Hello guys,
朋友们好，
Welcome to XiHa English Day 8. Again this is Richard, and I am really excited to study English with you guys togeter. Now let's get started.
欢迎来到嘻哈英语，又是我理查德，很高兴和大家一起学习英语。让我们开始吧。

You probably have learned that intonation is very important in spoken English. Yet, for foreign learners including me, there could still be times when you forget to use the right intonations, which would cause misunderstandings. For example, if you see a HOTdog stand and tell your friend you want to buy a hot DOG, your friend will probably think that you are going to buy a dog.
各位可能已经了解到口语中语调是很重要的。但是，对于外国学习者来说，当然也包括我在内，有的时候，我们仍然会用错语调，进而被误解。比如，若果你碰见一个“HOTdog”摊，你告诉你的朋友你要买"a hot DOG"，你朋友很可能以为你要买一只狗。

Other such scenarios include: a GREENhouse & a green house, an ORANGE tree & an orange TREE, a BLACKsheep & a black SHEEP and so forth.
其他一些例子有：一个温室&一栋绿色房子，一颗橙子树&一个橙色的树，一个害群之马&一只黑羊 等等。

So how do we distinguish them? In American English, they call "GREENhouse" set phrase and "green HOUSE" descriptive phrase. Set phrases are things that people are very familiar with and in speaking set phrases we stress the former word. Descriptive are composed of adjective and noun, and the adjective is used to modify the noun, so we stress the latter word.
那么我们如何区分他们呢？美语中，把“GREENhouse”称为固定短语，把“greenHOUSE”称为描述短语。固定短语是人们非常熟悉的事物，人们说到固定短语时，会重读前一个单词。描述短语由形容词和名词组成，用形容词来修饰名词，所以我们重读名词。

Next time when you watch American TVs or movies, pay attention to how they speak these phrases. And you will surely learn something.
下次看美剧或电影时，注意听他们怎么说这些短语的。你肯定会有所收获。

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