跟讀練習: The Great Gatsby Plot Summary - Chapters 1-3 - Schooling Online - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Welcome to the Roaring Twenties, old sport.
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The 1920s, that is.
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The American economy is booming,
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the champagne is flowing, and the flappers are flapping.
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It's a time when savvy Americans could become rich beyond their wildest dreams.
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But beneath all the glitz and glamour is the whiff of something rotten.
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All is not what it seems.
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Meet our narrator, Nick Carraway.
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He's a patient and honest young man, well-educated and wise.
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Nick's family are the descendants of Scottish dukes and well-established in America's Midwest.
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In other words, Nick comes from old money.
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After graduating from Yale University in 1915,
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Nick went to fight in the Great War, and he enjoyed it.
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Nick's not really the alpha type,
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but alpha males are drawn to him and want to be his friend.
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Nick's a nice guy.
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After the excitement of the war,
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Nick found the Midwest terribly boring,
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so in 1922 he moved to the East Coast.
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Wall Street was pumping, and Nick wanted to be a part of it.
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While he was there, Nick met several interesting characters.
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But the one who made the biggest impression on him was Gatsby.
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Ah, Gatsby.
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What a gorgeous, sensitive soul.
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Nick is now back at home in the Midwest for reasons he'll reveal later.
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In the meantime, he's going to unburden his heavy heart by telling us the tale of the great Gatsby.
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It begins in the summer of 1922.
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Nick had just rented a house in West Egg on Long Island Sound,
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about 20 miles from Manhattan.
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It was a tiny shack compared to the monstrous mansions on either side.
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See that gigantic French-inspired castle next door to Nick's?
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That's Gatsby's mansion.
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But if you think the West Egg mansions are big,
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wait until you see the estates across the bay in East Egg.
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East Egg is the more fashionable of the two egg-shaped landforms on Long Island Sound.
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It's where the old money resides.
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In fact, that's where Nick's taking us right now,
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to the palatial home of his second cousin, Daisy Buchanan.
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Nick went to Yale with Daisy's husband, Tom.
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Now Tom is what you would call an alpha male, a 1920s chad.
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He's also from an incredibly wealthy family,
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and his sprawling estate in East Egg is impressive, to say the least.
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Once inside, we meet Daisy and her friend, Jordan Baker.
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Nick is happy to see Daisy,
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although he barely knows her.
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Jordan only faintly registers Nick's presence.
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She's too cool for him.
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Her face seems familiar, though,
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and she even knows who Nick's neighbour is.
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Who's Gatsby?
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At dinner, Tom shows his racist side.
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He mansplains some very unscientific opinions about non-white races, until the phone rings.
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Tom leaves the room to answer it, and Daisy follows him.
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Then Jordan and Nick hear them arguing.
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It turns out Tom has a mistress.
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Poor Daisy.
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It's bad enough that Tom's affair is common knowledge,
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but to call him at dinner time?
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Well, this is awkward, especially when the phone rings a second time.
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Later, when Nick and Daisy have a chance to speak alone,
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she reveals how miserable she is.
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She's rich, sophisticated and terribly alone.
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Back inside the house, Nick realises that Jordan is a pro golfer who's graced the covers of several sports magazines.
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What an odd evening Nick's had.
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As he drives away, Nick can't help but feel sorry for Daisy and Tom.
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When he arrives home, he sits in the moonlight, mulling it over.
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Then he sees the mysterious silhouette of a man standing on the lawn of the neighbouring mansion.
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It could only be Gatsby.
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But then Nick sees him do a strange thing.
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He stretches his arms out towards a green light far across the bay.
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Was he just stretching?
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Or was he reaching for something?
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A short time later, Tom takes Nick on a train trip to New York.
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On the way, they stop by the Valley of the Ashes,
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a filthy industrial wasteland that lies between the eggs and New York City.
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Tom basically forces Nick out of the train.
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He wants Nick to meet his mistress.
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Like Nick has nothing better to do.
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Myrtle Wilson, the mistress, is married to George Wilson,
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the owner of a garage.
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George is a spiritless young man who has no idea about his wife's affair.
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Tom shows up under the pretense of selling George a car.
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A bit brazen, don't you think?
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When Myrtle appears, she walks by George as if he were a ghost.
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But the chemistry between her and Tom is obvious.
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Poor George must have ashes for brains.
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While George is out of the room,
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Tom and Myrtle arrange a rendezvous at their apartment,
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or love nest, in New York City.
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How cosy.
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Tom even buys her a puppy on the way.
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Well, the rendezvous turns into a party.
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Myrtle invites her sister Catherine,
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as well as the McKees from the flat below.
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Poor Nick, who'd tried to excuse himself earlier in the afternoon,
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ends up getting wasted on Tom's whisky.
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It was all fun, games and gossip until Myrtle taunted Tom by repeating Daisy's name.
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Tom broke Myrtle's nose for that.
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Party's over, folks.
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But, as we all know,
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that wasn't a real party.
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Only Gatsby throws proper parties.
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And soon enough, Nick is formally invited to one.
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Now that's what you call a party.
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Except Nick doesn't know anyone among the crowds of glittering socialites.
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Isn't that the worst feeling?
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Luckily, Jordan Baker rescues him from being a complete loner.
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As Jordan and Nick make their way around the gardens,
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they hear all sorts of juicy gossip about their host.
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Apparently, Gatsby killed a man once.
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Wasn't he a German spy during the war?
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Is he related to German royalty?
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Well, according to a friend of a friend,
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Gatsby grew up in Germany.
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But wasn't he in the American army too?
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Where is Gatsby, anyhow?
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Jordan and Nick look for him in his vast Gothic library.
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They encounter a curious owl-eyed man, but no Gatsby.
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At around midnight, when the party was really cranking,
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a man recognises Nick from the war.
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Then the man invites Nick for a spin in his hydroplane in the morning.
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After a moment of confusion,
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the man finally introduces himself as Gatsby.
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Ah, Gatsby.
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His beautiful, warm smile puts Nick totally at ease.
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But Gatsby has to excuse himself.
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Chicago is on the phone.
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Gee, he does business at funny hours, doesn't he?
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A short time later, Gatsby requests that Jordan Baker join him for a private chat.
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Is Gatsby stealing Nick's date?
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At around 2am, just as things were winding down and getting messy,
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Jordan and Gatsby emerge from the library.
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Jordan tells Nick that she's just heard the most amazing thing,
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but he'll have to see her if he wants the scoop.
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She tells him to look her up in the phone book.
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No cell phones in those days.
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When Nick bids Gatsby goodnight, they're interrupted again.
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This time, Philadelphia is on the phone.
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He must be super important.
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Once Nick escapes the chaos of a last-minute bingle in Gatsby's driveway,
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he looks back to see Gatsby waving a final farewell from his porch.
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But Nick doesn't want you to think that the three nights he's just described are all that absorbed him that summer.
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He also worked hard, fell in love with New York,
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had a fling with a girl at work and started dating Jordan Baker.
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It wasn't true love, more like tender curiosity.
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Jordan was a liar and a bad driver but she charmed him.
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Although it turns out that Nick wasn't entirely free to love Jordan,
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or anyone else for that matter,
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he still had a girl back home to whom he wrote letters signed, Love Nick.
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Nick insists that he's an honest guy,
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but his actions seem to say otherwise.
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Can we trust our narrator?
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背景與背景資訊
在《了不起的蓋茨比》的故事情節中，敘述者尼克·卡拉威為我們揭示了1920年代美國的迷人與複雜性。這是一個經濟繁榮的年代，人人追求財富與享樂。然而，在光鮮亮麗的表象下，潛藏著腐朽的現實。尼克作為一個受過良好教育的年輕人，他的敘述不僅只是一段故事，也反映了那個時代的社會風貌與人際關係。通過尼克的視角，學習者能夠感受到複雜的情感與生活困境，從而提升自己的英語口語能力以及對文學作品的理解。
日常交流的五個重要短語
- 老朋友 - "old sport": 用來稱呼朋友，帶有親密感。
- 經濟繁榮 - "the American economy is booming": 描述繁榮的經濟情況。
- 高檔住宅區 - "East Egg is the more fashionable of the two": 表達地理位置的高檔程度。
- 令人印象深刻的財產 - "sprawling estate": 形容一處寬廣且豪華的房產。
- 急於結識 - "drawn to him": 描述他人對某人的好感和吸引。
逐步模仿指導
為了掌握《了不起的蓋茨比》中尼克的敘述語調和表達方式，可以按照以下步驟進行shadow speech（模仿練習）:
- 觀看影片: 首先，認真觀看影片，注意尼克的語速、語調和停頓。
- 抄寫內容: 將尼克的部分臺詞抄寫下來，幫助你理解句子的結構與用詞。
- 分段練習: 將影片分為幾個小段落，逐段進行模仿，集中在發音與語調上。注意使用shadowspeak（影子說話）的方法，儘量跟隨尼克的節奏。
- 錄音回聽: 錄下自己的模仿，回放即可識別發音上的差異，從而進一步提高英語發音。
- 反覆練習: 持續練習，尤其是短語和表達，直到流利為止。這可以幫助提高英語口語練習的整體效果。
通過這種方法，不僅可以提高語言表達能力，還能更好地理解該文學作品的深層含義。在現代社會中，內涵豐富的經典作品如《了不起的蓋茨比》正是提高英語能力的絕佳材料。
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。