跟读练习: Chapter 3 - 通过视频学习英语口语

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Chapter 3 Tuesday on the Streets I meet Geoff in Richmond Park at 6.30 on Tuesday morning.
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A park is a good place to meet, away from watching eyes and listening ears.
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We walk up Sawyer's Hill.
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It's beautiful in the park in the early morning.
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There's not many people at that time.
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Maybe a walker with a dog or somebody running.
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It's quiet and green with lots of big trees.
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I love trees.
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Jeff Clayton is not interested in trees.
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Who is it? he says.
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Who's my cyber thief?
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Do you know yet?
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No, I say.
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I tell him about my day in his office.
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It's one of your three designers,
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I'm sure of it, but we need to catch them when they're doing it. But how, says Jeff.
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I'm going to put a Trojan on your office computer.
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When the designers turn on their laptops, the Trojan downloads.
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I can then watch everything on their laptops, on my laptop.
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But they know nothing about it.
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I can see them, but they can't see me.
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A Trojan, says Jeff, but they're dangerous.
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Are you sure about this?
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Where does this Trojan come from?
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How do you get it?
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A friend is writing it for me, I say.
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What friend? Who?
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Sorry, I can't tell you that, I say.
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Look, do you want to catch this thief or not?
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Trust me, We need to do this.
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Then, when the Trojan is in place, you upload your costings for the new quotation.
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What was it?
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Blanding's something?
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Blanding's house.
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A Chinese bank is moving into the building.
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They want everything new.
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Which Chinese bank is that?
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I ask.
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Oh, I can't tell you that, Jeff says and looks at me.
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I laugh, and after a minute, he laughs too.
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And then we wait and watch, I say.
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I use my motorbike when I want to move around London a lot.
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I look like a motorbike messenger taking letters and packets from A to B.
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The letters and packets never arrive, of course, but nobody knows that.
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They just see a person all in black on a motorbike and think, Oh, a messenger.
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Nobody sees your face.
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Nobody knows your name.
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Nobody remembers you.
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This is good.
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Harry, Ken and Anna are at work in the Clayton Electrics office, so I'm going to look at their homes.
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Sometimes you learn things from a person's home.
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Mary Bowman lives in a little house in a quiet street near Kew Gardens.
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It's a nice house with a nice little garden in a nice street.
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Lots of nice people in nice little houses.
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I ride up and down the street once or twice, but it tells me nothing.
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the same for Anna Lund.
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She lives in an apartment in a house in Barnes.
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There are four apartments in the house, but nobody is at home,
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so I can't ask any questions.
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I walk around the back of the house, but there is nothing to see.
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Ken Okobi lives on Richmond Hill.
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Big houses, big expensive houses, looking down over the River Thames.
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I stop the bike by his house and get out my iPad.
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I'm just a messenger checking an address.
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A car arrives and stops outside the house.
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An older man gets out and goes into the house, Ken's father.
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The car is dark blue, long and low.
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It's a Porsche.
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Only very, very rich people drive a Porsche.
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There are two small boys walking down the street carrying skateboards.
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They stop next me and stare at my motorbike. Is that a Yamaha?
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One of them says.
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Yes, I say.
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Do you like it?
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Yeah, it's cool, the boy says.
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What do you think of that car?
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I say, looking at the Porsche.
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I'd like one of those.
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That's a really cool car.
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That's Mr Okobi's Porsche, the other boy says.
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He lives in this house here.
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My dad knows him.
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He's got lots of money then, I say.
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He's an oil millionaire from Nigeria, my dad says.
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He's got three cars, no, four, says the boy.
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So Ken wears Gucci shoes because he has a rich daddy, not because he's a thief.
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An interesting person.
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He doesn't need to work with a rich family like that, but he does.
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I like that.
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The boys move on and I check my iPad for messages.
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There's a green light on the screen.
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Two emails.
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One from Layla, one from the weasel.
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The weasel's email has no message,
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just a file attachment, a file called garden4flowers.exe.
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It's the Trojan Horse Programme.
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At ten o'clock that evening, Jeff Clayton and I meet outside his office.
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Jeff opens the doors, puts the lights on, makes us a cup of coffee.
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I sit down at the main computer and get out a memory stick.
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What's on that stick? asks Jeff.
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The Trojan.
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My friend emailed it to me and I copied it onto this stick.
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I put the stick into the computer and start to upload the Trojan file.
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Jeff watches.
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He's very worried.
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Are you sure about this?
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He says.
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Trojans can do very bad things.
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Yes, they can, I say, but I'm not doing bad things.
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I'm just going to watch and catch your cyber thief, we hope.
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Is your Blanding's house quotation ready yet?
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Nearly, says Geoff.
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I'm going to finish the last bits tonight.
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OK.
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Tomorrow morning, upload the Blandings file into the quotations folder on the office computer in the usual way,
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and then tell the staff about it, but just quietly.
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It's just another quotation.
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Don't do or say anything different.
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Just be normal.
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I stand up and put my coat on.
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Nothing's going to happen before tomorrow night when they take their laptops home.
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Then you're on the night watch, Jeff says.
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And what do I do?
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Nothing, I say.
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Stay at home.
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Wait for my call.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

本课的词汇与口语要点

视频中反复出现的词有:Trojan, Jeff, nobody, boy, motorbike。 这段视频共有 129 个句子、991 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 11:01。 说话人语速较慢,每分钟约 90 个词,你有足够的时间模仿每一个音。 只有 81% 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

视频中最难的 13 个单词,附发音和释义:

单词发音释义
quotation 名词/kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/報價 /报价
thief 名词/ˈθiːf/賊 /贼, 盜賊 /盗贼
laptop 名词/ˈlæp.tɑp/手提電腦 /手提电脑, 手提計算機 /手提计算机
messenger 名词/ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒɚ/信使, 使者
upload 动词/ˈʌpˌloʊd/上載 /上载, 上傳 /上传
packet 名词/ˈpæk.ɪt/包, 小包
skateboard 名词/ˈskeɪt.bɔɹd/滑板
weasel 名词/ˈwizəl/鼬鼠
millionaire 名词/ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/百萬富翁 /百万富翁, 巨富
folder 名词/ˈfoʊldɚ/卷宗, 文件夾 /文件夹
stare 动词/stɛɚ/凝視 /凝视, 瞪眼
quietly 副词/ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/悄悄地, 安靜地 /安静地
shoe 名词/ˈʃu/鞋子, 鞋

视频中出现的短语动词

单词释义
stand up 动词站起來 /站起来, 起來 /起来

值得反复跟读的句子

视频中简短而完整的句子,可以直接用在日常对话里:

  • Who's my cyber thief?
  • Do you know yet?
  • Are you sure about this?
  • How do you get it?
  • What do you think of that car?

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
“going to” 表将来 be going to + 动词 — 计划或明显即将发生的事I'm going to put · I'm going to look · I'm just going to watch
现在进行时 am/is/are + -ing — 此刻或近期正在发生的事they're doing · is writing · is moving
义务:must / have to / need to 表示某事是必要的need to catch · need to do · need to work

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 17 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 I'm, can't, they're。请按听到的简短形式来说。

  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: quotation /kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/, shoe /ˈʃu/

中文母语者容易读错的音:

  • 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚,后面不要加元音: motorbike /ˈmoʊtɚˌbaɪk/, thief /ˈθiːf/, laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/, upload /ˈʌpˌloʊd/, packet /ˈpæk.ɪt/
  • /æ/ — 嘴张大,不要读成 /e/: laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/, packet /ˈpæk.ɪt/, attachment /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/

如何用这段视频练习

  1. 先完整听一遍视频,不要开口,记下不认识的单词。
  2. 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。
  3. 录下自己的声音并与原声对比,特别注意 quotation, thief, laptop 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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