Can you hear that flap T sound when I say it?

我说的时候你能听到里面的弹音T吗？

Our next word is ITEMS with a flap T.

我们的下一个词是弹音 T 的 ITEMS。

Yes, there are parts of the UK where people have rhotic accents like Jay.

是的，英国有些地方的人有像 Jay 一样的音的口音。

So you'll hear literally with that flap T sound, right?

你能听到“确实”这个词的弹音 T 对吧？

But generally speaking, accents in the UK — a non-rhotic, and accents in the US — a rhotic.

但一般来说，英国口音是不音的，美国口音是音的。

So my accent is rhotic and vicky's is non-rhotic.

所以我的口音是音的，而 vicky 的是不音的。

Now can you hear that flap 'T' there? It sounds more like a 'D'. 'Whatta', 'Whatta', 'Whatta' and then again 'later', 'later'.

你们能听到这里的弹音‘T’吗？听起来更像是‘D’。‘Whatta’，‘Whatta’，‘Whatta’，然后是‘later’，‘later’。

In my accent, you can't hear that final R sound but you would in an American accent.

在我的口音中，你是听不到后面的音的，但是是美音中可以听到。

That's because we speak in what we call a non-rhotic accent, which simply means we don't pronounce the R as much as, let's say, an American does, where they always pronounce them in most American accents.

那是因为我们说的是非音的口音，这仅仅意味着我们不像美国人那样经常发R的音，在大多数美国口音中他们总是会发这个音。

Later settlers in the southern parts of Ireland also tended to come from parts of England that were rhotic, which was still most of England at the time.

后来移居爱尔兰南部的定居者也往往来自英格兰的音地区，而当时大部分英格兰地区还是使用音的。

And also, you hear that there's some " r's" in this accent so it's not a non-rhotic accent like the Mississippi southern.

而且， 你会听到这个口音里有一些“r” 的发音，所以它不像密西西比州的南方口音那样是非音的。

In some forms of American English, the flap occurs for ''t'' in words like dirty and sorting, after r -colored vowels in a stressed syllable.

(7) 触音和闪音：当对齿龈进行一次触及，发生一次颤动，就是触音。在美国英语中，像 [t， d] 等音常常发成触音，如 city (城市) 和 ladder (梯子) 等。闪音是首先以音的音姿将尖向上并向后曲，然后返回下齿后面位置，在齿龈后的区域击打口腔顶部。在美国英语的一些方言中，闪音出现在重读音节中的儿化元音之后，如 dirty (脏) 和 sorting (分类)(Ladefoged&Johnson， 2015： 99；关于儿化元音见下文 2.2。

So there was probably a mixture of rhotic and non-rhotic accents in the early settlements in Virginia, and later in Charleston to the south.

因此， 在弗吉尼亚早期的定居点，以及后来在南部的查尔斯顿， 很可能存在音和非音混合的口音。

Even in nearby London, the accent was still rhotic.

即使在附近的伦敦，口音仍然是翘音的。

And accents in that part of the southern U.S. have been mixed ever since, though the rhotic form has become more common with time.

而在美国南部那部分地区的口音自此就混合起来了，不过随着时代的发展， 音的形式变得越来越常见。