美式英语正音训练第54期:音节重音
Syllable Stress
Syllable Count Intonation Patterns
In spoken English, if you stress the wrong syllable, you can totally lose the meaning of a word:
"MA-sheen" is hardly recognizable as "ma-SHEEN" or machine.
At this point, we won't be concerned with why we are stressing a particular syllable— that understanding will come later.
