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Question問：
Should it be "a eucharistic minister" or "an eucharistic minister"?
應該是「a eucharistic minister」（聖餐牧師）還是「an eucharistic minister」?
Answer答：
When choosing between the articles 'a' and 'an,' you must listen to the sound at the beginning of the word immediately following it. The first sound in 'eucharistic' is /j/ or the y-sound. Because this is a consonant sound, use 'a.' When the sound immediately following a/an is a vowel sound, use 'an.' Below are some examples:
在冠詞「a」和「an」之間進行選擇時，你必須聽它後面緊跟着的單詞開頭的聲音。「eucharistic」中的第一個音是/j/或y音。因為這是輔音，所以用a。當緊接在a/an後面的是元音時，使用'an '。下面是一些例子:
· a dog [/d/ is a consonant sound]
· A dog（一隻狗） [/d/是一個輔音]
· an apple [/æ/ is a vowel sound]
· an apple（一個蘋果） [/æ/是元音]
· a barnacle 一個藤壺
· a chubby baby 一個胖乎乎的嬰兒
· an influential writer 一個有影響力的作家
· a unicorn [the first sound is /j/ even though u is a vowel]
· a unicorn（一隻獨角獸）[第一個音是/j，儘管u是元音]
