When the glottis opens up again, the air rushes through it very quickly.

当声门再次打开时，空气冲过声门。

And some people substitute the T with the glottal stop.

有些人用声门音来代替“T”音。

That 'en' sound is the glottal stop.

那个“en”音是声门音。

A glottal stop is when you abruptly stop your breath with your vocal chords.

声门阻塞是指你突然用声带停止呼吸。

I keep losing sight of the cords. Give me some burp.

我一直看不他的声门 搭把手。

Then your glottis snaps shut, and puts a lid over your trachea.

接着你的声门会突然合上，并且封闭气管。

And one of the ways to pronounce it is with a glottal stop.

其中一种发音是用声门塞音。

I will drop them or glottalize them if I want to.

如果我想的话，我会把它们省掉或者把它们声门化。

Right. It's like a nasal 't' or just a glottal stop, 'mountain'.

就像鼻音“t”或者只是声门停顿，/ˈmaʊntən/。

But because the glottis is closed, a tremendous pressure keeps building up in the air passages.

但因为此时的声门关上了，所以巨大的压力持续在气道中积聚。

I'm recording this audio to ask you about glottal stop consonants in American English.

我录制这段音频是想问你关于英语中声门停顿辅音的问题。

But not all British dialects feature t-glottalization.

但并不是所有的英国方言都有 t 声门化。

In fact, in America, t-glottalization seems to be on the rise.

实际上，在国，t-声门化的现象似乎正在增长。

And with the t sound there's a glottal stop, so you stop the t in your throat. Thirty. Thirty-three.

对于 t 的发音，有一个声门闭锁音，所以你要把 t 的发音卡在喉咙里。30。33。

In a cough-free world, your glottis wouldn't shut, and the air wouldn't get stuck in your lungs and trachea.

在没有咳嗽的世界里，你的声门不会关上，空气也不会憋在肺和气管中。

The glottis is in the throat, here.

声门在喉咙里，在这里。

And I mentioned to you just now a glottal stop.

我刚才跟你提到了声门塞音。

Maybe you don't know what a glottal stop is.

也许你不知道什么是声门塞音。

This is called the glottal stop.

这称为声门塞音。

Instead, many ts in American English are subject to a tactic between pronouncing and glottalizing: flapping.

反，许多 t 在英语中会在发音和声门化之间采取一种策略：弹音。