跟讀練習: Madiba's Legacy - 通過影片學習英語口語

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The world will mark Nelson Mandela Day.

New Yorkers across the five boroughs will reflect on Madiba's endless march towards freedom.

I would like to recognize a man whose legacy lives on in the millions that he inspired.

In the years before his death, Madiba was elevated into a pantheon beyond mere mortals.

And yet, tonight, as we gather to recommit ourselves to what Madiba's leadership showed could be made possible, we must also recognize that to treat him as more myth than man is to do him a grave disservice.

He was a man as subject to self-doubt as any of us.

He was a leader who won seismic victories and yet, the struggle to win the South Africa he dreamed of is still there to be won.

What a gift it is that Madiba was flawed like each of us.

and it is his humanity that allows us to look towards the next generation of leaders and say sincerely, “You, too, can be Madiba.” We are together this evening to launch The Mandela Foundation Global Leadership Forum.

We are together to chart a course through the turbulent waters that lie before us: a global landscape roiled by strongmen and corruption, where rights are stolen away in the dead of night and apartheid in different forms endures.

Often, on ocassions like these, the person fortunate enough to stand where I stand now will look out into the audience and ask them to imagine if Madiba was here today, what he would have said?

What he would have done?

Why not ask ourselves instead: when he was here, what did he say?

And what did we say in return?

We need not travel far to find the answer.

It was on June 21st, 1990, only four months after he had been released from Robben Island, that Madiba arrived for a town hall with ABC News’ Ted Koppel.

For the first time, he could look back and answer whether he was everything he had been made out to be.

Koppel had disguised an ambush as a town hall.

Again and again, Madiba was condescended to and painted as a terrorist, a violent extremist, an obstacle to peace.

And then, an hour into the event, Koppel returned to a question about Madiba's support for the Palestinian cause.

Did that solidarity, he asked, mean Madiba was willing to alienate the Jewish community?

It was a question so contrived that Madiba had to ask Koppel what exactly he meant.

It is also a question that, frankly, rings familiar— whether opposing Israeli war crimes and violations of international law somehow makes you hateful towards a people.

Madiba refused the premise.

Instead, he flipped it into a different kind of question, about whether a politics of universalism can exist if it is riddled with exceptions.

Whether any of us are free if some of us are not.

Towards the end of his answer, he said, For anybody who changes his principles depending on whom he is dealing , that is not a man who can lead a nation.

Hypocrisy, political convenience— these forces possess a gravitational pull.

So often it is easier to make a concession, to relinquish a long held belief, to abandon a principle than to hold firm.

That was true when the world asked Madiba to compromise on apartheid.

It was true when many asked him to abandon the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

And it remains true today.

In his demand of solidarity from himself and from each of us, Madiba becomes more than a man, more than a messiah.

He becomes a mirror.

When we hear his refusal to abandon those with whom he shared common cause, do we recognize ourselves?

Or do we recognize only the version of Mandela that asks nothing of us?

Too many do.

And as we remember Madiba, the man, some will ask ourselves a harder question: who are we treating today the way Madiba was treated before history declared him a messiah?

Who else has seen their humanity made conditional, has been told their freedom can wait?

Who else needs our solidarity?

I think of Omar El Akkad, who wrote a book titled One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.

That sentence captures one of history's cruelest, most familiar habits.

Eventually, almost everyone claims they stood with Madiba, that they stood with Doctor King.

Eventually, almost everyone will claim they oppose so much of the injustice that they justify today.

But justice is not measured by where we stand after history has issued its verdict.

It is measured by where we stand when the verdict is still being rendered.

Why must Doctor Hussam Abu Safiya wait more than eighteen months for freedom in Israeli detention— a detention that continues to this day— after the world watched him be kidnapped as he left his hospital, watched as he was wasting away in prison?

Why must we wait as Umar Khalid enters his sixth year of captivity in Delhi— a political prisoner jailed under the same manufactured charges of terrorism that were once leveled against Madiba?

Why must we wait to stand steadfast alongside immigrants being targeted and preyed upon— whether it was Joan Sebastian Guerrero, shot in the head by ICE in Biddeford, Maine on Monday, or Amaramiro Emmanuel and Ekpenyong Andrew, two Nigerians killed last week in South African streets where xenophobia builds?

Why must we wait to practice solidarity until it no longer costs us anything?

The world we live in is designed to pull us apart.

There is money to be made and power to be won in demonizing the poor and stoking the fires of racial animus.

But were these not the same conditions that Madiba overcame?

The truth is that solidarity is perhaps best nurtured by the conditions that seek to destroy it.

Workers rise up when bosses restrict their rights.

Citizens link arms when authoritarians impose brutal crackdowns.

Every struggle for a better future began at a moment when that future felt forever out of reach.

Solidarity, my friends, so often feels impossible, Like something only a mythical figure could make real.

And yet, as Madiba reminds us, through the life he lived, through the leadership he showed, and through the words he spoke, it always seems impossible until it's done.

Let us do it together.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 C1 級別的口語課以影片“Madiba's Legacy”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：Madiba, solidarity, stand, Koppel, recognize。這段影片共有 60 個句子、1056 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 6:19。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 167 個詞，接近日常對話。只有 79% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。全部 60 個句子中有 15 個是問句，適合練習疑問語調和簡短回答。

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
solidarity 名詞	/ˌsɑ.ləˈdæɹ.ə.ti/	團結 /團結
abandon 動詞	/əˈbæn.dən/	放棄 /放棄
messiah 名詞	/məˈsaɪ.ə/	彌賽亞 /彌賽亞
apartheid 動詞	/əˈpɑːtheɪt/	種族隔離 /種族隔離
oppose 動詞	/əˈpoʊz/	阻止, 對抗 /對抗
detention 名詞	/dɪˈtɛnʃn̩/	拘留, 扣押
verdict 名詞	/ˈvɜː.dɪkt/	裁決 /裁決, 裁定
alienate 動詞	/ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/	疏遠 /疏遠
animus 名詞	/ˈæ.nɪ.məs/	心素
contrived 形容詞	/kənˈtɹaɪvd/	人為的 /人為的, 刻意的
crackdown 名詞	/ˈkɹækdaʊn/	鎮壓 /鎮壓, 痛擊 /痛擊
demonize 動詞	/ˈdiːmənaɪz/	妖魔化
extremist 名詞	/ɪkˈstɹiːmɪst/	極端主義者 /極端主義者
kidnap 動詞	/ˈkɪdnæp/	綁架 /綁架, 綁票 /綁票
riddle 名詞	/ˈɹɪdəl/	謎語 /謎語, 謎題 /謎題

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
look back 動詞	回顧 /回顧

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
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	was elevated · could be made · be won
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	has seen · has issued

需要注意的發音

“th” 音: mythical /ˈmɪθɪkəl/, pantheon /ˈpænθiˌɑn/, authoritarian /əˌθɑ.ɹəˈtɛɹ.i.ən/, myth /mɪθ/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: detention /dɪˈtɛnʃn̩/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/, relinquish /ɹɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃ/, ambush /ˈæm.bʊʃ/, concession /kənˈsɛʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: solidarity /ˌsɑ.ləˈdæɹ.ə.ti/, alienate /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/, universalism /ˌjuːnəˈvɝsəlˌɪzəm/, xenophobia /ˌziː.nəˈfoʊ.bi.ə/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: verdict /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/, contrived /kənˈtɹaɪvd/, disservice /dɪ(s)ˈsɝvɪs/, elevate /ˈɛləveɪt/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: apartheid /əˈpɑːtheɪt/, oppose /əˈpoʊz/, verdict /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/, alienate /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/, animus /ˈæ.nɪ.məs/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: solidarity /ˌsɑ.ləˈdæɹ.ə.ti/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/, relinquish /ɹɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃ/, riddle /ˈɹɪdəl/, refusal /ɹɪˈfjuːzl̩/

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 solidarity, abandon, messiah 這類單詞。

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