跟讀練習: The Root of Sorrow is Attachment by Anthony De Mello - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Let's pick up the thread again.
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Your life is in a mess.
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You don't want to get out of it.
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There was another thing.
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It's in a mess because you've got wrong ideas, not because there's anything wrong with you.
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You're okay.
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I'm okay, you're okay.
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We're all okay.
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We're great.
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There's nothing wrong with us.
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They put wrong ideas into our heads.
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Somebody did.
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We needn't spend too much time trying to catch the culprit.
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But anyway, the fact is you got wrong ideas.
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You know, it's like somebody gives you a stereo set and you get a manual of instructions that comes along with it.
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They gave us the manual of instructions.
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It was all wrong.
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So you're not getting music.
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You're getting scratchy sounds.
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You're getting upset.
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You're getting conflicts.
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You're getting loneliness.
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You're getting emptiness.
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Now, there are many ways of putting the formula.
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I am going to give you the simplest I found.
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I am going to give it to you in the words of old Buddha.
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Why did I choose him?
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Because his is the simplest of all, but you find it everywhere.
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It is the simplest of all, enunciated with limpid clarity.
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You are probably going to disagree with it, but you cannot miss the point.
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Here it is.
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The world is full of sorrow.
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The root of sorrow is attachment.
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The uprooting of sorrow means the uprooting, the dropping of attachments.
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You know there are desires on whose fulfillment my happiness does not depend.
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You got lots of desires on whose fulfillment your happiness does not depend or else you would be climbing walls,
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you would be nervous wrecks.
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All of us have two types of desires.
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We got desires, you know, we desire all kinds of things and gee, we're happy to get them and we don't get them, okay, too bad, we're not unhappy.
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But we've got other desires, good lord, if we don't get that, we're going to be miserable.
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That is what he calls an attachment.
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Where do you think all conflicts come from?
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Attachments.
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Where do you think greed comes from?
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Attachments.
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Where do you think loneliness comes from?
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Attachments.
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Where do you think emptiness comes from?
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You got it, same cause.
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Where do you think fears come from?
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My, how clever you are becoming.
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Attachments, no attachment, no fear, ever thought of that?
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No attachment, no fear.
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We are going to take your life, go right ahead.
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No attachment to life.
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Happy to live, happy to let go.
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You think that's possible?
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You know something?
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People have attained it, so it is possible.
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Want to attain it yourself?
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Attachment.
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Sorry sir, you have AIDS, you only have six months to live.
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Just six months?
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Boy, that's a lot of time to live, that's wonderful.
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Happiness.
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Hey, this guy got no attachment.
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If you were not actively engaged in making yourself miserable, you would be happy.
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We were born happy.
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All life is shot through with happiness.
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Oh, there's pain, of course there's pain.
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Who told you you can't be happy without pain?
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Come and meet a friend of mine who's dying of cancer, and she's happy in pain.
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So, we were born happy.
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We lost it.
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We were born with the gift of life.
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We lost it.
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We got to rediscover it.
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Why did we lose it?
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Because we were working actively.
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They taught us to work actively to make ourselves miserable.
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How did they do that?
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By teaching us to become attached.
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by teaching us to have desires so intense that we would refuse to be happy unless they were fulfilled.
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The tragedy is, my dears,
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the tragedy is that all you need to do is to sit down for two minutes
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and just watch how untrue it is that you would be unhappy without A or B or X or Y or whatever.
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Do you know something?
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You won't sit, because if you sit you might see it.
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You won't sit and look at it.
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I know I wouldn't, I resisted it for years.
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You mean if I don't get Mary Jane or I don't get John, I won't be happy?
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Hey, wait a minute, that's false.
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Before I met him, I was happy.
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And you know something?
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I once fell in love with somebody and then, well, I lost her and I was heartbroken.
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So what happened?
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I'm all right now.
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So she wasn't my happiness after all.
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Remember the time I was, you were a child and you lost something and you thought I'll never be happy without this.
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What happened?
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If we gave it to you today, you wouldn't look at it.
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But why don't we learn?
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Oh, no, no. We got to live in illusions.
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It feels good.
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It gives you a kick, doesn't it?
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It gives me a kick.
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We want kicks.
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We don't want happiness.
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We want thrills.
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And wherever you've got a thrill, you've got an anxiety.
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Because you might lose it.
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Or you may not get it.
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And you've got a depression following.
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You've got a hangover.
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It's so simple as I told you, I could put it down for you in two minutes, whether you will hear it is another question, that depends on your own heart.
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So, here it is, the world is full of sorrow,
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the root of sorrow is attachment desire,
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the uprooting of sorrow is the dropping of attachment.
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How does one drop it?
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One only looks and sees that it is based on a false belief,
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the belief that without this I cannot be happy, that that is false, the moment you see it is false you are free,
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good luck to you, may take you one minute, may take you twenty five years, but the day you see it you are free.
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Does this mean dropping of attachments, does it mean detachment from the material world?
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No, no, one uses the material world, one enjoys the material world,
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but one does not make one's happiness depend on the material world, is that clear enough?
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Like look what I am saying is,
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you really begin to enjoy things when you are unattached, Because attachment brings anxiety.
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If you are anxious, when you are holding on to something, you could hardly enjoy it.
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So what I am offering you is not a withdrawal from enjoyment,
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it's a withdrawal from possessiveness,
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from anxiety, from tension, from depression at loss of something.
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Thank you.
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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“The Root of Sorrow is Attachment by Anthony De Mello”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有：attachment, desire, happiness, sorrow, depend。 這段影片共有 132 個句子、1081 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 8:42。 說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 124 個詞，很適合跟讀。 84% 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。 全部 132 個句子中有 24 個是問句，適合練習疑問語調和簡短回答。
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 |
|---|---|---|
| sorrow 名詞 | /ˈsɑɹoʊ/ | 悲傷 /悲傷, 悲哀 |
| miserable 形容詞 | /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/ | 悲慘 /悲慘, 慘 /慘 |
| emptiness 名詞 | 空虛 /空虛, 空洞 | |
| attain 動詞 | /əˈteɪn/ | 達到 /達到 |
| loneliness 名詞 | /ˈloʊnlinəs/ | 寂寞, 孤獨 /孤獨 |
| withdrawal 名詞 | /wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/ | 退出, 撤退 |
| unhappy 形容詞 | /ʌnˈhæpi/ | 不高興 /不高興, 不開心 /不開心 |
| culprit 名詞 | /ˈkʌlpɹɪt/ | 元兇, 肇事者 |
| heartbroken 形容詞 | 心碎 | |
| limpid 形容詞 | /ˈlɪmpɪd/ | 澄明的, 明澈 |
| hangover 名詞 | /ˈhæŋoʊ̯vɚ/ ~ /ˈhæŋɔʊ̯vɚ/ | 宿醉 |
| greed 名詞 | /ɡɹiːd/ | 貪心 /貪心, 貪欲 /貪慾 |
| attach 動詞 | /əˈtæt͡ʃ/ | 附上, 附 |
| stereo 名詞 | /ˈstɛəɹ.i.oʊ/ | 立體聲 /立體聲 |
| enjoyment 名詞 | /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.mənt/ | 享受, 愉快 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 釋義 |
|---|---|
| pick up 動詞 | 拾取, 撿 /撿 |
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：
- Why did I choose him?
- Where do you think all conflicts come from?
- Where do you think greed comes from?
- Who told you you can't be happy without pain?
- It gives you a kick, doesn't it?
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 38 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 you're, don't, we're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: thrill /θɹɪl/, withdrawal /wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, enunciate /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/, hangover /ˈhæŋoʊ̯vɚ/ ~ /ˈhæŋɔʊ̯vɚ/
中文母語者容易讀錯的音：
- 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: attachment /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/, uproot /ˌʌpˈɹut/, fulfilment /fʊlˈfɪl.mənt/, loneliness /ˈloʊnlinəs/, culprit /ˈkʌlpɹɪt/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, thrill /θɹɪl/, withdrawal /wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/, culprit /ˈkʌlpɹɪt/, clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/
- /æ/ — 嘴張大，不要讀成 /e/: attachment /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/, unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/, detachment /dɪˈtæt͡ʃmənt/, scratchy /ˈskɹæt͡ʃi/, unattached /ˌʌnəˈtæt͡ʃt/
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。
- 用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 sorrow, miserable, emptiness 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。