跟讀練習: Taking It One Day at a Time - 通過影片學習英語口語
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The Without us perhaps quite noticing, much of what we place our hopes in will be ready for us in a very long time indeed.
在我們或許根本沒有察覺的情況下，我們寄予厚望的許多事物，其實要等上非常非常久的時間才會準備就緒。
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In months or even decades from now, if ever.
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The successful completion of a novel, a sufficient sum of money to buy a house or begin a new career, the discovery of a suitable partner, a move to another country.
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In the list of our most intensely felt hopes, few entries stand to come to fruition this season or next, let alone by tonight.
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But occasionally, life places us in a situation where our normal, long-range, hopeful way of thinking grows impossible.
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Imagine you've had a car accident, a very bad one.
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For weeks, it seemed like you might not make it at all.
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Now you're out of a coma and back home, but you still have multiple broken bones, serious bruises and constant migraine.
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It's unclear from here when you'll be going back to work or whether you ever will.
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When someone asks how things are, one answer seems to fit above all.
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We're taking it one day at a time.
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Or imagine that a person is 89, mentally agile, but very slow on their feet and often in pain.
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They had a fall last month and their left knee is badly arthritic.
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Yesterday they did some gardening.
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Today they may go to the shops for the first time in a while.
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You ask their carer how they are.
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We're taking it one day at a time.
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You're a new parent.
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It was a very difficult birth.
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The baby had jaundice and required a blood transfusion.
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And now, finally, mother and child are home.
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The baby cries a lot in the night and has to take some medicines that aggravate the stomach.
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but last night was good enough and hopefully today, if the weather holds, there's a chance of taking a trip to the park to see the daffodils.
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How's it all going?
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We're taking it one day at a time.
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These may be extreme scenarios and a natural impulse is to hope that we will never encounter them, but they contain valuable teachings for anyone with a tendency to ignore their own advantages, that is, for all of us.
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One day at a time thinking reminds us that in many cases our greatest enemy is that otherwise critical nectar, hope and the perplexing emotion it tends to bring with it, impatience.
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By limiting our horizons to tonight, we're girding ourselves for the long haul and remembering that an improvement may best be achieved when we manage not to await it too ardently.
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Our most productive mood may be a quiet melancholy with which we can ward off the temptations of rage or mania and fully imbibe the moderate steadfastness required to do fiddly things – write a book,
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bring up a child, repair a marriage or work through a mental breakdown.
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Taking it day by day means reducing the degree of control we expect to be able to bring to bear on the uncertain future.
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It means recognising that we have no serious capacity to exercise our will on a span of years and should not therefore disdain a chance to secure one or two minor wins in the hours ahead of us.
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We should, from a new perspective, count ourselves immensely grateful if, by nightfall, there have been no further arguments and no more seizures, if the rain has let off and we have found one or two interesting pages to read.
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As life as a whole grows more complicated, we can remember to unclench and smile a little along the way, rather than jealously husbanding our reserves of joy for a finale somewhere in the nebulous distance.
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Given the scale of what we are up against, knowing that perfection may never occur and that far worse may be coming our way, we can stoop to accept with fresh gratitude a few of the minor gifts that are already within our grasp.
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We might look with fresh energy at a cloud, a duck, a butterfly or a flower.
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At 22, we might scoff at such suggestions, for there seem so many larger, grander things to hope for than these evanescent manifestations of nature – romantic love, career fulfilment or big political change.
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But with time, almost all one's more revolutionary aspirations tend to take a hit, perhaps a very large hit.
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One encounters some of the intractable problems of intimate relationships.
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One suffers the gap between one's professional hopes and the available realities.
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One has a chance to observe how slowly and fitfully the world ever alters in a positive direction.
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One is fully inducted to the extent of human wickedness and folly and to one's own eccentricity, selfishness and madness.
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And so, natural beauty may take on a different hue, no longer a petty distraction from a mighty destiny,
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no longer an insult to ambition, but a genuine pleasure amidst the litany of troubles,
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an invitation to bracket anxieties and keep self-criticism at bay, a small resting place for hope in a sea of disappointment, a proper consolation for which one is finally ready on an afternoon walk to be appropriately grateful.
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Vincent van Gogh was admitted to the Saint Paul Mental Asylum in Saint-Rémy in southern France in May of 1889, having lost his mind and tried to sever his ear.
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At the start of his stay, he mostly lay in bed in the dark.
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After a few months, he grew a little stronger and was able to go out into the garden.
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And it was here that he noticed, in a legendary act of concentrated aesthetic absorption, the gnarled roots of a southern pine,
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the blossom on an apple tree, a caterpillar on its way across a leaf, and, most famously, the bloom of a succession of purple irises.
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In his hands, these became like the totemic symbols of a new religion, oriented towards a celebration of the transcendent beauty of the everyday.
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His vase with irises is no sentimental study of a common flower,
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it is the work of a pivotal figure in Western culture struggling to make it to the end of the day without doing himself in and clinging on very tightly indeed with the hands of a genius to a reason to live.
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It's normal enough to hold out for all that we want.
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Why would we celebrate hobbling when we want to run?
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Why accept friendship when we crave passion?
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But if we reach the end of the day and no one has died, no further limbs have broken, a few lines have been written and one or two encouraging and pleasant things have been said, then that is already an achievement worthy of a place at the altar of sanity.
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How natural and tempting to put one's faith in the bountifulness of the years!
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But how much wiser it might be to bring all one's faculties of appreciation and love to bear on that most modest and most easily dismissed of increments – the day already in hand.
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The School of Life is coming to New York from the 4th to the 6th of October for a three-day conference, where you'll have the chance to meet other like-minded individuals and embark on a journey of genuine self-discovery and self-transformation.
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We hope to see you there.
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Thank you.
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為什麼要通過這個影片練習口語？
在學習英語的過程中，口語練習是一個至關重要的環節。通過觀看這段影片，學員們可以在真實的情境中聽到自然的對話。影片中描述了生活中的不同挑戰，讓我們意識到在日常交流中，如何以更加從容的態度面對困難。例如，短語“我們一天一天來”不僅傳遞了希望，也展現了一種積極的心態。這種句子可以幫助學習者在類似場合中進行溝通，提升表達能力。因此，看YouTube學英語關於情境口語的動態方式特別有效，能夠鼓勵學習者大膽開口說英語，提升口語流利度。
語法和表達結構分析
- “我們一天一天來”：這個短語表明了一種逐步處理事務的心態，適合用來回應他人的關心或詢問。
- “如果天氣允許”：這個條件句是英語中常用的表達方式，強調在特定條件下某事可能發生，非常實用。
- “我們要感激”：表達感激之情時，可以使用這種以“要”字開頭的結構，強化語氣，適合在生活中表達感謝。
- “面對不確定的未來”：這一表達為描述未來可能發生的事情提供了背景，能引導對話，讓聽者感到親近。
這些語法結構在影片中反覆出現，通過英語影子跟讀的練習，可以幫助學習者更好地理解和運用這些表達。
常見發音陷阱
在這段影片中，有幾個詞可能會對學習者構成挑戰。比如“moment”（時刻）和“grateful”（感激的），這兩個詞的發音都比較細膩，容易混淆。尤其是在連讀時，“grateful”可以變得不那麼清晰。在練習時，留意重音和音節劃分，反覆聽模仿是提升發音的重要方法。
此外，部分單詞的音調變化也可能導致理解上的障礙，例如“improve”（改善）和“impatience”（不耐煩）。通過模仿影片中的發音，學習者可以更好地掌握這些難點，避免在交流中出錯。
綜上所述，這段影片不僅是練習口語的好材料，還是一個shadowing site，可以幫助大家提升英語水平。別忘了利用這些實用的表達和發音技巧來增強你的口語能力！
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 | you've had · have been · have broken |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | be achieved · was admitted · have been written |
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。