跟读练习: 63 - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Your Excellencies, UN Secretary General, President of the General Assembly,
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Executive Director of UN Women, and distinguished guests.
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Today, we are launching a campaign called He for She.
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I am reaching out to you because we need your help.
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We want to end gender inequality.
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And to do this, we need everyone involved.
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This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN.
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we want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.
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And we don't just want to talk about it.
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We want to try and make sure that it's tangible.
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I was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women six months ago.
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And the more I've spoken about feminism,
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the more I have realized that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating.
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If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.
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For the record, feminism by definition is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.
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It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.
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I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago.
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When I was eight, I was confused about being called bossy
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because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents.
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But the boys were not.
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when at 14 I started to be sexualized by certain elements of the media
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when at 15 my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams
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because they didn't want to appear muscly
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when at 18 my male friends were unable to express their feelings I decided
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that I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me
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but my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word.
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Women are choosing not to identify as feminist.
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Apparently, I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong,
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too aggressive, isolating, and anti-men.
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Unattractive, even.
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Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?
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I am from Britain and I think it is right that I am paid the same as my male counterparts.
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I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body.
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I think...
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I think it is right
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that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and the decisions that will affect my life.
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I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men.
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But sadly, I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive
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these rights.
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No country in the world can yet say that they have achieved gender equality.
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These rights I consider to be human rights, but I am one of the lucky ones.
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My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn't love me less because I was born a daughter.
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My school did not limit me because I was a girl.
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My mentors didn't assume that I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day.
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These influences were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today.
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They may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists who are changing the world today.
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we need more of those.
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And if you still hate the word, it is not the word that is important.
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It's the idea and the ambition behind it.
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Because not all women have received the same rights that I have.
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In fact, statistically, very few have been.
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In 1997, Hillary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women's rights.
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Sadly, many of the things that she wanted to change are still true today.
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But what stood out for me the most was that less than 30% of the audience were male.
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How can we affect change in the world
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when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
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I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation.
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Gender equality is your issue too.
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because to date I've seen my father's role as a parent
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being valued less by society despite my needing his presence as a child as much as my mother's.
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I've seen young men suffering from mental illness unable to ask
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for help for fear it would make them less of a man or less of a man.
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In fact, in the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20 to 49,
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eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease.
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I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success.
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Men don't have the benefits of equality either.
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We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes, but I can see that they are, and that when they are free,
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things will change for women as a natural consequence.
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If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive.
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If men don't have to control, Women won't have to be controlled.
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Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive.
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Both men and women should feel free to be strong.
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It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.
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If we stop defining each other by what we are not,
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and start defining ourselves by who we are, we can all be freer.
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And this is what he or she is about.
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It's about freedom.
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I want men to take up this mantle so that their daughters, sisters, and mothers can be free from prejudice,
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but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too.
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Reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned, and in doing so, be a more true and complete version of themselves.
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You might be thinking, who is this Harry Potter girl?
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And what is she doing speaking at the UN?
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and it's a really good question, I've been asking myself the same thing.
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All I know is that I care about this problem and I want to make it better.
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And having seen what I've seen and given the chance, I feel it is my responsibility to say something.
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Statesman Edmund Burke said, all that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph.
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is for good men and women to do nothing.
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In my nervousness for this speech, and in my moments of doubt,
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I've told myself firmly, if not me, who? If not now, when?
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If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you, I hope that those words will be helpful.
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Because the reality is that if we do nothing, it will take 75 years,
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or for me to be nearly 100, before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.
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15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children.
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And at current rates, it won't be until 2086 before all rural African girls can have a secondary education.
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If you believe in equality, you might be one of those inadvertent feminists that I spoke of earlier.
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And for this, I applaud you.
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We are struggling for a uniting word, but the good news is that we have a uniting movement.
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It is called He for She.
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I am inviting you to step forward,
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to be seen, and to ask yourself, if not me, who? if not now, when?
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Thank you very, very much.
本节课简介
在本节课中，学习者将通过分析一段关于性别平等重要性的发言来提高他们的英语口语和听力技能。将通过重复练习的方式，引导学习者在情感上理解内容，增强自信，从而提高他们的口语表达能力。这种练习方法称为影子跟读（shadow speak），是提升英语口语能力的有效途径。对于那些准备雅思口语练习的学习者，这段内容尤其重要，因为它涉及基本的英语表达和重要的社会议题。
关键词与短语
- 性别平等 (gender equality) - 指男性和女性在社会、政治和经济上的平等待遇。
- 女性权利 (women's rights) - 女性应享有的基本权利和自由。
- 激励变革 (advocates for change) - 支持和推动社会变革的人。
- 女权主义 (feminism) - 争取女性与男性享有平等权利的运动。
- 人权 (human rights) - 每个人所应享有的基本权利。
- 隐性女权主义者 (inadvertent feminists) - 在日常生活中推动性别平等的人。
- 社会尊重 (social respect) - 社会对个体的认可和尊重。
练习提示
在练习这段视频时，建议学习者采取影子跟读的方式。这种方法要求你在观看视频时，尽量跟随发言者的语音语调，模仿他们的发音和节奏。由于发言者的语速比较适中，学习者可以在关键句子停顿处进行重复，并注意情感的表达。
对于初学者，可以分段播放视频，每次集中练习一到两句话，重复多次，直到自己能自然流利地表达。对于正在进行雅思口语练习的学习者，可以将此方法应用于句子的重音和语调上，以增强口语表达的清晰度和感染力。记得多做总结，反思语音中请注意发音细节的重要性，这样可以提升自己的英语口语能力和自信。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。