1 / 15 外研版高中英语必修5 Cultural Corner逐句翻译B5 M1 Cultural Corner逐句翻译The Man Who Made Spelling Simple简化拼写的人In English the spelling of words does not always represent the sound
在英语中，单词的拼写并不总是能表现出发音
So people say /rait/ but spell it right, or write, or even rite
因此人们发/rait/的音，却拼写为right，或是 write ，甚至 rite
Combinations of letters (like ough) may be pronounced in a number of ways
字母组合（像ough）可能会有好多种发音
And some words just seem to have too many letters
有些单词看起来有太多的字母
For Americans things are a little bit easier, 对美国人来说，情况就较为简单，thanks to the work of Noah Webster, a teacher who graduated from Yale University in 1778
这多亏了诺亚﹒韦伯斯特的贡献，他是1778年毕业于耶鱼大学的一名教师
as a young man he had fought against the British in the American War of independence, and he felt that written English in the newly independent United Stat
