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Anthony Bourdain graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1978.
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He was 21.
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His plan was to cook.
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So he cooked.
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Line cook jobs across New York City, long shifts, loud kitchens, the kind of work that pays just enough to keep doing it.
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By the mid-1990s, he was running the kitchen at Les Halles, a French brasserie in Manhattan,
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executive chef, a career that from the outside looked finished in the best possible way.
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The problem was, he also wanted to be a writer.
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He'd tried twice.
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His first novel, Bone in the Throat, came out in 1995, almost completely ignored.
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His second, Gone Bamboo, followed in 1997.
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Same result.
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So he kept cooking.
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He ran his kitchen.
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He paid his bills.
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And in 1999, he sat down and wrote an essay about what professional kitchens actually looked like from the inside.
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Blunt, funny, occasionally disgusting.
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He called it, Don't Eat before reading this.
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It ended up at the New Yorker.
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They published it.
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Kitchen Confidential followed, then no reservations.
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Then parts unknown.
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18 years of traveling the world, eating everything, talking to everyone.
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A career that traced back entirely to one moment where he sent something to a place he wasn't sure he belonged.
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What Bourdain did with that career, and what he kept saying over and over in different ways across 18 years of television,
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was essentially one argument.
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That the life most people are carefully building for themselves is missing the most important thing
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and that the most important thing is almost always on the other side of something uncomfortable.
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Most people live inside a plan they never actually made, a job that pays well enough, a city they know how to navigate, restaurants they like, routes they've memorized,
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routines that make the days feel manageable, a life that when you describe it to someone sounds completely.. fine.
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Fine is the word that keeps coming up, and the thing about fine is it doesn't alarm anyone, It doesn't raise any flags.
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It's comfortable and clean and completely sufficient, and it will carry you from your 20s to your 50s without ever once making you feel like something is wrong,
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right up until the moment you realize that nothing surprising has happened to you in years.
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Most people plan the surprising out of their lives without meaning to.
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They make sensible choices.
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They take the job that makes obvious sense instead of the one they're not sure they can do.
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They stay in the city where they already know people instead of the one they've been thinking about for three years.
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None of these are bad decisions individually.
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All of them stacked on top of each other year after year, quietly add up to a life where nothing unexpected ever gets in.
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Bourdain spent his 30s doing exactly this.
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Good at his job.
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Had a title.
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Had a kitchen that ran the way he wanted.
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And two failed novels in a drawer somewhere, and a writing dream he'd mostly made his peace with.
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From the outside, it looked like a man who had figured out what he was and accepted it.
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What actually happened is that he got bored enough to stop playing it safe and do something that made no obvious sense.
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Be open to experience.
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Be willing to try new things.
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Don't have a rigid plan.
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Accept random acts of hospitality without judgement or fear.
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Don't be afraid to wander.
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Don't be afraid to eat a bad meal.
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You know, if you don't risk the bad meal you'll never get the magical one.
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But I think most important, you know, be humble. Be grateful.
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Be aware Be aware of the fact that you are probably the stupidest person in the room, as far as you are the least prepared,
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least equipped person to know who's really in charge of what's really going on.
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The rigid plan is not just a travel problem.
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It's the version of yourself that already knows what you're capable of and arranges your life accordingly.
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It sets the ceiling before you've hit it.
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It builds the box before you've run out of room.
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And it does all of it with perfectly reasonable justifications which is exactly what makes it so hard to argue with.
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Bourdain's essay had no business landing where it did.
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His resume for that submission was two novels nobody bought and 20 years of cooking professionally.
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The New Yorker published it anyway.
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The plan can't account for the things that haven't happened yet.
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The bad meal is a specific concept.
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Take risks.
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Step outside your comfort zone.
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Embrace failure.
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All language that's been said so many times, it's become background noise.
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Bordan was not talking abstractly.
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He was talking about the fermented shark in Iceland
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that smells like ammonia and tastes like something that should not legally be food.
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The unmarked restaurant down the alley in Hanoi, with no menu and no prices, and no clear indication that what you're about to eat won't make you sick for a week.
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Things he actually did, repeatedly on purpose, because he believed that the physical experience of committing to something you weren't sure about was the entire point.
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The bad meal is not a metaphor for failure, it's a metaphor for the moment, before you know how something is going to go, the job you weren't sure you were qualified for,
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the move to a city where you don't know anyone.
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All of it lives in the same category.
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All of it requires the same thing, which is the willingness to eat something before you know whether it's going to be terrible
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or the best thing you've ever tasted.
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Most people skip this moment.
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They read the reviews first.
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They eliminate as much uncertainty as possible before committing,
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which feels like wisdom and is actually just a very sophisticated way of making sure you never accidentally stumble into something extraordinary.
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Bourdain's career is basically a long argument against research.
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He showed up to places he knew nothing about and figured it out from there.
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He sat down at tables with people whose names he couldn't pronounce in languages he didn't speak
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and ate whatever they put in front of him.
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Not because he was fearless, he talked about fear constantly, but because he understood that fear was the tax you paid on everything worth doing,
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and there was no way around it, only through it.
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The thing he kept coming back to was the idea that the experience itself was the point, not the destination, not the story you get to tell afterward.
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The actual experience of being somewhere unfamiliar and not knowing how it was going to go.
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The bad meal isn't something you survive on the way to the good one.
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The bad meal is the whole lesson.
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The discomfort is the education.
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else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Most people are closer to the other side of the world than they think.
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The neighborhood they've driven past a hundred times and never walked through.
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The restaurant with no English menu, the conversation they've been avoiding because they already know it's going to be uncomfortable.
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All of it is the other side of the world.
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All of it requires the same thing.
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The willingness to show up somewhere you don't entirely know what you're doing and stay long enough to find out.
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Most people have already decided how they feel about the places they've never been, the food they've never eaten, the people whose lives look nothing like theirs.
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They form that opinion from a distance and they're keeping it.
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Because going to actually look means risking being wrong.
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And being wrong about something you've held onto for years is genuinely uncomfortable more uncomfortable honestly than any bad meal.
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Anthony Bourdain spent 18 years arguing against this from every angle he could find.
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He built an entire career out of showing people what it actually looked like inside the places they'd written off.
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One table at a time, one meal at a time, and he never stopped.
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Right up until he did.
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You're probably gonna find out about it anyway.
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So here's a little preemptive truth-telling.
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There's no happy ending.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 114 個句子、1382 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 7:59。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 173 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 個不太常見的單詞，附發音和釋義：
- meal /ˈmiːl/ (名詞) — 餐, 飯 /飯. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
- uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ (形容詞) — 不舒服. Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
- argue /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ (動詞) — 辯論 /辯論, 爭辯 /爭辯. To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.
- menu /ˈmɛn.juː/ (名詞) — 選單 /選單. The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
- essay /ˈɛs.eɪ/ (名詞) — 雜文 /雜文, 論文 /論文. A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.
- willingness /ˈwɪlɪŋnəs/ (名詞) — 願意 /願意. The state of being willing
- rigid /ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/ (形容詞) — 硬性, 僵硬. Stiff, rather than flexible.
- metaphor /ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/ (名詞) — 比喻, 隱喻 /隱喻. The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing…
- ignore /ɪɡˈnɔː/ (動詞) — 無視 /無視, 忽略. To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
- lesson /ˈlɛs.ən/ (名詞) — 課業 /課業, -課 /-課. A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ (副詞) — 小心地. With care; attentively, circumspectly.
- afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/ (副詞) — 然後 /然後. At a later or succeeding time; after that;
- essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ (副詞) — 本質上 /本質上, 基本上. In essence: by nature.
- comfort /ˈkʌm.fət/ (名詞) — 舒適 /舒適. Contentment, ease.
- occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/ (副詞) — 偶爾 /偶爾, 偶然. On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
影片中出現的短語動詞
- come up (動詞) — 上來 /上來. To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
- figure out (動詞) — 弄清楚. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- find out (動詞) — 找出, 查明. To discover, as by asking or investigating.
- get up (動詞) — 起床. To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
- put in (動詞) — 投入, 插入. To place inside.
- show up (動詞) — 露面. To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
- sit down (動詞) — 坐下, 坐. To assume a sitting position from a standing position.
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 39 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, they've, you're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, sufficient /səˈfɪʃənt/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/
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 meal, uncomfortable, argue 這類單詞。
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 |
|---|---|
| 現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作 | they've been thinking · they've been avoiding |
| 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 | they've memorized · has happened · you've hit |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | man who had · justifications which is · thing, which is |
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