1.开音节[iː]。典型的开音节不多,实际视ee为开音节,如be, these, bee
2.闭音节[e]: fed, led
3.词首re-中念重音或次重音时,多数念[i:]: rebuild, remarry, retell, reunite, relaxation
少数念[e]: representative [̩repri’zentətiv], relativity [̩relə’tiviti]
[iː]: re’ality
[e]: ‘weekend, tech’nology
[i]: re’vision, ‘harvest, ‘happiest, pre’pare, ‘women, ‘wallet, ‘darkness
[ə]: a’musement, ‘movement, a’rithmetic, a’waken
[iː]: breathe (比较breath), please (比较pleasure, pleasant)
[e]: breakfast (比较break)
[ei]: break, great
[iə]: real, realize (比较reality), European, area, theater
重音节中[iː]: receive, seize
轻音节中[i]: foreign (g不发音)
重音节中[ei]: grey, they, hey
[iː]: key
轻音节中[i]: ‘monkey, ‘money, ‘honey
[ei]: eight (height [hait])
[uː]: Jew, jewel, jewellry, chew, crew, drew, threw, flew
[juː]: new, honeydew, few
eau [juː]: beauty
eo [iː]: people (geography的e和o不组合)
1.er
重读音节[əː]: her (very, experiment中e与r不组合发音)
[iə]: period, experience, material
[ə]: wonder, wander, clever, percent
[ɑː]: clerk, sergeant
轻音节中[ə]: ‘worker
2. ere
[ɛə]: there (弱读[ðə])
[iə]: here
[əː]: were, weren’t (弱读[wə])
3. ear
[iə]: fear, hear (heard [əː]), tear (n.眼泪)
[əː]: learn, heard
[ɛə]: bear, pear, tear (v.撕), wear
[ɑː]: heart
4. eer
[iə]: engineer, pioneer, beer, cheer, sneer
5. 不常见的组合
eir [ɛə]: their
eor [iə]: theory
eur [juə]: Europe