跟讀練習: Homeless guy spits some truth. - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Yeah, and so we were...
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Well you asked me if doing prison was the hard part, and I spent over 12 years in prison.
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In 18 years I did 12 total.
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And it wasn't the hard part, it wasn't going to prison, it was getting out and trying to be part of society again.
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Because at one time I was a contractor, I had four employees, three bedroom house, blah blah blah blah blah.
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And I had to lose it all to realize it was just stuff, but still.
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So then when you're done with your time and I discharged my sentence in February 11th of 2011, I got my parole papers signed off.
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I became a citizen again.
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I can actually vote.
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I can actually go in and vote for the president.
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But I can't get a job here or here or here.
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I can't have any apartments because they won't accept felons.
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And I even went through an agency that took felons
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and they'll give a pedophile an apartment before they will me because I had a drug charge.
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I wasn't even dealing drugs.
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I had possession but anybody that has possession drugs.
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They're worried about them selling drugs in their apartments
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So they won't give them one
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but this place would give a pedophile somebody who raped a little baby
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or something and give them an apartment But they wouldn't let me have one
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because of my felony because I had a drug felony
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And it's just a hard part was just becoming part of society again.
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It's like they didn't want me They didn't want me to be part of their society So I just decided fuck it.
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I'm gonna sleep in a tent.
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I'm gonna do what I love for a living
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which is playing music and
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if I just make a little bit of money I'd rather do what I love with a passion
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and make a little money then go back to contract
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and then try to make a lot of money and be part of a society that doesn't even want me no more.
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Fuck them, you know?
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Fuck society.
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That's what I feel.
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Feel that?
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Why did...
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I meet a lot of good people, but I believe there's a lot of good people out there, but for the most part, most people, all they care about is themselves.
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You could be standing there on the corner bleeding and people just drive by you.
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They wouldn't want no part of it.
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They I wouldn't want no part of the trauma.
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There'd be one in 10 that might stop and help.
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You know?
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I walked up to a woman once to ask her what time it was.
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I was pushing the cart, me and my wife were pushing our cart.
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We had all our stuff in the grocery cart.
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I was pushing, I needed to know what time it was.
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So I went up to ask this woman what time it was.
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She was like, oh, get away from me.
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I don't have any money.
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Leave me alone.
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I'm like, I don't want any money.
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She's like, just get away from me.
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Go.
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I'm like, and I'm thinking, what could have this woman been through that she's so terrified of a stranger that she,
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what if my wife was pregnant, her water just broke and I needed help?
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I mean, who knows?
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What if I was having chest pain and I needed her to call 911?
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She didn't care, just get away from me, go.
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I don't got no money, she thought all I wanted was her money.
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I just wanted to know what time it was.
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And it hurt, man, it's like damn.
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People are like- It does hurt.
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And I was like, damn, humanity.
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So many people, what have they been through that makes them
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so terrified of relationships and people that they just don't want nothing to do with nobody?
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It's sad.
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It's really sad.
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I wasn't scared of you when I saw you.
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Well, it's your one in a million, you know?
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I mean, you're actually sitting down and talking to me, you know?
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Most people don't give a damn.
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But it's all right, you know?
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When it comes down to it, I came in this world by myself, and when I die, I'm gonna be the only one in that coffin.
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And so really all I guess that matters is me, I guess.
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I don't know.
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I think people matter, but the more I'm starting to see, less and less.
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You matter, bro.
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I feel that way about you too, man.
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You matter.
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I mean, you care.
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You matter.
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It's sad to see that most people don't.
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It's just sad because there's so much beautiful things in life.
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There's so many beautiful things in life.
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Relationships are beautiful.
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Nobody wants relationships.
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Check this out.
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I've got over 240 some friends on Facebook.
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Most of them I knew from high school.
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I mean, I knew a lot of people.
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I got around, all right?
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240 some people I know on Facebook.
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Most of them I thought were good friends from high school.
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Christmas Day, I Facebook tomorrow and I'm like, hey, it's Christmas, I haven't talked to some of y'all in over 20 years,
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here's my number, call me, let's have a conversation.
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Nobody, and I posted that thing over and over Christmas Day, nobody.
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And I'm talking to people that asked me to be their friend, oh, so and so wants you to be their friend.
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Well, I know this person from high school, sure, I'll be their friend.
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What does that mean?
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What does that mean?
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It means people don't want relationships no more, they're so into their internet and so into their Facebook, They got their faith, this is their idol.
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Internet's become an idol, man.
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It's like, people don't want relationships.
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They want the kind of relationships where they can be who they wanna to be
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and be who they are you know instead of being who they are be who they want to be
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and pretend to be oh yeah I'm six foot four
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and I got dark hair and blue eyes and big shoulders
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but then I can't ever meet this person because I don't look like
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that you know
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and most people on these internet relationships man I even a
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girl my high school sweetheart I got I hooked up with
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her on Facebook contacted her hey man let's meet well she
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gave me her number she's like well look just text me
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I really don't have time for conversations no more she'd rather go text back
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and forth for two hours texting back
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and forth instead of having a 10-minute conversation
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that could have summed it all people don't want conversations they
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want they don't want nothing no more I don't know what they want but this world sucks man
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way do people see it really totally agree I mean
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but I'm just trying to make the world a more better place man a more beautiful place
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and if music and art can do it and somebody appreciates
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that that's all that matters if I can make a difference in one person's life that's all that matters
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you made a difference in my life praise God I mean hallelujah you did well be sitting here with if he hadn't.
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Because you were playing your guitar when I walked up.
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Well, hopefully it's a positive difference.
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We can all make a negative influence in somebody's life, but if we can be a positive difference in somebody's life and make them just think for a minute, maybe there is something worth caring about.
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You know? But I don't know.
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這段街頭對話真實且充滿情感,非常適合英語口語練習。說話者的語氣自然,包含大量日常表達和口語化短句,能幫助學習者掌握真實場景中的語言運用。此外,內容涉及社會觀察、個人經歷等豐富話題,與雅思口語練習的話題範圍高度契合,有助於提升表達深度。
拆解自然表達,學習地道口語
我們可以從對話中提取幾個典型句子,分析其“自然感”的來源:
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- “Most people all they care about is themselves.” 句子結構並非嚴格語法正確,但這種“省略式”表達在口語中極為常見,體現了說話時的流暢感。
- “You're one in a million.” 這一習語用來形容“萬里挑一的人”,簡潔生動,適合在口語中替換直白表達。
這些表達沒有刻意的語法雕琢,卻能精準傳遞情緒,是提高英語發音和語感的關鍵。
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