跟讀練習: Stop chasing original ideas—here’s what actually makes you creative - 通過影片學習英語口語
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What's the movie that we have never seen because you haven't made it?
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And make that movie.
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Years ago when I first heard this, I took it as a challenge.
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Like Tarantino was saying, go make something the world's never seen before.
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Something bold.
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Something completely original.
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And for a long time, that's what I chased.
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I believed that true artistry was about being a visionary. About originality.
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But over time, that interpretation started to fall apart.
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You soon realize that every story has already been told.
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There are only a handful of basic plots and so on.
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But if originality wasn't the key, then what was my role as an artist?
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What made anything I created worth it?
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This question stuck with me, and it sent me searching.
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That's when something came to mind.
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This is Fur Elise by Beethoven.
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You've definitely heard it before.
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Maybe in a music class, maybe in an elevator.
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But there's this interesting thing about it this melody feels kind of inevitable like it always existed
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and Ludwig van just happened to be the one to catch it
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and I had this thought
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if he hadn't written it maybe someone else eventually would have
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could another composer have come up with the same tune probably
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but it would have sounded different it would have carried a different emotional weight
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because the person behind it whoever they were would have brought their own interpretation and that's when something clicked.
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Maybe ideas, themes, stories, they already exist.
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But what turns them into art is how you interpret them.
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How you frame them, feel them, structure them.
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Let me show you what I mean.
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Take the film Gravity.
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On the surface, it's a space movie.
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But it didn't really start that way.
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Alfonso Cuaron had been working on a personal, intimate art house project.
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It fell apart, no financing, no backup plan, and suddenly he was broke.
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I told Hernán, I said, I need to write something right now, but no, no arty shit.
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I need to write something
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that can be appealable for a studio just to pay a check now for me to keep on going.
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And he said, yes, but if you're going to do it, he has to do something that is relevant to you.
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And I says, okay, what do you feel right now?
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He says, I just feel I have to go through all these hobs.
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I just want to put my feet back on the earth.
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I says, there you go.
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He says, but I mean, well, how do you feel?
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He says, I feel like I'm falling in the damp void.
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He says, there you go.
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That feeling became Gravity, a survival thriller.
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Sandra Bullock lost in space, spinning out of control, trying to come back down to Earth.
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And thanks to him, we started structuring the whole thing.
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And he says, you see, at the end, maybe you do a personal film.
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He didn't write about being broke.
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He didn't write about depression.
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he wrote what it felt like.
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Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and First Reformed, has this way of talking about writing that feels more like therapy.
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You begin with yourself.
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You are the raw material.
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He gives his students this exercise.
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Write down your biggest personal problem, not a plot idea, not a character, just the thing you're carrying.
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Then ask yourself, What's the metaphor for that?
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Because that's the thing about powerful storytelling.
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It's not the literal story that hits you.
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It's the feeling underneath it, translated into something new.
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For example, someone who's hiding their sexuality, who spends their life hiding who they are, that doesn't have to turn into a coming -out story.
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It could become a spy thriller, because being closeted can feel like being undercover.
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Always scanning the room, problem.
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Always keeping track of what version of yourself is safe to show.
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Even the people who love you don't fully know you.
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It's not the literal story.
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It's your experience, disguised as a story.
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Because you're actually talking about the problem, without talking about the problem.
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That's what Paul Schrader did with Taxi Driver, too.
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He was broke, alone, disconnected from the world, and then it clicked.
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He was already living the metaphor.
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A man in a taxi, surrounded by people, yet completely alone, watching life through a windshield.
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That became Travis Bickle.
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I mean, I wrote the script essentially for myself, as therapy.
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And so, it was something I was surprised, the degree to which a large number of people plugged into my own neurosis.
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So, the story might be familiar, but how you see it, that's the part no one else can do.
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Because here's the thing, there are only so many plots, but if your problem is real
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and your metaphor is honest those old stories come alive again poured through you like new wine in old bottles
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so maybe it isn't about finding this genius one in a lifetime idea
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but rather tuning into what already exists around you or inside you
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and expressing it in a way only you could but interpretation doesn't always start with personal pain or metaphor
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Sometimes it starts with someone else's story, and what you do with it.
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Take Oldboy, for example.
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It was based on a Japanese manga, which was itself loosely inspired by Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo.
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But Park Shan Wook didn't just adapt it, he completely reinterpreted it through his own lens.
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He kept the premise, a man mysteriously imprisoned for years, then released and told to figure out why.
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but then he flipped the question not why was he locked up
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but why was he let go the story became a modern Greek tragedy filled with taboo guilt
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and emotional punishment none of
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that was in the manga it came from Park his vision his obsessions his culture his own unique filmmaking style that's interpretation.
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And speaking of applying your own style of filmmaking, let's look at a filmmaker who didn't just reinterpret a story.
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He changed what a genre could be.
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Sergio Leone took Kurosawa's Yojimbo and reimagined it as a fistful of dollars.
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He didn't copy it.
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He transformed it, creating the spaghetti western.
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This wasn't a regular western.
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He slowed the pacing, cut scenes to music, ...used silence like tension...
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...framed shots like...
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Sergio Leone!
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Leone made Western heroes dangerous and sexy in a way they had never been before.
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Before him, Westerns were about noble cowboys and clear morality.
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His West was gritty, lawless, ambiguous.
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Survival mattered more than virtue.
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And in doing so, he created an entirely new genre.
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It wasn't a new story, it was a new language.
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But sometimes the genre stays the same, and it's the personal story inside that makes it powerful.
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Like a movie about aliens, something we've seen a hundred times, can feel completely original when it's filtered through someone's life.
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The whole movie for me grew out of growing up in South Africa
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and my experiences growing up as a kid are reflected very accurately in the film.
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Neil Blomkamp grew up in apartheid -era Johannesburg, and when he made his first feature, he didn't write a historical drama or a documentary.
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He made a science fiction film about aliens forced into slums, but it wasn't really about aliens.
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It was about what it felt like to live inside segregation, to grow up in a system built on categories, fences, and forced removals.
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And by telling it that way, he turned his experience into something that we could universally understand.
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He took something massive, sci -fi, and used it to say something deeply personal and political.
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He didn't show the problem directly, he interpreted it.
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That's why District 9 landed so hard.
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Now, compare that to his later movies.
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They had bigger budgets, more visual effects.
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But they didn't land the same way.
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Maybe because they started from concept, not from something lived.
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They didn't carry the same personal weight they didn't feel interpreted
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they felt designed one was born from personal experience the others from concept
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so whether it starts with a metaphor a feeling
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or a genre you grew up loving what matters is
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that it's honest and
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that it's yours maybe that's what Tarantino meant all along make the version of the story
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that only you can good bad
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or indifferent Reservoir Dogs didn't really exist before I did it heist films had been made Hong Kong movie City on Fire, if you've ever seen City on Fire,
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it's very, very different from my movie.
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The section that they say I took, I did take from it, all right?
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Absolutely, I took from it.
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But it's a very different movie.
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They actually talked to the director, Ringo Lamb, he goes, wow, Tarantino took the last 10 minutes of my movie and made an entire movie about it.
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You know, there was Barry Levinson and Tin Men, and there was Goodfellas, and there was all kinds, there was the David Mamet stuff, all that stuff existed that was sort of like Reservoir Dogs,
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but it wasn't reservoir dogs it didn't have this aesthetic
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that I that I'd been having was never just there I mean
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if it was just there if two
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or three other people were doing it I might have been the filmmaker
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because I didn't need to get it out of my head
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so maybe it's not about chasing the next great idea
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or inventing something no one's ever thought of maybe it's about making something no one else could have made, because it came through you.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這節口語課以影片“Stop chasing original ideas—here’s what actually makes you creative”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有：movie, personal, write。 這段影片共有 97 個句子、1613 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 9:48。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 164 個詞，接近日常對話。 只有 81% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。
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 |
|---|---|---|
| metaphor 名詞 | /ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/ | 比喻, 隱喻 /隱喻 |
| interpretation 名詞 | /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/ | 翻譯 /翻譯 |
| genre 名詞 | /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/ | 風格 /風格, 型別 /型別 |
| taxi 名詞 | /ˈtæksi/ | 出租汽車 /出租汽車, 出租車 /計程車 |
| chase 動詞 | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | 追逐, 追 |
| spin 動詞 | /spɪn/ | 轉動 /轉動, 自轉 /自轉 |
| survival 名詞 | /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/ | 生存 |
| tune 名詞 | /tjuːn/ | 曲調 /曲調, 曲子 |
| thriller 名詞 | /ˈθɹɪ.lə/ | 驚悚 /驚悚 |
| literal 形容詞 | /ˈlɪt(ə)ɹəl/ | 字面, 逐字逐句 |
| filmmaker 名詞 | 製片人 /製片人 | |
| mango 名詞 | /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/ | 芒果樹 /芒果樹 |
| meanwhile 副詞 | /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ | 同時 /同時 |
| silence 名詞 | /ˈsaɪ̯ləns/ | 沉默 |
| compare 動詞 | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | 比, 比較 /比較 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| grow up 動詞 | 長大 /長大 | |
| come back 動詞 | 回來 /回來, 返回 | |
| come out 動詞 | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | 出, 出來 /出來 |
| come up with 動詞 | 想出, 提出 | |
| figure out 動詞 | 弄清楚 | |
| go through 動詞 | 通過 /通過 | |
| lock up 動詞 | /ˌlɒk ˈʌp/ | 鎖上 /鎖上, 鎖定 /鎖定 |
| write down 動詞 | 寫下來 /寫下來, 寫下 /寫下 |
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 soon realize that every story's already been told.
- What made anything I created worth it?
- Just the thing you're carrying.
- It's not the literal story that hits you.
- It’s your experience disguised as a story.
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 never seen · has already been told · You've definitely heard |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | been told · being closeted · was based |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | people who love · manga, which was |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 34 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 didn't, wasn't, you're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: thriller /ˈθɹɪ.lə/, breathe /bɹiːð/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/, fiction /ˈfɪkʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, punishment /ˈpʌnɪʃmənt/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, documentary /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, accurately /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt.li/
中文母語者容易讀錯的音：
- /v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: survival /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/, whoever /huˈɛvɚ/, removal /ɹɪˈmuː.vəl/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, void /vɔɪd/
- 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: interpret /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/, chase /t͡ʃeɪs/, silence /ˈsaɪ̯ləns/, reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/, pace /peɪs/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: thriller /ˈθɹɪ.lə/, literal /ˈlɪt(ə)ɹəl/, reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/, removal /ɹɪˈmuː.vəl/, accurately /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt.li/
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 metaphor, interpretation, genre 這類單詞。
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