跟讀練習: Gerald Durrell to Lee McGeorge - Read by Tom Hiddleston - 通過影片學習英語口語

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The End The End

July 31st, 1978.

My darling MacGeorge, You said that things seemed clearer when they were written down.

Well, herewith a very boring letter in

which I will try to put everything down so

that you may read and re-read at horror at your folly in getting involved with me.

Deep breath.

To begin with, I love you.

With the depth and passion that I have felt for no one else in this life.

and if it astonishes you, it astonishes me as well.

Not, I hasten to say, because you are not worthy of loving.

Far from it.

It's just that, first of all, I swore I would not get involved with another woman.

Secondly, I have never had such a feeling before and it's almost frightening.

Thirdly, I would never have thought it possible

that another human being could occupy my waking and sleeping thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else.

Fourthly, I never thought that even if one was in love,

one could get so completely besotted with another person so that a minute away from them felt like a thousand years.

Fifthly, I never hoped, aspired, dreamed that one could find everything one wanted in one person.

I was not such an idiot as to believe this was possible.

Yet in you, I found everything I want.

You are beautiful, gay, giving, gentle, idiotically and deliciously feminine,

sexy, wonderfully intelligent and wonderfully silly as well.

I want nothing else in this life than to be with you, to listen and watch you, your beautiful voice, your beauty,

to argue with you, to laugh with you, to show you things and share things with you, to explore your magnificent mind,

to explore your wonderful body, to help you, protect you, serve you and bash you on the head when I think you're wrong.

Not to put too fine a point on it, I consider I'm the only man outside mythology to have found the crock of gold at the rainbow's end.

But having said all that, let us consider things in detail.

Don't let this become public, but...

Well...

I have one or two faults.

Minor ones, I hasten to say.

For example, I am inclined to be overbearing.

I do it for the best possible motives, all tyrants say that, but I do tend, without thinking, to tread people underfoot.

You must tell me when I'm doing it to you, my sweet, because it can be a very bad thing in a marriage.

Right, second blemish.

This actually is not so much a blemish of character as a blemish of circumstance.

darling I want you to be you in your own right

and I will do everything I can to help you in this

but you must take into consideration that I'm also me in my own right

and that I have a head start on you what I'm trying to say is

that you mustn't feel offended if you are sometimes treated simply as my wife.

Always remember that what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.

But I am an established creature in the world and

so on occasions you will have to live in my shadow

and nothing gives me less pleasure than this but it is a fact of life that has to be faced.

Third, and very important and nasty blemish, jealousy.

I don't think you know what jealousy is, thank God, in the real sense of the word.

I know that you felt jealousy over Lincoln's wife and child, but this is what I call normal jealousy and this, to my regret, is not what I've got.

What I have got is a black monster that can pervert my good sense, my good humor and any goodness that I have in my makeup.

It is really a Jekyll and Hyde situation.

My Hyde is stronger than my good sense and defeats me, hard though I try.

As I told you, I've always known that this lurks within me, but I could control it and my monster slumbered and nothing happened to awake it.

And then I met you, and I felt my monster stir and become half awake when you told me of Lincoln and others you've known.

With your letter, my monster came out of its lair, black, irrational, bigoted, stupid, evil, and malevolent.

You will never know how terribly corrosive jealousy is.

It is a physical pain, as though you'd swallowed acid or red hot coals.

It is the most terrible of feelings.

But you can't help it.

At least, I can't.

God knows I've tried.

I don't want any ex-boyfriend sitting in church when I marry you.

On our wedding day, I want nothing but happiness, both for you and me.

And I know I won't be happy if there is a church full of your ex-conquests.

When I marry you, I'll have no past, only a future.

I don't want to drag my past into our future, and I don't want you to do it either.

But remember, I am jealous of you because I love you.

You're never jealous of something you don't care about.

Okay, enough about jealousy.

Now let me tell you something.

I have seen a thousand sunsets and sunrises on land where it floods forests and mountains with honey-colored light,

at sea where it rises

and sets like a blood orange in a multi-colored nest of cloud slipping in and out of the vast ocean.

I've seen a thousand moons, harvest moons like gold coins, winter moons as white as ice chips,

new moons like baby swan's feathers.

I've seen seas as smooth as if painted, colored like shot silk or blue as a kingfisher,

or transparent as glass or black and crumpled with foam, moving ponderously and murderously.

I felt winds straight from the South Pole, bleak and wailing like a lost child.

Winds as tender and warm as a lover's breath, winds that carried the astringent smell of salt and the death of seaweeds,

winds that carried the moist, rich smell of a forest floor, The smell of a million flowers.

Fierce winds that churned and moved like the sea, like yeast.

Or winds that made the waters lap at the shore like a kitten.

I've known silence.

The cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well.

The implacable, stony silence of a deep cave.

The hot, drugged, midday silence When everything is hypnotized and stilled into silence by the eye of the sun

The silence when great music ends

I've heard summer cicadas cry so that the sound seems stitched into your bones

I've heard tree frogs in an orchestration as complicated as Bach singing in a forest lit by a million emerald fireflies.

I've heard the keys calling over the grey glasses

that groan to themselves like old people as they inch their way to the sea.

I've heard the hoarse street vendor cries of the mating fur seals as they sang to their sleek golden wives,

the crisp staccato admonishment of the rattlesnake,

the cobweb squeak of the bat and the belling roar of the red deer knee-deep in purple heather.

I've heard wolves baying at a winter's moon, red howlers making the forest vibrate with their roaring cries.

I've I heard the squeak, purr and grunt of a hundred multicolored reef fishes.

I have seen hummingbirds flashing like opals around a tree of scarlet blooms, humming like a top.

I've seen flying fish skittering like quicksilver across the blue waves, drawing silver lines on the surface with their tails.

I've seen spoonbills flying home to roost like a scarlet banner across the sky.

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I've seen whales, black as tar, cushioned on a cornflower blue sea,

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creating a vast sigh of fountain with their breath.

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I've watched butterflies emerge and sit, trembling while the sun irons their wings smooth.

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I've watched tigers like flames mating in the long grass

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I've been dive-bombed by an angry raven black and glossy as the devil's hoof

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I've lain in water warm as milk

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soft as silk

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while around me played a host of dolphins I have met a thousand animals and seen a thousand wonderful things

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All this I did without you This was my loss

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All this I want to do with you This will be my gain

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All this I would gladly have forgone For the sake of one minute of your company For your laugh,

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your voice your eyes, hair, lips, body, and above all for your sweet,

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ever surprising mind, which is an enchanting quarry in which it is my privilege to delve.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這段影片共有 112 個句子、1454 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 11:48。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 123 個詞，很適合跟讀。只有 73% 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 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
silence 名詞	/ˈsaɪ̯ləns/	沉默
jealousy 名詞	/ˈd͡ʒɛl.ə.si/	妒忌, 羨慕
vast 形容詞	/væst/	浩大
marry 動詞	/ˈmæɹi/	結婚 /結婚, 嫁
smooth 形容詞	/smuːð/	平穩 /平穩, 順利 /順利
explore 動詞	/ɪkˈsploɹ/	探索, 探險 /探險
jealous 形容詞	/ˈd͡ʒɛl.əs/	妒忌, 吃醋
awake 動詞	/əˈweɪk/	醒, 醒來 /醒來
silk 名詞	/sɪlk/	絲 /絲, 絲線 /絲線
darling 名詞	/ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/	寶貝 /寶貝, 親愛的 /親愛的
roar 動詞	/ˈɹoɹ/	咆哮, 怒吼
scarlet 名詞	/ˈskɑɹlɪt/	深紅色 /深紅色, 緋紅 /緋紅
wonderfully 副詞	/wʌn.də(ɹ).fli/	極好地
bone 名詞	/boʊn/	гўдў, гўдўзы
complicated 形容詞	/ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/	複雜 /複雜

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
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	have felt · have never had · I've always known
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	were written · are sometimes treated · be faced

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 38 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I've, don't, I'm。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: smooth /smuːð/, worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, heather /ˈhɛðɚ/, feather /ˈfɛðə/, mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: flash /flæʃ/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, shore /ʃɔɹ/
長單詞——注意重音位置: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, consideration /kənˌsɪd.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/

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 silence, jealousy, vast 這類單詞。

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