跟讀練習: Why Young People Love Old Things - 通過影片學習英語口語

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i like old things i have seven film cameras and nes a rotary phone a bunch of records

my parents old cassettes a book of mechanical movements devices and appliances from 1907 and a phonograph

i don't know exactly how many other people in their early 20s like all this old analog stuff too

but it's definitely not zero

I've been seeing a bunch of ads recently for digital cameras

that are supposed to look like film and I've seen people online

that are switching from smartphones back to flip phones

because you know social media just sucks and then

if you're talking about clothes I mean thrifting is a huge industry I've seen

so many people in my own generation whose whole personality is based on clothes

and culture from like the 60s 70s 80s or 90s even the 2000s.

Now there's no one right answer for why people like the things that they do.

I have my own reasons for liking old things other people might have their own reasons for liking old things

and this is a topic that can be talked about forever

but if you ask me why I like old things

and why I think all these other people all these other

younger people do too i think the first thing i would mention is

five the five senses you got sight hearing smell touch

and okay maybe maybe just the first four yeah um all this old stuff at least

when it comes to objects they're tactile you can interact with

them on a physical way you know all the clicks

and dials and buttons and doohickeys thingamabobs whatchamacallits whatever and when you consider that i mostly grew up with this

it starts to make sense sometimes it can feel like the whole world is stuck behind glass

when i'm constantly on my phone but when i use something that's older

and analog it kind of brings me back into the real world.

You know, I think human beings are kind of just built for tactile feedback.

It's just the basics of how we all interact with the world, with our senses.

Now, I've had older people tell me, oh why would you want to go back and use all

that old junk I was forced to use when I was growing up?

Things are so much better now.

You can access anything, at any time, anywhere.

Why would you ever want to revert back

well now all this unlimited

information i mean it's absolutely fantastic

but a lot of times it just it feels like a monsoon it's

so much since you can know everything all at once, it just can be a bit much.

Sometimes I feel like Ben Stiller in Night of the Museum

when Attila the Hun is trying to rip him limb from limb.

It's just complete decision paralysis when it comes to the endless void of the internet.

But using things pre -internet, it takes me away from that.

It gives my mind a break.

And all these things, listening to music on vinyl taking film photos using a typewriter it just calms my mind

and it takes it away from that ever widening dark pit

that the internet can sometimes be which leads me into my next thing

my dad used to tell me stories about

when he was my age he would buy all these cool old muscle cars for cheap, you know.

He had a Camaro and a Smoke in the Band at Trans Am, and he would swap the engine and fix up these cars right in my grandmother's driveway.

And as a little kid, my mind was always blown that he could take an engine out of a car and put a new one in, all just in a weekend.

But then one day, he and I were walking through a field full of classic cars in a car show, you know, the kinds that he worked on when he was my age.

And I stopped and turned to a 1970s Corvette, and the hood was open, so I looked down at the engine and went,

huh, it's actually pretty empty.

I could actually see the ground through the engine of the car.

Now, I'm not saying what my dad did all those years ago wasn't impressive,

but those older cars just appeared to be so much simpler to work on compared to any car I've ever own today.

If you buy a new car now, it's almost impossible to work on, but - Any of those older cars, I mean, you could read through the owner's manual and fully understand your vehicle.

Like, I actually found an old 1970s Corvette manual online, and it literally had a section titled,

Engine and Engine Rebuilding, where it showed you, step by step, how to take the engine apart, how to put it back together again,

and along the way told you exactly what everything did.

in comparison the owner's manual for my car from 2016 i mean it's just it's just all legal jargon

and it says if you have a problem just take it to the dealership take it to the dealership

and in the same way as classic cars any of these old cameras that i have behind me you know like this,

or like this, this typewriter that I have here.

I know how they work inside and out, and I can fix them if anything breaks.

And it's such a nice feeling knowing that.

It feels like they're fully mine.

I think that pretty much sums it up.

I found it at Spencer Gifts.

Streaming services.

Netflix, Spotify, Disney +, Peacock, all of them that are way too expensive and really annoying.

In a lot of ways, they're great.

I mean, who doesn't want everything on demand?

But in recent years, they've been adding more ads and raising the prices and then adding more ads on top of that.

And it's all just kind of culminating into what cable TV used to be, but in a way more expensive way.

And the best part is, at any time, your favorite comfort movie?

gone that song your parents used to sing to you when you were a little kid did removed

you don't have control over whatever is on one of these platforms

so for me and i think a lot of other people it's nice to know

that if i buy a vinyl record or an old vhs or dvd of a movie

no one's coming to take that away

and going back to physical objects it's nice to know

that a movie

or any music you own physically exists in the world apart

from it being just some artistic concept that's somewhere out on the internet.

It's actually in your possession.

You can hold it.

Because the internet is great,

but you don't really know when things are going to Nostalgia,

I think, is the biggest reason for all this.

Because who doesn't want to relive a happy memory you had from when you were a kid?

There's pretty much an entire industry of nostalgia, especially recently with all these never -ending movie remakes and reboots being made.

It's a huge reason why the phrase, what's old is new, exists.

And my generation is just getting to the age where we're starting to reminisce about our childhood.

But it doesn't fully explain why we seem to like things older than our own memories.

And my answer to that is I think there's just something about using a thing

that was part of everyday history from 50 or 100 years ago

that allows you to live the same experience that the original owner of that thing would experience

in a time that is now part of history but at one time you know it was just life

And that's a cool feeling.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“Why Young People Love Old Things”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：engine, older, internet。這段影片共有 98 個句子、1317 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 8:52。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 148 個詞，很適合跟讀。 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

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
dealership 名詞	/ˈdiːləʃɪp/	車行 /車行
typewriter 名詞	[ˈtaɪpˌɹaɪtə(ɹ)]	打字機 /打字機
nostalgia 名詞	/nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/	懷舊 /懷舊, 懷古 /懷古
limb 名詞	/lɪm/	肢, 手腳 /手腳
analog 形容詞	/ˈænəlɔɡ/	模擬 /模擬, 類比 /類比
vinyl 名詞	/ˈvaɪ.nɪl/	乙烯基
cloth 名詞	/klɒθ/	布, 布料
interact 動詞	/ɪn.təˈɹækt/	互動 /互動
appliance 名詞	/əˈplaɪ.əns/	器械, 器具
cassette 名詞	/kəˈsɛt/	卡式, 盒帶 /盒帶
jargon 名詞	/ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/	行話 /行話
monsoon 名詞	/mɑnˈsuːn/	季風 /季風
paralysis 名詞	/pəˈɹæləsəs/	癱瘓 /癱瘓, 麻痺
reminisce 動詞	/ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs/	回憶 /回憶, 追憶 /追憶
thrift 名詞	/ˈθɹɪft/	節儉 /節儉, 節約 /節約

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
go back 動詞	回去, 返回
grow up 動詞	長大 /長大

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
“used to” used to + 動詞 — 過去的習慣或狀態，現在已不再如此	used to tell · used to be · used to sing
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	I've been seeing · they've been adding
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is based · can be talked · was forced
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	I've seen · I've had

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 20 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I've, doesn't, don't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: cloth /klɒθ/, thrift /ˈθɹɪft/
長單詞——注意重音位置: paralysis /pəˈɹæləsəs/, whatchamacallit /ˈwʌt͡ʃəməˌkɔlɪt/, unlimited /ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: vinyl /ˈvaɪ.nɪl/, relive /ɹiːˈlɪv/, revert /ɹɪˈvɝt/, driveway /ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/, void /vɔɪd/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: dealership /ˈdiːləʃɪp/, analog /ˈænəlɔɡ/, cloth /klɒθ/, interact /ɪn.təˈɹækt/, appliance /əˈplaɪ.əns/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: paralysis /pəˈɹæləsəs/, relive /ɹiːˈlɪv/

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。
用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 dealership, typewriter, nostalgia 這類單詞。

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