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Marcus Aurelius Concentrate every minute on doing what's in front of you.
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You don't have to turn this into something.
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It doesn't have to upset you.
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The present is all we have to live in, or to lose.
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Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself, Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?
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Let each thing you would do, say, or intend be like that of a dying person.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind mind.
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Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
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Today, I escaped anxiety.
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Or no, I discarded it because it was within me, in my own perceptions, not outside.
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You have You have to assemble your life yourself, action by action.
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The impediment to action advances action.
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What stands in the way becomes the way.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
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Receive without pride.
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Let go without attachment.
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If it's endurable, then endure it.
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Stop complaining.
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Have I done something for the common good?
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and I share in the benefits.
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It never ceases to amaze me.
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We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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It's unfortunate that this has happened.
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No, it's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed.
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If it is not right, do not do it.
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If it is not true, do not say it.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Ask yourself at every moment.
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Is this necessary?
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If something is humanly possible, it's attainable by you too.
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Think of yourself as dead.
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You have lived your life.
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Now take what's left and live it properly.
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Everyone despises me, that's their problem.
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Everything is born from change.
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You have power over your mind, not outside events.
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When jarred, unavoidably by circumstance,
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revert at once to yourself and don't lose Use the rhythm more than you can help.
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You could leave life right now.
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Let that determine what you do, say and think.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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If you don't have a consistent goal in life, you can't live it in a consistent way.
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Get back up when you fail.
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Celebrate behaving like a human.
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Limit yourself to the present.
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The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say, or think, or do, only what you do.
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But you see how much you have to offer, and yet you still settle for less.
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Mastery of reading and writing requires a master.
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The struggle is great, the task divine, to gain mastery, freedom, happiness and tranquility.
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Do not let others hold you back.
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A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.
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To love only what happens, no greater harmony.
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If it's humanly possible, you can do it too.
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Choose not to be harmed, and you won't feel harmed.
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Don't feel harmed, and you haven't been.
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Don't procrastinate.
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Don't confuse.
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Don't wander.
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Don't be passive or aggressive.
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Don't be all about business.
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Love the hand that fake deals you, and play it as your own.
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Practice even what seems impossible.
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There is never any need to get worked up about things you can't control.
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People exist for one another.
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The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
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Seneca We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.
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Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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It's better to conquer grief than to deceive it.
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Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity, for he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
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He who is everywhere is nowhere.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more that is poor.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise.
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It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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How much progress shall I make, you ask, just as much as you try to make?
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wisdom comes haphazard to no man.
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This is our big mistake, to think we look forward to death.
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Most of death is already gone.
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Whatever time has passed is owned by death.
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If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
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Nothing delights the mind as much as loving in loyal friendship.
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Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
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Excellence withers without an adversary.
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Joy comes to us from those whom we love even when they are absent.
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What progress have I made?
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I have begun to be a friend to myself.
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If my wealth goes away, it takes with it nothing but itself.
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Epictetus If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid.
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Don't just say that you have read books.
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Show that through them you have learned to think better.
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I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.
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Don't explain your philosophy.
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Embody it.
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We become what you give your attention to.
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It's impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.
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If you need a witness, be your own.
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How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
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If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.
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If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.
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It's not things that upset us, but our judgments about things.
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Circumstances don't make the man.
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They only reveal him to himself.
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Welcome events in whichever way they happen.
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This is the path to peace.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
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that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Seek not the good in external things.
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Seek it in yourselves.
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Curb your desire.
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Don't set your heart on so many things, and you will get what you need.
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Devote the rest of your life to making progress.
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.
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If you lay violent hands on me, you'll have my body, but my mind will remain with Stillpo.
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Happiness is a good flow of life.
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason and against nature.
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Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing thing.
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Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
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We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
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He is best of all men who follows good advice.
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Good Number two is he who finds out all things for himself.
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No loss should be more regrettable to us than losing our time, for it's irretrievable.
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Follow where reason leads.
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Steal your sensibilities so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.
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No evil is honorable, but death is honorable.
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Therefore, death is not evil.
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All the good are friends of one another.
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No one entrusts a secret to a drunken man, but one will entrust a secret to a good man.
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Therefore, the good man will not get drunk.
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All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature.
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The individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
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Seeing that the universe gives birth to beings that are animate and wise, should it not be considered animate and wise itself?
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The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature, or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature,
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as well as that of the universe.
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When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows,
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making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity.
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But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case.
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So it is with men too.
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Even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.
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Fate is the endless chain of connection, whereby things are the reason or principle by which the world goes on.
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seems to be deficient in nothing so much as he is in time.
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Thank you.
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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“Powerful Stoic Quotes That Will Change Your Life”為素材。 這段影片共有 160 個句子、1609 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 18:21。 說話人語速較慢，每分鐘約 88 個詞，你有足夠的時間模仿每一個音。 87% 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 |
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| conquer 動詞 | /ˈkɑŋkɚ/ | 征服 |
| animate 形容詞 | /ˈæn.ə.mət/ | 活的, 有生命的 |
| compel 動詞 | /kəmˈpɛl/ | 強迫 /強迫 |
| entrust 動詞 | /ɪnˈtɹʌst/ | 委託 /委託, 託付 /託付 |
| circumstance 名詞 | /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ | 情況 /情況, 狀態 /狀態 |
| honorable 形容詞 | /ˈɑn.ə.ɹəbl̩/ | 可敬 |
| unhappy 形容詞 | /ʌnˈhæpi/ | 不高興 /不高興, 不開心 /不開心 |
| adversary 名詞 | /ˈæd.vəɹˌsɛɹi/ | 敵手 /敵手, 對手 /對手 |
| adversity 名詞 | /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/ | 逆境 |
| coincide 動詞 | /ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪd/ | 巧合 |
| commotion 名詞 | /kəˈmoʊ.ʃən/ | 騷動 /騷動 |
| deceive 動詞 | /dɪˈsiːv/ | 欺騙 /欺騙, 欺詐 /欺詐 |
| discard 動詞 | /dɪsˈkɑɹd/ | 丟棄 /丟棄, 拋棄 /拋棄 |
| embody 動詞 | /ɪmˈbɒdi/ | 體現 /體現, 表現 /表現 |
| haphazard 形容詞 | /(ˌ)hæpˈhæz.əd/ | 雜亂無章 /雜亂無章 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 釋義 |
|---|---|
| find out 動詞 | 找出, 查明 |
| go away 動詞 | 離開 /離開, 走 |
| look forward to 動詞 | 期待, 嚮往 |
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：
- You don't have to turn this into something.
- It doesn't have to upset you.
- Have I done something for the common good?
- Everyone despises me, that's their problem.
- What progress have I made?
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 |
|---|---|
| 條件句 if + 從句，will/would + 動詞 — 條件及其結果 | if they don't want to, they will be |
| 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 I done · has happened · have lived |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | is born · is thrown · be harmed |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | those who forget · man who has · people who uplift |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 23 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, can't, won't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: wither /ˈwɪðɚ/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/, rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: commotion /kəˈmoʊ.ʃən/, deficient /dɪˈfɪʃənt/, provocation /ˌpɹɑvəˈkeɪʃən/, friction /ˈfɹɪkʃən/, insufficient /ɪnsəˈfɪʃənt/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: tranquility /træŋˈkwɪlɪti/, adversary /ˈæd.vəɹˌsɛɹi/, adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, attainable /əˈteɪ.nə.bəl/, endurable /ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ.ɪ.bəl/
中文母語者容易讀錯的音：
- /v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: adversary /ˈæd.vəɹˌsɛɹi/, adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, deceive /dɪˈsiːv/, provocation /ˌpɹɑvəˈkeɪʃən/, provoke /pɹəˈvəʊk/
- 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: animate /ˈæn.ə.mət/, entrust /ɪnˈtɹʌst/, circumstance /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/, coincide /ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪd/, complicit /kəmˈplɪs.ɪt/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: tranquility /træŋˈkwɪlɪti/, honorable /ˈɑn.ə.ɹəbl̩/, endurable /ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ.ɪ.bəl/, favourable /ˈfeɪv(ə)ɹəbəl/, cruelty /ˈkɹu(.ə)lti/
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。
- 用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 conquer, animate, compel 這類單詞。
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。