跟讀練習: EVERY LEVEL OF MANIPULATION - 通過影片學習英語口語
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There are seven levels of manipulation, and most people can only spot the first two.
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Everything above that doesn't feel like manipulation at all.
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It feels like friendship.
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It feels like love.
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And sometimes, it feels like your own idea.
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That's what makes the higher levels so dangerous.
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By the time you notice them, they've usually been working on you for months.
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By the end of this video, you'll be able to recognize all seven,
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and you'll know the one question that protects you from every single one of them.
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Let's start with the easiest to see.
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Level 1.
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Flattery.
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You're so smart.
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I knew you'd understand.
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Honestly, you're the only one I can talk to about this.
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Someone as talented as you could do this in five minutes.
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This is Level 1.
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Manipulation through compliments.
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It's the oldest trick there is, and most people think they're immune to it.
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You hear an obviously fake compliment, you roll your eyes, and you move on.
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But a 2010 study found something uncomfortable.
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Researchers showed people flattering messages they knew were insincere, sales pitches that were clearly buttering them up.
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People dismissed the flattery consciously, but deeper, measured attitudes toward the flatterer still shifted in a positive direction,
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and that hidden effect lasted longer than the conscious rejection.
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In other words, you can see through flattery and still be moved by it.
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Flattery is level one because it's mostly harmless.
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Your guard goes down a little, and that's all.
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But a guard that goes down a little is exactly what
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Level 2 needs.
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Level 2 – The Favor Someone does something nice for you that you never asked for.
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They buy you a coffee, they help you move a box, they send you a small gift.
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And a few days later, they ask for something much bigger.
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In 1971, psychologist Dennis Regan ran a simple experiment.
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Participants were paired with a stranger who was secretly working for the researchers.
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During a break, the stranger left the room and came back with a bottle of Coke for the participant, without being asked.
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Later, the stranger asked the participant to buy raffle tickets.
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People who'd received the Coke bought about twice as many tickets as those who hadn't.
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And here's the part that matters.
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It barely mattered whether they actually liked the stranger.
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That's the power of reciprocity.
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A small, unrequested favor creates a feeling of debt.
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And that feeling of debt doesn't care whether the deal is fair.
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At level two, you're not being tricked.
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You're being made to feel like you owe something.
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And once you've paid a little, it gets easier to ask for more.
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Level three, the small yes.
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At level three, nobody asks you for the big thing.
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They ask for something tiny.
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Just a quick favor.
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Just this once.
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Just a small exception.
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In 1966, researchers Jonathan Friedman and Scott Frazier asked homeowners in California to put a large,
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ugly sign in their front yard that said, drive carefully.
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Most people refused.
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But a different group of homeowners had been asked, two weeks earlier, to put a tiny, almost invisible sign about safe driving in their window.
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Most of them agreed to that.
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And later, when they were asked about the big, ugly sign, a large majority said yes.
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Psychologists call it the foot -in -the -door technique.
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Once you've said yes to something small, you start to see yourself as the kind of person who says yes
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and saying no to the next step would feel like going against yourself
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this is where manipulation stops being about one moment
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and becomes about a direction every small yes moves the line a little further
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and you never notice the line moving because each single step looks so small
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and that's where the dangerous levels begin level four love bombing
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it starts like a dream someone new comes into your life and they're completely obsessed with you.
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Constant messages, big compliments, plans for the future after two weeks.
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You've never felt so seen.
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Then, suddenly, it changes.
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They go cold.
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They're distant.
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You don't know what you did wrong.
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And then, just as suddenly, the warmth comes back and the relief feels incredible.
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This is level four, and it's built on one of the most powerful forces in psychology.
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In the 1950s, psychologist B .F.
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Skinner studied how animals learn.
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He found that when a reward came every time, animals learned quickly but quit quickly once the reward stopped.
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When the reward came unpredictably, sometimes yes, sometimes no, the behavior became incredibly persistent.
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Unpredictable rewards are the same principle that keeps people pulling the lever on slot machines.
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At level 4, affection becomes the reward, and the manipulator controls when it arrives.
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You don't stay because things are good, you stay waiting for the good to come back.
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Once someone has that kind of hold over your emotions, the next step.. is to make sure nobody else can loosen it.
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Level 5.
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Isolation.
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It never starts with, don't see your friends.
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It starts with small comments.
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Your sister doesn't really get you like I do.
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I just feel like your friends are a bit jealous of us.
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Why do you need to go out when we have such a good time here?
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Slowly, your world gets smaller.
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You see your friends less.
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You stop telling your family what's going on because they'd only worry.
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And without anyone else around, there's no one to say, hey, that's not normal.
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That's why isolation is one of the clearest warning signs of what experts call coercive control,
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a pattern of behavior used to dominate another person over time.
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It's taken so seriously that in 2015, England and Wales made coercive control in relationships a criminal offense.
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At level five, the manipulator becomes your only mirror, and whoever controls the mirror can start to change what you see.
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Level six, gaslighting.
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That never happened.
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You're remembering it wrong.
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You're being way too sensitive.
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Everyone agrees with me, you know.
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The name comes from Gaslight, a 1938 play that became a famous 1944 film.
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In it, a husband secretly dims the gaslights in the house, and when his wife notices, he insists she's imagining it,
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until she starts to doubt her own mind.
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The word became so common that Merriam -Webster named gaslighting its word of the year in 2022.
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Here's why it works.
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Your memory is not a recording.
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In a famous 1974 study, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus showed people a film of a car crash.
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Afterwards, some were asked how fast the cars were going when they smashed into each other.
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Others were asked about the cars that hit each other.
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The smashed group gave higher speed estimates, and a week later, they were more likely to remember broken glass that was never in the film.
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One word changed what people remembered.
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Now imagine someone you trust doing that to you every day, for months.
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At level 6, you stop trusting your own mind.
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And once that happens, you'll believe almost anything the manipulator tells you, including the final lie.
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Level 7.
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You.
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The final level is the hardest to see, because there's no one else in the room.
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At level 7, the manipulation runs by itself.
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You defend the person who hurts you.
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You explain away the warning signs before your friends can point them out.
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You tell yourself it's not that bad, that everyone has problems, that it's probably your fault anyway.
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The manipulator doesn't need to do anything anymore.
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You've learned to do it for them.
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But level 7 isn't only about other people.
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It's also every time you tell yourself the story you want to hear.
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One more episode.
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I'll start on Monday.
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This time it'll be different.
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The physicist Richard Feynman once said it perfectly.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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At level 7, you realize the most persuasive voice in your life has always been your own.
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And that means the defense was always going to have to start there, too.
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But here's the part most people miss.
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These levels don't always come in order.
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Some people go straight to level 4.
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Some stay at level 1 for years.
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And every one of us uses the lower levels sometimes, a little flattery, a favor when we want something.
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That doesn't make you a monster.
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What matters is whether someone is trying to work with you or work on you.
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So here's the one question that protects you from all seven levels.
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Next time someone asks you for something, pause and ask yourself, what happens if I say no?
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At level one, a no to someone flattering you gets you a shrug.
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At level 2, it reveals whether the favor was a gift or a trap.
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At level 3, it stops the line from moving.
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At level 4, watch whether the warmth suddenly disappears.
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At level 5, notice whether they make you feel guilty for having other people in your life.
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At level 6, notice whether a no is suddenly something you made up.
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And at level 7, ask yourself the same question.
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If someone you love wanted to leave this situation, what would you tell them?
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Healthy people can hear no. Manipulators can't.
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And if parts of this video felt a little too familiar, talk to someone you trust outside the relationship.
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That's the first step back to seeing clearly.
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Tell me in the comments which level you think is the most dangerous. And subscribe!
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Because next time, we're going inside the mind of someone who does all seven, and why the people around them almost never notice.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這節口語課以影片“EVERY LEVEL OF MANIPULATION”為素材。 這段影片共有 155 個句子、1595 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 9:26。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 169 個詞，接近日常對話。 86% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| reward 名詞 | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | 報酬 /報酬, 獎勵 /獎勵 |
| manipulation 名詞 | /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/ | 操縱 /操縱, 運用 /運用 |
| psychologist 名詞 | /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | 心理學家 /心理學家 |
| researcher 名詞 | /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ | 研究員 /研究員, 研究者 |
| compliment 名詞 | /ˈkɑmpləmənt/ | 稱讚 /稱讚, 道賀 /道賀 |
| participant 名詞 | /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/ | 參加者 /參加者, 參與者 /參與者 |
| trick 名詞 | /ˈtɹɪk/ | 詭計 /詭計, 騙術 /騙術 |
| mirror 名詞 | /ˈmiɹɚ/ | җинзы, 鏡 /鏡 |
| ugly 形容詞 | /ˈʌɡli/ | 難看 /難看, 醜 /醜 |
| principle 名詞 | /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ | 原理, 原則 /原則 |
| smash 動詞 | /smæʃ/ | 粉碎 |
| isolation 名詞 | /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/ | 隔離 /隔離, 隔斷 /隔斷 |
| secretly 副詞 | /ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/ | 偷偷 |
| defend 動詞 | /dɪˈfɪnd/ | 保衛 /保衛, 守衛 /守衛 |
| technique 名詞 | /tɛkˈniːk/ | 技術 /技術, 技巧 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| come back 動詞 | 回來 /回來, 返回 | |
| go down 動詞 | 下降, 下去 | |
| go out 動詞 | 出, 出口 | |
| make up 動詞 | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | 組成 /組成 |
| see through 動詞 | 看透 |
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：
- Let's start with the easiest to see.
- Your guard goes down a little, and that's all.
- At level two, you're not being tricked.
- You're being made to feel like you owe something.
- You've never felt so seen.
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 | be moved · were paired · being asked |
| 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 | you've paid · you've said · You've never felt |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | those who hadn · person who says · person who hurts |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 35 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 you're, doesn't, don't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, smash /smæʃ/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, participant /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/
中文母語者容易讀錯的音：
- /v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: sensitive /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/, reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, whoever /huˈɛvɚ/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/
- 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: reward /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, compliment /ˈkɑmpləmənt/, participant /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/, trick /ˈtɹɪk/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: principle /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/, secretly /ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/, carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/, reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/
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 reward, manipulation, psychologist 這類單詞。
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