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Question问：
Should it be "a eucharistic minister" or "an eucharistic minister"?
应该是“a eucharistic minister”（圣餐牧师）还是“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:
在冠词“a”和“an”之间进行选择时，你必须听它后面紧跟着的单词开头的声音。“eucharistic”中的第一个音是/j/或y音。因为这是辅音，所以用a。当紧接在a/an后面的是元音时，使用'an '。下面是一些例子:
· a dog [/d/ is a consonant sound]
· A dog（一只狗） [/d/是一个辅音]
· an apple [/æ/ is a vowel sound]
· an apple（一个苹果） [/æ/是元音]
· a barnacle 一个藤壶
· a chubby baby 一个胖乎乎的婴儿
· an influential writer 一个有影响力的作家
· a unicorn [the first sound is /j/ even though u is a vowel]
· a unicorn（一只独角兽）[第一个音是/j，尽管u是元音]
