跟讀練習: Geshe Michael Roach TEDx 4steps and Pen - 通過影片學習英語口語
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So I'm going to teach you four quick steps that they taught me in the monastery.
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These come from the 4th century.
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And these are how to plant a seed in your mind for things that you want to achieve.
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First I'll ask you some questions.
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Just answer me, this is the old Tibetan system.
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What is this thing?
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A pen.
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Yeah, it's a pen.
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Next question.
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If a small dog comes in here and I go like this, and I show this to the dog, what will they do with it?
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Chew on it.
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Yeah, they will ride it.
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Do they see this as a pen?
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No. They see it as something to chew.
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Next question, who's correct, the human or the dog?
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Both.
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Yeah, you can say both are correct.
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The human can ride, the dog can chew.
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Most important question, if I come here and I put this thing here,
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and all the dogs go out of the room and all the humans go out of the room.
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At that moment, what is this thing?
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Pen or a chutoy?
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She has the best answer.
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She's going like this. And that's correct answer.
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Right then, it's almost like nothing.
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In Buddhism, we call this emptiness.
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If you understand emptiness, you can make anything happen.
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You can make a $250 million company.
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You can help refugees.
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You know, you can do it if you understand emptiness.
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What does emptiness mean?
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If the human comes back in the room and they walk up here and they look at this thing, what does it become?
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It becomes a pen again.
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Did that pen come from the human or did that pen come from the pen? From the human.
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If the dog walks in, it changes.
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It becomes a chew toy.
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So the pen is coming from me.
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If I close my eyes and wish I had a diamond in my hand, will it change?
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No. Okay.
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It's not by wishing.
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There's something in my mind which is forcing me to see it as a pen.
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In Buddhism we call that karma.
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Okay.
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There's a seed in my mind.
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When I look at this thing, the seed opens in my mind and it forces me to see a pen.
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Who put the seed in my mind?
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We say only you can put a seed in your mind.
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How do you put a seed in your mind?
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You go to another person, you say, I have a pen, do you want a pen?
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And you give it to them.
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When you open your hand and give them a pen or money or refugee aid or whatever, when you release the pen and you open your hand, who sees your hand open?
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You see your hand open and the other person sees your hand open.
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When you open your hand, that image goes into your mind and it creates a seed in your mind.
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When you give something to someone else with the intention of helping them with love,
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then this creates the record in your mind of that opening of your hand, creates an image.
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And that image comes into your mind, it presses on your mind, and it creates a seed.
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Then two days later, you go to a TED Talk, TEDx Talk, and the guy holds up this thing, and that seed opens in your mind, and you see a pen, and then you're not a dog, okay?
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I only have like one second left.
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There are four ways to plant a seed, I'll tell you very quickly.
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You can do it for money, for 200 million dollars, you can do it for a partner, you can do it for your health, you can do it to help the whole world.
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There are four steps and I wrote it on a piece of paper for you.
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But first one, decide what you want.
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Of the five goals I mentioned, decide which one you want.
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If you don't know what you want, put, I don't know what I want.
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I want to know what I want.
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Second step, you must find another person who wants the same thing.
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You must choose another person who wants the same thing.
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If you want a partner, you must locate a lonely person.
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That's the second step.
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I'm not kidding.
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You cannot plant a seed on your own.
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You need another person to plant a karma.
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First step, take them out once a week and help them, okay?
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I like what we said about that can be emotional support.
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It doesn't have to be money.
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It can be love, it can be concern, It can be helping the other person to get their life together.
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Okay.
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That's step number three.
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When you talk to them, you hear yourself talking and it plants a seed in your mind.
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That's called a karma.
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That karma can stay in your mind for a hundred years without opening.
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Okay.
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And you know people who've done nice things and they've had a terrible life.
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Okay.
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It's because they didn't know how to Don't put water on the karma.
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So that's step number four.
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And that's the last thing I have to say.
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The trick to making those seas in your mind open quickly and powerfully, 200 million dollars or a beautiful partner for your whole lifetime.
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The trick is to when you come home at night before you go to bed, you put your head down on the pillow and you do a small meditation,
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okay, with your head on the pillow.
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We call it coffee meditation.
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Don't ask me why.
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And you think about the beautiful thing you did for somebody else.
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You think about the good things you've done for someone else.
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And when you think about them, when you think about a karma, it puts water on that karma and the karma opens in your mind quickly into the things you dream of.
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If you understand that, then those who want money will be giving money to others and being happy about it.
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Those who want health or a partner will be giving those things to others.
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Those who want inner happiness will try to make other people happy.
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And that's how you change the world, and that's how you enlighten the world.
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It's only by helping other people.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這節 C1 級別的口語課以影片“Geshe Michael Roach TEDx 4steps and Pen”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有：pen, seed, karma, dog, step。 這段影片共有 100 個句子、1058 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 5:54。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 179 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。 全部 100 個句子中有 16 個是問句，適合練習疑問語調和簡短回答。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中最難的 12 個單詞，附發音和釋義：
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| karma 名詞 | /kərm(ə)/ | 因果報應 /因果報應, 業 /業 |
| chew 動詞 | /tʃuː/ | 嚼, 咀嚼 |
| trick 名詞 | /ˈtɹɪk/ | 詭計 /詭計, 騙術 /騙術 |
| pillow 名詞 | /ˈpɪl.oʊ/ [ˈpʰɪɫ.ö̞] | 枕頭 /枕頭 |
| meditation 名詞 | /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/ | 沉思 |
| happiness 名詞 | /ˈhæpinɪs/ | 幸福, 快樂 /快樂 |
| diamond 名詞 | /ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/ | 璇石, 鑽石 /鑽石 |
| lifetime 名詞 | /ˈlaɪf.taɪm/ | 一生, 一輩子 /一輩子 |
| intention 名詞 | /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩/ | 意向, 意圖 /意圖 |
| lonely 形容詞 | /ˈloʊnli/ | 寂寞, 孤獨 /孤獨 |
| monastery 名詞 | /ˈmɑnəˌstɛɹi/ | 修道院, 僧院 |
| emptiness 名詞 | 空虛 /空虛, 空洞 |
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：
- First I'll ask you some questions.
- Next question, who's correct, the human or the dog?
- There's a seed in my mind.
- Who put the seed in my mind?
- How do you put a seed in your mind?
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 |
|---|---|
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | mind which is · person who wants · those who want |
| 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 | who've done · you've done |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 14 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, I'll, I'm。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/, intention /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩/
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: trick /ˈtɹɪk/, happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, diamond /ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/, locate /ˈloʊˌkeɪt/
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 karma, chew, trick 這類單詞。
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