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 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!"

　　A tall eastern girl named Short long loved a big Mr. Little. But Little, thinking little of Short, loved a little lass named Long. To belittle Long. Short announced She would marry Little before long. This caused Little shortly to marry Long. To make a long story short, did tall Short love big Little less because Little loved little Long more?