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I don't usually try to make my books as they come out better known by putting them onto social media

but I make an exception in the case of this book which has just come out last week called Essays.

What I have learnt about myself and the world with cover with me in my woodland path.

I'm doing that because I've been surprised,

indeed enormously warmed by the reception of a few of the

key people who've been involved in the process of bringing this book to publication.

I remember it as a book

which I wrote at the suggestion of my wife shortly after Covid

when she said write down what you've learned about your life

and so on and I started to dictate some short essays

and I greatly enjoyed it

and it ended up in 240 very short essays roughly modeled on the idea

and memory of Montaigne's essays but much much shorter.

And when recently I thought I would publish it, I thought, well, this is a useful book and I want it out there.

But some of the people, several of the people who were closely acquainted with it, thought it was really special.

And so I'll indicate their views by quoting them a little bit.

But basically to tell you of the structure, it is, as I say,

a number of essays on anything that struck me as useful and interesting and quirky.

For example, under the letter L, it's alphabetical, on the leaning tower of Pisa,

on liberty, on libraries, on limited good,

on loneliness, on losing, on love, on lying.

Well that's a tiny cross section and you can see that it covers serious and less serious subjects.

So what do my colleagues and friends say about it?

Well there's a forward by our close friend Baron JC von Fetten

and he writes as a Frenchman who was a great admirer of Montaigne

that in some ways my essays are go beyond Montaigne.

They are shorter, more succinct, more accessible.

And he starts his short forward as follows.

Essays may well constitute Alan MacFarlane's ultimate contribution to human knowledge.

It is written for scholars and the wider public alike.

The book is the result of 60 years of deep anthropological research conducted across the world,

using observation as its primary method and extracting knowledge through a rigorous process of analysis and reflection.

The reader will therefore find in each essay a remarkably practical set of insights and answers.

And he ends, after decades of experience, research and reflection, and after writing dozens of books,

McFarland has succeeded in turning his analytical gaze both upon the world and upon himself.

The result is essays, a work that distils lifetime search for wisdom.

The second person who has commented was the person who edited the book,

my friend Irene Galstian, and she's written about this several times in emails,

but this is a small extract from one email.

As you become a long-time reader of these essays, their effect on you goes to a different level.

And this is where they truly shine.

Well, shine is too vigorous a word for what I am trying to describe.

It's more like a glow.

With repeated reading, these little talks are calming in a way that can't be explained by their intellectual content alone. So those are two.

And then there's a wonderful postscript by Qin Yuchen,

who is translating the book into Chinese.

And I'll just read one part of her remarkable and beautiful postface.

What the letters do for me is what these essays did when I first read them.

They come in like air from outside.

The anxiety of my generation is real enough.

The rungs, as he put it, have gone from the ladder we were all brought up to climb.

What struck me was how precisely these small essays answer that predicament.

A letter written at first light by an 80-year-old grandfather,

who is also one of the great historical anthropologists of his time,

lifts you clear of all that and sets you down somewhere higher up and further off, from which the trouble is visible in its true proportion.

Old, general, survivable, shared with everyone who has ever lived.

We are not the first age of anxiety, he says, nor will we be the last.

I know of no better remedy.

And indeed, some of these essays which have gone up onto social media like YouTube and Chinese social media

have elicited those same sentiments from people who have heard them.

So, as I say, it's on Amazon Essays by Helen McFarlane,

and I think you may share their feeling.

It's a book which has a lot of my final and deeper reflections in it,

and I'm proud that my close friends anyway, think it's really worthwhile.

Thank you.

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這節 C1 級別的口語課以影片“Essays what book is SD 480p”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：essay, reflection, letter, written。這段影片共有 65 個句子、810 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 7:06。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 114 個詞，很適合跟讀。只有 79% 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
extract 名詞	/ˈɛkstɹækt/	精
anthropologist 名詞	/ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/	人類學家 /人類學家
distil 動詞	/dəˈstɪl/	蒸餾 /蒸餾
elicit 動詞	/ɪˈlɪsɪt/	引出
enormously 副詞		大大
predicament 名詞	/pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/	困境
vigorous 形容詞	/ˈvɪɡəɹəs/	剛勁 /剛勁, 精力充沛的
dictate 動詞	/ˈdɪkˌteɪt/	命令, 規定 /規定
woodland 名詞	/ˈwʊd.lənd/	森林, 林地
loneliness 名詞	/ˈloʊnlinəs/	寂寞, 孤獨 /孤獨
rigorous 形容詞	/ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/	嚴苛的 /嚴苛的, 嚴謹的 /嚴謹的
worthwhile 形容詞	/ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/	值得, 划算
remedy 名詞	/ˈɹɛmədi/	補救措施 /補救措施
constitute 動詞	/ˈkɑnstɪt(j)uːt/	組成 /組成, 構成

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
come out 動詞	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	出, 出來 /出來
write down 動詞		寫下來 /寫下來, 寫下 /寫下

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	has just come · have learnt · I've been
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	book which has · people who were · person who has
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	who've been involved · is written · can't be explained

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 9 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I'll, I'm, can't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/
長單詞——注意重音位置: alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, predicament /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/, analytical /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: extract /ˈɛkstɹækt/, acquaint /əˈkweɪnt/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, elicit /ɪˈlɪsɪt/, postscript /ˈpoʊst.skɹɪpt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, remarkably /ɹɪˈmɑɹkəbli/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/
/æ/ — 嘴張大，不要讀成 /e/: extract /ˈɛkstɹækt/, admirer /ædˈmaɪ.ɹɚ/, alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

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 litter, extract, anthropologist 這類單詞。

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