跟讀練習: Stop Start in Love - 通過影片學習英語口語

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Let's try to understand one of the oddest, most painful, most widespread phenomena in love.

It's going on right this moment between a couple, let's say he a dentist, she a nutritionist in Rio de Janeiro.

Two teenagers are at it in Canberra, there's a pair involved in the rigmarole in downtown Dakar, another in Svalbard, another still in Winnipeg.

If every time it happened a light went on, most of the earth would be a glow from space.

We can refer to the phenomenon as push-pull or stop-start or sometimes distance management.

The structure is identical and fairly predictable.

Growing intimacy, then retreat.

Altitude, then a drop.

Two good days, then a fight.

Five warm messages, then silence.

A weekend away, then a call for time alone.

It can seem like a horrible, but ultimately mysterious curse.

It is, in fact, an almost logical phenomenon with a singular purpose – to protect one

or both of the parties from a generally unconscious but violent fear that love might work out, that happiness might become real,

that a true partnership could build, that vulnerability might be created and then, when the shield was lowered, when one had grown to depend on someone completely,

that everything might go catastrophically wrong.

The other party could change their mind, they might abscond, they could die.

To prevent such worries, the mind of the stop-start lover looks around for ingenious solutions

and finds one in a committedly dispiriting game.

Older than chess, more harmful than poker, this game would have been played in ancient Egypt.

The Aztecs were at it.

The rules state that love can happen, but that it must never pick up velocity.

There can be intimacy, but always within bounds.

The exits must remain forever open.

can't be too much security that would paradoxically generate an untenable impression of danger.

In practice, the game requires a vigilant monitoring of every exchange and repeated quiet injections of disappointment.

If last night was beautiful, this morning has to be moody.

Tuesday was good, Wednesday must be awful.

If the dialogue is getting very cosy, there has to be some disappearance.

What cannot be allowed to occur was what almost certainly once occurred a very long time ago.

An unprocessed, unexplored letdown, in which cosiness was achieved and then torn away.

Mummy was the best mummy in the world, before the doctor said she wasn't well.

Daddy was the sweetest, then Jill came on the scene.

The holidays were nice, except for when the drinking began.

Let's believe that someone interested in stop-start love isn't doing it on purpose.

The lover who keeps needing to pause isn't aware, as they put down the phone and decides not to answer a message for four hours,

that they are interrupting the flow of affection in the name of self-protection and along the way, devastating a fellow human being.

The most potent players of this stop-start game have no real insight into their tactics.

They just register an overwhelming need not to type anything back, not to be free tonight

and not to say I love you too at the end of a call or evening in bed.

What can we, the victims of stop-start, do?

For a start, feel extremely sorry for ourselves in our misery.

We don't need to compound our pain by making light of it, or indeed hoping it can ever easily end.

It would be hard to explain all this to a group of six-year-olds.

When you're older, you're going to form something called relationships.

You'll meet a nice person, a special friend.

Some days your special friend will call you and on others they'll just vanish.

One might not want to make it to adulthood after a class like that.

The sole effective weapon we have against stop-start game playing is knowledge.

To describe the phenomenon accurately the moment it appears, to provide a succinct explanation as to why it might be doing so,

to give the other party a few chances at reform, and then to walk away, because we know what we're up against,

and we recognise that lonely calm truly is better than continually agitated togetherness.

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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“Stop Start in Love”為素材。這段影片共有 52 個句子、707 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 4:24。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 160 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

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
mummy 名詞	/ˈmʌm.i/	木乃伊
intimacy 名詞	/ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/	親密 /親密, 親近 /親近
devastate 動詞	/ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/	摧毀 /摧毀, 破壞 /破壞
ingenious 形容詞	/ɪnˈd͡ʒiːnjəs/	有發明才能的
nutritionist 名詞	/njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ənɪst/	營養學家 /營養學家
overwhelm 動詞	/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/	吞沒 /吞沒
untenable 形容詞		站不住腳的 /站不住腳的, 立場薄弱的 /立場薄弱的
vanish 動詞	/ˈvænɪʃ/	消失
adulthood 名詞		成年
interrupt 動詞	/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/	打斷 /打斷, 插嘴
vulnerability 名詞	/ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/	脆弱性
singular 形容詞	/ˈsɪŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/	單一 /單一
disappearance 名詞	/dɪsəˈpɪəɹəns/	消失, 失蹤 /失蹤
predictable 形容詞	/pɹəˈdɪktəbləl/	可預見的 /可預見的, 可預言的 /可預言的
dentist 名詞	/ˈdɛntɪst/	牙醫 /牙醫, 牙科醫生 /牙科醫生

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
pick up 動詞		拾取, 撿 /撿
put down 動詞		放下
work out 動詞	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	計算 /計算, 算出

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 10 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 isn't, you're, can't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: nutritionist /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ənɪst/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/, injection /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: intimacy /ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/, nutritionist /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ənɪst/, paradoxically /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/, vulnerability /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/, disappearance /dɪsəˈpɪəɹəns/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: devastate /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, vigilant /ˈvɪd͡ʒɪlənt/, vulnerability /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: abscond /əbˈskɑnd/, agitate /ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/, devastate /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/, ingenious /ɪnˈd͡ʒiːnjəs/, nutritionist /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ənɪst/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: paradoxically /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/, rigmarole /ˈɹɪɡməɹoʊl/, vulnerability /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/, predictable /pɹəˈdɪktəbləl/, harmful /ˈhɑɹmfl̩/

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 mummy, intimacy, devastate 這類單詞。

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