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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a large painting from the 1560s that hangs in Belgium's largest museum, the Musée des Beaux -Arts,

and is held to be a meticulous copy of an original work now lost by the Flemish artist

Peter Bruegel the Elder.

The painting shows a superficially bucolic scene.

Ships are taking sail, a shepherd is tending to his flock, distant cities look prosperous and ordered.

But in the bottom right -hand corner of the canvas, a tragedy is unfolding, all but unheeded.

Reckless Icarus, the legendary figure from classical mythology, is in the final stages of one of the ancient world's most famous aeronautical disasters.

Together with his father Daedalus, the young man had made himself a pair of wings glued together with wax.

Daedalus had warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, in case its heat were to melt the structure,

but the impetuous boy soared too high anyway and, in the painting, has just tumbled down into the waves to his death.

Icarus' end is deliberately not the central focus of the painting.

The eye is drawn instead to the glittering cities and smart ships in the distance.

As if to emphasise the point, the ploughman at the centre of the painting references a popular proverb, no plough stops for the dying man.

This neglect of Icarus' tragedy is at one level terrifying and sad.

We read into it how little the world cares about our own pains.

And yet, from another perspective, this neglect is deeply gratifying and importantly redemptive.

It is one of the central sources of our unhappiness

that we spend so much of our lives fearing for our reputations

and wondering what others will think of us when we fail, as we inevitably will at points.

The slightest change in our image in the eyes of others can obsess us.

We lie awake at night wondering how we could cope without the approval of people we don't even like very much.

We surrender our freedom to the verdicts of strangers.

But the painter's stroke of consoling genius is here to show us how, when we really mess up,

almost no one will be looking or caring very much.

The farmer is too busy ploughing, the shepherd is too taken up with thinking about the weather, someone else is overwhelmingly intent on fishing.

Our tragedies don't occupy society the way we fear they will.

A few people might notice for a moment, then swiftly move on to the next thing.

We are at the centre of the galaxy, only in our own tortured minds.

The world is still filled with humans who haven't heard of us and never will.

Those who might be angry or disappointed with you now will have forgotten all about you soon enough.

Your disgrace will, in time, be subsumed within the larger amnesia of a consolingly indifferent world.

It isn't just Icarus who is being swallowed up and obscured by the waves, some of the same obscurity awaits our greatest errors and embarrassments.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节口语课以视频“A Reason Not to Worry What Others Think”为素材。这段视频共有 32 个句子、513 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 3:11。说话人语速自然，每分钟约 161 个词，接近日常对话。只有 77% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇难度较高。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：

单词	发音	释义
tragedy 名词	/ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/	悲劇 /悲剧
shepherd 名词	/ˈʃɛpəɹd/	牧羊人, 羊倌
neglect 动词	/nɪˈɡlɛkt/	忽略, 忽视
reputation 名词	/ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/	名譽 /名誉, 聲譽 /声誉
deeply 副词	/ˈdi(ː)pli/	深, 深深
disappointed 形容词	/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/	敗興 /败兴, 失望
disaster 名词	/dɪˈzɑːs.təː/	災難 /灾难, 災害 /灾害
landscape 名词	/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/	風景 /风景, 景色
genius 名词	/ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/	人才, 天才
galaxy 名词	/ˈɡæl.ək.si/	恆星系 /恒星系, 群星
intent 名词	/ɪnˈtɛnt/	意圖 /意图
stranger 名词	/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/	陌生人
slight 形容词	/slaɪt/	輕微的 /轻微的
farmer 名词	/ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/	農夫 /农夫, 農民 /农民
torture 名词	/ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/	折磨, 煎熬

视频中的语法

说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：

结构	视频中的用法
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	is held · is drawn · is still filled
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事	has just tumbled · haven't heard

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 4 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 don't, haven't, isn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: shepherd /ˈʃɛpəɹd/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, amnesia /ˌæmˈniʒə/
长单词——注意重音位置: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: verdict /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/, canvas /ˈkæn.vəs/, inevitably /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/, overwhelmingly /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɛl.mɪŋ.lɪ/, proverb /ˈpɹɑˌvɝb/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: shepherd /ˈʃɛpəɹd/, neglect /nɪˈɡlɛkt/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, landscape /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/, genius /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/, reckless /ˈɹɛkləs/, glitter /ˈɡlɪtəɹ/

如何用这段视频练习

先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 tragedy, shepherd, neglect 这类单词。

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。

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