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About a year ago, I packed my bags and left everything I knew behind.
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Everything.
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I felt stuck and I thought I needed a fresh start.
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But the truth, well, the truth was so much deeper than that.
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Moving abroad is a trending topic with 20-somethings recently, but the 20-year-old Bartek, who was fidgeting on the plane to Porto,
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gosh he had no idea what he was about to get into I had no idea
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that I had just begun the six most important months of my life the six months
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that would change everything forever moving abroad is lonely most of
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the time I really wish my My friends could just pop out of nowhere right now
我現在真希望我的朋友們能突然出現在我面前。
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and surprise me because I miss them.
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But I do.
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Longing for connection makes you do things that you would not have done otherwise.
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You go samba dancing, go to a pub, sober.
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Heck, you even try to learn the language to fit in.
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And that's a good thing.
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I look for another comic that is popular in Brazil or Portugal.
我正在尋找另一部在巴西或葡萄牙很受歡迎的漫畫。
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Sometimes it works.
有時候它會起作用。
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Hey guys!
大家好！
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So, in the middle of the night, trying to fight some alcohol, but I don't drink but we do it, so it's my fault.
所以，半夜的時候，我試圖克制酒癮，但我其實不喝酒，可我們還是這麼做了，所以這是我的錯。
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Sometimes it doesn't.
有時候它不會。
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I wish I could tell you otherwise, I really do, but the truth is, I'm feeling pretty damn alone this evening.
我真希望能說些不一樣的話，真的，但事實是，今天晚上我感到特別孤獨。
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And whether you like it or not, you will be spending more time with yourself than ever before.
無論你喜不喜歡，你都會比以往任何時候花更多的時間獨處。
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When I moved here, I was essentially still a teenager.
我剛搬到這裡的時候，基本上還是個十幾歲的孩子。
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Because when you're a teenager, there is no such thing as self-worth.
因為當你還是青少年的時候，根本不存在所謂的自我價值感。
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It wasn't in my case, at least.
至少我的情況不是這樣。
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Outside of my accomplishments and my grades, my net worth, all that kind of stuff.
除了我的成就、成績和淨資產這類東西之外。
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And that's who I was when I came here.
那就是我剛來這裡時的樣子。
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A set of failures and accomplishments.
一系列的失敗與成就。
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As a teenager, you spend most of your time trying to connect to others.
青少年時期，你大部分時間都在努力與他人建立聯絡。
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But suddenly, there was nobody around.
但突然間，周圍空無一人。
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I was forced to connect with myself.
我不得不與自己的內心建立聯結。
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I'm all alone here in this city that I've been to once when I was like what, seven?
我一個人待在這座城市裡，我以前好像只來過一次，那時候我大概七歲吧？
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I spent literally hours with no one else but yours truly.
我真的花了好幾個小時，身邊就只有我自己一個人。
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I was forced not only to acknowledge my feelings but also confront them, to listen to what's going on inside of me.
我不僅被迫承認了自己的感受，還不得不直面它們，傾聽自己內心的聲音。
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I started writing, reading, thinking a lot about who I am, who I'm not, what I enjoy and what annoys me, and what my values are too, to be fair.
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I started exploring my spirituality and my faith because, you know, sometimes when I just didn't want to feel lonely,
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I opened up the Bible and felt a little bit of peace.
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You cannot love someone who you don't know, right?
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This is impossible.
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So getting to know yourself in your twenties could be the single most important thing that you can do.
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And moving abroad can really help with that.
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With time you start feeling main character energy and if you're abroad only for a limited time, you will cherish every single moment.
隨著時間推移，你會逐漸感受到一種主角般的氣場，而如果你在國外的時間有限，你會珍惜每一刻。
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When you know that there is going to come a moment when you're not gonna be here anymore, you laugh about walking in the rain,
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you appreciate every second and it's so funny because just, I mean, life is the same, isn't it?
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And we don't do that.
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Everyday life becomes so full of color, full of character, full of excitement.
日常生活變得如此豐富多彩、充滿個性、令人興奮不已。
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Moving abroad also helped me realize that adulthood and responsibility are actually kind of freaking great.
移居國外也讓我意識到，成年和承擔責任其實挺棒的。
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We kind of prolong our youth for so long and we don't think about becoming adults, we don't want to become adults, but actually it's the natural thing to do.
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It feels good.
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I think it's kind of like driving a car, you know, it kind of is more comfortable to sit in the passenger seat,
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but the whole fun is in actually steering the dang thing.
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is the exact same way and responsibility is the exact same way too.
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You know, driving a car also means that you're prone to accidents and you are going to commit a lot of mistakes.
你知道，開車也意味著你更容易發生事故，而且會犯很多錯誤。
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At least I did.
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This day was full of accidents.
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This tripod, I was moving it and the camera fell off.
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The lens is fucked up and of course this has never happened to me before
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when I was using my old cheap camera, but now this must have happened, huh?
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Speaking of adulthood and responsibility, being away from your family is paradoxically something
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that really helps you stay closer to them
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and your relationship with them is probably going to be way better than ever before.
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Calling your mom becomes a pleasure and not a chore, although many times are the companies doing chores because setting up the washing machine is surprisingly unstraightforward, at least in Portuguese.
給媽媽打電話變成了一件樂事，而不再是負擔，不過很多時候反而是那些公司在處理麻煩事，因為設定洗衣機的過程出乎意料地複雜，至少在葡萄牙語介面下是如此。
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You learn to appreciate every second spent with them because...
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My time with them is just shrinking right now.
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And it's tough because I love them so much.
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If you're lucky, your friends and family will come visit.
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These are going to be some of the best memories that you've had.
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But funnily, the best memories are still actually on your own.
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Just sitting in the park, reading a book, going on the walk.
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Slowly, the chaos of moving abroad, it turns into something a little bit more orderly.
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And I'm not sure if that's because it actually happens or you just learn to deal with it a little better.
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It seems scary, you might ask, what about my job, what about everything?
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Dude, people are figuring it out all the time millions before you
老兄，一直都有人搞明白這件事，在你之前已經有幾百萬人做到了。
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and millions after and trust me this is a reminder to myself because I am such a Intense person.
之後還會有數百萬人，相信我，這也是對我自己的一個提醒，因為我是一個非常情緒化的人。
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I'm like stressed out about everything all the time and here.
我一直以來，不管什麼事都讓我壓力很大，在這裡也是這樣。
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It's just like okay.
這感覺就那樣吧。
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Yeah, whatever.
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We'll figure it out We always do always
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Eventually you you even find your own people and
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that does change the entire experience because at the end of the day Human connection is something we all love.
這確實會改變整個體驗，因為說到底，人與人之間的情感聯結是我們都珍視的東西。
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This is Kaya explaining to me the music in Brazil We have certain Asia that looks like country music.
這是卡雅在給我講解巴西的音樂。我們亞洲有些音樂聽起來像鄉村音樂。
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Funk, you know funk?
Funk，你知道Funk嗎？
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Yeah.
是的。
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Cha-cha! And some.
恰恰！再來點。
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I just had the most profound and deep conversation of my entire trip here.
我剛剛進行了這次旅行中最深刻、最有深度的一次對話。
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And it took six months to get to this point.
而達到這一步花了六個月的時間。
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Right when you're about to leave.
就在你正要離開的時候。
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Yeah.
是的。
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Shame.
真可惜。
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Shame.
真可惜。
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You are going to learn how to truly enjoy your own company.
你將學會如何真正享受獨處的時光。
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It might feel weird at first, but you will stop waiting for other people to join you if you want to do something.
一開始可能會覺得有些奇怪，但如果你想做某件事，就不會再等著別人陪你一起了。
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Every sunny day will turn into a field trip.
每一個晴天都會變成一次外出遊玩。
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To the beach, to the bridge, to the mountains, or just to the park to read a book.
去海邊，去橋上，去山裡，或者就只是去公園讀本書。
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And your own company becomes more and more appealing with each such trip.
每一次這樣的出行，都會讓你所在的公司變得越來越有吸引力。
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Because when there's nobody around, you can do whatever the fuck you want. But you know what?
因為當週圍沒人的時候，你想幹什麼混賬事都可以。但你知道嗎？
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This whole moving abroad shebang and everything I mentioned in this video so far, it all leads to something that I never expected to gain from this experience.
這次移居國外的種種經歷，以及我在這段影片裡到目前為止提到的所有事情，最終都帶來了一個我從未預料到會從這段經歷中獲得的東西。
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But more importantly, I never even knew I needed.
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And that's self-love.
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Because when you start learning about who you are and who you're not, when you start respecting yourself,
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when you start accepting all that and that you're not perfect and you never will be and that's okay, that's when self-love starts happening.
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I just think that for the first time in my life I'm just truly just at peace with exactly where I am.
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I want to go further, I want to do better, but I just don't put the pressure that I always used to put on myself.
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It's fine, just one step at a time, dude.
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You start living in accordance to your true values
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and you start pursuing what you think is interesting
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and you do what you want to do not what other people want you to do
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and that is such such a game changer gosh i cannot stress this enough now the issues begin
這真是徹底改變了局面，天哪，我怎麼強調都不為過，現在問題開始出現了。
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when you leave it was an adventure of a lifetime man
當你離開的時候，那可是一場畢生難忘的冒險啊，兄弟。
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so many memories so many cool people so much self-exploration so
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so much growth on the surface level it looks like sadness
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but very deep down like on a very deep
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and fundamental level this is just nothing else but gratitude and joy but I'm still it's still fucking difficult.
從根本層面來說，這純粹是感恩與喜悅，但這他媽的還是很難。
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When you get back home into your ordinary reality it's very
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easy to forget everything you've learned here it's very easy to
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stop maintaining your relationship with yourself it's very easy to forget to stop caring what other people think.
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It's very easy to forget that every day is a gift and that you should make the most out of it.
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And self-love, it's like a plant.
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You have to keep maintaining it.
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You have to water it because if you don't, it's gonna die.
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You see, at the end of the day, moving abroad is just a wonderful adventure.
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An adventure full of emotions, full of people, full of contrast, full of paradoxes, full of memories.
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It's like a life concentrate.
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You know, and like all adventures, it has its ups and downs.
你知道的，就像所有冒險一樣，這段經歷也有起有伏。
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But I don't think I can recommend moving abroad enough if you're in your 20s.
但如果你現在二十多歲，我真的非常推薦你出國生活。
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I don't think anything in my life made me grow as much as living here in Porto did.
我覺得我這輩子沒有什麼經歷能比在波爾圖生活更讓我成長了。
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Oh, also, I was this close to forgetting.
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Have you ever done a push-up on the Pont de Deleuze bridge?
你有沒有在德勒茲大橋上做過俯臥撐？
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I now have.
我現在有了。
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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“I moved abroad alone at 20”為素材。 這段影片共有 129 個句子、1617 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 10:18。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 157 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 |
|---|---|---|
| teenager 名詞 | /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/ | 少年, 青少年 |
| chore 名詞 | /t͡ʃoɹ/ | 家務 /家務, 家事 |
| adulthood 名詞 | 成年 | |
| accomplishment 名詞 | /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/ | 成就, 成果 |
| funk 名詞 | /fʌŋk/ | 臭味 |
| gosh | /ɡɑːʃ/ | 唉, 啊呀 |
| fidget 動詞 | /ˈfɪd͡ʒ.ɪt/ | 坐立不安 |
| tripod 名詞 | /ˈtɹaɪpɑd/ | 三腳架 /三腳架 |
| cherish 動詞 | /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/ | 愛護 /愛護, 珍視 /珍視 |
| spirituality 名詞 | /ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/ | 靈性 /靈性 |
| paradox 名詞 | /ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/ | 悖論 /悖論, 矛盾 |
| steer 動詞 | /stɪɹ/ | 掌舵, 駕駛 |
| sadness 名詞 | /ˈsædnəs/ | 悲傷 /悲傷, 悲哀 |
| gratitude 名詞 | /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/ | 感恩, 謝意 /謝意 |
| sober 形容詞 | /ˈsoʊ.bɚ/ | 清醒, 冷靜 /冷靜 |
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：
- It wasn't in my case, at least.
- You cannot love someone who you don't know, right?
- Funk, you know funk?
- Right when you're about to leave.
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 | I've been · has never happened · you've had |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | was forced · is fucked |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 35 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, you're, I'm。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, shebang /ʃɪˈbæŋ(ɡ)/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/, exploration /ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, paradoxically /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/, spirituality /ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/
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: accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, funk /fʌŋk/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, fidget /ˈfɪd͡ʒ.ɪt/, shebang /ʃɪˈbæŋ(ɡ)/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: orderly /ˈɔɹdɚli/, paradoxically /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/, prolong /pɹoʊˈlɑŋ/, spirituality /ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/
- /æ/ — 嘴張大，不要讀成 /e/: shebang /ʃɪˈbæŋ(ɡ)/, spirituality /ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/, paradox /ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/, sadness /ˈsædnəs/, gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/
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 teenager, chore, adulthood 這類單詞。
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