跟讀練習: The uncomfortable truth | Yuval Noah Harari - 通過影片學習英語口語
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The truth is costly.
真相的代價很高。
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If you want to know the truth about anything, you need to spend a lot of time and energy and effort looking for it,
如果你想了解任何事情的真相，就必須投入大量的時間、精力和努力去探尋。
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and fact-checking, and investigating.
以及事實核查與調查工作。
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Fiction is very, very cheap.
小說的成本非常非常低。
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You just write anything you want.
你想寫什麼就寫什麼。
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The truth has another problem, which it tends to be complicated.
真相還有另一個問題，那就是它往往很複雜。
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People don't like complicated stories.
人們不喜歡複雜的故事。
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Fiction can be made as simple as you would like it to be.
小說創作可以按照你的心意寫得儘可能簡單。
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Finally, the truth is often not just complicated, it's also painful.
最後，真相往往不僅複雜，還令人痛苦。
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There are many things people don't really want to know about themselves, about their nation, about their group, whatever.
有很多事情，人們其實並不想知道，無論是關於他們自己、他們的國家、他們的群體，還是其他任何方面。
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Fiction can be made as flattering, as pleasant as you want it to be.
小說可以寫得極盡溢美之詞，怎麼讓人舒服就怎麼來。
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So in a competition between the truth, which is costly and complicated and sometimes painful,
因此，在真相——這個代價高昂、錯綜複雜且有時令人痛苦的存在——與其他事物的較量中，
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and fiction, which is cheap and simple and very attractive and flattering,
而小說則廉價、簡單，又極具吸引力，還能讓人聽著順耳。
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fiction tends to win unless we make the special effort to support the truth.
除非我們特意付出努力去維護真相，否則虛構的敘事往往會佔據上風。
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And over history, humans again and again made the effort to build institutions to search for the truth and to protect it.
縱觀歷史，人類一次又一次地努力建立各種制度，以探尋真理並捍衛真理。
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Journalism, for instance, is one such institution.
例如，新聞業就是這樣一種制度性行業。
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The scientific establishment is another such institution.
科學共同體就是另一類這樣的機構。
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There are huge advantages, of course, to knowing the truth.
當然，瞭解真相會帶來巨大的好處。
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Everybody in the end wants to know at least some truths, at least about yourself.
每個人最終都想知道至少一些真相，至少是關於自己的真相。
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You want to know the truth about your life, otherwise you will never be happy.
你需要了解自己人生的真相，否則你永遠不會快樂。
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If you don't know yourself, then for instance, you will never know what are the sources of misery
如果你不瞭解自己，那麼舉個例子，你就永遠不會知道痛苦的根源是什麼。
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and what are the sources of happiness in your life.
你生活中幸福的來源有哪些？
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And then even if you are the most powerful person in the world, if you don't know the truth about yourself,
更何況，即便你是世界上最有權勢的人，若你對真實的自己一無所知，
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you'll be miserable because you will not know how to use all your power to make yourself happy.
你會過得很痛苦，因為你不知道如何運用自己全部的力量讓自己獲得幸福。
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本節課你將練習什麼？
這節課我們通過一段關於“真相與虛構”的深度對話，練習英語聽力理解和口語表達。你會學習如何清晰傳達複雜觀點，還能借助shadowspeak（影子跟讀法）提升口語流暢度。無論是準備雅思口語練習，還是想掌握看影片學英語的技巧，這段內容都很合適——它語速適中，邏輯清晰，非常適合用來訓練“邊聽邊說”的能力。
核心詞彙與表達
- fact-checking：事實核查（比如“做新聞需要反覆fact-checking”）
- flattering：討人歡心的（“虛構故事常比真相更flattering”）
- institution：機構（文中指“支援真相的institution”，如新聞業）
- misery：痛苦（“瞭解真相才能擺脫misery”）
- scientific establishment：科學體系（“scientific establishment是探索真相的重要力量”）
影子跟讀法練習技巧
這段影片的語氣理性且堅定，適合用來練習“同步跟說”。建議先完整聽一遍，抓住整體邏輯；再逐句暫停，模仿發音和節奏。注意“the truth is costly”這類短句的重音，以及“fiction tends to win unless we...”的連讀。剛開始可以慢半拍，熟練後嘗試shadow speak（同步跟說），重點關注“complicated”“painful”等長單詞的發音。堅持用shadowspeaks方法練習，不僅能提升口語流暢度，還能培養對英語邏輯的敏感度——這對雅思口語練習尤其有幫助。記住：影子跟讀的關鍵是“耳到、口到、心到”，不要只追求速度，要確保每個詞都發清楚。
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 |
|---|---|
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | can be made |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | truth, which is · fiction, which is |
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。