跟讀練習: Your Life as King Baldwin IV - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Level 1.
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The Numb Arm.
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You are 9 years old.
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The other boys in the courtyard are wrestling.
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You're winning.
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You always win.
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But something is wrong.
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Your tutor is watching from the balcony.
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He's not watching the fight.
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He's watching your arm.
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The other boys are scratching you.
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Digging their nails into your right forearm.
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You don't flinch.
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You don't feel it.
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You've never felt it.
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Your tutor calls you inside.
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He grabs your arm and presses a lit candle close to your skin.
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Nothing.
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No pain, no reaction.
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His face goes white.
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He knows what this means.
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You don't.
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Not yet.
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You're a prince of Jerusalem.
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Your father is king of the holiest city on earth.
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You live in a stone palace surrounded by enemies on every side.
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You were born for the throne.
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But something is growing inside your body.
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Something that will eat you alive.
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Level 2.
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The Final Verdict.
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You are 11.
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A physician examines you in a dark room.
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He unwraps the linen from your arm.
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The skin is pale.
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Patches of it are completely numb.
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He presses a needle into your flesh.
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You feel nothing.
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He steps back.
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He doesn't need to say the word.
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Leprosy.
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In this century, it's a final verdict.
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There is no cure, no treatment.
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Your body will slowly destroy itself.
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Your skin will crack and blister.
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Your fingers will curl inward like claws face will collapse.
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Eventually, your eyes will go dark.
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And then, your story ends.
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Most lepers are cast out of society.
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They live in colonies outside the walls.
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They ring bells to warn people their coming.
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But you are not most lepers.
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You are the heir to Jerusalem.
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The kingdom needs a king.
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And right now, you're all they've got.
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Level 3.
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The Boy King.
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You are 13.
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Your father is gone.
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Dysentery took him on a campaign in in the north.
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The crown passes to you.
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A child with a disease that's already eating his body from the inside.
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The barons kneel before you in the great hall.
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Some of them mean it.
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Most of them are already calculating.
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A sick boy on the throne means opportunity.
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Your mother is pushed aside.
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Your tutor becomes your closest advisor.
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He's the only one who sees you as a king and not a shadow on borrowed time.
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The kingdom you inherit is a thin strip of land pressed between the Mediterranean Sea and a sea of enemies.
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Egypt to the south, Syria to the east.
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And somewhere out there, the most dangerous man alive is unifying the entire Muslim world under one banner.
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His name is Saladin.
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He wants Jerusalem back.
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And you, a 13-year-old leper, are the only thing standing in his way.
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Level 4.
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The Miracle.
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You are 16.
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Saladin crosses the border with 26,000 men.
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Your scouts ride in hard with the news.
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The largest army you've ever faced is heading straight for the Holy City.
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You have 375 knights, a few thousand infantry.
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The math doesn't work.
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Your advisors urge caution.
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Fall back behind the walls.
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Wait for reinforcements.
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You refuse.
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You ride out.
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Your arm is already weakening.
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You can barely grip the reins.
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A servant straps the shield to your arm because your fingers can't hold it.
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You find Saladin's army near a hill called Moncusard.
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They don't expect you.
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They think you're hiding behind walls.
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You order the charge.
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375 knights slam into 26,000 soldiers.
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The impact is devastating.
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You're in the middle of it.
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A teenage boy on a war horse, his body failing, his sword arm going numb.
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Saladin's army shatters.
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They scatter into the desert.
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Thousands gone.
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Saladin himself barely escapes on the back of a racing camel.
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You ride back to Jerusalem, a hero.
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The entire kingdom erupts.
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A leper boy just defeated the greatest general in the known world.
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For one single night, you forget the clock is ticking.
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Level 5 – The Rotting Throne You are 18.
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The disease is accelerating.
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Your right hand is nearly useless.
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You press it flat against the throne's armrest, just to feel something… nothing.
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The skin on your arms is cracking open in deep sores.
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Bandages cover most of your body now.
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You can still ride, but someone has to lift you onto the horse.
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The court sees it.
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The vultures are circling.
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Your mother whispers in corners you can't reach.
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She schemes behind your back.
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Your sister's new husband, a French knight with more ambition than skill, is positioning himself for the crown.
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The barons split into factions.
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Some support you.
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Some back the French knight.
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Some just want whoever wins to owe them a favor.
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You sit on the throne wrapped in linen, watching your kingdom tear itself apart from the inside.
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Four months ago you drove Saladin into the desert.
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Tonight your own court is the battlefield.
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Saladin is still out there.
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He hasn't forgotten Montgassard.
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He's rebuilding.
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He's recruiting.
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He's patient.
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He doesn't need an army right now.
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He has something better.
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Time.
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And you're running out of it.
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Level 6.
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The Iron Will.
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You are 20.
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Your legs are giving out.
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Someone carries you into the throne room every morning.
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A silver mask sits where the bandages used to be.
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You chose it yourself.
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If the court wants to stare, they'll stare at something cold.
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But your mind is razor sharp, sharper than anyone sitting in the room.
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You strip your sister's husband of his claim, his authority, his future.
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The man nearly started a war through sheer stupidity.
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He raided a merchant caravan during a truce with Saladin, broke the peace like it meant nothing.
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You humiliate him publicly.
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The barons protest.
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You don't care.
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You cannot walk.
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But you can still rule.
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You summon the one Baron you trust, a lord from the Northern Territories.
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Not ambitious, not hungry for glory, just solid, steady, experienced.
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You appoint him regent.
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The court despises it.
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They want the French knight.
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You want the kingdom to survive.
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Those are two very different things.
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Level 7.
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The Last Ride.
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You are 21.
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Saladin invades again.
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A massive army lays siege to a fortress near the Sea of Galilee.
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The regent gathers the army, but won't attack.
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He's cautious.
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Too cautious.
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The fortress is crumbling.
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Defenders are dying on the walls.
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You hear the reports, and something inside you snaps.
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You haven't walked in months.
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Your eyes are going, but you order your servants to carry you to the front lines on a litter.
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The army watches as you arrive.
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Silence first.
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Then something else.
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They've seen kings ride into battle before.
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They've never seen one carried.
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You can't hold a sword, you can't grip the reins of a horse, but you can give orders, and the men follow them.
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Your presence alone rallies the entire force.
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They march.
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Saladin sees the banners of Jerusalem approaching and withdraws.
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He won't fight you.
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Not again.
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Not after Montgesard.
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A blind, crippled leper king on a stretcher just made the most powerful warlord in the Middle East turn around
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and walk away.
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This is the last time you will ever see a battlefield.
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Level 8.
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The Blind King.
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You are 22.
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Your eyes have failed.
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The light is gone.
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You rule Jerusalem in total darkness.
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Servants describe every room.
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Advisors read you the letters aloud.
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You dictate your responses from abed.
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You will not leave it again.
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Your body is unrecognizable.
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The disease has consumed your face, your hands, your feet.
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Every joint is swollen.
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Every breath is agony.
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But you are still making decisions.
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You name your sister's infant son as your heir, not her husband, never her husband.
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You know the French knight will destroy everything you've bled to protect.
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You force the barons to swear their loyalty to the boy.
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Some of them lie straight to your face.
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You can't see their expressions, but you know.
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You've always known who's loyal, and who's just waiting for you to stop breathing.
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Level 9.
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The Sandcastle.
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You are 23.
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The child is crowned co-king beside you.
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A boy barely old enough to hold a wooden sword, now shares the throne of Jerusalem.
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It's desperate.
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It's absurd.
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It's the only move left on the board.
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Your regent governs in the child's name.
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The French knight is sidelined. For now.
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You've built a wall of oaths and laws around the succession.
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It's fragile.
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Paper thin.
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Nothing holds forever in this kingdom.
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You know that better than anyone alive.
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Your kingdom is a sandcastle.
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The tide is Saladin.
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But you've bought time.
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That's all you've ever done.
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Buy time. With blood. With pain.
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With a body that should have given out.
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years ago.
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Level 10.
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The Price.
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You are 24, spring in Jerusalem.
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You can't feel the warmth on your skin.
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You can't see the sunlight pouring through your window.
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You can barely hear the prayers echoing from the great church below the palace walls.
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Your body has finally consumed itself.
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11 years on the throne, you fought Saladin and won.
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You held a crumbling kingdom together through nothing but will.
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You ruled through blindness, through agony, through betrayal.
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When stronger men would have surrendered in their sleep, the servants change your bandages one final time, the room goes quiet.
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You are 24 years old, and you have lived more lifetimes than men twice your age.
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The crown is lifted from your head.
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Two years after your death, the French knight you spent your entire reign trying to stop will lose Jerusalem to Saladin at the Horns of Hattin.
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Everything you fought for will fall, but not today.
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Today, the pain finally stops.
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You paid the price, and now you are history.
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你能學到什麼
這段影片非常適合練習英語口語練習中的“shadow speak”技巧。首先，你可以鍛鍊情景式表達能力，模仿9歲王子麵對異常時的懵懂語氣，以及 tutor 發現病情時的緊張口吻。其次，通過複述長句（如“Your body will slowly destroy itself...”），提升連貫表達能力，避免斷句生硬。此外，影片中的細節描述（如“lit candle close to your skin”）能幫助你積累具象化語言，讓口語更生動。
注意這些發音現象
影片中存在不少連讀和弱讀，是“看影片學英語”的好素材。比如“the other boys”中“the”弱讀為/ðə/，與“other”連讀；“presses a lit candle”中“presses a”連讀為/ˈpresɪzə/；“doesn't flinch”中“doesn't”弱讀為/ˈdʌznt/，尾音/t/幾乎不發音。這些發音細節能讓你的口語更接近母語者，也是“shadowing site”上常見的訓練重點。
像母語者一樣表達
模仿時要抓住節奏和重音。比如“Your tutor calls you inside. He grabs your arm and presses a lit candle close to your skin.” 前句節奏平穩，後句中“grabs”“presses”“close”需要重讀，突出動作的緊張感。再比如“Leprosy. In this century, it's a final verdict.” 單詞“Leprosy”單獨成句，需用降調強調，後句中“final verdict”重讀，傳遞絕望感。通過“shadowspeak”練習，反覆跟讀這些節奏變化，能讓你的口語更有感染力。
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 |
|---|---|
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | You've never felt · you've ever faced · hasn't forgotten |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | were born · are cast · is pushed |
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。