跟读练习: Are you following your dreams? ⏲️ 6 Minute English - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Beth.
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When I was a boy,
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I wanted to be a fireman when I grew up.
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How about you, Beth?
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Did you have any childhood dreams?
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I wanted to be an astronaut and fly to the moon.
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When we're young, most of us have big dreams and plans for the future.
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Unfortunately, as we grow up,
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these childhood dreams often get lost in the adult world of jobs,
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money, families and careers – but not for everyone.
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Daisy from New Zealand and Herman from Argentina are two people who decided to follow their childhood dreams.
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They wanted the world to become a utopia – a perfect,
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ideal society where everyone is happy and gets along with each other.
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In this programme, we'll be hearing how Daisy and Herman made their dreams come true,
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not by changing the world, but by changing themselves.
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And as usual, we'll be learning some new vocabulary too.
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But before that, I have a question for you, Beth.
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Following your dreams can be tough,
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but not following them can leave you regretting all the things you wanted to do but didn't.
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In 2012,
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Australian nurse Bronnie Ware wrote her best-selling book The Top 5
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Regrets of the Dying after interviewing terminally ill patients about their life regrets.
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So, what do you think their top regret was?
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Was it a I wish I hadn't worked so hard,
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b I wish I had followed my dreams,
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or c I wish I'd made more money?
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Well, I'll guess it's b they wish they had followed their dreams.
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OK Beth, I'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the programme.
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The first dreamer we're going to meet lives in Riverside,
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a peace-loving community in New Zealand where everyone shares everything.
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Riverside members work for the community's businesses,
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including a farm, a hotel and a cafe.
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All the money they earn is collected and shared between everyone equally.
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Daisy, who was born in East Germany, joined Riverside in 2004.
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Here she explains her belief in sharing to BBC World Service programme The Documentary.
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What I think I always believed in is
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that the sharing of resources can provide a group of people with quite a great advantage.
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But it doesn't matter how many hours you work or what work you do.
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Everyone is getting the same amount.
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And that is something that many people outside of Riverside really struggle with
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and where they are often getting this communism label attached to us.
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Because it seems so outlandish for people.
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Riverside isn't a communist community.
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In fact, people with many different political views live there.
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But Daisy says that local people struggle with the idea that everything is shared.
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If you struggle with an idea,
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you find it difficult to accept or think about it.
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Daisy also says some local people call Riverside outlandish, strange and unusual.
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Our second group of dreamers are a family, the Zaps.
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In 2000, childhood sweethearts Herman and Candelaria Zap bought a vintage car
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and set off from Argentina to travel around the world with less than three and a half thousand dollars in their pockets.
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22 years and three children later,
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they have visited over a hundred countries,
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meeting with countless people and experiences on the way.
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Here, Herman Zapp explains to BBC World Service's The Documentary how following his dream has changed him for the better.
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I am so happy with Herman that is now now that I know now,
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not the one who wanted to conquer the world,
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but the one who was conquered by the world.
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I learned so much from people.
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It's amazing how the more you meet people,
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the more you know stories,
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how much more humble you become because you notice that you are a beautiful,
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tiny piece of sand, but a very important piece of sand like everyone is, right?
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After many years travelling, meeting new people and hearing their stories,
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Herman is more humble, not proud or arrogant.
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He no longer wants to conquer the world to control it by force.
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Rather, he has been conquered by his experiences.
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Hermann compares himself to a beautiful but tiny piece of sand
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and uses the phrase a grain of sand to describe things which are insignificant in themselves,
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but at the same time are an important part of the whole.
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Daisy and Herman are rare examples of dreamers who followed their dream and found a happy life lived without regret.
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Which reminds me of your question, Neil.
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Yes, I asked about Bronnie Ware's book,
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The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying.
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What do you think the number one regret was, Beth?
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I guessed it was B, not following your dreams.
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Which was the right answer!
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Not having the courage to follow your dreams was listed as the top life regret.
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At least we have people like Daisy and Herman to remind us dreams can come true.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary from this programme,
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starting with Utopia, a perfect world where everyone is happy.
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If you struggle with an idea,
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you find it difficult to accept.
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The adjective outlandish means strange and unusual.
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To conquer something means to control it by force.
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Someone who is humble is not proud or arrogant.
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And finally, the phrase a grain of sand describes something which is both insignificant yet somehow important.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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Bye for now.
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Goodbye.
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欢迎来到我们的语言学习页面！本课程基于BBC Learning English的“Are you following your dreams? ⏲️ 6 Minute English”视频，将带您探索“梦想”这一引人深思的话题。视频深入讨论了我们童年时的梦想以及它们如何随着成长而演变，并介绍了两位鼓舞人心的人物——来自新西兰的Daisy和来自阿根廷的Herman。他们通过独特的方式（社区生活和环球旅行）勇敢地追逐了自己的理想，并从中获得了宝贵的人生感悟。通过学习他们的故事，您不仅能有效扩展词汇量，还能锻炼用英语表达个人看法和人生哲学的能力。这门课是提升您的英语口语练习和英语流利度的绝佳机会！
在本课中，您将：
- 学习和讨论与“梦想、目标、遗憾、生活方式”相关的核心词汇和短语。
- 练习描述个人愿望和经历的表达方式。
- 提升理解不同口音和语速的听力能力，为更高级别的雅思口语对话做好准备。
重要词汇和短语
- childhood dreams (童年梦想): 小时候对未来充满美好憧憬的愿望。
- utopia (乌托邦): 一个理想的、完美的社会或地方，通常指难以实现的理想境地。
- struggle with an idea (难以接受/理解一个想法): 觉得某个概念、观点或提议难以理解或接受。
- outlandish (古怪的，不寻常的): 形容某事物非常奇特、不合常理或不常见。
- humble (谦逊的): 不骄傲，不自大，乐于学习和接受批评。
- conquer the world (征服世界): 比喻想要控制世界或取得巨大成就，视频中指个人心态从控制欲到接受世界的转变。
- a grain of sand (一粒沙): 比喻事物自身微不足道、渺小，但在整体中却是一个重要且不可或缺的一部分。
- regrets of the dying (临终的遗憾): 人们在生命尽头时常有的后悔和未了心愿。
本视频练习技巧
为了充分利用本视频进行英语口语练习和发音练习，我们建议您采用以下跟读技巧：
- 模仿语速与语调： 视频中的BBC主持人语速适中，发音清晰，是学习标准英式英语发音和语调的极佳范本。尝试暂停视频，逐句模仿他们的发音、重音和句调，这将极大帮助您的发音练习。
- 关注采访对象口音： Daisy（新西兰）和Herman（阿根廷）的英语带有各自地区的口音，这为您提供了接触和适应不同英语口音的机会，有助于提升您的听力辨识能力和整体英语流利度。注意他们如何自然地组织句子，即使带有口音，也能清晰有力地表达自己。
- 主题深度思考与表达： “追逐梦想”、“人生遗憾”等话题具有深度，非常适合进行雅思口语Part 3类型的讨论。在听完Daisy和Herman的故事后，尝试用自己的语言总结他们的经历，并思考“你会如何追逐自己的梦想？”或“你认为人们最大的遗憾是什么？”这些问题，然后用英语表达您的观点。
- 利用新词汇造句： 将“重要词汇和短语”部分学到的单词和表达，在跟读或自言自语练习时融入您的句子中。例如，可以说“My childhood dream was to be an astronaut, but I struggle with the idea of living on a different planet.”
通过有意识地运用这些跟读技巧进行练习，您会发现自己的英语口语练习效果显著，发音练习也会更加到位，最终显著提升您的整体英语流利度。
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。