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He was telling me that he nearly died.
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I was sitting on the sofa talking to my mate's dad.
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It's always a little bit strange talking to your childhood friend's parents
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when you're older because on the one hand it's nice to see them and their world with older and wiser eyes.
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It's nice to see them as people.
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But on the other hand, childhood is not an easy thing to shake off.
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Hi Johnny, come on in, he said.
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Hi Mr Hammond, thanks for having me stay.
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Hey, can Alex come and play please?
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I reply suddenly in a squeaky prepubescent voice wearing shorts and carrying my primary school bag.
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But as I sat there in the nostalgic liminal space between adulthood and childhood, Mr Hammond told me about how he had nearly died.
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It wasn't one of those I got a diagnosis and then I pulled through kinds of stories.
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This was a hit by lightning, hungry shark attack, act of God kind of thing.
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one minute he was fine
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and the next he was in the back of an ambulance
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careening down the road to the hospital without oversharing another person's story i would just say
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that it involved a lot of blood hours on an operating table
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and a few weeks in the ward do you know what johnny he said to me all of
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that you need to make the most of it stuff is all just abstract
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and remote until it happens of course you think it
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and you say it but until something like this happens you don't feel it
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I told Mr Hammond to write down his story for me, especially his post-encounter philosophies, but until that time you have me.
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And so this week we're going to look at life-changing moments along with Anton Chekhov.
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In Chekhov's play The Seagull, we are asked to imagine a seagull flying over a lake.
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The gull is swooping and diving, fishing and cawing.
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It's entirely consumed by the busyness of being a seagull.
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And then, in the squeeze of a trigger, it's gone.
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A man on the shore holding a rifle is bored, and with no game and no fun to be had, he decides to pull up his gun and shoot the bird for no other reason than idleness.
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Of course, as with any great literature, the metaphors are wrapped in allegories.
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In the play, we meet a cast of characters who are obsessed with their own plans.
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They have these unfulfilled longings.
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They want fame, they want riches, they want love, they want pure art.
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Like a seagull flapping back to land, they have their eyes only for the shore, and so blinkered and distracted,
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they are vulnerable to the misfortune of life's mercurial rifle.
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So much of our lives is spent planning and preparing for things, and yet often the most significant moments come out of the blue.
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These are what the psychiatrist Carl Jaspers called boundary situations.
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A boundary situation is a rupture.
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It's a transformative experience that we cannot initiate, plan or even avoid.
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We can only encounter it.
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The mundane, every part of our life, putting on socks, ordering a pizza, planning a holiday, that kind of thing, are what Jaspers calls a situation being.
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But a boundary situation is one that thunders down to shake the foundations of your very existence.
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It changes who you are and it happens
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when you wake up in a hospital bed having only just beaten the reaper's odds.
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Although these boundary situations change a bit in Jasper's works, he broadly sorted them into four categories.
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First, you have death.
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We fear our loved ones dying and we fear the very fact of our own death.
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When you know grief, when you reflect on mortality, you often find some kind of revelation.
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As my friend's dad told me, we always know about death, but when it's a boundary situation.
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It comes crashing into our lives like some grim and unforeseen curtain call.
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Second, suffering.
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As the Buddha pointed out long before Jaspers, it is impossible to entirely avoid suffering.
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Our paths will hit old age, sickness and a great deal of pain.
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Some of this we can see coming, a tooth filling, a long run, a 14-hour flight to Australia.
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But the rest comes along unexpectedly.
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It hits us with such a shocking intensity that we're almost glad that we didn't see it coming.
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We come home from the hospital with a new life to live.
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Then there is guilt.
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There will come a time in life, often in adulthood, when we feel responsible for things.
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And this is a sudden awareness that our actions will impact those around us.
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That we are the reason for those tears, that laughter, that pain, that joy.
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The profound pull of the heart changes how we live and it often comes on unexpectedly.
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Finally you have chance.
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No matter how ordered we might want our lives to be, there will always be an unpredictable exception.
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We can hope for the best and make all of the plans
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that we want but we will never fully control all of the facts that affect our existence.
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We want order, we want regularity but we get the capricious throws of chance.
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What Chekhov's Seagull, Jaspers and Mr Hammond all get right is
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that we are each more vulnerable than we might want to allow.
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A wedding, three years and the fortune in the planning is ruined by a single stomach bug.
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An hour-long journey home for Christmas winds up getting you stuck in the traffic of a freak snowstorm.
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A lifetime achievement is overshadowed by a national disaster.
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A long and gentle retirement is blown off course by a near-death detour to the operating table.
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Our lives are defined by the unforeseen and unplannable.
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We have our dreams and hopes and we are flying to some distant horizon, yet life doesn't care.
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Around every corner, at every flap of our wings,
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everything can change and that's all the more reason to enjoy the view from where we are as long as it lasts.
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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント
このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「The 4 moments that will change your life」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：situation, seagull, boundary, Jaspers, Hammond。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が76文、単語が1029語あります。 音声の長さは5:39です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約182語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は81%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。
この動画の重要語彙
動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| boundary 名詞 | /ˈbaʊndɹi/ | 境界, 境 |
| adulthood 名詞 | 成人であること | |
| unexpectedly 副詞 | /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/ | 思いがけなく, おもいがけず |
| rifle 名詞 | /ˈɹaɪfəl/ | 小銃, ライフル |
| allegory 名詞 | /ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/ | アレゴリー, 寓話 |
| capricious 形容詞 | /kəˈpɹɪʃəs/ | 気紛れ |
| detour 名詞 | /ˈdi.toɹ/ | 迂回路 |
| misfortune 名詞 | /mɪsˈfɔɹt͡ʃən/ | 不幸, 災い |
| nostalgic 形容詞 | 懐かしい | |
| obsess 動詞 | /əbˈsɛs/ | 取り付く |
| regularity 名詞 | /ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/ | 規則性, 正則性 |
| rupture 名詞 | /ˈɹʌpt͡ʃɚ/ | 破裂 |
| snowstorm 名詞 | /ˈsnəʊstɔːm/ | 暴風雪, 吹雪 |
| longing 名詞 | /ˈlɔːŋɪŋ/ | 憧れ, 切望 |
| sock 名詞 | /sɑk/ | 靴下, ソックス |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| point out 動詞 | 指す, 指し示す | |
| pull up 動詞 | /ˌpʊl ˈʌp/ | 引き上げる |
| write down 動詞 | 書き留める, 記す |
注意したい発音
話し手はwe're, didn't, doesn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を7回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。
- 「th」の音: tooth /tuθ/, thunder /ˈθʌndɚ/
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: capricious /kəˈpɹɪʃəs/, overshadow /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/, initiate /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: unexpectedly /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/, allegory /ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/, mercurial /mɝˈkjʊ.ɹi.əl/, overshadow /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/, regularity /ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: rifle /ˈɹaɪfəl/, allegory /ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/, blinker /ˈblɪŋkəɹ/, mercurial /mɝˈkjʊ.ɹi.əl/, regularity /ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: overshadow /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/, transformative /tɹænsˈfɔɹmətɪv/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, dive /daɪv/
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: flap /flæp/, unforeseen /ˌʌnfɔːˈsiːn/, rifle /ˈɹaɪfəl/, misfortune /mɪsˈfɔɹt͡ʃən/, transformative /tɹænsˈfɔɹmətɪv/
この動画での練習方法
- まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
- まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。boundary, adulthood, unexpectedlyなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。