跟读练习: Benedict Cumberbatch reads a beautiful love letter - 通过视频学习英语口语
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My darling George, you said that things seemed clearer when they were written down.
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Well, herewith a very boring letter, in which I will try and put down everything,
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so that you may read and reread it in horror at your folly in getting involved with me.
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deep breath.
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To begin with, I love you with the depth and passion that I have felt for no one else in this life.
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And if it astonishes you, it astonishes me as well.
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Not, I hasten to say, because you are not worth loving, far from it.
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It's just that first of all, I swore I would not get involved with another woman.
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Secondly, I have never had such a feeling before, and it's almost frightening.
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Thirdly, I would never have thought it possible
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that another human being could occupy my waking and sleeping thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else.
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Fourthly, I never thought that even if one was in love,
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one could get so completely besotted with another person so that a minute away from them felt like a thousand years.
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Fifthly, I never hoped aspired, dreamed that one could find everything one wanted in one person.
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I was not such an idiot as to believe this was possible.
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Yet in you, I have found everything I want.
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You are beautiful, giving, gentle, idiotically and deliciously feminine, sexy,
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wonderfully intelligent and wonderfully silly as well.
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I want nothing else in this life than to be with you, to listen and watch you, your beautiful voice, your beauty,
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to argue with you, to laugh with you, to show you things and share things with you, to explore your magnificent mind,
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to explore your wonderful body, and to help you, protect you, serve you, and bash you on the head when I think you're wrong.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, I consider that I am the only man outside mythology to have found the crock of gold at the rainbow's end.
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Now let me tell you something.
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I have seen a thousand sunsets and sunrises, on land where it floods forests and mountains with honey-colored light,
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at sea where it rises
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and sets like a blood orange in a multicolored nest of cloud slipping in and out of the vast ocean.
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I have seen a thousand moons, harvest moons like gold coins, Winter moons as white as ice chips,
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new moons like baby swan's feathers.
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I have seen seas as smooth as if painted, colored like shot silk, or blue as a kingfisher,
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or transparent as glass, all black and crumpled with foam, moving ponderously and murderously.
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I have felt winds straight from the South Pole, bleak and wailing like a lost child.
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Winds as tender and warm as a lover's breath.
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Winds that carried the astringent smell of salts and the death of seaweeds.
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Winds that carried the moist, rich smell of a forest floor, the smell of a million flowers.
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Fierce winds that churned and moved the sea like yeast, or winds that made the waters lap at the shore's edge like a kitten.
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I've known silence, The cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well.
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The implacable stony silence of a deep cave.
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The hot, drugged midday silence when everything is hypnotized and stilled into silence by the eye of the sun.
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The silence when great music ends.
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I have heard summer cicadas cry so that the sound seems stitched into your bones.
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I have heard tree frogs in an orchestration as complicated as Bach singing in a forest lit by a million emerald fireflies.
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I've heard the keys calling over great glaciers that groaned to themselves
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like old people as they inched their way to the sea.
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I've heard the hoarse street vendor cries of the mating fur seals as they sang to their sleek golden wives.
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The crisp staccato astonishment of the rattlesnake.
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the cobweb squeak of the bat and the belling roar of red deer knee-deep in purple heather.
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I've heard wolves baying at a winter's moon, red howler monkeys making the forest vibrate with their roaring cries.
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I have heard the squeak, purr and grunt of a hundred multicolored reef fish.
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I've seen hummingbirds flashing like opals round a tree of scarlet blooms, humming like a top.
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I've seen flying fish skittering like quicksilver across the blue waves, drawing silver lines on the surface with their tails.
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I've seen spoonbills flying home to roost like a scarlet banner across the sky.
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I've seen whales, black as tar, cushioned on a cornflower blue sea,
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creating a Versailles of fountain with their breath.
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I've watched butterflies emerge and sit trembling while the sun irons their wings smooth.
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I've watched tigers, like flames, mating in the long grass.
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I've been dive-bombed by an angry raven, black and glossy as the devil's hoof.
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I've lain in water warm as milk, soft as silk, while around me played a host of dolphins.
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I have met a thousand animals and seen a thousand wonderful things,
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but all this I did without you.
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This was my loss.
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All this I want to do with you.
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This will be my gain.
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All this I would gladly have forgone for the sake of one minute of your company, for your laugh, your voice,
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your eyes, hair, lips, body and above all for your sweet ever surprising mind,
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which is an enriching quarry in which it is my privilege to to delve.
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Yours ever, Gerry.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这段视频共有 67 个句子、923 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 6:58。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 132 个词，很适合跟读。 只有 70% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| silence 名词 | /ˈsaɪ̯ləns/ | 沉默 |
| breathe 动词 | /bɹiːð/ | 呼吸, 吸 |
| smooth 形容词 | /smuːð/ | 平穩 /平稳, 順利 /顺利 |
| explore 动词 | /ɪkˈsploɹ/ | 探索, 探險 /探险 |
| silk 名词 | /sɪlk/ | 絲 /丝, 絲線 /丝线 |
| roar 动词 | /ˈɹoɹ/ | 咆哮, 怒吼 |
| scarlet 名词 | /ˈskɑɹlɪt/ | 深紅色 /深红色, 緋紅 /绯红 |
| wonderfully 副词 | /wʌn.də(ɹ).fli/ | 极好地 |
| vast 形容词 | /væst/ | 浩大 |
| bone 名词 | /boʊn/ | гўдў, гўдўзы |
| complicated 形容词 | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | 複雜 /复杂 |
| argue 动词 | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | 辯論 /辩论, 爭辯 /争辩 |
| cloud 名词 | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | йүн, 雲 /云 |
| flash 动词 | /flæʃ/ | 閃光 /闪光 |
| passion 名词 | /ˈpæʃən/ | 激情, 熱情 /热情 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| put down 动词 | 放下 |
| write down 动词 | 寫下來 /写下来, 寫下 /写下 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | have felt · have thought · have found |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | were written · is hypnotized |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 13 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I've, you're。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “th” 音: breathe /bɹiːð/, smooth /smuːð/, heather /ˈhɛðɚ/, feather /ˈfɛðə/, mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: flash /flæʃ/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, bash /bæʃ/, exclusion /ɪksˈkluːʒən/, cushion /ˈkʊʃən/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, multicolored /ˈmʌltɪˌkʌlɚd/
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。
- 用正常速度逐句跟读，每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 silence, breathe, smooth 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。