跟讀練習: Harrison Ford: Find Your Purpose - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you, President Crow, for the kind,
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gracious introduction, and for the privilege to address all of you here today.
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You're here because you have accomplished something significant.
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You understood the opportunity before you.
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You took advantage of all this world-class university had to offer.
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You made wise choices, followed through with the work.
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I celebrate your commitment.
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The combined success of all of you, the potential of your entire generation,
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that is what gives me hope for the future.
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I didn't give much thought to the future, to my future, when I was in college.
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I did not make good choices.
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I didn't have the perspective, the maturity.
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I served only myself.
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I was squandering my life in riotous living.
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By my junior year, I was in real trouble, grade point wise, and looking for an easy A.
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I took a course the catalog called Drama, the Study of Plays.
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We'd be responsible for putting on plays for the college, but I didn't give that part much thought.
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I thought I'd work in the box office or build sets.
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My classmates were people I had previously discounted as geeks and misfits,
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but I soon realized I was a geek and a misfit.
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I had found my fit.
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These were my people.
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Turns out I didn't work in the box office.
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Instead I had major parts in five or six plays that we put on that year.
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I began to find myself on stage pretending to be someone else.
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I had always seen myself as shy, but hiding in character and costume and makeup,
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I had a freedom, a bravery I had never felt before.
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And I got an A.
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I was, I realized, present for possibly the very first time in my life.
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My passion had led me to community.
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The head of the theater department had become a mentor to me.
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invited me to do plays in a summer theater season he directed sure
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and then come to california to join him again at a more professional theater wow
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which led to an interview at columbia pictures which eventually would lead to my theatrical career.
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But acting was not yet paying the bills.
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I was supporting my growing family with carpentry jobs, another way to put food on the table.
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I loved making things.
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This went on for about, well, I just skipped a line.
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Back up for me, if you would, please.
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And I only took acting jobs when the parts challenged me.
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This went on for about 15 years,
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during which I did a lot of carpentry and only four or five acting jobs, but they were more ambitious, good projects.
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And then it all added up, and I got Star Wars.
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The load lightened.
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I had freedom, opportunity, but something was still missing.
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Passion and purpose are not the same thing.
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Passion brings you joy.
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Purpose brings you meaning.
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Passion gets you out of bed in the morning, but purpose allows you to sleep at night.
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And I hadn't found purpose higher than my job yet.
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That changed in the late 80s.
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I was living in Wyoming,
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and I was impressed by a group of people that I met there who had recently formed a nonprofit called Conservation International.
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They had inspired leadership in their founder, Peter Seligman, who became a trusted friend.
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Their message was simple.
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Nature doesn't need people.
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People need nature to survive.
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A healthy natural world provides free services,
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free services to mankind that we cannot provide for ourselves.
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Oxygen in the air we breathe.
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Pollinators for our crops.
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Fresh water and carbon capture from our forests, wetlands, and ocean.
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Medicines present and future from the rainforest.
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They had their heads in the sky and their feet in the mud.
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and they encouraged me to join them.
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There it was.
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Purpose.
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A place to put my passion for storytelling to work.
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I didn't want to be a poster boy for the cause.
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I wanted to be part of the work, so I was invited to join the board some 35 years ago.
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And that's why I stand here now before you to represent for nature, the source of life itself.
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Humanity is a part of nature, not above it.
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We have an essential mandate to protect 30% of the world's land and sea by 2030,
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to prevent the mass extinction, to slow the warming of our planet,
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still, despite new science, new policies,
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we are still losing nature to profiteering,
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corruption, conflict, including land that is already protected on paper.
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These efforts matter, but they're not enough.
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We need cultural change.
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We need to extend social justice.
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We need to respect and elevate the indigenous peoples that are being marginalized and in many cases killed in cold blood.
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These communities have long understood that the trees,
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the mountain, water, soil are not commodities.
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They are relatives to be cherished for following generations to embrace and protect.
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We can all play a role by embracing that wisdom in our day-to-day lives,
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by loving the planet, by honoring nature's authority,
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her generosity, the bounty she affords us, the justice of her example.
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the world you're stepping into, the world my generation left you, is a real mess.
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Saving nature isn't our only job.
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There are opportunities to be embraced in society, in business, in the kind of lives we live.
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So find a place for yourself.
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Whatever talent or ambition you have, find some way to put it to work.
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Build something that didn't exist yesterday.
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Stand up for someone who can't stand up for themselves.
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Bring people together who weren't talking before.
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That's leadership.
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That's what moves the needle.
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generation has far more power than you may realize.
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And if you harness that power, if you find your leadership,
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your issues, your voice, the world will not be able to ignore you.
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You will have to be accommodated.
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Believe me, I know that's true.
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Don't wait.
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When opportunity presents, recognize it.
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This is your time.
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Own it.
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Enjoy every second of it.
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Because what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing that you haven't fully lived it?
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Congratulations.
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Go change the world.
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這個影片適合誰？
無論是備考雅思口語練習的考生，還是想通過看影片學英語提升表達的學習者，這個影片都值得反覆精聽。哈里森·福特的演講語速適中，用詞口語化且富有感染力，非常適合練習“shadow speak”（影子跟讀法）——跟著音訊同步複述，既能鍛鍊聽力理解，又能提升口語流暢度。尤其適合有一定基礎、希望突破“啞巴英語”的學習者，通過模仿他的語氣和節奏，快速掌握自然的英語表達邏輯。
值得借鑑的詞彙與習語
- squandering my life：揮霍人生。例：He realized he'd been squandering his talents on trivial things.（他意識到自己一直在瑣事上揮霍才華。）
- riotous living：放蕩的生活。例：After years of riotous living, he finally settled down.（多年放蕩生活後，他終於安定下來。）
- the load lightened：負擔減輕。可引申為“情況好轉”。例：When the project was finished, the load lightened for everyone.（專案結束後，大家的負擔都減輕了。）
這些表達生動且實用，融入口語能讓表達更具 native 感，特別適合雅思口語練習中豐富語料庫。
如何模仿地道發音？
哈里森·福特的發音特點是低沉渾厚，重音清晰，且善於通過停頓傳遞情感。練習時可重點關注以下兩點：一是母音的飽滿度，如“opportunity”中的/ɒ/音，要避免發成扁音；二是連讀與弱讀，比如“took advantage of”中“took”與“advantage”的連讀，以及“of”的弱讀。建議用“shadowspeak”法，先逐句跟讀，再整段複述，錄音對比原版，糾正語調偏差。堅持一週，就能明顯感受到口語流暢度的提升。
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。