跟讀練習: KSI Accidentally Exposes His Crypto Scams - 通過影片學習英語口語
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KSI is one of the world's most popular YouTubers,
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but yesterday he accidentally exposed the pump and dump crypto scams that he promoted.
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They've been hidden for two years,
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but only came out when KSI logged back into his old Twitter account,
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saying, does this still work?
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Now if you didn't know,
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this is KSI's crypto account where he used to talk about crypto coins he liked.
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But he messed up, because one investigator has been waiting for him to return to the scene of the crime.
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And that person is not me,
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it's Zach XBT, a crypto investigator on Twitter who I'll link below because his work is incredible.
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He's a friend of the show,
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we've collaborated a lot, I just encourage you to go follow him.
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But I was shocked when he said this.
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In before he starts sharing garbage again,
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dumping your tokens on Logan Paul's lapdog is permitted and encouraged.
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Now many people, including myself,
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hadn't seen anything from KSI to this point that seemed shady.
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But Zach had been waiting for this moment.
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He goes on,
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Now, obviously I was stunned by this,
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but looking at the date of when this all happened,
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I realized Zack has been holding onto this piece of evidence,
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waiting for KSI to come back to this account for years.
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He had this tweet in the drafts and KSI logging back in activated the trap card.
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Zach also shared a picture as proof,
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series of transactions from KSI's wallet,
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where starting on March 27th,
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when he sent that tweet,
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KSI started selling XCAD, the same day he tweeted he was part of the huddle game,
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slang for someone who wouldn't sell this crypto coin, right?
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In fact, that wasn't the only time KSI has mentioned this holding stance publicly.
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I'm holding my bags.
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I'm holding my Luna, my XCAD.
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Videos like this are why people genuinely thought KSI was just buying and holding, but he wasn't.
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This time, he sold.
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And he tweeted again on March 30th, 2022.
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Me looking at Zill and XCAD right now.
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And it might look like that means he's excited about this,
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but really he was looking at the sell button,
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because he continued to sell XCAD to his fans who thought he was part of the HODL gang once again.
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And this is what I mean by a pump and dump scam.
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He got his followers excited while selling his own crypto back at the same time.
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In total, over $800,000 was sold by KSI over a few days and these two tweets,
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according to ZachXBT.
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Now, as a quick aside,
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if you're wondering or skeptical of the fact
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that influencer tweets can have any kind of effect on a token price or volume,
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I whipped up a chart for you,
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showing volume of XCAD during the days when KSI tweeted.
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You can see that trading volume spiked millions of dollars on those days,
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which in part were some of his followers putting money in as he sold.
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Today, the price of XCAD has plummeted from $3 to about $1.
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Now, as always, with such large allegations,
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I wanted to be sure to reach out to KSI to give him a chance to explain these large accusations.
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After all, I didn't find this, Zach did.
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So I reached out to KSI over Twitter and he gave me the following statement.
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Hey bro, I mean, I'm still a HODL game, LMAO.
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Sold some profit,
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as well as my own money to put into Luna thinking I would profit more to buy back more XCAD
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and took a major L.
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fully believe in XCAD, the ability to earn from watching content.
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Honestly, you should talk to Redacted.
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He's very excited about this project.
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I never left crypto.
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I've just been watching it from the shadows.
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It's kind of hard to leave when you've invested so many years into it.
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So that's his statement.
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He then shared a personal account screenshot showing that he does have some XCAD still held.
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But while that's an interesting fact and an interesting explanation,
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it doesn't really change the core accusation of whether he pumped and dumped his fans.
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And I thought it was interesting KSI didn't deny the crypto wallet was his or that he made that amount of money.
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He's just telling us, well,
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I'm still hodling some of it,
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just 800,000 of it I sold.
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Now, to be honest, I don't buy this explanation for a second,
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but I kind of was feeling like I had to leave the story there.
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It felt like a one-off scam that I talk about on my new side channel,
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CoffeeZilla Extras, but the story would die there.
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But then I got another message,
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which changed everything from Zach.
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He said, I have one more KSI example with a different coin.
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Turns out on March 20th,
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2021, KSI tweeted this, two NFT coins I'm very bullish on, super and earn.
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Any other NFTs I should look at?
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Now normally when you're bullish on a coin you buy that coin,
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but that's not what KSI did.
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See right after he tweeted that,
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six hours later, he sold a hundred
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seventy four thousand dollars worth of EARN token and then four hours later sells another a hundred seventy four thousand dollars.
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Now if that isn't a textbook pump and dump I don't know what is.
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He tweeted, that's the pump,
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within 24 hours He sells three hundred forty eight thousand dollars.
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That's the dump It couldn't be more clear or so I thought
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because I asked KSI about this
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and that's where things got a bit muddy He says I
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don't really remember the details of every transaction I made these
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were coins I put my own money in thinking they would
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do well I would listen to what people said on Twitter and just follow stuff.
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I invested in doge etc I didn't have malicious intent in trying to scam.
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I was new to crypto
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So I was excited putting money in random things trying to chase the pumps
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and ultimately lost heavily I hope people didn't take advice
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or tweets as gold
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because looking back at my track record I was effing dog I wish I was an evil genius
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that would pump and dump at the right time
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Because then at least people would say
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that I had some wit about me reality is I was just at crypto And that's basically KSI's defense.
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He was dumb.
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He was bad at crypto But is that true?
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Well, he says he put in two million dollars of his own money
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and lost it all in the end He says quote,
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I made zero profit on crypto in the end.
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I lost it all on Luna.
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Look, I haven't seen his accounts Maybe that's true either way even
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if he is bad or dumb with crypto I just it doesn't explain the pump
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and dumps like telling people you're bullish
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and then selling is not explained by I Was new I was dumb
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and I said as much I said I'm just trying to understand why you traded the opposite way
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that you were saying on Twitter and KSI replied this,
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Because I thought I was getting trolled.
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Honestly, every time I tweeted something,
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the opposite would happen on the market.
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So I decided to tweet the opposite of what I was actually doing and still took an L.
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So, just to be clear,
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KSI's story that he's going with is that he thought the market was against him,
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so he publicly said one thing while privately,
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secretly doing the opposite, Which is kind of the definition of a pump
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and dump when you promote that to a big audience.
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You say you're gonna buy to your followers while secretly selling.
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Whether or not it's a successful pump and dump,
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whatever pump and dump, that's what it is.
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Now look, I understand that people are gonna have conflicting ideas of whether this was malicious or not,
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and I think it's gonna entirely depend on whether you think KSI's story makes sense.
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I'm just trying to provide full context,
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while also giving you my opinion on that,
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which is that I don't really buy that he had no clue
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that tweeting one thing would positively affect the price in his favor.
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Meanwhile though, while I was confronting KSI,
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I heard a final response from Zachxbt,
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which I think moved the needle a bit.
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He said, I found another example.
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On May 11th, 2021, KSI Crypto tweeted,
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this is about to explode.
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Many moments later though, he sold $25,000.
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Didn't buy it.
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Which I get it, it's a relatively small amount,
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but it furthers that same pattern of behavior.
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It's just a matter of what you think that behavior was.
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If you ask me,
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I think KSI tried to use his influence to move the market for himself in crypto through a few pump and dumps.
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He may have lost all his money eventually in a Ponzi scheme,
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but that does not make what he did okay.
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In fact, I think it's fair to say that a lot of his followers,
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we saw that he influenced millions of dollars in trading volume,
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went into some coins that are now doing very poorly.
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But ultimately I think the true piece of cosmic irony for KSI here though,
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is that he would have gotten away with all of this,
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no one would have known about any of it,
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if he just hadn't logged back into Twitter for one last spin at the slot machine.
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背景與情況
KSI是全球最受歡迎的YouTuber之一，但最近他意外地曝光了自己所宣傳的加密貨幣“拉高出貨”(pump and dump)騙局。這些騙局隱藏了兩年之久，直到KSI重新登入他的舊Twitter賬號，才暴露無遺。KSI的加密貨幣賬戶之前常常討論他喜愛的加密貨幣，但這次他的失誤令一位調查者——Zach XBT，也就是加密貨幣調查員，抓住了機會。Zach早已準備好在KSI迴歸時揭露這一切，表明這其實是一個長達數年的計劃。這類事件能夠上下文結合對話，讓學習者在日常交流中提高口語能力尤為重要。
日常交流的五個關鍵短語
- Does this still work? (這還有效嗎？)
- I'm holding my bags. (我在持有我的資產。)
- Me looking at Zill and XCAD right now. (我現在在看Zill和XCAD。)
- Dumping your tokens... (拋售你的代幣...)
- Excited about this. (對這個感到興奮。)
逐步跟讀指南
為了幫助你更好地進行跟讀和提高口語能力，下面是一個詳細的步驟指南：
- 理解內容：首先，確保你瞭解KSI所討論的背景，特別是加密貨幣相關的術語，比如“pump and dump”。這些都可以幫助你在對話中更自信地表達。
- 逐段練習：從影片中選擇短小的片段，集中在某個特定的短語上，比如“Does this still work?”重複多次，直到你能流利地說出這句話。
- 運用陰影技巧：使用“shadowspeak”技巧，傾聽KSI的語音語調，並試圖模仿他的發音和情感表達。這種“shadowing”可以讓你的發音更加自然。
- 錄音回聽：錄製自己的跟讀，並與原影片進行對比，找出發音上的差異，通過不斷糾正來提高。
- 應用到實際：將學到的短語應用到你日常生活中，比如與朋友討論加密貨幣的時機，增添互動性。
通過這樣的練習，你將能夠增強你的英語口語能力，並在各種場景中自信地溝通。記住，持續的練習和對話將是語言學習的關鍵。
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 |
|---|---|
| 現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作 | has been waiting · has been holding · I've just been watching |
| 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 | They've been hidden · we've collaborated · has mentioned |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | They've been hidden · is permitted · was stunned |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | someone who wouldn · opposite, Which is |
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。