Shadowing Practice: 这就是她让全场破防的原因【泰勒丝纽约大学毕业演讲】中英大字幕 优质的英语学习材料 Taylor Swift's NYU Speech - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So I won't tell you what to do, because no one likes that.
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I will, however, give you some life hacks.
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I wish I knew when I was starting out my dreams of a career and navigating life, Love.
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pressure, choices, shame, hope, and friendship.
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The first of which is...
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Life can be heavy, especially if you try to carry it all at once.
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- Yeah.
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Part of growing up, and moving into new chapters of your life.
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is about catch and release.
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What I mean by that is, knowing what things to keep, and what things to release.
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You can't carry all things.
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all grudges.
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all updates on your ex, all enviable promotions your school bully got at the hedge fund, his uncle started.
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decide What is yours to hold?
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and let the rest go.
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Oftentimes, The good things in your life are lighter anyway.
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So there's more room for them.
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one toxic relationship.
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can outweigh so many wonderful simple joys.
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You get to pick what your life has time and room for. Be discerning.
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Secondly, Learn to live alongside Cringe.
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No matter how hard You try to avoid being cringe.
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you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively.
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Cringe?
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is unavoidable over a lifetime.
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Even the term cringe might someday be deemed cringe.
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I promise you.
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you're probably doing or wearing something right now.
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that you will look back on later and find revolting and hilarious.
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Can't avoid it.
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So don't try to.
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For example, I had a phase where for the entirety of 2012,
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I dressed like a 1950s housewife. But you know what?
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I was having fun.
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Trends and phases are fun.
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Looking back and laughing is fun.
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And while we're talking about things that make us squirm but really shouldn't.
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I'd like to say I'm a big advocate for not hiding your enthusiasm. for things.
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It seems to me that there is a false stigma around eagerness.
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in our culture of unbothered, ambivalence.
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This outlook perpetuates the idea that it's not cool to want it.
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The people who don't try are fundamentally more chic than people who do.
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And I wouldn't know because I've been a lot of things, but I've never been an expert on chic.
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But I'm the one who's up here, so you have to listen to me when I say this.
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Never. Be ashamed. of trying.
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Effortlessness.
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is a myth.
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The people who wanted it the least were the ones I wanted to date and be friends with in high school.
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the people who want it the most, are the people I now hire to work for my company.
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I started writing songs when I was 12.
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And since then, It's been the compass guiding my life and in turn My life guided my writing.
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everything I do.
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is just an extension of my writing, whether it's directing videos or a short film, creating the visuals for a tour.
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or standing on a stage performing.
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Everything is connected.
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by my love of the craft.
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the thrill of working through ideas and narrowing them down and polishing it all up in the end.
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Editing waking up in the middle of the night, throwing out the old idea because You just thought of a newer better one.
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or a plot device that ties the whole thing together.
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There's a reason they call it a hook.
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sometimes a string of words, ensnares me and I can't focus on anything until it's been recorded or written down.
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As a songwriter, I've never been able to sit still.
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or stay in one creative place for too long.
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I've made and released 11 albums and in the process, I've switched genre from country to pop, to alternative, to folk.
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And this might sound like a very songwriter -centric line of discussion.
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But in a way, I really do think We are all Writers.
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And most of us right, in a different voice for different situations.
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You write differently in your Instagram stories than you do your senior thesis.
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send a different type of email to your boss than you do your best friend from home.
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We are all literary chameleons.
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And I think it's fascinating.
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It's just a continuation of the idea that we are so many things all the time.
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And I know it can be really overwhelming figuring out who to be and when.
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who you are now, and how to act in order to get where you want to go.
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I have some good news.
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It's totally up to you.
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- Thank you.
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I have some terrifying news.
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It's totally up to you.
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Thank you.
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I said to you earlier that I don't ever offer advice.
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unless someone asked me for it, and now I'll tell you why.
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As a person who started my very public career at the age of 15, It came with a price. And that price?
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was years of unsolicited advice.
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LAUGHTER Being the youngest person in every room for over a decade, - Meant.
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that I was constantly being issued warnings.
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from older members of the music industry.
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media interviewers, executives And this advice, often presented itself.
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as thinly veiled warnings.
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See, I was a teenager.
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at a time when our society was absolutely obsessed with the idea of having...
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perfect.
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young female role models.
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It felt like every interview I did included slight barbs by the interviewer, about me one day.
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running off the rails.
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And that meant a different thing to every person who said it to me.
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So I became a young adult while being fed the message that if I didn't make-- Any mistakes
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All the children of America would grow up to be perfect angels.
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However, if I did slip up, the entire Earth would fall off its axis, and it would be entirely my fault, and I would go to pop star jail, forever and ever.
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It was all centered around The idea.
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mistakes.
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equal.
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failure.
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and ultimately, The loss.
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of any chance at a happy or rewarding life.
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has not been my experience.
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My experience has been that my mistakes led to the-- best things in my life.
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And Being embarrassed when you mess up?
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It's part of the human experience.
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Getting back up.
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dusting yourself off, And seeing who still wants to hang out with you afterward and laugh about it, that's a gift.
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The Times, I was told no. or wasn't included.
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wasn't chosen, didn't win, didn't make the cut.
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Looking back, it really feels like those moments were as important, if not more crucial, than the moments I was told Yes.
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not be invited, to the parties and sleepovers in my hometown.
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made me feel hopelessly lonely.
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But because I felt alone, I would sit in my room.
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and write the songs that would get me a ticket somewhere else.
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Having label executives in Nashville, tell me that only 35 -year -old housewives listen to country music
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and there was no place for a 13 -year -old on their roster, made me cry in the car on the way home.
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But then I'd post my songs on my MySpace. and yes, MySpace.
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LAUGHTER and I would message with other teenagers like me who loved country music.
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but just didn't have anyone singing from their perspective.
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having journalists write in -depth, oftentimes critical pieces about who they perceive me to be.
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made me feel like I was living in some weird simulation.
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but it also made me look inward.
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to learn about who I actually am.
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Having the world treat my love life like a spectator sport in which I lose Every single game.
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was not a great way to date in my teens and 20s.
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But it taught me to protect my private life.
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fiercely.
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Being publicly humiliated over and over again at a young age was excruciatingly painful.
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But it forced me.
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to devalue the ridiculous notion of minute by minute.
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ever -fluctuating social relevance and likability.
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Thank you.
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getting canceled on the internet, and nearly losing my career.
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gave me an excellent knowledge of all the types of wine.
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I know I sound-- like a consummate optimist, but I'm really not.
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I lose perspective.
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all the time.
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Sometimes Everything.
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just feels completely pointless.
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I know the pressure.
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of living your life through the lens of perfectionism.
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And I know that I'm talking to a group of perfectionists because you are here today graduating from NYU.
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So this-- might be hard for you to in your life.
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you will inevitably Miss speak.
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trust the wrong person.
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underreact.
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Overreact.
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hurt the people who didn't deserve it.
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Overthink.
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Not think at all.
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self -sabotage, create a reality where only your experience exists, ruin perfectly good moments for yourself and others.
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deny any wrongdoing.
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not take the steps to make it right, feel very guilty, Let the guilt eat at you.
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Hit rock bottom.
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Finally address the pain you caused.
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Try to do better next time.
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Rinse, repeat.
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And I'm not going to lie.
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these mistakes Will.
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cause you to lose things.
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I'm trying to tell you that losing things doesn't just mean losing.
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A lot of the time when we lose things, we gain things too.
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Now you leave the structure and framework of school.
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and chart your own path.
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Every choice you make leads to the next choice, which leads to the next to the next and I know it's hard. to know.
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which path to take.
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There will be times in life where you need to stand up for yourself.
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Times when the right thing is actually to back down and apologize.
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times when the right thing is to fight.
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times when the right thing is to turn and run.
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times to hold on with all you have.
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and times to let go with grace.
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Sometimes the right thing to do is to throw out the old schools of thought.
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in the name of progress and reform.
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Sometimes the right thing to do is to sit and listen to the wisdom of those who have come before us.
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How will you know?
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what the right choice is.
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in these crucial moments.
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You won't.
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How do I give advice to this many people about their life choices?
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I won't.
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The scary news is You're on your own now.
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But the cool news is, You're on your own now.
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I leave you with this.
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We are led by our gut instincts.
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our intuition.
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our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams.
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And you will screw it up sometimes. So will I.
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And when I do, you will most likely read about it on the internet.
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Anyway, hard things will happen to us.
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We will recover.
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We will learn from it.
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we will grow more resilient because of it.
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and as long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing.
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We will breathe in.
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Breathe through.
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Breathe deep.
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and breathe out.
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And I am a doctor now, so I know how breathing works.
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I hope you know how proud I am.
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to share this day with you.
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We're doing this together.
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So let's just keep dancing like we're the class of 22.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “这就是她让全场破防的原因【泰勒丝纽约大学毕业演讲】中英大字幕 优质的英语学习材料 Taylor Swift's NYU Speech”. This video has 207 sentences and 1854 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:01. The speaker talks at a steady 123 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| housewife noun | /ˈhaʊs.waɪf/ | A woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid]… |
| oftentimes adverb | /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/ | Frequently; often. |
| interviewer noun | /ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/ | One who interviews. |
| chic adjective | /ʃik/ | Elegant, stylish. |
| songwriter noun | A musician who composes songs; especially writing the song's lyrics and/or creating a melody or a tune for the song. | |
| teenager noun | /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/ | A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive). |
| laughter noun | /ˈlæftɚ/ | The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound. |
| ambivalence noun | /æmˈbɪvələns/ | The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea. |
| centric adjective | /ˈsɛntɹɪk/ | Being in the centre; central. |
| chameleon noun | /kəˈmi.li.ən/ | A small to mid-size reptile, of the family Chamaeleonidae, and one of the best known lizard families able to change color and project its long tongue. |
| consummate adjective | /ˈkɑnsəmət/ | Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute. |
| devalue verb | /diːˈvæljuː/ | To lower or remove the value of something. |
| discern verb | /dɪˈzɝn/ | To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes. |
| eagerness noun | /ˈiɡɚnəs/ | The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. |
| effortlessness noun | /ˈɛf.ɚt.ləs.nəs/ | The state of being effortless; facility. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| look back verb | To think of (past events) in retrospect (in hindsight). | |
| throw out verb | /ˈθɹəʊ ˌaʊt/ | To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away. |
| back down verb | To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously had, or has planned to have. | |
| fall off verb | To become detached or to drop from. | |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| mess up verb | To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss. | |
| run off verb | To flee or depart quickly. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- You can't carry all things.
- It's totally up to you.
- How will you know?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be deemed · is connected · been recorded |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who don · people who wanted · people who want |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've been · I've never been · I've made |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 39 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, didn't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thinly /ˈθɪnli/, thrill /θɹɪl/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/, thesis /ˈθisɪs/, myth /mɪθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: chic /ʃik/, excruciatingly /ɛkˈskɹuːʃiːeɪtɪŋli/, perfectionism /pɚˈfɛk.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/, perfectionist /pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/
- Long words — get the stress right: ambivalence /æmˈbɪvələns/, chameleon /kəˈmi.li.ən/, effortlessness /ˈɛf.ɚt.ləs.nəs/, enviable /ˈɛn.vɪ.ə.b(ə)l/, excruciatingly /ɛkˈskɹuːʃiːeɪtɪŋli/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like housewife, oftentimes, interviewer.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.