シャドーイング練習: What True Love Really Is - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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The world is sick for a surprisingly modest-sounding reason.
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We don't understand love.
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And yet we're rather convinced that we do.
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We talk a lot of love, of course, but generally in terms of a dizzying rapture lasting a few months focused on someone's beauty,
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intelligence and strength.
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We have high ideals and refer with confidence to concepts like justice,
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equality and rights and yet somehow in the mix we avoid talking of the sort of love
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that would give true life to any of these.
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We are law-abiding and righteous but we are in the grandest sense in the public square without love.
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The most convincing definitions of love in the West have come from Jesus of Nazareth
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which has proved unfortunate given how easy it is for rational
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types to confuse an overcoming of supernatural faith with a neglect of the subject of love.
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To move forward, we require a new philosophy of love, in effect a powerful secular religion of love.
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This should be read out after the news and its tenets taught to CEOs and supply chain managers.
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We should put it on t-shirts and it should be as common and more useful to say,
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I'm trying to learn to love as to announce a desire to become fit or famous.
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It's no insult to have to acknowledge that even though we inhabit a culture soaked in romanticism, we have problems understanding love.
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And even though we've had plenty of crushes and heard plenty of songs about love,
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we're still taking our first steps towards grasping what love might actually be.
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Here then are seven key constituent ingredients of love.
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Charity.
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Love Love means, above anything else, benevolence and gentleness towards what is failed,
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disgraced, broken, unappealing, angry and foul in other people and in ourselves.
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Love isn't about an admiration for strength.
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It's about directing sympathy in a most unexpected direction, at what is messed up, lost and in pieces, and at what we might hate,
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resent and be frightened of.
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Anyone can express an interest in perfection.
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To love is to devote an active charity towards the mistakes and aberrations.
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One day we will all require the charity of others.
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In one way or another, we will be on our knees
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and we will need people to look past our evident failings in a tender search for our deeply hidden merits.
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To love with imagination is to look beneath the surface where there may be rage,
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cynicism, brittleness or transgression, and to picture the suffering and pain that got a person to this place.
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To love with imagination is to fill in the better reasons why others are behaving as they are.
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Imaginative love knows that we are all somewhere desperate.
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It seeks out that desperation and treats it with sorrowful gentleness.
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Kindness.
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There are so many fighters for social justice, so many people determined to make a better world.
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They denounce their enemies and feel certain of their cause, but along the way, they have a fateful habit of forgetting to be kind.
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In their denunciations of the evils of others, there is precious little mercy, humility, tenderness or grace.
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It's not enough to be right or just.
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To be kind is to know that everyone, even sinners – and in a way especially sinners – deserve ongoing sympathy and mercy.
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It's never simply because someone is wrong that we have any right to cease showing them the greatest kindness.
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Forgiveness To forgive is to know that we are, in our own way, as guilty as the next person.
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Given what we all are, we have no option but to cut each other some slack.
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Of course we have failed and been hasty and less than admirable.
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But that is no reason forever to withhold love.
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We learn to forgive when we are no longer self-righteous, That is, when we are brave enough to fathom the darker sections of our own hearts.
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Loyalty.
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To love means being loyal to people.
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This could be ourselves, even though the crowd no longer agrees.
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Outside, the mob may be jeering, but we continue on the same side, with steadfastness and an unbudgeable, resilient faith.
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Generosity.
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Love overflows.
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It isn't about loving just one person.
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It encompasses the love of someone you've just met, of strangers in another land, of the earth, of plants,
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evils, house bats and that moth by the window who might be dead by nightfall.
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Patience.
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We want others to meet our hopes right now, but true love means giving people the time to mature and develop, to go wrong, to wander in another direction
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and not to shout at them but to give them every chance to grow at their own pace towards their better selves.
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If we can believe wholeheartedly in some of the above, it won't matter who we vote for or what our cause is,
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we can count as part of what is helping.
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We should be almost done with romantic love by now.
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We should be setting our sights on the challenge of this sort of love.
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Yet it's not surprising if we're still only at the beginning.
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We're just starting on the path to being human.
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Love is a skill that we can learn.
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Our relationships book calmly guides us with calm and charm,
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through the key issues of relationships to ensure that success in love need not be a matter of good luck.
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「What True Love Really Is」を使って、シャドーイングで英語を練習しましょう。
毎日15〜30分の練習で、IELTSスピーキングへの自信と実践的な英会話力が身につきます。
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。