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The difficult thing about being in despair is that we feel we know exactly what the future's going to bring.
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More darkness, more misery, more sadness.
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But in our worst moods, we should answer our tragic sense with a simple question.
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How can we know?
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On what basis has this dark certainty of ongoing damnation be formed?
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How can we, from our vantage point under the bedclothes, tell what the rest of our lives will be like.
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Have we got a crane from which to inspect the recesses of next summer?
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Can we from here meet everyone we're going to be introduced to in the next 18 months?
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Have we become clairvoyants as well?
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We can't be sure that things are going to improve from here.
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That would be naivety.
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But it's equally naive to imagine that we know they're going to stay appalling too.
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We haven't got the necessary information.
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glancing at the horizon with a hood covering most of our eyes.
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We didn't see the last disaster coming, we certainly don't know much about the future.
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There's a famous saying attributed to Zhu Enlai, the first premier of Communist China, when he was asked what he thought about the French Revolution.
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It's too early to tell, he replied, of an event that had occurred nearly two centuries before.
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We should want to imitate the modesty in our lives.
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Maybe that our partner left us is a disaster, or one of the most strangely fruitful things that will ever have happened to us.
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That they aren't answering our calls could be a calamity, or five years from now an immense stroke of luck.
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It's too early to tell.
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How was today?
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It may have been an ordinary, gentle day of no consequence whatsoever, or the moment when, without our noticing,
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a thread was caught that will eventually unravel our lives.
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It's too early to tell.
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We say everything's lost, but we haven't got the right to speak for everything.
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Maybe a betrayal opens us to the greatest love story we're ever going to experience.
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Maybe their sudden change of mind has saved us from a danger we can't yet see.
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we did lose the only person who can understand us.
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It's too early to tell.
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At the close of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, the chorus warns, call no man happy till he dies.
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And we might add, call no man unhappy till he dies either.
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We just don't know how large a hole we are in.
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All we have a right to is a modest, sceptical awe at the mystery of everything.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 34 frasi e 432 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 2:41. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 161 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 82% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| disaster sostantivo | /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ | disastro |
| occur verbo | /əˈkɜː/ | verificarsi |
| mystery sostantivo | /ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/ | mistero, arcano |
| mood sostantivo | /muːd/ | umore, cattivo umore |
| thread sostantivo | /ˈθɹɛd/ | filo, refe |
| ordinary aggettivo | /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ | ordinario, ordinaria |
| sudden aggettivo | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | improvviso |
| equally avverbio | /ˈiːkwəli/ | altrettanto, parimenti |
| introduce verbo | /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ | presentare |
| ongoing aggettivo | /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/ | continuo |
| darkness sostantivo | /ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/ | buio, oscurità |
| gentle aggettivo | /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/ | gentile |
| tragic aggettivo | /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪk/ | tragico |
| consequence sostantivo | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | conseguenza |
| horizon sostantivo | /həˈɹaɪ.zən/ | orizzonte |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 11 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come can't, don't, haven't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: thread /ˈθɹɛd/, bedclothes /ˈbɛd.kləʊðz/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/, calamity /kəˈlæmɪti/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come disaster, occur, mystery.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | be formed · be introduced · was asked |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | Have we become · have happened · has saved |
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.