跟讀練習: Benedict Cumberbatch & Louise Brealey read letters from wartime lovers - 通過影片學習英語口語

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December 1944.

Dearest, so very worried about what is happening in Greece.

On the news tonight it spoke of it spreading and it seems to become a battle.

My worst suspicions of what the British army went to Greece for are fulfilled.

I don't know how this is affecting you and whether the ordinary people are involved.

Of course you won't be able to tell me much.

I can only just hope for your safety.

Darling, I have no complaints about your letters.

I am too happy that it is my body that you want that occupies your thoughts.

If you didn't write and tell me these things I should suspect you of being interested in somebody else's body.

You keep concentrating on mine.

My breasts, my vital, vibrant spot.

My hands and my desires.

Well, I am glad you have four blankets to keep you warm.

If I was there you wouldn't want any you'd be hot

enough here am I a blooming iceberg of a maiden waiting to be roused into a fire not just melted

but changed into a fire and there are you miles

and miles away needing an extra blanket during this last month

I've reached rock bottom I no longer need a nurse Christopher I I need the whole vital man in you.

Your strength, your energy.

When, when will you make me a whole woman?

Stunted growth.

That's what I'm suffering from.

My body's stunted.

My affections are stunted.

Even my mind suffers from this incompleteness.

I want to be...

I want to be your mistress,

to be used to the uttermost.

I want to fuss you, look after you.

I want to be your companion in arms, away with depressions, fed-upness, waiting.

I'm so sick of being a cold, haughty virgin.

Crikey, talk about untapped resources.

It isn't easy to express these things in words, but you have done it.

You have moved me right down, down to the foundations.

You have accomplished what I shouldn't have thought was possible.

You have opened a vision of a new world, a new experience for me.

I cannot help but be so very, very grateful to you.

that in front of me I can overcome my black moods

and rise up again and know

that this life is worth the living pancakes yes we had your lemons with them

that was why I made them I rather think your lemons

helped to get rid of my cold maybe your letters as

well all those things help you know the lemons on the practical side and the letters on the mental side.

I had to giggle about my bravery in bombed London.

I live here, work here, and there isn't anything else to do but live here and work here.

And like most things, up to a point, you get used to it.

It's one's low resources that one has to be brave about.

All the usual aches and pains get you down easily.

Extra effort tires you out.

But we're all in the same boat so it isn't as bad as it sounds.

Besides the battlefront sound so much worse.

I concentrate on that when I feel pathetic.

I'm just listening to the nine o'clock news and it's most disheartening.

It says it's spreading not slackening.

Oh dear Christopher I really can't think of I can't think of anything else.

I do really want to be cheerful but it's so difficult.

Christmas and you out there.

I love you and my heart's aching.

It's so lonely and desolate without you.

My mind keeps going into such flights of fancy on how to get to you, from stowing away on a ship to applying to the war office.

It's silly, but it does get so bad sometimes.

I went to see The Circle, John Gielgud's production by Somerset Maugham.

I didn't think much of it.

To me, Gielgud seemed such a milk and water specimen.

No fire, just a beautiful voice.

I think I've got a bit choosy over the theatre.

I've seen some really fine plays during the war, and my standards got a bit high.

I've been horribly chatty in this letter.

That's the result of worrying.

I've kind of got you on my mind in a different way.

The situation in Greece is getting into my hair, despite all my efforts to remain calm.

Keeping calm is my motto, but I do wish I knew how things were with you.

I love you.

Bessie.

31st of January 1945.

My dearest one, I have just heard the news that all the army men taken POW are to return to their homes.

Because of the shipping situation, we may not commence to go before the end of February, but can probably count on being in England sometime in March.

Maybe sooner.

It has made me very warm inside.

It's terrific, it's wonderful, it's shattering.

I don't know what to say and I cannot think.

The delay is nothing, the decision is everything.

Now I am confirming in my head the little decisions I have made when contemplating just the possibility.

I must spend the first days at home.

I must see Deb and her mother.

I must consider giving a party somewhere.

Above all, I must be with you.

I must warm you, surround you, love you and be kind to you.

Tell me anything that's in your mind.

Write tons and tons and tons and plan our time.

I would prefer not to get married.

But want you to agree on the point.

In the battle, I was afraid. For you.

For my mother, for myself.

Wait, we must, my love, my darling.

Let us meet, let us be, let us know but do not let us now make any mistakes.

I am anxious, very anxious, that you should not misunderstand what I have said.

Say what you think, but please agree, and remember I was afraid, and I am still afraid.

100

How good for us to see each other before I am completely bald?

101

Have a few fine little wisps of hair on the top of my head.

102

Not much good me trying to write about recent experiences, now that I know I shall be able to tell you everything myself within such a short time.

103

What I have my eye on now is the first letter from you saying that you know I am all right, and then next saying you know I am coming to you.

104

Must try and keep out of hospital with some of these post-POW complaints.

105

Plan a week somewhere, not Boscombe or Bournemouth, and think of being together.

106

The glory of you.

107

When I was captive, I used to try and contact you and think hard.

108

Bessie, my dearest, I am all right.

109

Do not worry.

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I never thought that I would get through somehow, but now it's over and you know that I am all right

111

and going to be with you soon to join and enjoy.

112

Do not get very excited outwardly.

113

I am conscious of the inner tumult, the clamour, but I am not too much outwardly joyful.

114

Moderation is my advice.

115

Watch the buses as you cross the streets.

116

we're free of duties

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and yesterday I went to our friends in Athens taking some of your coffee and cocoa

118

which they were very pleased to have thank you for sending it we were embraced very excitedly kissing

119

and so on continental fashion I hope

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that you will not start buying any clothes

121

if you have any coupons left because you think you must look nice for me.

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I shall be sorry if you do.

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Just carry on as near as possible to normal.

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My return at the present time allows us to make public our mutual attachment.

125

I shall tell my family that I hope to spend a week away with you somewhere during my leave.

126

My counsel to you is to tell as few people as possible.

127

To someone like Miss Ferguson, you can politely reply to observations that you thought it was your business rather than hers.

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Try to avoid preening yourself and saying much.

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This is my advice, not anything but that.

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I hope you understand.

131

I do not ever want it to be anything but our affair.

132

Do Do not permit any intrusion.

133

I do not know how long leave I shall get.

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I could get as little as 14 days, and I may get as much as a month.

135

I'm wondering how I shall tell you that I am in England.

136

Probably it will still be quicker to send a telegram than a letter, and I hope to send you one announcing that I am on the same island.

137

I will send another when I'm actually soon to get on the London-bound train, and you can ring Lee Green 0509 when you think I have arrived there.

138

You must bear in mind that I shall be with my brother until we get home.

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Also, that having been away from home for so long, my parents will want to see a lot of me.

140

I hope that everything will work itself out without any unhappiness to anyone.

141

I shall be in great demand from two or three points, and it will be difficult to manage without offence.

142

Strange thing, but I cannot seem to get going and write very freely.

143

All I'm thinking about is, I am going home, I'm going to see her.

144

It's a fact, a real thing, an impending event like Trove Tuesday, Christmas Day, or the Lord Mayor's Banquet.

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You have to be abroad, you have to be really, truly, hermetically sealed off from your intimates,

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from your home, to realise what a gift this going home is.

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The few letters of yours that I had on me, I burnt the day previous to our surrender, so no one but myself has read your words.

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In the first ten days of our captivity, I did not think any soft thoughts about you.

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All I did was concentrate on trying to tell you I was all right.

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But when we had a few supplies dropped by aircraft, at great risk to themselves in the misty snowbound Greek mountain villages, and we started hoping we might get sent home upon our release,

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I was always wondering about you, about us.

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It is a pity that the winter weather will not be kind to us out of doors.

153

It would be nice sitting next to you in the pictures, no matter what may be on the screen.

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It would be grand to know that we have each other's support and sympathy.

155

Won't it be wonderful to be together, really together, in the flesh?

156

Not just to know that a letter is all we can send.

157

I love you, Chris.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“Benedict Cumberbatch & Louise Brealey read letters from wartime lovers”為素材。這段影片共有 157 個句子、1811 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 12:03。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 150 個詞，接近日常對話。 82% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
litter 名詞	/ˈlɪt.ɚ/	墊料
stunt 名詞	/stʌnt/	特技, 危險舉動
concentrate 動詞	/ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/	集中
lemon 名詞	/ˈlɛmən/	檸檬 /檸檬
ache 動詞	/ˈeɪk/	疼, 痛
blanket 名詞	/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/	毯子
darling 名詞	/ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/	寶貝 /寶貝, 親愛的 /親愛的
anxious 形容詞	/ˈæŋkʃəs/	緊張 /緊張
battlefront 名詞		前線 /前線
desolate 形容詞	/ˈdɛs.ə.lət/	荒涼 /荒涼
dishearten 動詞	/dɪsˈhɑɹ.tən/	令人愁悶 /令人愁悶, 使沮喪 /使沮喪
giggle 動詞	/ˈɡɪɡl̩/	傻笑, 痴笑
haughty 形容詞	/ˈhɔːti/	傲慢, 高傲
iceberg 名詞	/ˈaɪsbɝɡ/	冰山
joyful 形容詞	/ˈd͡ʒɔɪfl̩/	快樂 /快樂

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
get through 動詞	/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/	度過 /度過

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

When, when will you make me a whole woman?
That's what I'm suffering from.
I'm so sick of being a cold, haughty virgin.
I love you and my heart's aching.
It's so lonely and desolate without you.

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
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	I've reached · have done · have moved
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	are fulfilled · are involved · be roused

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 28 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I'm, I've, isn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/, intrusion /ɪnˈtɹuːʒən/, moderation /ˌmɑdəˈɹeɪʃən/, shatter /ˈʃætɚ/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: hermetically /hɚˈmɛt.ɪk(.ə)li/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, moderation /ˌmɑdəˈɹeɪʃən/, captivity /kæpˈtɪvɪti/

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