跟讀練習: How to Become Extraordinary (or Not) - 通過影片學習英語口語

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If you're like me, you're probably binge watching your 81st video right now.

Hey, I can't blame you.

I do the same shit.

But you know, it's funny watching YouTube all the time or being on social media all the the time,

you're always exposed to the most extraordinary parts of human experience.

For instance, I can get on YouTube or Instagram

and I can instantly see a guy pick up a thousand pounds off the floor

and he's got arms like the size of my toilet bowl.

Or I can see an eight-year-old who's better at piano than I am at anything, really.

You see this encouragement of the extraordinary all over pop culture.

You see it in talk shows, you see it in inspirational figures, you see it in commercials, and you especially see it in the self-help industry.

One of the biggest things that's sold to you in the self-help industry is

that we all have this special extraordinary thing inside us, and it's just waiting to get out.

All you need to know is the secret to get it out of you.

That unless you're doing something incredible with your life, then it's somehow wasted.

I think this is bullshit.

In fact, I think the problem isn't so much us, we've lost track of what normal, good human experience is actually like.

First of all, most of us are going to be ordinary at the vast majority of things that we do.

Second of all, even if you are able to lift a thousand pounds off the ground or whatever,

doesn't necessarily make you a good father or a good friend or or even a good person.

These extraordinary things that we're exposed to while being super cool

and entertaining aren't necessarily the most important metrics to be gauging our lives on.

So this is a bell curve and

if you wanted to graph most human skills and activities

and put all the people who are the very best on the right

and all the people who are very worst on the left, what you end up getting is a nice bell shape.

The vast majority of people are in the middle somewhere, and as you get out to either extreme, there are fewer and fewer people at those extremities.

When we see something like, I don't know, Michael Jordan slam dunking, he's in the 99.9th percentile.

He's one of the best human beings that has ever lived.

He's on this part of the bell curve.

He's so far on this end of the bell curve that you can't even see what's over there.

He doesn't even show up on the graph.

And then you take somebody like, I don't know, this guy, he's so much worse than everybody.

He's on the other end of the bell curve.

What all this great technology and media has done to us is that we are constantly exposed to the extremes, to the tail ends of the bell curve,

while we go outside and our day-to-day life is in the fat, boring middle.

But Mark, if I'm not extraordinary, what do I do with my life?

And it's like, well, who says you need to be extraordinary to have a valuable and meaningful life?

In fact, I would argue that some of the most important things in life are not extraordinary at all.

Things like raising a kid well, things like taking care of your health, being an honest and good person to your friends and family.

These are not extraordinary things.

In fact, they are the most ordinary things.

And I think they're ordinary things for a reason, because they're the most important.

And there's a paradox to this as well.

If you want to do one of those extraordinary things, the way you do it is by doing the ordinary extremely well for a long time.

For instance, that dude who lifts a thousand pounds, I mean, he's probably been hitting the gym three hours a day for the last 25 years.

There's nothing extraordinary about going into the gym and lifting slightly more weight than you did last time.

When you compound that over the course of decades, you end up with an extraordinary result.

But if you go into it looking for the extraordinary result, you're going to create false expectations and you're just going to feel like shit about yourself.

And so there's this contrast.

Our actual lived experience is, I'm just like everybody fucking else.

But our expectation is, is I should be jumping out of planes in a wingsuit and fucking landing on Mount Everest.

It's one of those things that while the intention is very good, I think it causes more suffering than it resolves.

So I say fuck being extraordinary.

Let's bring back the ordinary.

Let's bring back being average.

Because if we're being honest, we're all pretty average most of the time.

And that's okay.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“How to Become Extraordinary”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：extraordinary, bell, curve, ordinary, exposed。這段影片共有 58 個句子、831 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 4:45。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 175 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

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
curve 名詞	/kɚv/	彎子 /彎子
expose 動詞	/ɪkˈspoʊz/	揭露, 暴露
expectation 名詞	/ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/	等待
graph 名詞	/ɡɹæf/	圖表 /圖表
extremity 名詞	/ɪkˈstɹɛməti/	末端
dunk 動詞	/dʌŋk/	扣籃 /扣籃, 灌籃 /灌籃
paradox 名詞	/ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/	悖論 /悖論, 矛盾
encouragement 名詞	[ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt]	鼓勵 /鼓勵
metric 形容詞	/ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/	公制
bore 動詞	/boɹ/	煩擾 /煩擾
slam 動詞	/ˈslæm/	甩, 甩上
gauge 名詞	/ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/	標準尺寸 /標準尺寸, 標準規格 /標準規格
meaningful 形容詞	/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/	有意義 /有意義
resolve 動詞	/ɹɪˈzɑlv/	解決 /解決
compound 名詞	/ˈkɑmpaʊnd/	化合物

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
end up 動詞	到達
pick up 動詞	拾取, 撿 /撿

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：

Hey, I can't blame you.
Let's bring back the ordinary.
Let's bring back being average.

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	we've lost · has ever lived · has done
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	people who are

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 22 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 you're, we're, can't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/
長單詞——注意重音位置: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, extremity /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/, encouragement [ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt]

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 curve, expose, expectation 這類單詞。

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