And so, an English speaker can hear the difference between "Lip" and "Rip" and that corresponds to two different words in English.

所以,英语说话者可以听出,"Lip"和"Rip"之间的差别,而这两种声音在英语中对应了不同的单词

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You told me that you're not a native English speaker.

你跟我说过你的母语不是英语。

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maybe you're practicing English with a native speaker and you didn't quite catch what the other person said.

也许你正和一位母语为英语的朋友练习英语口语，但你没能很好地理解那个人在说什么。

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So, if you're a native monolingual speaker of English you hear speech and each sound you hear is categorized as falling into one of those forty morphemes--sorry, phonemes.

如果你是英语母语的单语说话者,你听到一段演讲,你所听到的每个声音,都被归类为这四十个音位中的一个

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