跟讀練習: Why a Walk in the Park Can Save Your Life - 通過影片學習英語口語

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Imagine that we've been in the apartment by ourselves since the previous evening, and now, at the start of the weekend, it's 11 in the morning.

A succession of small bits of bad news have been coming in over the past 24 hours.

Someone's unhappy with our performance at work.

A customer complained about our attention to detail.

We have a traffic fine to pay.

The milk is off.

A friend is accusing us of not caring enough about them.

And then, the final straw, someone we very much hoped to see for dinner, cancelled on us abruptly, with an unconvincing excuse about their mother.

We try to keep the different strands separate, but eventually, in the stillness of the small living room, they coalesce into an overwhelming impression.

We're not very worthy.

There's something wrong with us.

We're ugly inside and out.

We've been like this since the start.

No one likes us.

We're going to die alone, unhappy and mediocre.

The impression is stronger than we are.

We curl into a ball and can't hold back a tear, which rolls onto and is absorbed by the grey-green sofa.

Ten minutes pass, then another twenty.

Finally, we can't take it any longer.

We have to pull ourselves out of the spin.

So, with a newfound urgency, we grab our jacket, run downstairs and head for the nearby park.

This expanse of green was laid out by a group of enlightened planners and municipal engineers a few generations ago.

There's an inner and an outer circle, a small fountain, a playground and a statue of a man who pioneered research into bees.

More importantly, the park has very little idea of us.

It hasn't heard of our place of employment.

It doesn't have any views on our romantic life.

It couldn't care less whether we're alive or dead.

And the ignorance, far from crushing us further, has an immediate soothing effect.

A grand oak tree that's been sitting patiently in this spot for 150 years at least, has priorities blessedly far from our own.

It's pulling nutrients from the soil, it's showing its freshest, newest leaves to the sun.

It's providing a nesting place for robins and an athletic park for grey squirrels.

The indifference is not nature's alone.

There's a person in scrubs on a break from the nearby hospital, sitting on a bench with a flask of tea.

They might later be fixing up catheters on the children's ward or ministering to a dying nonagenarian.

To their left, a little boy is playing tag with his father.

His joyful screams are unabashed.

It's a game, but something very serious, about love and self-esteem and having a home, is also being exercised.

Overhead planes, perhaps heading back from Singapore or Madrid, are locking onto the final approach beacons at the airport to the west.

In the distance, a line of uncomplaining pylons is bringing in electricity from the coast to power hair dryers and video games.

Our strange, extraordinary, pathetic species in all our glory, complexity and mundanity.

With all this in view, it suddenly seems not to matter quite so much that we may or may not be a wretch, that a lover has let us down.

Heaven knows they might have their reasons and we aren't perfect either.

or that we should, in all fairness, probably make more of an effort with our career.

The individual ego diminishes.

We let ourselves dissolve into a wider realm.

What happens to us no longer has to be the measure of everything.

We are, in part, also the trees, the houses, the clouds overhead, the pigeon who has come to peck at a leftover sandwich,

and the young boy now being hugged tightly by his dad.

Our ultimate fate ceases to concern us so tightly.

What does it matter quite so much what we're worth or where we end up?

We rejoin the ocean from which we've been in frightened exile for too long.

None of the elements that have helped us to recover our balance care to articulate a theory of existence.

They may have one nevertheless.

The oak tree has its own distinctive silent take on love, achievement, success and power, as do the clouds,

the robins, the squirrels and the contrails.

Each one of them is whispering very quietly indeed, matter less, forget more, open your heart, let go of your resentments, surrender.

We can be so much happier

when we manage for a time to still the clamour of the I and live less intimately with ourselves,

when we stop insisting that everything that happens to us must say something profound about us, when we can wear our fate more lightly.

We may end up alone, we may be foolish, we may be sad.

None of it, the park tells us, might matter too much anyway.

We'll cope, after all, perhaps we'll go to the cinema alone tonight, or have a drink on the terrace.

We haven't just taken a walk, we've had a covert philosophy lesson.

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這段影片共有 63 個句子、840 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 5:01。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 167 個詞，接近日常對話。只有 78% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

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
cloud 名詞	/ˈklaʊ̯d/	йүн, 雲 /雲
fate 名詞	/feɪt/	命運 /命運, 氣數 /氣數
impression 名詞	/ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/	印記 /印記
robin 名詞	/ˈɹɑ.bɪn/	知更鳥 /知更鳥, 歐亞鴝 /歐亞鴝
unhappy 形容詞	/ʌnˈhæpi/	不高興 /不高興, 不開心 /不開心
overhead 名詞	/ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/	間接費用 /間接費用
squirrel 名詞	/ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/	松鼠, 灰鼠
lesson 名詞	/ˈlɛs.ən/	課業 /課業, -課 /-課
element 名詞	/ˈɛləmənt/	要素
silent 形容詞	/ˈsaɪ̯lənt/	安靜 /安靜, 恬靜 /恬靜
romantic 形容詞	/ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/	浪漫
soil 名詞	/sɔɪl/	土壤, 泥土
ugly 形容詞	/ˈʌɡli/	難看 /難看, 醜 /醜
priority 名詞	/pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/	優先權 /優先權, 更重要的事
bench 名詞	/ˈbɛnt͡ʃ/	長椅 /長椅

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
end up 動詞	到達

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
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	have been coming · that's been sitting
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 been · hasn't heard · has let
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is absorbed · was laid · are unabashed

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 18 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 we're, we've, can't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, catheter /ˈkæθɪtɚ/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, succession /səkˈsɛʃ.ən/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/, diminish /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/
長單詞——注意重音位置: electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, municipal /mjuˈnɪsɪpəl/

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