跟讀練習: Delusional self belief is a lie - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Delusional self -belief is a lie.
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Now I know that sounds absolutely ridiculous because our entire lives we've been told to believe in ourselves.
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Nearly every single motivational video on YouTube has told you to believe in yourself.
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But just hear me out.
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Because while the intent of saying believe in yourself is good, the underlying message behind it actually says something completely different.
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And there's no better way to explain that to you than through the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
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Muhammad Ali.
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Because Muhammad Ali never believed in himself.
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He didn't have belief.
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He had something more powerful than that.
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Something that you can achieve as well.
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But you first need to understand how...
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1942. A legend is born.
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At age 12 his bike was stolen, and that single moment would set in motion the most unlikely journey in sports history.
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He walked into that police station with tears in his eyes
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and told a local police officer he'd beat up whoever took it.
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The officer looked him dead in the eye and said, well son, you better learn how to fight first.
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So he did. At 22, he would stand in front of the entire world
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and say something nobody had ever had the audacity to say before they'd proven.
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Muhammad Ali walked into a gym with nothing.
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He was just a kid from Louisville, Kentucky, in an America that had very specific ideas about how much a black man was worth
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and how far he was allowed to go.
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You see, most people in a scenario would develop belief as a survival instinct.
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A way of holding on to something despite everything telling them otherwise.
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Muhammad Ali didn't have belief.
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He just knew.
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And that distinction is what truly separates the greats from being.
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Average.
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When you think of delusional self -belief, obviously there's nothing wrong with being confident.
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But the word belief itself is what I have an issue with.
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In 1877, a philosopher named Charles Sanders Pierce wrote an essay called The Fixation of Belief.
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He argues that belief only exists because of doubt, belief being a response to the unknown.
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I mean, entire belief systems were made to answer questions we didn't have an answer to, and delusional self -belief, no you wouldn't,
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yes, no you wouldn't, yes I would, no you wouldn't, is the exact same mechanism applied to personal ambition.
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Why would you think you could make it to the NBA?
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Because I think I could do anything.
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When someone tells you to believe in yourself, what they're actually saying is hold on to something despite the uncertainty that it might not work out.
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The doubt is still there.
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You're just using belief to manage it.
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And that's where Muhammad Ali was different.
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Because for most people, belief is the default.
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As we grow up, we're told to believe in ourselves, to hold on to our dreams.
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But we treat them as something distant, not something that we are.
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And the older we get, the more that doubt starts creeping in until your dream is completely lost.
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Oh, it was all a dream.
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Everybody stop talking now.
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Attention.
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I told you, all of my critics, I told you all that I was the greatest of all time.
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I told you today, I'm still the greatest of all time.
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I think it's best if you and I don't work together.
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In 1963, before he had won a single title, Muhammad Ali released a poetry album titled I Am The Greatest.
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He was 21 years old.
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Six months later, he went on to beat
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Sonny Liston and is crowned heavyweight champion of the world.
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It feels like some people just seem to know they're gonna become great.
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But I don't think they're born with that certainty.
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I think something happens that gives them a reason to develop it.
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And I think there's a fundamental difference between these people and everyone else.
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We'll call them knowers and the rest believers.
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And the difference between them comes down to one thing.
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Where they place their identity.
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Top secret concept.
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It will apparently be more consistent and efficient...
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I'm a city, Edward.
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Hey, Winnie, it's me.
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Can you tell me if you've ever heard this sound before?
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This is Harold, and he's the perfect example of a believer.
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Harold's life has been nothing short of...
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Hello?
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Sorry, we were so rudely interrupted there.
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Let us continue.
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As I was saying, Harold's well, an average bloke.
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He works a regular job, wears regular clothes, and drives a regular car.
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But deep down, Harold has always craved more.
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He's always had big dreams.
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He used to want to own his own business.
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He used to want to learn the guitar, but he never did.
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Because Harold was waiting for something monumental to happen, to prove to himself that he's capable of becoming the person who does those things.
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But nothing ever happened.
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And he kept waiting and waiting, until the comfort of mediocrity slowly took away his dream.
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So, essentially a believer needs an outcome to happen before they can accept their dream.
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That's why they put so much emphasis on failure because every little setback increases doubt that their dream is possible.
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But a knower approaches ambition differently.
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They don't wait until they're successful to start seeing themselves as someone capable of success.
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In my case, I'd say I used to be a believer.
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Before I started going to the gym, I needed to prove to myself that I was strong enough to go,
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so I'd do home workouts until I finally felt ready.
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I've always wanted to do my own thing, but always needed that confidence to actually take a risk.
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Over time though, I realized
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that I had to stop believing I was capable of doing something and just know that I am.
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That's what a knower is, and I think that's what we miss when we talk about believing in ourselves.
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We treat confidence as a prerequisite to action, that we should feel ready before taking a risk.
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But what if you got it backwards?
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What if the reason you keep waiting to become the person you want is
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because you're still treating that person as someone you need permission to become?
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Ali didn't wait for the world to call him the greatest before he started declaring it.
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He made the declaration before the recognition came.
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But here's where you run into a problem.
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Because if all it takes to become a knower is to declare yourself one, then what's stopping everyone from doing exactly that?
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What's stopping you from looking in the mirror and telling yourself you're destined for greatness?
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Well, that would simply be what we call delusional self -belief.
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So how do you actually go from a believer to a knower?
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Well, think about it.
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Any time that science turned belief into certainty, what did they need?
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Evidence.
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But how do you actually accumulate evidence of achieving a dream before you've actually achieved it?
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Well, you don't need evidence of achieving the dream itself.
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You just need to build evidence every day that you are a person capable of achieving it.
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That's why Muhammad Ali was able to sit up there on that microphone and tell the world he was the greatest.
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He already knew he was.
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The evidence he built was waking up at 4 .30am to run 7 miles 6 days a week,
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running through the streets of Louisville in heavy boots, shadowboxing as he ran.
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He didn't simply tell himself he was the greatest.
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The work he put in proved it.
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That's the evidence ledger.
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And it's the reason why the whole idea of delusional self -belief falls apart.
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It promotes laziness, not action.
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Think about the clips we celebrate.
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Someone declares that they're going to achieve something extraordinary and we admire them for their mindset.
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You should be delusional.
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Because I think right now, if I was to quit rapping and I say I want to go to the NBA,
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I would be in the NBA.
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I could go to the moon if I wanted to and then I'm going to get rich.
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You know what I mean?
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Objectively, no. How are you going to the moon?
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Factually, I could.
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But if all you take away from.. from those clips is that you need to say your dreams out loud.
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You can spend your entire life declaring who you're going to become without ever becoming that person.
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I can just repeat my affirmations in the mirror, dream about my ideal life while I scroll on reels all day and never actually do anything.
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Because think about it, if you woke up every day
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and put in the work required to become the person you dream about, what exactly are you being delusional about?
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If you want to become a great filmmaker and you're spending hours every day learning cinematography, studying films and making your own projects.
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You're not delusional for believing you can become a great filmmaker.
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You're becoming one.
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You have certainty.
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And that's what I want you to take away from this.
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You don't need to convince yourself that success is guaranteed.
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Because I feel like when we say believe in yourself, it tells people that you need to be confident before you do something.
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I don't think you need to believe in yourself or have delusional self -belief to start something.
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But that's why so many people fail to start because they think they need that confidence, that belief to do it.
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But you don't.
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You need to actually start doing the thing.
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Build evidence.
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Evidence that you're becoming the person you want to be.
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Eventually the whole belief thing starts to fade anyways.
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Because you don't need to tell yourself you can do the thing.
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You start seeing it for yourself.
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And that's what it means to actually know.
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You know that whatever happens, outcome or not, one failure or success, you are becoming someone capable.
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The greatest thing you can do isn't to convince yourself that you're going to become someone extraordinary.
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It's to wake up every day and become someone a little more capable of doing extraordinary things.
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So build the evidence first and let the confidence follow.
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Thank you.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這節口語課以影片“Delusional self belief is a lie”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有：belief, dream, delusional, evidence, Ali。 這段影片共有 153 個句子、1711 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 11:49。 說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 145 個詞，很適合跟讀。 84% 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 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| belief 名詞 | /bɪˈliːf/ | 相信, 信心 |
| delusional 形容詞 | /dɪˈluːʒənəl/ | 妄想的 |
| believer 名詞 | /bɪˈlivɚ/ | 信徒, 教徒 |
| declare 動詞 | /dɪˈklɛɚ/ | 宣佈 |
| extraordinary 形容詞 | /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/ | 非凡, 了不起 |
| certainty 名詞 | /ˈsɝtn̩ti/ | 確信 /確信 |
| mirror 名詞 | /ˈmiɹɚ/ | җинзы, 鏡 /鏡 |
| convince 動詞 | /kənˈvɪns/ | 說服 /說服 |
| ambition 名詞 | /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/ | 奢望, 抱負 /抱負 |
| filmmaker 名詞 | 製片人 /製片人 | |
| consistent 形容詞 | /kənˈsɪs.tənt/ | 一貫的 /一貫的 |
| guitar 名詞 | /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/ | 吉他, 六絃琴 |
| recognition 名詞 | /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ | 認出 /認出 |
| argue 動詞 | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | 辯論 /辯論, 爭辯 /爭辯 |
| ridiculous 形容詞 | /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ | 可笑, 荒謬 /荒謬 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| wake up 動詞 | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | 醒, 醒來 /醒來 |
| beat up 動詞 | 暴打 | |
| grow up 動詞 | 長大 /長大 | |
| work out 動詞 | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | 計算 /計算, 算出 |
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：
- You're just using belief to manage it.
- We'll call them knowers and the rest believers.
- Can you tell me if you've ever heard this sound before?
- You know what I mean?
- How are you going to the moon?
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 |
|---|---|
| “used to” used to + 動詞 — 過去的習慣或狀態，現在已不再如此 | used to want · used to be |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | we've been told · is born · was stolen |
| 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 | we've been told · has told · you've ever heard |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 45 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 you're, don't, didn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: delusional /dɪˈluːʒənəl/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: delusional /dɪˈluːʒənəl/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
中文母語者容易讀錯的音：
- /v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: believer /bɪˈlivɚ/, convince /kənˈvɪns/, heavyweight /ˈhɛ.vi.weɪt/, whoever /huˈɛvɚ/, survival /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/
- 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: belief /bɪˈliːf/, clip /klɪp/, convince /kənˈvɪns/, heavyweight /ˈhɛ.vi.weɪt/, consistent /kənˈsɪs.tənt/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, declaration /ˌdɛk.ləˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, scroll /skɹoʊl/, reel /ˈɹiːl/
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。
- 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。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 belief, delusional, believer 這類單詞。
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