跟讀練習: Climate Change Debate | Prof. Bruce Pardy | Opposition - 通過影片學習英語口語

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And now look to Professor Bruce Pardee to close the case for the opposition and the debate as a whole.
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Mr. President, friends, Britons, countrymen, lend me your hearts.
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I come to praise your country, not to bury it.
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The evil that nations do lives after them.
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The good is oft lost in moral panic.
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So it is in this chamber.
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My friend LaCrosse has said that the West has brought upon the Earth the curse of climate change,
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that developing nations are victims, and the West is to blame.
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It is hard to remember what one has not seen, what life was like before,
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a century ago, or two or three, for the mass of humanity across the earth,
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a life of subsistence, hand to mouth,
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dawn to dusk, nasty, brutish, and short.
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90% in extreme poverty.
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And then, gradually, rescued by revolution.
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Not resistance, not marching in the streets, not by their revolution, but by yours.
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By the industrial revolution that raised humanity from the ditch.
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The developing embrace it, their people rise and prosper,
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which makes them victims, and the West is to blame.
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Where developing once met poor and weak,
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it now includes the largest engines on this earth, Not Ethiopia or Tuvalu.
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You know the ones.
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China, India, Indonesia, Brazil.
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Those poor and weak whose economies are larger than our own.
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Can we call China what it is?
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A wealthy, smoggy place with people spilling out from everywhere.
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Oh, the people!
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Two score of them, two score, for everyone at home.
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And each a source of climate change.
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Yes, so small a source, you say.
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Yes, a modest carbon print from each.
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Times ten, times ten, times ten.
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Times ten, times ten, times ten, times ten. and still not done.
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The developing countries are victims, and the West is to blame.
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The developing contribute more than half, have done so for a decade.
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The sky cares not how much from each.
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What matters is the total.
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from developing two-thirds and then three-quarters, and on and up we go, enough.
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Except developing countries are victims and the West is there to blame.
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The West has no right, they say, no right to save us all.
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No tit for tat, that's tyranny.
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To seek a quid pro quo to save the Earth may be just.
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They will not restrain themselves, for they are just developing.
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I am naive.
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I thought the cause was climate change.
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I see now it is not the gases in the sky, but blaming that we seek.
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The world will burn. So be it.
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For we have done the more important thing.
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Confessed our father's sins.
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Called developing nations victims.
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And blamed them on the West.
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One year ago, I went to see a piece of history.
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The source, the start, the first rumbling of the other revolution your country did bring to the world.
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Perhaps the best idea it has ever seen, no less so than coal and steam.
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A piece of paper where it all started.
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Under glass, the Magna Carta.
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The beginning of the rule of law.
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What does it mean, this rule of law?
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So many things, but here is one.
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Responsibility for our own actions.
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Punish not the son for the sins of his father, or his grandfather, or his great, great, great, great.
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our Western debt?
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There's no such thing.
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To seek rights and wrongs in history, to see whose lineage is owed and owes.
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Oh, to be a man whose lineage is free from sin.
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Name one, just one, who has not somewhere in his line Wrongs done by and to and on behalf.
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Surrender this, this counting up on ledgers of the past, reparations, apologies, accounting on behalf of people long dead,
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who lived in different times.
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We know not of their lives, the judgments that they made.
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We should start from where we are, deal with what we have, deal with people here and now,
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the ones who are alive, with intent to act within a deal to save the earth,
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with rules that apply equally to every nation.
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If climate change is as you say,
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no trifling thing but end of days,
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the answer is clear for all to say.
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For every country, keep its emissions to itself.
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For every nation, net emissions should be none.
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If not done by all, not done by anyone.
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So please, vote no. If not to be,
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a yes vote has us lose both the justice of the rule of law and the climate battle too.
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Thank you.

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這節 C1 級別的口語課以影片“Climate Change Debate”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有:developing, ten, victims, climate, nation。 這段影片共有 80 個句子、762 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 8:31。 說話人語速較慢,每分鐘約 89 個詞,你有足夠的時間模仿每一個音。 87% 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
lineage 名詞/ˈlɪn.i.ɪd͡ʒ/血統 /血統
emission 名詞/ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/排放
countryman 名詞/ˈkʌntɹimən/國民 /國民
prosper 動詞/ˈpɹɑspɚ/亨祚, 興旺 /興旺
reparation 名詞/ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/賠償 /賠償, 補償 /補償
restrain 動詞/ɹɪˈstɹeɪn/剋制
rumble 名詞/ˈɹʌmb(ə)l/轟隆 /轟隆, 隆隆聲 /隆隆聲
trifle 名詞/ˈtɹaɪfəl/乳脂鬆糕
tyranny 名詞/ˈtɪəɹəni/僭主政治, 獨裁 /獨裁
naive 形容詞/naɪˈiv/天真, 幼稚
confess 動詞/kənˈfɛs/承認 /承認, 懺悔 /懺悔
spill 動詞/spɪl/潑掉 /潑掉, 潑 /潑
bury 動詞/ˈbɛɹi/掩埋, 埋藏
ditch 名詞/dɪt͡ʃ/水溝 /水溝, 溝渠 /溝渠
lend 動詞/ˈlɛnd/借出, 借

需要注意的發音

  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: emission /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/, brutish /ˈbɹuːt.ɪʃ/, reparation /ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/, punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/
  • 長單詞——注意重音位置: reparation /ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/, apology /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/

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  1. 先完整聽一遍影片,不要開口,記下不認識的單詞。
  2. 用正常速度逐句跟讀,每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
  3. 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比,特別注意 lineage, emission, countryman 這類單詞。

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