跟讀練習: "I Got Rich When I Understood This" | Jeff Bezos - 通過影片學習英語口語
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I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people,
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and I had a brilliant boss I much admired.
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I went to my boss and told him I was going to start a company selling books on the internet.
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He took me on a long walk in Central Park,
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listened carefully to me, and finally said,
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That sounds like a really good idea,
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but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn't already have a good job.
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You can have a job,
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or you can have a career,
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or you can have a calling.
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And if you can somehow figure out how to have a calling,
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you have hit the jackpot,
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because that's the big deal.
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I met Jeff Bezos 25 years ago,
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and he told me, Dave,
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I want you to invest in my company.
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What are you doing?
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a bookstore in my garage.
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Okay, I'm going to put it online.
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People buy online and I'm going to ship out of my garage.
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But if you invest in me,
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Dave, someday I'm going to be the richest man in the world.
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I'll do over $100 billion.
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First of all, there's no such thing as $100 billion 25 years ago.
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Statistically, there's no such thing.
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Countries didn't have our national debt wasn't $100 billion.
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And this dude's telling me,
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at 26 years old,
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that he's going to be the richest man in the world because he has a garage and the internet? That was his truth.
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No, but he did not know it, and neither did I.
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But the difference between him and I is I was laughing,
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scoffing, and jesting at him,
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and he was already applauding himself,
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going, at the right way,
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at the perfect time, I'm going to make as much as I can as quickly,
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and I'm sitting there going,
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there's no way this is going to be a big business.
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Do something you're very passionate about.
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And don't try to chase what is kind of the hot passion of the day.
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Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice.
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But ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot.
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I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing.
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And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.
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After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion,
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and I'm proud of that choice.
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As a young boy, I had been a garage inventor.
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I'd invented an automatic gate-closer out of cement-filled tires,
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a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella in aluminum foil,
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baking pan alarms to entrap my siblings.
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I'd always wanted to be an inventor and she wanted me to follow my passion.
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There's a military phrase that I especially love and it says,
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slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
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And I have seen that in every endeavor I've ever been in.
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That's the kind of thing that really allows you to make progress.
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You know, you get certain gifts in life and you to take advantage of those.
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But you, I guess my advice on adversity and success would be to be proud not of your gifts,
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but of your hard work and your choices.
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So you know, you may be,
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the kinds of gifts you get,
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you know, you might be really good at math,
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might be really easy for you.
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That's a kind of gift.
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But practicing that math and taking it to the next step
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that could be very challenging and hard and take a lot of sweat.
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That's a choice.
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You can't really be proud of your gifts because they were given to you.
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You can be grateful for them and thankful for them,
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but your choices, you choose to work hard,
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you choose to do hard things.
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Those are choices that you can be proud of.
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You can choose.
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We all get to choose our life stories and it's the choices that define us,
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not our gifts.
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Everybody in this room has many gifts.
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I have many gifts.
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You can never be proud of your gifts because they're gifts.
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They were given to you.
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You might be tall or you might be really good at math,
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or you might be extremely beautiful or handsome,
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or you know, there are many gifts,
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and you can only be proud really of your choices,
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because those are the things that you are acting on.
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And one of the most important choices that each of us has,
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and you know this just as well as I do,
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is you can choose a life of ease and comfort,
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or you can choose a life of service and adventure.
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And when you're 80, which one of those things do you think you're going to be more proud of?
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You're going to be more proud of having chosen a life of service and adventure.
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There's never been a better time to be alive.
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I mean, it's just incredible the amount of inspiration
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that the world generates for me and I think for a lot of people.
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It's just insane the amount of change and invention and opportunity.
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Your life, the life you author from scratch on your own, begins.
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How will you use your gifts?
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What choices will you make?
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Will inertia be your guide or will you follow your passions?
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Will you follow dogma or will you be original?
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Will you choose a life of ease or a life of service and adventure?
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Will you wilt under criticism or will you follow your convictions?
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Will you bluff it out when you're wrong or will you apologize?
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Will you guard your heart against rejection or will you act when you fall in love?
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Will you play it safe or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?
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When it's tough, will you give up or will you be relentless?
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Will you be a cynic or will you be a builder?
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Will you be clever at the expense of others?
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Or will you be kind?
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Every time you figure out some way of providing tools and services that empower other people to deploy their creativity,
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you're really on to something.
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You know, you're very lucky if you have a career.
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A lot of people end up with a job.
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If you don't love your work,
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you're never going to be great at it.
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Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo,
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Newton, all the curious from the ages would have wanted I wanted to be alive,
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most of all, right now.
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As a civilization, we will have so many gifts,
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just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
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How will you use these gifts?
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And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?
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關於本課
在本課中，您將通過觀看傑夫·貝佐斯的演講影片，練習您的英語口語能力。該影片討論了追求激情的重要性以及如何從看似不切實際的想法中取得成功。您將學習如何通過模仿演講者的語音語調，來提升您的發音和流利度。
關鍵詞彙與短語
- 金融公司 - financial firm
- 創業 - start a company
- 網上書店 - bookstore on the internet
- 激情 - passion
- 嘗試失敗 - trying and failing
- 發明家 - inventor
- 時機 - timing
- 職業生涯 - career
練習技巧
在觀看影片時，您可以嘗試以下“shadowspeak”技巧來提高英語發音和口語能力：
- 慢速模仿：影片的語速適中，您可以暫停或減少播放速度，逐句模仿發音和語調。
- 分段練習：可以將影片分成小段，每段練習一到兩遍，直至掌握髮音和語調。
- 強調重要詞彙：在模仿時，特別注意關鍵詞彙，例如“激情”和“創業”，確保使用正確的情感與語調。
- 反覆聆聽：可以多次觀看影片，隨著理解的加深，嘗試更快速地進行模仿，從而達到更高的流利度。
- 記錄自己的聲音：錄下自己的聲音並與原影片進行比較，找出發音和語調上的差異並加以改正，這是一種有效的英語口語練習方法。
通過這種“看YouTube學英語”的方式，您將能在增強聽力的同時，提升自己的英語口語能力，讓您的“提高英語發音”路程更成功。
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 hit · have seen · There's never been |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | be haunted · were given |
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。