跟讀練習: What Do Tuesday's Elections Mean? - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Thanks very much for joining me.
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Last night, Tuesday night, progressives won a major victory in the state of Minnesota.
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Peggy Flanagan won the Democratic nomination for Senate with a blowout.
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She won by some 20 points.
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A week earlier, Dr. Abdul El -Sayed won the Democratic nomination from Michigan for the U .S.
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Senate.
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And what is very interesting to me.
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I want you all to know this.
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If you combine those two campaigns,
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Michigan and Minnesota, billionaire -funded super PACs spent over 80 million dollars trying to defeat El -Sayed and Peggy.
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Over 80 million dollars, and they lost.
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We were able to win despite all of that massive spending.
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So what does it tell you?
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It tells you that not just in Michigan and in Minnesota, but all over this country,
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and I want everybody to remember that we have been winning elections, primary elections, general elections, for the last year.
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We won in New York City with Mamdani, we won congressional seats in New York State, we won in New Jersey,
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in Colorado, in Ohio, in Montana, in Pennsylvania, Arizona, California, and in the last week in Michigan in Minnesota.
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So what's going on?
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What is going on?
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And I think the answer is not complicated.
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Working people all over this country are looking around them and they understand increasingly that the economy is totally rigged.
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60 % of our people live in paycheck to paycheck.
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In America people are struggling to put food on the table pay for rent or mortgage,
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pay for health care, put aside a few bucks for a dignified, secure retirement, worried about their ability to send their kids to college,
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worried in fact that their kids may very well have a lower standard of living than they do,
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while the billionaire class has never ever had it so good.
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You know, I remember when we were all in school, we studied the Gilded Age.
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Remember the Gilded Age of the time of Rockefeller and Carnegie and J .P.
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Morgan and Jay Gould and all those guys at the end of the 19th century?
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And everyone said, wow, how unequal society was Gilded Age.
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Right now, inequality is much worse than it was in the Gilded Age.
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You got one guy, Mr. Musk, owning more wealth than the bottom half of American households, top 1%, or even more wealth than the bottom 93%.
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And the American people see that.
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And what they also understand is the reason the government is not acting to protect their interest is
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that many of the people in Congress are owned by the billionaire class
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and corporate interest as a result of a corrupt campaign finance system.
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And again, one of the extraordinary things about Michigan and Minnesota is
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that people saw the tens and tens of millions of dollars of TV ads and all that stuff, and they said, wait a second.
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If billionaires are trying to defeat people like El Saeed and Flanagan, maybe I'm going to stand with them.
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So, where are we right now?
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We're in a moment in history where we have the most dangerous president in the history of the United States of America.
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A guy who happens not to believe in democracy, He happens to be an authoritarian, doesn't believe in the Constitution or the rule of law.
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A president who is a kleptocrat.
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He's made some $2 billion in personal wealth since he's been president in this term.
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Somebody who is a narcissist, who if he had his way, I think would name half the buildings in the country after himself.
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Somebody who lies all of the time.
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somebody who campaigned on keeping us out of endless wars and then got us into this terrible war in Iran,
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which has killed thousands of innocent people and disrupted the economies in America and all over the world.
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So we've got to keep our eye on doing everything that we can to stop Trump's authoritarianism and his disastrous policies.
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But on the other hand, We have got to fight for an agenda that works for working families.
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It's not good enough to say, oh, Trump is terrible.
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Yeah, most people know that.
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Poll numbers are plummeting.
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Many of his own supporters are catching on.
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We need an agenda that says that in the richest country in the history of the world,
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you know what? we can create an economy that works for all of our people, not just the people on top, okay?
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It is not radical.
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It is not far left.
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It is not extreme to say that health care is a human right.
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So it exists in every other major country on earth.
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And we've got to take on the insurance companies.
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We've got to take on the drug companies.
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And we've got to move to a Medicare for all single -payer system.
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It's not a radical idea to say that a $7 .25 an hour minimum wage is insane,
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that we've got to raise the federal minimum wage to a living minimum wage, at least $20 an hour.
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It is not insane to say that instead of putting $1 .1 trillion into a bloated military,
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we should be investing billions of dollars to build the millions of units of low -income and affordable housing that we need.
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It is not a radical idea to say that at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the billionaire class has got to stop paying their fair share of taxes.
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Not a radical idea to understand that Donald Trump is crazy when he thinks that climate change is a hoax,
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given what's happening all over the world right now, that we can create millions of good paying jobs,
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transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.
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And certainly not a radical idea to say that if we're going to preserve democracy,
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we cannot maintain a corrupt campaign finance system under Citizens United, which allows billionaires to try to buy elections.
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So bottom line here, as progressives, we have a twofold task in front of us.
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Number one, we've got to lead the effort against the Trump administration and all of their horrific policies.
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Number two, as progressives, we've got to take on the Democratic establishment and fight for a Democratic Party, which is a party of working people,
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of young people, of people of color, and not just the top -down party dominated by wealthy campaign contributors.
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So that's what we've got to do, and the good news is we are making significant progress, but we've got to keep fighting.
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The general election is going to be in early November, and our job is to make sure that our people win all across the country,
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that Democrats gain control of the House, gain control of the Senate, and that we elect as many progressives as we possibly can.
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A lot of work to be done.
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Look forward to going forward with you.
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Thank you all very much for what you're doing.
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Take care.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 84 個句子、1167 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 7:40。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 152 個詞，接近日常對話。 86% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| billionaire 名詞 | /ˌbɪl.jəˈnɛɚ/ | 億萬富翁 /億萬富翁 |
| radical 名詞 | /ˈɹædɪkəl/ | 根 |
| progressive 名詞 | /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/ | 累進的 /累進的 |
| wage 名詞 | /weɪd͡ʒ/ | 工資 /工資, 薪金 |
| insane 形容詞 | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | 精神失常, 精神錯亂 /精神錯亂 |
| agenda 名詞 | /əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/ | 議程 /議程, 議事日程 /議事日程 |
| nomination 名詞 | /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/ | 提名, 指名 |
| inequality 名詞 | /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/ | 不平等 |
| complicated 形容詞 | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | 複雜 /複雜 |
| innocent 形容詞 | /ˈɪnəsənt/ | 無猜 /無猜 |
| establishment 名詞 | /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/ | 建立, 設立 /設立 |
| mortgage 名詞 | /ˈmoɹ.ɡɪd͡ʒ/ | 抵押, 抵押貸款 /抵押貸款 |
| efficiency 名詞 | /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/ | 效率, 效能 |
| extraordinary 形容詞 | /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/ | 非凡, 了不起 |
| poll 名詞 | /poʊl/ | 投票, 選舉 /選舉 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 釋義 |
|---|---|
| look around 動詞 | 環顧 /環顧 |
| look forward to 動詞 | 期待, 嚮往 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | guy who happens · Somebody who is · Somebody who lies |
| 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 never ever had · he's been · has killed |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | is totally rigged · are owned · be done |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 14 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 we've, we're, doesn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, authoritarian /əˌθɑ.ɹəˈtɛɹ.i.ən/, authoritarianism /ɔˌθɔːɹɪˈtɛːɹiən.ɪzm̩/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: nomination /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/, establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/, congressional /kəŋˈɡɹɛ.ʃə.nəl/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: nomination /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/, inequality /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/
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 billionaire, radical, progressive 這類單詞。
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