跟讀練習: This Short Story Helped Me Stop Chasing People When Nothing Else Could | A Lesson on Finding Peace - 通過影片學習英語口語
選擇練習模式
每種模式都會開啟全屏練習室。
106 句
如果句子過短或過長，請點選 Edit 進行調整。
1
There is a kind of pain that has nothing to do with losing someone.
2
It comes from refusing to admit they are already gone.
3
You keep knocking on a door that stopped opening long ago, convinced that one more try, one more word, one more year of waiting,
4
will finally bring back what you lost.
5
And the strangest part is this.
6
While you exhaust yourself against that closed door, you never once think to ask what might be standing right behind you.
7
Some of the most painful years of a life are not spent suffering a loss.
8
They are spent refusing to accept one.
9
This story is not about a person.
10
It is about something far simpler and far more honest because it cannot lie to itself the way we do.
11
Stay until the end
12
because the moment this story turns will make you ask yourself
13
a question you may have been avoiding for a very long time.
14
There once lived a small bird with bright feathers or deep in a green forest where he flew freely between tall trees.
15
One day, a man found him injured on the forest floor and carried him home.
16
The man fed him, healed his wing, and kept him in a cage on his terrace.
17
For many months, the bird and the man grew close.
18
The man spoke to him every morning, fed him from his own hand, and the bird learned to trust him completely.
19
Slowly, the bird stopped thinking of the forest at all.
20
His whole world became this one man's attention and care.
21
Then, one season, the man's life changed.
22
He grew busy, distracted, tired.
23
He visited the terrace less often.
24
He forgot to speak softly to the bird the way he once did.
25
Eventually, one morning, he opened the cage door, left the terrace, and simply stopped coming back the way he used to.
26
The bird did not understand freedom.
27
He understood only that something he depended on had pulled away.
28
Near the open cage stood a tall glass window, and beyond it, the man could sometimes be seen moving through the house.
29
The bird flew straight toward that window.
30
Toward the man, toward the warmth, he remembered.
31
He struck the glass hard.
32
It did not break, but he did not stop.
33
He believed if he tried again, harder this time, the barrier would finally give way,
34
and the man would notice him and love him again the way he once had.
35
Day after day, the bird returned to that same window.
36
He beat his wings against it, cried out, threw his small body at the glass again and again.
37
He fell to the floor exhausted, rested only a moment, then rose and struck it once more.
38
His feathers grew ragged.
39
A thin line of blood appeared near his beak.
40
Neighbors who passed by the terrace sometimes stopped to watch, confused.
41
Just beyond the open side of the terrace, sunlight poured freely onto green branches and open sky.
42
Nothing blocked that path, yet the bird never turned toward it.
43
His eyes, his whole small heart, stayed fixed on the one closed window, the one glimpse of the man he still longed for.
44
Weeks passed this way.
45
The bird's strength faded with every failed attempt.
46
He no longer flew high or far.
47
He only had enough energy left to lift himself toward the glass one more time, fall, and try again.
48
He had forgotten that wings were made for anything other than this single, painful motion.
49
One afternoon, in the middle of another failed attempt, a second bird landed quietly on the terrace railing.
50
He was older, his feathers duller, his eyes calm in a way the young birds were not.
51
He did not fly toward the glass.
52
He did not seem interested in it at all.
53
He simply sat, cleaning his wings, glancing occasionally at the forest beyond, as though the window did not exist.
54
A young bird, bleeding and exhausted, paused mid-flight and stared at him.
55
Why don't you try the window? he cried.
56
Don't you want to get through?
57
The older bird tilted his head, unbothered.
58
I did once, he said simply.
59
For a long time.
60
Then one day I turned around.
61
He said nothing more, spread his wings, and flew calmly out through the open side of the terrace,
62
disappearing into the trees without looking back even once.
63
A young bird stood frozen, staring at the empty space where the older bird had just vanished.
64
For the first time, the sound of his own wings hitting glass suddenly felt foolish in his ears.
65
One evening, after another fall, the bird lay still on the terrace floor, too tired to rise immediately.
66
For the first time in a long while, he was not looking at the glass.
67
He was simply breathing, staring at nothing, his small chest rising and falling with exhaustion.
68
In that stillness, something shifted.
69
He noticed the wide, warm light spreading across the floor behind him, light that had been there the entire time,
70
pouring in from the completely open side of the terrace.
71
He turned his head slowly, and for the first time in months, he truly saw it.
72
An open path leading straight out into the sky, wide and waiting, exactly as it had been since the very day the man first walked away.
73
He did not understand in that moment why he had never noticed it before.
74
He had spent so many days pressed against one closed piece of glass
75
that the rest of the world had simply disappeared from his mind.
76
The opening had never moved.
77
He had simply never turned to look for it.
78
Slowly, painfully, the bird rose to his feet.
79
His wings still ached from the many falls.
80
He hesitated, glancing once more at the closed window, at the faint shape of the man moving somewhere inside the house,
81
indifferent, unaware, unmoved by any of it.
82
Something in the bird finally let go.
83
He turned his back fully to the glass.
84
He spread his wings, weak but still whole, and pushed off from the terrace floor one last time.
85
This time, he did not fly forward into a wall.
86
He flew upward, out through the open side, into air that had been waiting for him all along.
87
The sky opened around him, vast and bright, filled with the scent of leaves and wind he had almost forgotten.
88
He flew higher than he had in a very long time, past the terrace, past the rooftops, until the house, the window,
89
and the man inside, it became small shapes far below him, and then nothing at all.
90
He did not look back again.
91
This story carries a truth that reaches far beyond a small bird and a terrace window.
92
So many of us spend our days pressed against a closed door, begging someone who has already stopped caring to open it one more time.
93
We throw our energy, our pride, our very strength against the same unmoving glass,
94
convinced that one more attempt will finally make them turn around, and the entire time, without ever noticing, we forget to look behind us,
95
where an open path has been waiting quietly, patiently, since the very moment they first walked away.
96
Think honestly about your own life.
97
Is there a closed door you keep striking against?
98
A person's attention you keep begging for?
99
A version of love or approval that stopped being offered long ago, though you refuse to accept it?
100
How much of your strength, your joy, your time, have you spent facing that one closed window instead of turning around?
101
The cost of fighting a closed door is this.
102
While you exhaust yourself trying to break through something that will not open, you miss the open sky that has been right behind you the whole time.
103
Stop breaking your heart and your head against a door that was never going to open again.
104
Turn around.
105
The door behind you is left wide open the moment they stopped caring.
106
All you have to do now is fly through it.
同頻道
C118
Control Your Focus | Master Your Mind | A Powerful Parable About Your Inner Critic
University StudentsWorking Adults
C12
Protect Your Peace | A Story About Letting Go of Toxic People
Business EnglishUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C111
When You Change, Some People Walk Away | A Life Lesson
Business EnglishUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B17
Avoid Burnout! Small Steps, Big Results | Life-Changing Motivational Story
Business EnglishTeensDaily Conversation
B11
Why Your Dreams Die When You Speak Them | The Power of Silence | A Life-Changing Story
Business EnglishUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B2When You Keep Replaying the Hurt — A Lesson on Finding Peace
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
C1Never Trust Too Fast | Don't Save Everyone | A Powerful Parable on Betrayal
Business EnglishUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
FOR YOU
推薦影片
B22
559 句
Walk Away Quietly, Even If It Hurts
Business EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
B295 句
The Secret to Peace: Realizing "This Is Enough."
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B27
88 句
just delete social media, see what happens.
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B21
90 句
Control Your Mind Before It Destroys Your Life | Monk And Cat Story |
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
C11
150 句
Why We Can't Save Those We Love
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B23
86 句
This Video Found You For A Reason
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B111
32 句
SEtalk: Stop Saying "I'm So Busy"
American AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B22
86 句
You’ll Miss This Version of Your Life
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B12
121 句
Learn English with Stories ⭐ The Man Who Came Back | Level 3 English Listening & Speaking Practice
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B21
30 句
Finally Sending a Text She Put Off for 15 Years
Business EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
B29
213 句
the harsh reality of outgrowing friends | how to handle it
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B21
63 句
Why a Walk in the Park Can Save Your Life
British AccentBusiness EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
本課的詞彙與口語要點
這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“This Short Story Helped Me Stop Chasing People When Nothing Else Could”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有：bird, terrace, window, glass, wing。 這段影片共有 106 個句子、1349 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 8:28。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 159 個詞，接近日常對話。 88% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙容易理解。
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 |
|---|---|---|
| terrace 名詞 | /ˈtɛɹəs/ | 露臺 /露臺 |
| exhaust 動詞 | /ɪɡˈzɔst/ | 抽完 |
| feather 名詞 | /ˈfɛðə/ | 羽毛, 羽 |
| stare 動詞 | /stɛɚ/ | 凝視 /凝視, 瞪眼 |
| cage 名詞 | /keɪd͡ʒ/ | 籠子 /籠子, 籠 /籠 |
| glance 動詞 | /ɡlæns/ | 看一看, 看一下 |
| disappear 動詞 | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | 消失 |
| pour 動詞 | /poɹ/ | 倒 |
| quietly 副詞 | /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/ | 悄悄地, 安靜地 /安靜地 |
| exhaustion 名詞 | /ɪɡˈzɔːs.t͡ʃən/ | 耗盡 /耗盡, 用光 |
| indifferent 形容詞 | /ɪnˈdɪf.ɹənt/ | 冷漠, 冷淡 |
| injure 動詞 | /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ | 傷害 /傷害, 損傷 /損傷 |
| vanish 動詞 | /ˈvænɪʃ/ | 消失 |
| rooftop 名詞 | /ˈɹufˌtɑp/ | 屋頂面 /屋頂面 |
| distract 動詞 | /dɪˈstɹækt/ | 分心 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| turn around 動詞 | 轉身 /轉身 | |
| look back 動詞 | 回顧 /回顧 | |
| come back 動詞 | 回來 /回來, 返回 | |
| get through 動詞 | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | 度過 /度過 |
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 don't you try the window?
- Don't you want to get through?
- Is there a closed door you keep striking against?
- A person's attention you keep begging for?
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 | are not spent · are spent · be seen |
| 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 | has already stopped · has been |
需要注意的發音
- “th” 音: feather /ˈfɛðə/, warmth /wɔɹmθ/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: patiently /ˈpeɪʃəntli/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/
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: terrace /ˈtɛɹəs/, exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔst/, cage /keɪd͡ʒ/, glance /ɡlæns/, indifferent /ɪnˈdɪf.ɹənt/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: freely /ˈfɹili/, calmly /ˈkɑː(ɹ)m.li/
- /æ/ — 嘴張大，不要讀成 /e/: glance /ɡlæns/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/, barrier /ˈbæɹi.ə/
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 terrace, exhaust, feather 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。