跟讀練習: Pushing Back on an Unrealistic Deadline - 通過影片學習英語口語
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So he wants the whole platform live by the twentieth?
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That's what the email says. Three weeks, no exceptions.
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Priya, that's not ambitious. That's delusional.
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I know. Which is why I'm going to push back.
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Mark, have you got five minutes? It's about the launch date.
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Sure. Though I should warn you, the date isn't up for debate.
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Understood. I'd still like to flag a few risks before we commit.
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Go on. I'm listening.
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To be candid, three weeks only works if nothing goes wrong.
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And in my experience, something always goes wrong.
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That sounds like a convenient way of saying no.
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It's a way of saying we'd be cutting corners on testing.
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If we ship with bugs, the launch becomes a liability, not a win.
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I hear you. But the board has been promised a date.
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Moving it now would make us look like we can't deliver.
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That's a fair point. So let's not move the date.
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Let's narrow the scope instead.
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Narrow it how?
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We launch the core features on the twentieth, fully tested.
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The reporting dashboard follows two weeks later, as a phase two.
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And the board gets their launch, just without the bells and whistles.
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Exactly. We under-promise now and over-deliver in phase two.
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Alright. I can sell that upstairs, provided phase two doesn't slip.
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It won't. I'll build in a buffer this time.
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Good. And Priya, I appreciate you raising this early.
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Most people would've just nodded and burned out by week three.
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I'd rather have an awkward conversation than a failed launch.
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Well? Are we still doomed?
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We're launching the core on the twentieth. Dashboard is phase two.
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You actually got him to budge? How?
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I didn't argue about the date. I argued about the risk.
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Remind me never to negotiate against you.
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情境與背景
影片展現了職場中常見的場景：面對不切實際的截止日期，如何有理有據地溝通。對話中，Priya通過聚焦風險而非直接反對日期，成功說服上級調整方案。這樣的真實場景非常適合雅思口語練習，能幫助學習者掌握職場溝通的實用技巧，同時提升語言表達的邏輯性。
日常溝通必備的5個短語
- push back：表示“反駁、拒絕”，如“我打算反駁這個截止日期”。
- flag a few risks：意為“指出一些風險”，適用於提出問題時，如“在承諾前，我想指出幾個風險”。
- cut corners：指“走捷徑、偷工減料”，如“我們不能在測試上偷工減料”。
- narrow the scope：表示“縮小範圍”，用於調整方案，如“我們可以縮小範圍，先推出核心功能”。
- under-promise and over-deliver：即“少承諾，多交付”，是職場溝通的重要策略。
影子跟讀分步指南
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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。