跟讀練習: Where is the evidence for God? | Bishop Robert Barron - 通過影片學習英語口語

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I think what most people get wrong when speaking of God is to imagine God as a big being.
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I look up in the night sky and I see stars and planets and look around I see animals and plants.
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I see the world of beings, of things.
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The great mistake is to say, well, he must be the biggest being around.
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He's the supreme being among the many beings of the world.
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And that's precisely what God is not.
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How often atheists, both old and new, will say something like, well, where's your evidence for God?
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If you imagine God as one more big contingent thing among others, well then there's just there's no evidence for that reality.
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They're operating out of a scientific framework.
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But see, if you're looking for God that way, you'll never find him.
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That's not what he is.
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God is the sheer act of existence itself in and through which all particular things exist.
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But people get caught up in misunderstanding God and therefore seeking him in a sort of empirical, scientific way.
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That's not going to work.
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You know, the theologian Paul Tillich, who was one of the great
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Protestant theologians of the last century, he said the word faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary.
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And I've always felt that's right.
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How do people read faith?
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Through a scientific lens or a scientistic lens.
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Faith is credulity.
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It's superstition.
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It's accepting things on the basis of no evidence.
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It's the way a child thinks.
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That is not faith.
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That is indeed superstition, credulity, stupidity.
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The Church, at its best, is calling people beyond that.
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We're not satisfied leaving people in a state of pre -rational superstition.
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So what's faith then?
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It's something on the far side of reason.
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When reason has gone about as far as it can possibly go, it looks into a kind of alluring darkness.
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Faith in ways like that, the full presence of God, is such that it overwhelms the mind.
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And of course it does.
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And that shouldn't be surprising that God, ipsum esse, the sheer act of being itself, the creator of all things,
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that in whom essence and existence coincide, is not going to be definable by our minds.
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It won't fit into our minds.
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So what does the mind want?
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Well, it wants the truth.
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And so it seeks it.
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It seeks it scientifically, psychologically.
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It seeks it through literature.
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It seeks it through philosophy.
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That's the beauty of the mind.
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I'd be asking people not to close their minds, but to keep opening their minds.
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I love the sciences.
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But I don't like scientism, which is the reduction of all knowledge to the scientific form of knowledge.
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I love the sciences and their success in the technology they've delivered to us.
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But first of all, there's all kinds of other ways of knowing the truth about the world.
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Hamlet doesn't have a bit of science in it,
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but Hamlet delivers to us profound truths about human life and about love and about frustration and about aspiration.
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We've got to open our minds beyond just a scientific vision of reality.
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So what I would say is religion doesn't close the mind.
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On the contrary, I'm opposed to any system that wants to shut down the spirit and say, no, no, that's all you can know.
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No, no, no, don't go beyond these limits.
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No, blow open the limits.
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Go beyond the limits.
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See, and that to me is language of faith, not infrarational stupidity and superstition.
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No, no, no. But faith is this alluring horizon, this darkness beyond the light.
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And by God, yes, I want to keep opening that up for people.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節口語課以影片“Where is the evidence for God?”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有：faith, scientific, beyond, superstition, seeks。 這段影片共有 45 個句子、614 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 3:56。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 156 個詞，接近日常對話。 85% 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
darkness 名詞/ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/黑暗
lens 名詞/lɛnz/透鏡 /透鏡, 鏡片 /鏡片
sheer 形容詞/ʃɪɚ/透明
stupidity 名詞/stuˈpɪdɪti/愚蠢
reduction 名詞/ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/還原 /還原, 還原作用 /還原作用
framework 名詞/ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/骨架, 框架
creator 名詞/kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/造物主
contrary 形容詞/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/相反
horizon 名詞/həˈɹaɪ.zən/地平線 /地平線, 天際 /天際
rational 形容詞/ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/合理的, 理性的
essence 名詞/ˈɛsəns/本質 /本質
satisfy 動詞/ˈsætɪsfaɪ/滿足 /滿足
frustration 名詞/fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/挫折
oppose 動詞/əˈpoʊz/阻止, 對抗 /對抗
vocabulary 名詞/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/詞匯 /詞彙, 語匯 /語彙

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞釋義
look around 動詞環顧 /環顧

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 17 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 doesn't, don't, gonna。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

  • “th” 音: atheist /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/, theologian /ˌθi.əˈloʊd͡ʒən/
  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: sheer /ʃɪɚ/, reduction /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, frustration /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, aspiration /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/
  • 長單詞——注意重音位置: stupidity /stuˈpɪdɪti/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, empirical /ɪmˈpɪɹɪkəl/, credulity /kɹɪˈduːlɪti/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

  • /v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/
  • 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: darkness /ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/, lens /lɛnz/, framework /ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/, essence /ˈɛsəns/, oppose /əˈpoʊz/
  • /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: precisely /pɹɪˈsaɪs.li/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, empirical /ɪmˈpɪɹɪkəl/, credulity /kɹɪˈduːlɪti/

如何用這段影片練習

  1. 先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
  2. 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
  3. 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 darkness, lens, sheer 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。

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