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Okay, so there's a story about how they're restoring the famous Marcus Aurelius column in Rome.
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If you don't know about the column,
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it's a masterpiece of sculpture and carving depicting the 14 years that Marcus Aurelius spends at war with the Marco Mani tribes.
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And they put up this 94-foot column in his honor that still stands to this day.
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There's actually a stoic lesson in this because,
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yes, 19 centuries later, a monument to his accomplishments still stands.
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And even though it's a little worn down and needs some restoration,
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you might say that this disproves Marcus's reminders and meditations that posthumous fame doesn't last and no one will remember him.
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But I actually think the fact that it's still there is precisely the point.
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Because if you look at the top of this column,
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there's not a statue of Marcus Aurelius on top.
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It's actually St. Paul.
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In the 16th century, Pope Sixtus V decides to take the monument to Marcus Aurelius and reuse it for his own purposes.
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And in the end, that's what Marcus Aurelius' greatest accomplishment becomes,
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a pedestal for somebody else.
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And that is what Marcus is saying.
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That's what history does to all of us,
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even those of us famous enough to be remembered for one year or one century or 1,000 years.
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History takes us and it remixes and reuses us.
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It perverts us and undermines our legacy.
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It contradicts us, it absorbs us,
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and it uses us for our own purposes.
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On a long enough timeline,
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everyone's will and legacy is ignored.
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Their graves are lost and obscured.
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Their memory is written over.
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And we should remember this before it's too late.
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And let's say it didn't happen.
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Let's say it was still shiny and gleaming.
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Why would that matter?
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He says in meditations, Meditations people who are excited by posthumous fame forget
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that the people who remember them will die soon too and
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that those After them in turn until their memory passed from one to another like a candle flame
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Gutters and goes out and then he says suppose that that actually wasn't true.
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Perhaps you are remembered forever He says what good would that do you?
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He says I don't just mean when you're dead
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But in your own lifetime what use is praise except to make your lifestyle a little more comfortable?
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He's trying to remind himself that reputation,
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fame, impressing people, that doesn't matter.
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Who you are as a person,
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that's the only thing that counts.
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Who you are as a person to the people around you.
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Did you do good with the resources that you had?
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It's like the Shelley poem about Ozymandias, right?
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The statue falling over in the desert,
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two legs, the head there laying in the sand.
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A colossal wreck, he says, boundless and bare even though this person was so powerful and important in life,
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very little of it remains.
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Now this is not the state of Marcus Aurelius' monument.
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You can go see it, it's still standing there.
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I've seen it myself.
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And yet, the same stoic lesson is actually there if you look for it.
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Okay.
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So if he's saying that being remembered is not important,
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that posthumous fame is worthless,
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what is he saying that does matter?
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Well, he does address this in meditations too.
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He says, forget everything else.
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Keep hold of this alone and remember it.
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Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.
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The rest has been lived already or is impossible to see.
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The span we live is small,
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small as the corner of earth in which we live it,
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small as even the greatest renown,
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passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures,
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ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.
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He's saying that all you have is this moment.
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All you have is who you are in this moment,
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creating some enormous legacy that other people get to live in,
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focusing on impressing people who you will never meet.
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What good will that do you?
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He's saying what matters is that you do good now,
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that you live a good life,
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that you live a good life as a good person.
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That's what Marcus Aurelius is striving to do in meditations.
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And the irony is in not caring about posthumism,
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in not caring about his accomplishments lasting,
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in just trying to be a good man,
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to concentrate on what he has to do as he writes in meditations,
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to fix his eyes on it,
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reminding himself that his tax is just to be a good human being and to do it,
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he says, without hesitation, to speak the truth as he sees it,
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with kindness and with humility and without hypocrisy,
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in that, ironically, he does create a real legacy and we are still talking about him today.
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Sometime around the year 170 AD,
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the most powerful man in the world sat down to write.
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His name was Marcus Aurelius.
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And miraculously, these writings survived.
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And within them are some of the greatest and wisest insights ever put down.
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Sometimes these insights are really obvious.
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They jump out off the page at you,
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but other ones you have to return to.
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You have to understand the deeper context.
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You have to understand what he meant,
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where he was coming from,
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why he would have been saying this to fully understand him.
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Sometimes you're just not old enough yet.
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Sometimes you just haven't read it enough times,
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which is why over the last couple of years,
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we developed this deep dive into Marcus Realizes Meditations.
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We really struggled to come up with a title for it,
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but we just call it How to Read Meditations.
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a guide, a course, a challenge,
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a companion for understanding one of the most important works ever put down in any language,
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in any era, by any person.
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How do you take the insights from 2,000 years ago from one of the most impressive people to ever live
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and apply them to your daily life?
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And we'd love to have you join us.
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We're digging into it here in the month of March.
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Mark Stavilius was born in March.
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We're calling it Mark Stavilius Month here at Daily Stoic.
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And we'd love to have you.
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And you can join us,
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sign up right now at dailystoic.com slash meditations.
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Bu dersin kelimeleri ve konuşma notları
Bu C1 seviyesindeki konuşma dersi “The Stoic Lesson of Marcus Aurelius' Crumbling Statue” videosuna dayanıyor. En çok tekrarlanan kelimeler: Marcus, meditations, Aurelius, sometime, column. Bu videoda gölgeleme çalışması için 114 cümle ve 1060 kelime var. Konuşma bölümü 5:53 sürüyor. Konuşmacı hızlı konuşuyor, dakikada yaklaşık 180 kelime; bu yüzden birbirine bağlanan ve zayıflayan sesler duyacaksınız. Kelimelerin %82’i İngilizcede en sık kullanılan 3.000 kelime arasında; geri kalanına başlamadan önce bakmakta fayda var.
Bu videodaki önemli kelimeler
Videodaki en ileri düzey 15 kelime, telaffuzu ve anlamıyla:
| Kelime | Telaffuz | Anlam |
|---|---|---|
| monument isim | /ˈmɑnjʊmənt/ | anıt, abide |
| impress fiil | /ɪmˈpɹɛs/ | etkilemek |
| statue isim | /ˈstæt͡ʃu/ | heykel, yontu |
| boundless sıfat | /ˈbaʊndləs/ | sınırsız, sonsuz |
| colossal sıfat | /kəˈlɑsəl/ | devasa |
| depict fiil | /dɪˈpɪkt/ | tasvir etmek |
| pedestal isim | /ˈpɛdɪstəl/ | ayaklık, duraç |
| renown isim | /ɹɪˈnaʊn/ | şan, şöhret |
| hesitation isim | /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/ | tereddüt |
| humility isim | /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/ | tevazu |
| undermine fiil | /ˌʌn.dɚˈmaɪn/ | baltalamak |
| hypocrisy isim | /hɪˈpɑkɹəsi/ | ikiyüzlülük |
| masterpiece isim | /ˈmæstɚˌpis/ | şaheser |
| absorb fiil | /æbˈsɔɹb/ | absorbe etmek, soğurmak |
| worthless sıfat | /ˈwɜːθ.ləs/ | değersiz, kıymetsiz |
Duyacağınız deyimsel fiiller
| Kelime | Anlam |
|---|---|
| go out fiil | çıkmak |
| put up fiil | koymak |
Tekrar etmeye değer cümleler
Videodan, günlük konuşmada yeniden kullanabileceğiniz kısa ve tam cümleler:
- Let's say it was still shiny and gleaming.
- Did you do good with the resources that you had?
- You can go see it, it's still standing there.
- He's saying that all you have is this moment.
- What good will that do you?
Bu videodaki dil bilgisi
Konuşmacının en çok kullandığı yapılar, videodaki sözcüklerin aynısıyla:
| Yapı | Videoda |
|---|---|
| Edilgen yapı be + fiilin üçüncü hâli — kimin yaptığı değil, ne olduğu önemli | be remembered · is ignored · are lost |
| Present perfect have/has + fiilin üçüncü hâli — geçmişte olan ama şimdi de önemli olan bir eylem | I've seen · has been lived · haven't read |
| İlgi cümlecikleri who / which + cümle — bir kişi ya da şey hakkında ek bilgi | people who are · people who remember · people who you |
Dikkat edilecek telaffuzlar
Konuşmacı doesn't, don't, we'd gibi kısaltılmış biçimleri 15 kez kullanıyor. Bunları duyduğunuz gibi kısa söyleyin.
- “sh” ve “zh” sesleri: meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/, accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/
- Uzun kelimeler — vurguyu doğru yere koyun: accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, hypocrisy /hɪˈpɑkɹəsi/
Türkçe konuşanların zorlandığı sesler:
- Kelime başındaki ünsüz kümesi — araya ünlü eklemeyin: stoic /ˈstoʊ.ɪk/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, strive /ˈstɹaɪv/, sculpture /ˈskʌlpt͡ʃɚ/
- /æ/ — “e”den daha açık: statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/, masterpiece /ˈmæstɚˌpis/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/, candle /ˈkæn.dəl/
Bu videoyla nasıl çalışılır
- Videonun tamamını konuşmadan bir kez dinleyin ve bilmediğiniz kelimeleri not edin.
- 0,75× hızla başlayın, cümle cümle tekrar edin ve kolaylaşınca normal hıza dönün.
- Kendinizi kaydedin ve orijinaliyle karşılaştırın; monument, impress, statue gibi kelimelere özellikle dikkat edin.
Gölgeleme Tekniği Nedir?
Gölgeleme, başlangıçta profesyonel tercüman eğitimi için geliştirilen ve çok dilli Dr. Alexander Arguelles tarafından popüler hale getirilen, bilim destekli bir dil öğrenme tekniğidir. Yöntem basit ama güçlüdür: ana dili İngilizce olan bir sesi dinler ve hemen yüksek sesle tekrar edersiniz — konuşmacıyı 1-2 saniye gecikmeyle takip eden bir gölge gibi. Pasif dinleme veya dilbilgisi alıştırmalarının aksine, gölgeleme beyninizi ve ağız kaslarınızı gerçek konuşma kalıplarını eşzamanlı olarak işlemeye ve yeniden üretmeye zorlar. Araştırmalar, telaffuz doğruluğu, tonlama, ritim, bağlı konuşma, dinleme anlama ve konuşma akıcılığını önemli ölçüde geliştirdiğini göstermektedir — bu da onu IELTS Konuşma hazırlığı ve gerçek dünya İngilizce iletişimi için en etkili yöntemlerden biri yapar.