跟讀練習: Quentin Tarantino on Story Problems - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Halloween 2, Deborah Hill and John Carpenter do the cheapest thing just to throw a little whammy in the movie,
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and they make it that Laurie and Michael Myers are brother and sister.
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And that taints every single Halloween sequel that happens afterwards, because he's not her brother.
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She's not his sister.
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That's just bullshit.
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That literally was them coming up with a stupid idea at the last minute.
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Yeah, but it's the cheapest thing.
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Nobody was coming from that point of view when they were making the first one.
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And what makes the first one so good is the fact
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that you don't know what it is that makes Michael Myers go, her!
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Yeah.
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It's not a sister thing.
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Piranha, directed by Joe Dante and written by John Sayles.
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I only have two problems with the whole movie.
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One problem that you have about the way the piranhas get loose in the ocean is, you know, it's not elegant.
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Into the river.
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Yeah, yeah, in the river, yeah.
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In the river.
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It's not elegant.
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It doesn't serve our heroin.
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It doesn't, they could have done better.
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Oh, hey, what's this?
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Okay, they could have done better.
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Hey, what's this wheel?
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Let's turn it.
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Woody Allen's Anything Else.
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That's the Jason Diggs one.
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But the only, like, you know, but like the person I had watched the most, because it's one of the things I'm really anal about,
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is I have people make references, and it just kills me when I know people don't know what they're talking about.
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How do you mean?
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Well, what I mean is, it's like, you know, I can, you know, well, okay, I'll give you a big example.
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Okay.
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Yeah, you got that.
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Okay.
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It's like when you're watching a Woody Allen movie and Juliette Lewis
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and Jimmy Fallon are sitting there talking and they're talking about Lena Riefenstahl and Triumph of Will
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and the White Hill of Pizu Pizu
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and they're talking about Gertrude Stein's second lover and we know they don't know what they're talking about.
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and the fact
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that like it not only is Jimmy Fallon you randomly having a conversation about Lena Riefenstahl
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but he's actually written a monograph that is about Lena Riefenstahl in Vanity Fair in the movie and I know
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Jimmy Fallon doesn't know who Lena Riefenstahl is.
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I don't really care for natural -born killers I don't really recognize it as as what I wrote.
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In fact it was funny I didn't see this
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but I was like my got the friends of mine at the video store
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you know they'd read the script for two years before it was ever yes and then
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And then they're like, oh my God, Quentin, there's this whole scene in the movie where Mickey is fucking Mallory.
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And then he looks at a female victim who's tied up in the corner and he starts fantasizing about her.
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And they go, Mickey would never do that.
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Mallory would never cheat.
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Mickey would.
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I mean, the point of the thing is they unnaturally live for each other at the expense of everybody else on the planet Earth.
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Something Wild was always that kind of like movie for me, like when I saw it
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and i remember i took a buddy of mine who wasn't part of the video archives group he was like uh
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uh he was a writer and you know it kind of had had a harder life
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and i took him to go see it
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and he's really enjoying it he pointed out something amiss about the movie
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and he told me about it and i knew it was right
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but i immediately dismissed it because i didn't want anything to ruin the film
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and i i did was able to dismiss it i watched it again in 2017.
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I hadn't seen it in a long time and I watched it again
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and when the scene happens it completely took me out of the movie.
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Okay so here's the scene.
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It's when he goes and has this confrontation with with Ray Liotta in the coffee shop with Melanie Griffith there.
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Now there's a lot of things going on in here.
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He wants to take on Ray Liotta.
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He wants to get Melanie Griffith away from Ray Liotta but he wants her to see him standing up to the guy.
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He wants her to see him save her and work it all out so it's going on now we know
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Ray Liot is not a joke this is a dangerous cat man
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and you know you're playing with fire here then cops come into the diner
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and sit in the booth behind them it's like well tell the fucking cops I mean she's practically kidnapped
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but even if maybe
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that might not work out as well in her eyes all right as far as getting her away
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but if this guy is as dangerous as he proves to be
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and as we think he already is
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and as he should know he is just tell the cops
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he witnessed an entire robbery they brutalized the asian kid
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you know he pistol whipped the asian kid in in the store
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he has enough to get ray liotta arrested right then
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and there okay well why it's there is for a comedy moment
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that he can't really do anything
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because the cops are there he can't just punch jeff daniels all right
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because the cops are there
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and then jeff downs was like hey officers how you doing you know
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so there's a so there's a joke and that always got a laugh
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but my friend who was street was watching the movie why isn't
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he just telling the cops i mean he witnessed an entire robbery they're looking for
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that robber that kid is in the hospital with a purple face anyway it's just like i couldn't get past it
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It was a big flaw.
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It was a big story flaw.
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It wasn't then.
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It wasn't then.
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No, it definitely dimmed for me, but that doesn't matter.
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What really matters was how exuberant I thought it was at the time when I needed exuberance.
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I really got a kick out of it.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, I thought it was really good.
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Me and Paul have talked about this, though.
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I mean, I actually think there's a slight flaw in Boogie Nights.
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And the flaw in Boogie Nights is the perception of the Burt Reynolds character.
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And what I mean by that is this.
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Paul can say he's not based on the director Gerard Damiano, who directed Devil and Mrs. Jones and Deep Throat.
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He is.
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He obviously is.
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He looks exactly like him.
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And Gerard Damiano has a very unique look.
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So you have to actually make him, Burt Reynolds doesn't look like that.
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So you actually have to go out of your way to make him look like Gerard Damiano with the gray and black
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Van Dyke that he wore and the kind of wavy gray hair that he wore.
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That's not Burt Reynolds' look.
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That is Gerard Damiano's look.
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So he went out of his way to make the guy look like his exact double.
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So you can't say, I didn't mean to be that guy.
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Yes, he did.
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Here's my problem with the film though.
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Yes, I do think it's honest about being a filmmaker
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but my problem with it though is
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when he makes the cop movie the porno cop movie
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and he's killing himself doing it
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and then you see the film the film looks like a piece of shit
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it looks horrible now i've seen i believe me i i've seen more porno movies than paul have
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because i worked at the porno theater all right
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and i saw a lot of movies crappy like that but he has the Burt Reynolds' character say,
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I think, you know, he says it in the full -on, moving the close -up in him, I think this is my greatest work yet.
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This is the best work we've ever done.
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I think this is my finest work yet.
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Gerard Damiano was a better director than that.
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Gerard Damiano's better footage looked drastically better than that cop crap.
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Yes, exactly.
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Gerard Damiano was a good enough filmmaker to know the difference between, oh, wow, this is the best movie I've ever done.
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And no, this one has a little bit of a story, but we still shot it on 16 millimeter,
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you know, in crappy daylight with no light.
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And, you know, and it looks like what it looks like.
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Burt Reynolds suggests that he's more of a director than that, that he would know the difference.
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Gerard Damiano definitely would know the difference.
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And he's playing Gerard Damiano.
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So I think it's a cheap line because that character would know
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that that work is not the best work he could possibly do.
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Yeah, you can definitely lose perspective, but you don't think some piece of junk that you did is the best work you've ever going to do.
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The movie is called Delirium.
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The thing about Delirium that is absolutely positively ridiculous is the entire story you hear about him the night before,
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because you just see him as a raving lunatic that every woman he sees, he kills.
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But apparently the night before, he's like vibing with a girl and they're really hitting it off.
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He's partying with her and her roommate.
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Who the fuck is that guy?
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It never mentions what set him off to such a degree that now he's just a terminator on kill.
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You using the Silence of the Lambs example, that sequence is magnificent.
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I will push back on one aspect of it done
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i've seen some movies before i did not think jodie foster was going to die at
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that point in the movie i would have been i would have been surprised
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if it ended with buffalo bill killing jodie foster no i've seen too many movies to think
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that that was actually going to happen i was caught up in the moment
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but i still have a movie brand going on are you saying are you saying
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that it would be a better film
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if the film ended with buffalo bill wearing jodie foster no no no no
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i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm using it i'm using it to go back to once my time in in hollywood
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because one of the reasons that that scene works so effectively is because cliff could die.
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Narratively, movie -wise, in every way, shape, and form.
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He could die in that sequence.
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Put that down.
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What's going on here?
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What are you doing?
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What are you doing?
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Can you not talk to me? Are you...
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So you know she's not just a guy from around here.
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You're actually a paparazzi guy.
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But if that was off, I'd be whipping your ass up and down.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這節口語課以影片“Quentin Tarantino on Story Problems”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有：movie, Gerard, cop, Damiano。 這段影片共有 167 個句子、1830 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 9:59。 說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 183 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 82% 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 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| cop 名詞 | /kɑp/ | 條子 /條子, 帽子叔叔 |
| flaw 名詞 | /flɔ/ | 疵 |
| foster 動詞 | /ˈfɒstə/ | 營造 /營造 |
| gray 形容詞 | /ɡɹeɪ/ | 灰色 |
| sequence 名詞 | /ˈsiː.kwəns/ | 序列, 順序 /順序 |
| buffalo 名詞 | /ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ/ | 水牛 |
| whip 名詞 | /ˈwɪp/ | 鞭子, 鞭 |
| robbery 名詞 | /ˈɹɑbəɹi/ | 搶劫 /搶劫 |
| elegant 形容詞 | /ˈɛləɡənt/ | 典雅, 文雅 |
| dismiss 動詞 | /dɪsˈmɪs/ | 解僱 /解僱 |
| filmmaker 名詞 | 製片人 /製片人 | |
| killer 名詞 | /ˈkɪlɚ/ | 殺手 /殺手, 兇手 /兇手 |
| ridiculous 形容詞 | /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ | 可笑, 荒謬 /荒謬 |
| horrible 形容詞 | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | 可怕的, 可畏 |
| afterwards 副詞 | /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/ | 然後 /然後 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| come up with 動詞 | 想出, 提出 | |
| point out 動詞 | 指, 指出 | |
| stand up to 動詞 | 面對 /面對 | |
| work out 動詞 | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | 計算 /計算, 算出 |
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 doesn't serve our heroin.
- How do you mean?
- Here's my problem with the film though.
- This is the best work we've ever done.
- Can you not talk to me?
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 | have talked · i've seen · we've ever done |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | is called · was caught |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 50 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I'm, they're, don't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, booth /buθ/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, confrontation /ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/, magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, positively /ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/, confrontation /ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/
中文母語者容易讀錯的音：
- /v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: lover /ˈlʌvɚ/, archive /ˈɑɹˌkaɪv/, vibe /vaɪb/, positively /ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/, rave /ɹeɪv/
- 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: cop /kɑp/, sequence /ˈsiː.kwəns/, whip /ˈwɪp/, elegant /ˈɛləɡənt/, dismiss /dɪsˈmɪs/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, horrible /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/, randomly /ˈɹændm̩li/, unnaturally /ʌnˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəli/
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 cop, flaw, foster 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。