orange. But the o in one is pronounced with a consonant sound /w/.

这是一个元音。一个橙子。但是 one 里面的 o 发音是辅音/w/。

So we need to use a. A one-off event. Got it?

所以我们需要使用“a”。一次性的事件。明白了吗？

The same thing happens with consonants that are silent or they're pronounced as vowel sounds. Like in Hour where the h is silent.

不发音的辅音或者是发成元音的辅音也是相同的情况。Hour 中的“h”是不发音的。

The first sound in hour is a vowel sound, so we say an hour. Now if you compare that to hippopotamus.

Hour 的第一个音是元音，所以我们会说 an 小时。如果你把它与“河马”相比较的话。

Well, the h is not silent. A hippopotamus.

河马中的“h”是要发音的。一只河马。

We hear that "h" sound. We've talked about how articles are used before nouns.

我们听到了“h”是发音的。我们已经谈论了冠词在名词前的使用方式。

Well, sometimes we use other words in front of a noun, like this adjective. The articles that you choose, relate to the word that comes directly after it in a sentence.

有时我们会在名词前面使用其他词，比如形容词。你所选择的冠词，与句子中直接跟在它后面的词有关。

So we say an hour but a happy hour. An umbrella, but a wet umbrella.

所以我们会说 an hour，a happy hour。An umbrella，a wet umbrella。

Does that make sense? If you're not sure, you can always use a good dictionary to tell you how a word is pronounced correctly, whether or not the first sound is a consonant or a vowel sound.

大家能理解吗？如果你不确定的话，那可以选择一本好的词典来告诉你单词的正确发音，不管第一个音是辅音还是元音。

Every time that you learn a new noun in English, when you learn it for the first time, always write it down with the correct article straight away. Learn the article together with the noun and that way you will never need to think about: which article should I be using?

每次你在英语中学到一个新的名词的时候，第一次学习的时候就要把正确的冠词一起写下来。将冠词与名词一起学习，这样你就不需要思考：我应该使用哪个冠词呢？

And since we're talking about pronunciation, in naturally spoken English we pronounce this as /ʌ/ or /ə/, not /eɪ/ and we say /ən/, not /æn/. A cat. Not /eɪ/ cat.

既然我们在谈论的是发音问题，在英语自然口语中，我们的发音是/ʌ/或者/ə/不是/eɪ/，我们说的是/ən/，而不是/æn/。一只猫。而不是/eɪ/猫。

An apple. Not /æn/ apple. So now let's get stuck into the juicy stuff.

一个苹果。不是/æn/苹果。所以下面让我们进入更有意思的内容吧。

The rules. When do we use these articles?

规则。我们什么时候使用这些冠词呢？

Rule number one: use the indefinite article with singular countable nouns. Write this down!

规则一：在单数可数名词中使用不定冠词。把这个写下来!

In many languages the indefinite article is actually just the number one. There is one book on the table.

在许多语言中，不定冠词其实是数字一。桌子上有一本书。

In English, it is much more common and more natural to use a or an instead of one. Sure one is used, but generally, it's used to emphasise that something is singular and not plural.

在英语中，使用“a”或“an”来代替one更为常见，也更加自然。当然我们也会使用 one，但一般来说，它是用来强调某个东西是单数，而不是复数。

If you're not sure whether or not to use the indefinite article, it can be really helpful to think about it by replacing a or an with the number one. A book. One book.

如果你不确定是否使用不定冠词的话，用数字1代替“a”或“an”来思考这个问题会很有帮助。一本书。一本书。

It's the same thing. But if the noun is plural or it's an uncountable noun, we can't use it with the number one, can we?

这是一样的。但是如果这个名词是复数，或者是不可数的名词的话，我们就不能把它和数字1一起使用，对吗？

So we also can't use it with an indefinite article. Okay, I'm going to put up a list of nouns and I want you to see if you can guess which ones take a or an as their article.

所以我们也不能把它和不定冠词一起使用。好的，我会列出一个名词清单，我想让大家看看是否能猜出哪些名词以“a”或“an”作为其冠词。

A cat. A strawberry.

一只猫。一颗草莓。

An olive. Children and friends are plural nouns, so we can't use a singular a or an, and milk is uncountable, so we also can't use a or an.

一个橄榄。孩子和朋友是复数名词，所以我们不能使用单数的“a”或“an”，牛奶是不可数的，所以我们也不能使用“a”或“an”。

We only use a or an with singular countable nouns. Got it? Rule number two: use the indefinite article to introduce something for the first time.

我们只针对单数可数名词使用“a”或“an”。明白了吗？规则二：使用不定冠词来介绍首次出现的事物。

To show you what I mean here we're going to read a little story together. It's very quick.

为了告诉大家我是什么意思，我们要一起读一个小故事。非常短小的故事。

I saw a woman yesterday. The woman was sitting under a tree.

我昨天看到了一个女人。这个女人坐在一棵树下。

The tree was very tall. The woman reached out to touch a cat.

这棵树非常高。这个女人伸手去摸一只猫。

The cat jumped on a wall to try and catch a bird but the bird flew off the wall. Notice that each time we introduce a new noun into the story we use the indefinite article a or an, but the next time we refer to the same noun we use the definite article the.

这只猫跳到墙上，试图抓住一只鸟，但鸟从墙上飞走了。请注意，每次我们在故事中引入一个新的名词时，我们都会使用不定冠词“a”或“an”，但下一次我们提到同一个名词时，我们会使用定冠词“the”。

The indefinite article helps us to talk generally about a noun. A woman is one of many it could be any one of them, there are many women on the planet.

不定冠词可以帮助我们笼统地谈论一个名词。一个女人是众多女人中的一个，她可能是其中的任何一个，毕竟地球上有很多女人。

The woman helps us to be specific about which woman we're talking about. Sometimes it's already clear or it's obvious which noun we're referring to.

这个女人可以帮助我们具体地了解我们正在谈论的是哪个女人。有时，我们指的是哪个名词已经很清楚或很明显了。

So we can actually introduce a noun for the first time using the. Oh the doorbell's ringing.

因此我们可以在第一次介绍这个名词的时候使用“the”。哦，门铃响了。

Did you hear it? Sure somewhere in the world right now, in this moment, a doorbell is probably ringing, but because I said the.

你听到了吗？当然了，现在在世界的某个地方，就在这一刻，门铃可能正在响起，但因为我说了 the。

We can assume that I mean my doorbell is ringing. My doorbell, in my house not any random doorbell.

我们可以认为我指的是我的门铃在响。我的房子里的我的门铃响，而不是其他的门铃响。

The good news is that my next lesson here on YouTube will be all about the. So make sure you're subscribing and that you pay attention to the next lesson that I release.

好消息是，我在YouTube的下一课会全部是关于“the”的用法。所以一定要订阅课程，关注我发布的下一课。

It's gonna couple with this one nicely and give you a complete overview of articles in English. Rule number three: we use a or an when describing something that is not specific.

下一节课程和这一节结合起来就可以给你一个完整的英语冠词使用概览了。规则三：在描述非具体的事物时，我们使用“a”或“an”。

I've got a little tip to help you here, to help you understand this rule. If you can replace a or an with any, you're not being specific.

我在这里有一个小提示，可以帮助你理解这个规则。如果你可以用“any”代替“a”或“an”的话，那你讨论的就不是具体的事情。

So let's say you walk into a bakery and you say: "I'd like a piece of cake please". Well you know it's a bakery and it's the morning.

假如你走进一家面包店，你说：“我想买一块蛋糕。”你知道那是一家面包店，现在是早晨。

There's a whole cake there, and let's say there are eight or there's ten pieces of cake there. You haven't said which exact piece of cake you want.

店里有一整个蛋糕，可能有八块或者十块吧。你还没有说你具体要哪块蛋糕。

You said "I'll have a piece of cake". I'll have any piece of cake.

你说“我要买一块蛋糕”。我想要买任何一块蛋糕。

It's not important which particular piece it is as long as I get a piece of cake. If there was more than one type of cake you might want to specify what type of cake you want.

只要是蛋糕，哪一块并不重要。如果有不止一种类型的蛋糕的话，那你可能想说明你想要什么类型的蛋糕。

A piece of chocolate cake or a piece of carrot cake, right? I've got another example for you: we found a key on the ground.

一块巧克力蛋糕或一块胡萝卜蛋糕，对吗？还有一个例子：我们在地上发现一把钥匙。

So it's a random key. The type of key is not clear.

这是随机的一把钥匙。钥匙的类型并不清楚。

There was just any old key on the ground. But you compare that with the car key was on the ground or the house key was on the ground or my keys were on the ground.

地上只是有一把旧钥匙。但是你把它与汽车钥匙在地上，房子钥匙在地上或我的钥匙在地上相比。

In all of these examples I talked about a specific type of key and in that case we can't replace the or my with any. Alright? Because we're being specific.

在这些例子中，我谈到的是一种特定类型的钥匙，在这种情况下，我们不能用任何东西来代替“the”或者是“my”。对吧？因为我们说的是具体的。

Rule number four: use a or an with jobs and job titles. Now this one might be a little obvious to you but I want to highlight it because not every language uses articles in this same way.

规则四：在工作和职位名称中使用“a”或“an”。这个规则可能对你来说有点明显，但我想强调一下，因为不是每种语言都是以这种方式使用冠词。

I'm particularly thinking about my German students but who else uses articles like this? Do you use articles with jobs in your native language?

我想到了我的德国学生，但还有谁会像德语一样使用冠词呢？你的母语中工作面前是不是要加冠词呢？

Let me know down in the comments because I think it's probably way more than I realise! In English, when we want to describe what someone does for a living, we use a or an with the job title.

请在评论中告诉我，因为我认为可能比我意识到的要多得多！在英语中，当我们想描述某人的工作内容时，我们使用“a”或“an”再加工作头衔。

I'm a teacher. He's an engineer.

我是一名教师。他是一个工程师。

Lucy's a scientist. Daniel's a nurse.

露西是个科学家。丹尼尔是一名护士。

Why do we need these articles? Because there are millions of teachers and scientists and nurses all over the world.

我们为什么需要这些冠词呢？因为全世界有数以百万计的教师、科学家和护士。

Lucy is just one of many scientists. So unless you're describing a specific job that is unique to one person, then we use a or an as the job title.

露西只是众多科学家中的一员。因此，除非你描述的是一个人独有的某个具体工作的话，否则我们需要用“a”或“an”再加工作名称。

The exception to this rule is when there is only one of this role so in that case, we would use the. Elizabeth is the Queen of England, that's because there is only one Queen of England.

这条规则的例外情况是，如果这个职位只有一个的话，那我们会使用 the。伊丽莎白是英国女王，因为只有一个英国女王。

There is only one President of the United States. So when an American says "The President", you can assume that they're talking about the only guy in their country that has that job and hopefully one day soon it will be a woman who has that job.

美国只有一位总统。因此，当一个美国人说 “总统”时，你可以认为他们说的是他们国家唯一从事这项工作的人，希望有一天会是一个女人从事这项工作吧。

There is one mistake that I often hear my students making with indefinite articles and I wonder if you make this same mistake. He's busy man.

我经常听到我的学生在使用不定冠词时犯一个错误，我想知道大家是不是也会犯这个错误。他是个大忙人。

She's intelligent woman. That's very expensive car.

她是个聪明的女人。那是辆非常昂贵的车。

Do you know what's wrong with these sentences? Sometimes where there is an adjective before the noun, it's easy to forget about the article.

你知道这些句子有什么问题吗？有时在名词之前有一个形容词的话，很容易忘记冠词。

But in English this is wrong. We don't use adjectives instead of articles.

但在英语中这是错误的。我们不会使用形容词来代替冠词。

We use them in addition to articles. So they come between the article and the noun.

我们还需要加上冠词。因此，它们会出现在冠词和名词之间。

He's a busy man. She's an intelligent woman.

他是个大忙人。她是个聪明的女人。

That's a very expensive car. Okay, so here's the thing. Omitting this article is not going to stop someone from understanding you but it will be noticeable.

那是一辆非常昂贵的车。好的，事情是这样的。省略冠词并不妨碍别人对你的理解，但它会引起别人的注意。

I know that you want to sound accurate and natural in English, right? These tiny little words are really important and it's a good thing to realise where your mistakes are, so that you can fix them.

我知道大家都想让自己的英语听起来准确自然，对吗？这些小小的单词真的很重要，意识到你的错误在哪里其实是件好事，这样你就可以纠正它们啦。

So that you can improve and you can feel confident that you're speaking beautiful accurate English every time. On that note I've prepared a little practice quiz for you.

这样你就可以提高啦，你就可以更有自信心，每次都能说出漂亮准确的英语。关于这一点，我为大家准备了一个小小的练习测验。

Are you ready? There are four questions.

准备好了吗？一共有四个问题。

Each question refers to one of the rules that we've just learned in this lesson. You'll see a sentence and you'll need to complete it by adding the correct article.

每个问题都要用到我们在本课中刚刚学到的一个规则。你会看到一个句子，你需要通过添加正确的冠词来使其完整。

A, an or even the and sometimes no article is necessary. On the table, there were spoons.

A，an，the，有时候也可以不加冠词。在桌子上有一些勺子。

That's a plural noun so no article. Bowl, that's a singular countable noun, starting with the consonant sound so we need to use a. A bowl.

这是一个复数名词，所以没有冠词。碗，这是一个单数可数名词，开头是辅音，所以我们需要使用“a”。一个碗。

Fruit is an uncountable noun so again no article and tub of ice cream, well that's a singular countable noun so we use a. A tub of ice cream.

水果是一个不可数名词，所以同样没有冠词，而一桶冰淇淋，是一个单数可数名词，所以我们用“a”。一桶冰起来。

When we introduce a noun for the first time, we use a or an. So we say an accident.

当我们第一次引入一个名词时，我们使用“a”或“an”。所以我们会说一场意外。

A man. A red light.

一个人。一个红灯。

But after that we use the definite article. The accident.

但在这之后我们使用定冠词。这起事故。

We use a red light because we're telling this story to someone a week later, someone who didn't see the accident so they don't know which red light the man drove through. We have to introduce it as a and if we mention it again in the story we can use the.

我们会说红灯，是因为我们在一周后向某人讲述这个故事的时候，这个人没有看到这起事故，所以他们不知道这个人开车闯了哪个红灯。我们必须用“a”来引入，如果我们在故事中再次提到它的话，那就可以使用“the”。

In this question, we're talking about any light bulb not one specific light bulb. There were ten and I bought one of them.

在这个问题中，我们谈论的是任何一个灯泡，而不是一个特定的灯泡。有十个灯泡，我买了其中一个。

It wasn't important which one I bought. Here we're describing job titles.

我买了哪一个并不重要。这里我们描述的是工作头衔。

So we use a and an. We use a with a consonant sound, Ruby is a pilot.

所以我们用“a”和“an”。辅音需要加“a”，露比是一名飞行员。

An with a vowel sound, Jesse is an astronaut. Alright! You made it through to the end of the lesson!

带有元音的要用“an”，杰西是一名宇航员。好的！你已经坚持到了本课的最后!

Well done. You're a very good student!

非常棒。你是一名非常棒的学生!

I hope that you feel really good about using the indefinite article now and that you've learned something new, something that you can put into practice. If you've got a question or you just want to say hello, drop me a comment down below the video.

希望大家现在对不定冠词的使用更加得心应手了，希望你已经学到了一些新东西，而你可以将它们付诸实践。如果你有问题，或者你只是想打个招呼的话，请在视频下面给我留言吧。

Make sure you subscribe to the channel, turn on notifications so that you find out when the next video is released. Remember that video is going to be all about the definite article the.

一定要订阅我的频道，打开通知，这样你就能知道下一个视频何时发布啦。请记住哦，下个视频是关于定冠词“the”的全部内容。

It's going to be part 2 to this one. So definitely come and check that one out and if you want to keep going right now I've got this lesson for you it's a practice speaking with me lesson, an imitation lesson where you'll get to follow along and imitate me as I'm speaking.

这将是这一课的第二部分。一定要来看看这部分，如果你想继续学下去的话，我已经为大家准备了这一课，这是一个与我一起练习口语的模仿课程，你可以在我说话时跟着我模仿。

Great practice with articles out loud in spoken natural English. I'll see you in there.

用自然英语口语大声练习冠词的一个很好的练习。我在这里等着大家哦。

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