跟讀練習: What Do I Project onto Other People? - 通過影片學習英語口語
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One of the most continuously fascinating ideas in psychotherapy is the concept of projection.
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What this means, simply put, is that all of us have a storehouse of assumptions about what other people are like and how they will behave,
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which owes very little to actual people who we meet today
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and has a lot more to do with complications in our childhoods which we have generally forgotten all about.
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Furthermore, these projections tend to be distinctly and unfruitfully negative.
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We think worse of people than we should.
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We are quicker to be afraid, to be angry and to be uncooperative than we need to be
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because our imaginations are filled with dark experiences which reflect our painful origins and yet fail to do justice to a broader,
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more innocent and more hopeful present.
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As a result, our projections gum up our relationships with the world around us.
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We arrive in the presence of other people with a great deal more aggression, suspicion, fear or doubt than is warranted in the here and now.
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The theory of projections sounds simple and plausible enough.
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The difficulty is that it's extremely hard to work out what it is that we are actually projecting.
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We are far too much inside ourselves to see our own biases.
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We can't tell how we're distorting our assessments of other people.
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There's no gap between our judgements and our reason.
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Yet we stand to make a little bit of progress through a simple exercise
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which involves a a little bit of reflection on our most characteristic assumptions of other people, taken as a whole.
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In a quiet, reflexive mood, we should title a blank sheet of paper, What I Expect Other People Will Be Like.
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And then we should see what comes up for us.
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A list might look like this.
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Older men in authority are judgmental and angry.
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Or other people can suddenly turn around and viciously attack you, or people only respect money and status,
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or nice people aren't very competent or worthy of respect, or people can't be relied upon to help when you need them,
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or people might be laughing or silently ridiculing.
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The list might, to an extent that surprises us, be extremely negative.
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The next question should be, why are we thinking this way?
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Why do we make these sorts of generalisations?
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Common sense tells us, because this is what reality is actually like.
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But a more psychotherapeutic line answers back, only because this is what our childhood was like,
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and this is what has unconsciously influenced and, if you like, poisoned, our assessment of all strangers in the present.
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In order to honour the true complexity as well as hopefulness of the world as it is now,
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we should then ask what specific individuals from our past might be held responsible for inspiring our range of particular
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and particularly dark assumptions about people.
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To every generalisation, on our sheet of paper, we should, with a different coloured pen,
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write down a particular name who might have inspired an especially caustic assessment of humanity.
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If we've had a certain sort of childhood, we should in time be able to arrive at definite sets of names and memories.
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Once we start to explore, we'll be able to see that a statement like, older men in authority are judgmental and angry,
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really relates to a very particular man in a very particular situation.
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While the unhelpful idea
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that no one can be relied upon might be the sediment of an earlier situation in
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which specific people didn't help us when we badly needed them to have done so.
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There are few things harder to see than our own biases, but we can, with the help of exercises,
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learn to free ourselves from some of their more vicious, though invisible, tentacles.
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Other people can often be extremely difficult – of that there is no doubt.
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But, to an extent that may well surprise us, it isn't really people in general who are the problem.
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It's almost certainly people in particular who troubled us a long time ago
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and who we've taken great care to forget all about.
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We may develop a lot more faith in humanity once we can be more forensic
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and sad about a few key figures in the past, once we learn to unpick our projections.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 50 個句子、724 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 4:33。 說話人語速自然,每分鐘約 159 個詞,接近日常對話。 83% 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。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞,附發音和釋義:
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| projection 名詞 | /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/ | 凸出物 |
| assessment 名詞 | /əˈsɛsmənt/ | 評價 /評價, 評估 /評估 |
| assumption 名詞 | /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/ | 假設 /假設 |
| extent 名詞 | /ɪkˈstɛnt/ | 範圍 /範圍 |
| sheet 名詞 | /ʃit/ | 篇, 張 /張 |
| arrive 動詞 | /əˈɹaɪv/ | 到達 /到達, 到 |
| humanity 名詞 | /hjuˈmænɪti/ | 人類 /人類 |
| rely 動詞 | /ɹɪˈlaɪ/ | 依賴 /依賴, 依靠 |
| bias 名詞 | /ˈbaɪ.əs/ | 偏見 /偏見 |
| inspire 動詞 | /ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ | 授意, 鼓舞 |
| innocent 形容詞 | /ˈɪnəsənt/ | 無猜 /無猜 |
| mood 名詞 | /muːd/ | 心情, 情緒 /情緒 |
| reflect 動詞 | /ɹɪˈflɛkt/ | 反映, 反射 |
| difficulty 名詞 | /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/ | 困難 /困難 |
| painful 形容詞 | /ˈpeɪn.fl̩/ | 痛苦的, 疼痛的 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| turn around 動詞 | 轉身 /轉身 | |
| work out 動詞 | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | 計算 /計算, 算出 |
| write down 動詞 | 寫下來 /寫下來, 寫下 /寫下 |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 9 次縮略和弱讀形式,例如 can't, we've, aren't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, furthermore /ˈfɜː(ɹ).ðə(ɹ)ˌmɔː(ɹ)/, psychotherapy /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: projection /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/, sheet /ʃit/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/, complexity /kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/
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 projection, assessment, assumption 這類單詞。
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 filled · is warranted · can't be relied |
| 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 | we've had · we've taken |
什麼是跟讀法?
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