跟讀練習: A Reason Not to Worry What Others Think - 通過影片學習英語口語

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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a large painting from the 1560s that hangs in Belgium's largest museum, the Musée des Beaux -Arts,

and is held to be a meticulous copy of an original work now lost by the Flemish artist

Peter Bruegel the Elder.

The painting shows a superficially bucolic scene.

Ships are taking sail, a shepherd is tending to his flock, distant cities look prosperous and ordered.

But in the bottom right -hand corner of the canvas, a tragedy is unfolding, all but unheeded.

Reckless Icarus, the legendary figure from classical mythology, is in the final stages of one of the ancient world's most famous aeronautical disasters.

Together with his father Daedalus, the young man had made himself a pair of wings glued together with wax.

Daedalus had warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, in case its heat were to melt the structure,

but the impetuous boy soared too high anyway and, in the painting, has just tumbled down into the waves to his death.

Icarus' end is deliberately not the central focus of the painting.

The eye is drawn instead to the glittering cities and smart ships in the distance.

As if to emphasise the point, the ploughman at the centre of the painting references a popular proverb, no plough stops for the dying man.

This neglect of Icarus' tragedy is at one level terrifying and sad.

We read into it how little the world cares about our own pains.

And yet, from another perspective, this neglect is deeply gratifying and importantly redemptive.

It is one of the central sources of our unhappiness

that we spend so much of our lives fearing for our reputations

and wondering what others will think of us when we fail, as we inevitably will at points.

The slightest change in our image in the eyes of others can obsess us.

We lie awake at night wondering how we could cope without the approval of people we don't even like very much.

We surrender our freedom to the verdicts of strangers.

But the painter's stroke of consoling genius is here to show us how, when we really mess up,

almost no one will be looking or caring very much.

The farmer is too busy ploughing, the shepherd is too taken up with thinking about the weather, someone else is overwhelmingly intent on fishing.

Our tragedies don't occupy society the way we fear they will.

A few people might notice for a moment, then swiftly move on to the next thing.

We are at the centre of the galaxy, only in our own tortured minds.

The world is still filled with humans who haven't heard of us and never will.

Those who might be angry or disappointed with you now will have forgotten all about you soon enough.

Your disgrace will, in time, be subsumed within the larger amnesia of a consolingly indifferent world.

It isn't just Icarus who is being swallowed up and obscured by the waves, some of the same obscurity awaits our greatest errors and embarrassments.

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這節口語課以影片“A Reason Not to Worry What Others Think”為素材。這段影片共有 32 個句子、513 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 3:11。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 161 個詞，接近日常對話。只有 77% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
tragedy 名詞	/ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/	悲劇 /悲劇
shepherd 名詞	/ˈʃɛpəɹd/	牧羊人, 羊倌
neglect 動詞	/nɪˈɡlɛkt/	忽略, 忽視
reputation 名詞	/ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/	名譽 /名譽, 聲譽 /聲譽
deeply 副詞	/ˈdi(ː)pli/	深, 深深
disappointed 形容詞	/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/	敗興 /敗興, 失望
disaster 名詞	/dɪˈzɑːs.təː/	災難 /災難, 災害 /災害
landscape 名詞	/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/	風景 /風景, 景色
genius 名詞	/ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/	人才, 天才
galaxy 名詞	/ˈɡæl.ək.si/	恆星系 /恆星系, 群星
intent 名詞	/ɪnˈtɛnt/	意圖 /意圖
stranger 名詞	/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/	陌生人
slight 形容詞	/slaɪt/	輕微的 /輕微的
farmer 名詞	/ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/	農夫 /農夫, 農民 /農民
torture 名詞	/ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/	折磨, 煎熬

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is held · is drawn · is still filled
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	has just tumbled · haven't heard

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 4 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, haven't, isn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: shepherd /ˈʃɛpəɹd/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, amnesia /ˌæmˈniʒə/
長單詞——注意重音位置: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: verdict /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/, canvas /ˈkæn.vəs/, inevitably /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/, overwhelmingly /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɛl.mɪŋ.lɪ/, proverb /ˈpɹɑˌvɝb/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: shepherd /ˈʃɛpəɹd/, neglect /nɪˈɡlɛkt/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, landscape /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/, genius /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/, reckless /ˈɹɛkləs/, glitter /ˈɡlɪtəɹ/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 tragedy, shepherd, neglect 這類單詞。

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