【词汇大师】这是画眉？(1/2)

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“a Black Bird” and “a Blackbird”  千万别弄错咯，一个是黑色的鸟！一个是画眉！
TIPS
本篇只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。都是好建议哦。听了就知道。
本篇无主持人的话哟！
PS：首句的“well” 直接忽略哦~~(@^_^@)~
HINTS
baby-sitter
hyphenThere are all kinds of compounds in English. The most common ones are when we combine two nouns -- so race car, housekeeper. One of the things that's confusing about compounds is the spelling, because sometimes it's written as two words; for example, race car. Sometimes it's written as one word; for example, housekeeper. And sometimes it's written with a hyphen. I actually would have to check this myself, but I think the word baby-sitter is written with a hyphen.
"Now the point is, even native speakers of English don't always know how to spell compounds and they have to consult a dictionary. So I would give my students exactly the same advice.
"Now let's move away from the written language and talk about the spoken language. There is a unique feature of compounds which is that the first word is normally the one -- well, always the one that is stressed. So notice, for example, that we say race car, house keeper, black bird, make up, baby sitter. You see how the first -- we've talked on this program about word stress before.