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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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Deze video bevat 34 zinnen en 432 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:41. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 161 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| disaster zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ | ramp, onheil |
| occur werkwoord | /əˈkɜː/ | plaatsvinden |
| mystery zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/ | mysterie |
| mood zelfstandig naamwoord | /muːd/ | humeur, stemming |
| thread zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈθɹɛd/ | draad, garen |
| ordinary bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ | gewoon, alledaags |
| sudden bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | plotseling, plotselinge |
| equally bijwoord | /ˈiːkwəli/ | even, gelijk |
| introduce werkwoord | /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ | introduceren, voorstellen |
| ongoing bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/ | lopend, in uitvoering |
| darkness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/ | duisternis, donkerheid |
| gentle bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/ | lieflijk |
| tragic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪk/ | tragisch |
| consequence zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | gevolg, consequentie |
| horizon zelfstandig naamwoord | /həˈɹaɪ.zən/ | horizon, horizont |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 11 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals can't, don't, haven't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: thread /ˈθɹɛd/, bedclothes /ˈbɛd.kləʊðz/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/, calamity /kəˈlæmɪti/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als disaster, occur, mystery.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | be formed · be introduced · was asked |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | Have we become · have happened · has saved |
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