本帖最后由 Loon 于 2012-2-28 10:49 编辑
回晚枫君的“元音省略”。
又去向Timothy Steel 请教了一下,他说:
English verse features basically two types of elision.
The first concerns contractible adjacent vowels.
Some frail ll memo ll rial still ll erec ll ted nigh (x/, x/, >/, x/, x/)
> where i,ə are slurred together.
Adjacent-vowel elisions across a gap between words (the first vowel may end one word and the secon vowel begin the following word).
"thou art" becomes "th' art", "the old" contracts to "th' old"
A new ll small-ren ll ted lease,ll and can ll cel th' old
th(e) merged with "old".
I didn't contract your 'the' is because in my mind I always think a slur happens between adjacent vowels. Maybe I am wrong. Or maybe, if you could just use the contracted form as th' , will it make it more clear ? I really don't know. |