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「最强英音」系列我一直希望写下去，因为这些都是绝好的英音的典范。我有责任掘地三尺，将他们挖出来分享给伙伴们，让大家可以有更多的英音素材用于平时的练习。今天，我要给大家介绍的是Carey Mulligan.
Carey Mulligan出生在英国，幼年时随担任酒店经理的父亲迁往德国。随后，8岁时回到英国接受教育。她从小就对表演有着兴趣。真正的突破是在电影An Education中。当时有超过一百位演员试镜，24岁的Carey Mulligan最后胜出并担任了主演。她在片中的表演让她获得了多项国际大奖的提名，同时摘得英国电影学院奖。
Carey Mulligan也担任了不少慈善工作，比如艾尔滋海默症基金的大使，帮助众多深受这类病症困扰的病人和家属。
Carey Mulligan近几年有不少好的作品，其中的一些，我可能会在【剧有英伦腔】中和大家一起分享。其中大家最为熟悉的可能就是《了不起的盖兹比》。影片中她的口音有所变化。所以，今天，我将给大家分享的是她最自然的本色口音，相当标准地道的英音。这也可能是我们【英音朗读分区赛】的题材哦。
最强英音
The Law That Men Has Made
Written By Emmeline Pankhurst
Read by Carey Mulligan
Men politicians are in the habit of talking to women as if there were no laws that affect women. ‘The fact is,’ they say, ‘the home is the place for women. Their interests are the rearing and training of children. These are the things that interest women. Politics have nothing to do with these things, and therefore politics do not concern women.’ Yet the laws decide how women are to live in marriage, how their children are to be trained and educated, and what the future of their children is to be. All that is decided by Act of Parliament. Let us take a few of these laws, and see what there is to say about them from the women’s point of view.
First of all, let us take the marriage laws. They are made by men for women. Let us consider whether they are equal, whether they are just, whether they are wise. What security of maintenance has the married woman? Many a married woman having given up her economic independence in order to marry, how is she compensated for that loss? What security does she get in that marriage for which she gave up economic independence? Take the case of a woman who has been earning a good income. She is told that she ought to give up her employment when she becomes a wife and mother. What does she get in return? All that a married man is obliged by law to do for his wife is to provide for her shelter of some kind, food of some kind, and clothing of some kind. It is left to his good pleasure to decide what the shelter shall be, what the food shall be, what the clothing shall be. It is left to him to decide what money shall be spent on the home, and how it shall be spent, the wife has no voice legally in deciding any of these things. She has no legal claim upon any definite portion of his income. If he is a good man, a conscientious man, he does the right thing. If he is not, if he chooses almost to starve his wife, she has no remedy. What he thinks sufficient is what she has to be content with.
The more one thinks about the importance of the vote for women the more one realizes how vital it is. We are finding out new reasons for the vote. We need new needs for the vote every day in carrying on our agitation. I hope there may be a few men and women here who will go away determin to at least give this question more consideration than they may have in the past. They will see that we women who are doing so much to get the vote want it because we realize how much good we can do with it when we’ve got it. We do not want it in order to boast of how much we have got. We do not want it because we want to imitate men or be like men. We want it because without it we cannot do the work that is necessary and right and proper that every man and woman should be ready and willing to undertake in the interest of the community of which they form a part.
conscientious /ˌkɒn.tʃiˈen.tʃəs/ adj. 认真的 负责的
agitation /ˌædʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/ n. 鼓动 激励
音标来源/ Longman Pronunciation Dictionary & Cambridge Pronunciation Dictionary
英音发音要点
留意英音中类似home的发音。不要过于拘谨，那样要不太posh，要不就过于小女生状。成熟女性在此处的发音是相对饱满的。
留意这段演讲中大量的梅花音，Carey Mulligan的这些部分都是相当纯正的。
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Young and Beautiful
这是一段相当著名的演讲。本来想写一些关于这段演讲稿的作者Emmeline Pankhurst的一些背景，但想来还是过于严肃了一些。我想结尾还是不用过于厚重。
今天作为结尾，我想还是将Carey Mulligan在The Great Gatsby中的表演和大家一起分享。但由于其中她改变了口音，所以，我还是和大家一起分享这首电影中的主题曲吧。也算今天内容的一个小彩蛋。
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