跟读练习: Checking out The Human Library - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Check this out.
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We're off to the library and a story from our Dr. John LePouc.
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While most libraries prefer that readers use their quiet voices,
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we just visited a library in Copenhagen where talking is actually encouraged.
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It's a library where we give out human beings on loan
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and they'll be an open book for you and answer any question you have about the topic that they're offering.
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PAUL SOLMAN, RONNIE ABRAGEL, The Human Library,
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founded the Human Library 26 years ago.
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To be clear, there are no physical books.
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The people are called books.
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RONNIE ABRAGEL, Human Library, Human Library,
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All of our books are volunteers.
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PAUL SOLMAN, RONNIE ABRAGEL, Human Library,
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All of our books are volunteers.
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And can you leave the premises with the person?
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RONNIE ABRAGEL, No. PAUL SOLMAN,
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RONNIE ABRAGEL, The rules are really simple.
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Bring the book back on time and bring it back in the same condition.
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PAUL SOLMAN, RONNIE ABRAGEL, Human Library,
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There are now Human Libraries in more than 80 countries,
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including six in the United States, with plans for more.
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Most readings take place at public libraries,
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schools and universities, and on the Human Library website.
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The 30-minute sessions are free.
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The most popular books are typically books on mental health.
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Schizophrenia, bipolar, autism, anxiety, depression,
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all of these topics are almost global bestsellers.
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My goal was to take out three books.
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A lot of people assume that people with schizophrenia are either dangerous or helpless.
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That is definitely not the case.
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33-year-old Christian Sana studied quantum physics in college and was diagnosed with anxiety and schizophrenia 13 years ago.
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That's when he came to believe he was always being watched and wondered if the world he inhabited was fake.
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A thought popped into my head.
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Maybe I'm fake.
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I might be a robot,
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and everything I've experienced up until now is just false memories implanted into my head.
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So in my psychotic mental state I reach the conclusion if I am a robot or a hologram or something,
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obviously I don't have blood in my veins.
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I have oil, wires, something.
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So I go to the kitchen and pull out a knife
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and it's worth mentioning at this point this This wasn't a large, dramatic, suicidal thing.
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It was two very measured, neat cuts.
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I even disinfected the knife beforehand.
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I realized, okay, there's a bit of blood there.
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Cool.
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Obviously I am human and the world around me is fake.
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Back to that theory.
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Sana took medication and started therapy,
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and today is cherishing his family life.
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Right now, how are you feeling?
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I'm feeling good.
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We train every person to be an open book because the methodology is a little unique.
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This is not about me telling a long story to you.
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It's about your curiosity guiding the conversation.
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What do you want to know the most about my topic?
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The Human Library is supported by private foundations and public donations.
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And all the volumes, those sharing their life stories, are volunteers.
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You think that person is so different than you,
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but within half an hour you think,
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oh my God, I have a lot of common with that person.
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37-year-old Noora Bitar is a political scientist from Syria who came to Denmark with her Danish husband at the age of 20.
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How well did you speak Danish?
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Nothing.
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Nothing.
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I didn't speak a word of Danish.
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That was in March of 2011,
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when pro-democracy protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad led to a violent government crackdown and civil war.
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Over all these years, how have you been treated?
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Depends.
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For some people I am the refugee.
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And I think I accepted that.
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Most of the people, especially in Copenhagen, were open about me.
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But I also heard a lot about,
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like, you don't look like the typical refugee.
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What do they mean by that?
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So I am very obviously confident.
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I'm proud.
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And I speak English.
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I speak fluent Danish.
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I think there's that stigma.
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Like, a refugee should always be sad.
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I shouldn't be dressed nicely.
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So there's a stigma about dressing well and speaking well and being high educated.
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In Denmark, immigration policies have become more restrictive,
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and Bitar is still awaiting Danish citizenship.
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Now, after getting divorced, she looks forward to her second marriage,
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but still struggles with her traumatic past.
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Do you ever dream of Syria?
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I do.
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When I first came, I always dreamed that I was a bride walking,
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and there are gunshots in my wedding dress.
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It kind of like haunted me that I survived because I lost friends,
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I lost family members, and I always felt like I have that survival guilt, even until today.
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So my PTSD was always pictured me as somebody who also got shot,
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even in my wedding dress.
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So I don't know, I'm still struggling off.
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Every time I dream about Syria now,
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am I gonna be sad?
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Is there any question that a book won't answer?
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Sure, every book has their boundaries.
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If you go beyond the boundaries of what they're comfortable talking about,
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they'll know to say to you,
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I'm sorry, but those pages have not been published yet.
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I have never met anybody from Greenland before.
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55-year-old Viva Olsen, an indigenous Greenlander,
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remembers a childhood in nature.
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It's been a very wonderful upbringing because the first thing you get to do
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when you're just an infant is to go out sailing and hunting.
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What did you hunt?
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We hunt reindeer, we hunt polar bears,
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birds, and fish, and seals, lots of seals.
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JEFFREY BROWN, Can you sing any,
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like, lullaby in Greenlandic or anything?
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BIDAK UMA, BIDAK UMA, MAGYYY,
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MAGYYY, SIE ANOX PALUPO, SIE ANOX PALUPO, ALFINAR, ALFINAR.
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That's Brother Jack.
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JEFFREY BROWN, Frere Jacques.
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She had no trouble moving to Denmark in 2009,
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as Greenland is a self-governing territory that's part of Denmark.
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Today, Olsen is an aide to patients in psychiatric units.
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Before President Trump expressed his desire to own Greenland,
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did people there pay any attention or much attention to President Trump?
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No. We'd always seen America as the land of milk and honey and friendly,
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whose interest and presents in Greenland was benign.
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Olsen has happy memories of American soldiers stationed in her native country.
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They were well loved.
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Santa Claus would come by chopper,
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and he would bring us presents.
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And it was basically the American soldiers who'd chipped in and bought a lot of presents for the kids.
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That was really sweet.
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How old were you when that happened?
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I was six years old.
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Because what happens when I'm not afraid of you,
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and you have nothing to fear from me,
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our quality of life goes up.
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All of our life quality could go up if we were more understanding and accepting.
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Ronnie Abregel says they have already reached millions and just maybe are changing lives,
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reflecting the human library's goal to unjudge someone.
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We don't have to be best friends,
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all of us here, but we need to try and understand each other.
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在这节课中，您将通过观看一段有关“人类图书馆”的YouTube视频，学习如何与精神健康相关的主题进行对话。这个视频将帮助您提高英语口语能力，并了解人类图书馆如何运作。通过与真实志愿者的互动，您将能够练习提问和倾听技巧，从而增强您的英语沟通能力。
重要词汇与短语
- 人类图书馆 (Human Library) - 这个图书馆提供志愿者作为“书”，供读者借阅并交流。
- 借阅 (loan) - 用户暂时获取读者的许可，与其进行交流。
- 心理健康 (mental health) - 与个人心智状态和情绪健康相关的主题。
- 精神分裂症 (schizophrenia) - 一种严重的心理疾病，导致对现实的扭曲认识。
- 焦虑 (anxiety) - 一种常见的精神健康问题，表现为强烈的担忧或恐惧感。
- 志愿者 (volunteer) - 自愿参与活动的人，通常不收费。
- 讨论 (discussion) - 与他人分享想法和信息的交流形式。
- 抑郁 (depression) - 一种影响情绪和思维的心理健康问题。
练习建议
在您观看这段视频时，建议使用英语影子跟读方法。尝试模仿视频中的说话者的语调和速度。shadowspeaks是一个理想的练习工具，可以帮助您熟悉这种跟读技术。下面是一些具体的建议：
- 放慢视频播放速度，以便能更清晰地听到每个单词和短语。
- 暂停并重复说出每个句子，关注发音和音调。
- 确保在声调上与说话者同步，特别是情感表达，这样会让您的口语更加自然。
- 在每段对话后，记录自己说出的短语，以检测进步。
通过这样的练习，您将能够更流利地表达自己，特别是在讨论如心理健康等重要话题时，提高自信心与表达能力。记得常常回到看YouTube学英语的乐趣，并将新学到的词汇应用到自己的生活中！
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