跟讀練習: What Happened To Simon Baker After The Mentalist? - 通過影片學習英語口語
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This is Simon Baker in an interview from 2008, trying to convince people to give The Mentalist a chance.
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He has no idea just how big it would get, or how beloved his character, Patrick Jane, would become.
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He has no idea this is the role he'll always be remembered for.
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Seven seasons later, in 2015, the show ends, and instead of his career taking off the way everyone expected, he just seemed to disappear.
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So what happened to Simon Baker after The Mentalist, and why haven't we seen more of him since?
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To answer that, you have to go back all the way to the beginning.
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Simon Baker was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1969, though he barely spent any time there.
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His family moved to Papua New Guinea, and then his parents split up.
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His mother remarried a butcher named Tom Denny, and the family eventually settled in Lenox Head, a small coastal town on Australia's east coast.
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He said he didn't grow up with money, but he grew up with a lot of space, right next to the ocean, which is where his obsession with surfing comes from.
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Before acting was on the table, he worked a few jobs around Australia, mixing cement as a laborer, washing dishes, working in pubs.
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He said that bouncing between all those jobs ended up being useful later, since it taught him how to read and slip into all kinds of different people.
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No, I used to work in pubs in Australia.
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You did?
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Yeah, that was kind of my acting school, really.
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Some of the shenanigans that you see.
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Then a friend talked him into auditioning for a role, and that's how his acting career actually started.
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He landed a part on the soap opera E Street in the early 90s, followed by Home and Away, and in 1993 he won a Logi Award,
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Australia's biggest television honor for most popular new talent.
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That was enough to get him noticed
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and not long after he made the move to the United States to try his luck in Hollywood.
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His breakthrough came with a small role in LA Confidential in 1997.
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Just a few minutes of screen time was enough to show his talent and put him on the radar.
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Over the next decade he built a solid name for himself.
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He wasn't a massive star yet but he was a working actor who kept landing good roles.
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He played a key part in Ride with the Devil, took the lead in The Ring 2
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and played the hero in Land of the Dead then in
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2006 he landed one of his most recognizable roles playing christian
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thompson in the devil wears prada he'd also proven he could
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lead a show from 2001 to 2004 he starred in the
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guardian playing a corporate lawyer sentenced to over a thousand hours
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of community service after a drug conviction the performance was strong enough to earn him his first golden globe nomination
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by 2008 simon baker had landed the role of his life
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patrick jane in the mentalist a former fake psychic who now solves crimes by reading people.
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What made Jane so easy to like was how Simon chose to play him.
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He could have gone dark with the character, he could have played up the grief and the manipulation, but he didn't.
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He kept it light.
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You could tell Jane was actually enjoying himself, which made it easy for everyone else to enjoy him too.
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He was always a step ahead of everyone else, but it never felt mean, mostly because of that smile he always had on.
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He'd lie straight to someone's face, playing them completely, and he'd just smile through it like was the most fun he'd had all day.
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It softened every trick he pulled, so the viewers never stopped being on his side.
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People genuinely liked spending time with this character.
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The recognition followed fast.
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In 2009, just one season in, Baker picked up an Emmy nomination.
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Simon Baker, The Mentalist.
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The following year, he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Drama.
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He also won multiple People's Choice Awards for Favorite TV Drama Actor over the show's run, which says a lot about how audiences felt about him.
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And in February 2013, right in the middle of the show's run, he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Walking down here and seeing all these names, and I never imagined that my name would be one of those names.
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I just, it didn't even enter my mind.
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After The Mentalist ended, everyone expected Simon Baker's career to keep climbing, but that's not what happened.
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Being the lead of a series running 20 -plus episodes a year isn't easy, and Patrick Jane was in almost every scene, which led to Simon working 12, sometimes 14 hours a day,
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five days a week, for the better part of a decade.
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Somewhere in all of that, he started noticing what it was costing him at home.
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It's been an exciting and an interesting period of time, but ultimately our family's become really close because of it,
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because we've kind of been fixed address for a little while.
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He was splitting his time between Los Angeles and Australia while the show filmed, watching his kids grow up mostly through visits and phone calls instead of actually being there.
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So when the show ended, he didn't chase the next big role.
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He said he was looking forward to spending more time at home
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and that dedicating himself to his family mattered more than anything else.
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He'd already worked hard enough as a younger actor to provide for his family
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and he just wasn't as hungry for work anymore.
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Back in Australia, Simon felt the need to help the film industry that first believed in him.
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He directed a film called Breath, an adaptation of a novel about two teenage surfers and it did well enough to win him the Best Director Award.
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From there, he kept showing up in smaller and more personal films, the kind of projects that never made headlines in the U .S., but let him work as an actor,
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producer, and director without the pressure of being the face of a hit show.
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I finished The Mentalist, I went back to Australia, I did a couple of, did a few jobs in Australia to sort of support my industry there.
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And then this came up and I thought, you know what, it's been a while.
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And now, over a decade after The Mentalist, Simon's returning to a major Hollywood role in a new series.
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It's starting to look like the comeback everyone expected years ago might finally be happening.
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That's what makes Simon Baker so special.
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He had one of the biggest shows on television, and instead of chasing the next big thing, he walked away from it.
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For his kids.
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For time, he knew he couldn't get back.
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That's not the move people expect from someone at the height of their career.
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Fame doesn't usually get put on hold, but his did, and over a decade later, it's hard not to see that choice as the right one.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 76 個句子、1195 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 5:37。 說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 213 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 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。
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 |
|---|---|---|
| baker 名詞 | /ˈbeɪ.kɚ/ | 麵包師傅 /麵包師傅 |
| chase 動詞 | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | 追逐, 追 |
| devil 名詞 | /ˈdɛvəl/ | шэтани, йиблисы |
| globe 名詞 | /ɡloʊb/ | 地球儀 /地球儀 |
| pub 名詞 | /pʌb/ | 酒吧, 酒館 /酒館 |
| nomination 名詞 | /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/ | 提名, 指名 |
| earn 動詞 | /ɝn/ | 掙 /掙, 賺 /賺 |
| trick 名詞 | /ˈtɹɪk/ | 詭計 /詭計, 騙術 /騙術 |
| recognition 名詞 | /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ | 認出 /認出 |
| wash 動詞 | /wɑʃ/ | 洗, 洗滌 /洗滌 |
| hungry 形容詞 | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | 飢餓 /飢餓, 餓 /餓 |
| producer 名詞 | /pɹəˈdjuːsə/ | 製作者 /製作者 |
| solve 動詞 | /sɒlv/ | 解決 /解決 |
| slip 動詞 | /ˈslɪp/ | 滑 |
| opera 名詞 | /ˈɒp.ə.ɹə/ | 歌劇 /歌劇, 戲曲 /戲曲 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 釋義 |
|---|---|
| come up 動詞 | 上來 /上來 |
| end up 動詞 | 到達 |
| go back 動詞 | 回去, 返回 |
| grow up 動詞 | 長大 /長大 |
| look forward to 動詞 | 期待, 嚮往 |
| pick up 動詞 | 拾取, 撿 /撿 |
| take off 動詞 | 脫 /脫 |
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 | be remembered · was born · was nominated |
| 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 | haven't we seen · It's been |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 17 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 he'd, didn't, wasn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: nomination /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, wash /wɑʃ/, dish /dɪʃ/, conviction /kənˈvɪkʃən/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: nomination /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, adaptation /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/
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 baker, chase, devil 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。