跟读练习: Climate Change Debate | Natalie Bennett | Opposition (8/8) - 通过视频学习英语口语

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And I now look to Natalie Bennett to close the case for the opposition.
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Well, thank you very much, Mr. President, and thank you everyone, both fellow speakers and floor, for what I think has been an excellent debate.
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Although I will think perhaps unconventionally I have to thank Mr. Secretary here
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because I do think he gave me some hints to cut out all of the sports references from my speech
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and to make sure I include a cocktail recipe or two because that was clearly the most popular part of his contribution.
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Now the final speaker for the proposition said he was in a difficult position with friends on both sides.
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Now, I would certainly hope to call him a friend, but I don't find myself in a difficult position at all.
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In fact, when the union contacted me and asked me to speak, I said I would only speak if I was on this side.
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And I very much would agree with the speaker from the floor who said,
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it is surprising there are two members of the Labour Party on the opposite side to me.
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Perhaps however they are from a particular part of the Labour Party.
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However, I will confess that there is also division on our side of the chamber.
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I won't deny that.
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I couldn't really, given the fact that if you look at my Twitter feed,
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you will find that yesterday I was at Preston New Road campaigning against fracking.
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There is division on this side on that.
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However, I would put to you that we have put an entirely coherent argument that what the proposition is suggesting,
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that individual apathy is the greatest threat, absolutely does not hang together at all.
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Now, if I run through a little bit about what the speakers on the other side said,
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The first speaker suggested that short termism is wedded into our DNA.
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Well, I think people can change.
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I'm actually old enough to remember the age of B.T before Twitter
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and the world has changed a lot since then and our behavior has changed a lot too.
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And he referred to the fact that the Australian electorate
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and for those of you who haven't worked it out yet that's where my accent comes from
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so I do have an interest in this.
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He said the Australian electorate put the issue of the quality of political leadership before climate change.
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I could just say Tony Abbott for those of you in the know, but for those of you who aren't,
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the quality of political leadership is a huge problem in Australia for climate change as for every other issue
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and indeed I'd argue the quality of political leadership in Britain
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is a huge issue on climate change as on every other issue.
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Because I think...
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Now I will give credit to the second speaker on the
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proposition side who did come up with a really good Harry Potter line.
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It's a great line.
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I agree.
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Choices show what we really are.
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What he didn't address, however, is whether we actually have choices.
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And he rightly preempted my speech by making lots of references to home insulation.
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And yes, I spend lots of my time talking about home insulation.
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It's hugely important.
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But he suggested it was apathy that stopped us dealing with home insulation.
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Well, because I belong in the modern era, I looked this up on the internet on my phone while I was here.
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And I found the Property Yields website, which has a headline, Energy Efficiency 2018,
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it's a threat to landlords' profits.
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The worst housing in Britain is private rental housing.
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I will bet there are some people in this room who
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are about to discover just how bad some of the private rentals in Britain are.
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And you will not have the choice to do anything about that because you are simply a tenant.
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You don't have a choice.
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Now the third speaker from the proposition pointed to you some
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really spectacular figures about the increase in the number of cars in Britain.
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Well I'm going to quote some figures back on that.
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And the figures are about the cost of car travel versus the cost of public transport.
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And between 1980 and 2014,
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the cost of private car travel has gone down in real terms 14%.
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The so-called war on the motorist is no war.
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It's a love fest for the motorist.
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That's been government policy.
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In the meantime, the cost of bus travel has gone up 58%.
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For lots of people in Britain, there is no choice.
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You cannot afford to take the bus.
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And I haven't even got to trains and the cost of trains and you certainly can't afford to take the train.
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Now, the final speaker for the proposition said that British governments haven't admitted what they were doing because it was public apathy.
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But actually, his second line entirely undermined his argument and supported our cause because Because he said, oh, it's public apathy.
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The government is worried about what the Daily Mail is going to say.
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That's not the public.
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That's the Daily Mail and the owner of the Daily Mail.
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So, as you consider which door to walk through here,
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I urge you to think about the words greatest threat.
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And I would say to you that our side has very clearly established
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that the hundred companies responsible for the 71% of climate change emission gases are one of the greatest threats.
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and I would invite you to consider that tonight let's imagine someone who doesn't have the luxury of being in this chamber.
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Let's imagine perhaps a single mum in Brixton who's struggling along with three zero hours contract jobs,
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a bit of top up from inadequate government benefits, who's worried about paying the rent,
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putting food on the table.
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She's worried about the safety of her sons out on the streets.
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And I would say to you, maybe she's not thinking about climate change tonight.
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But I don't think that's apathy.
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That's because we've created a society where she can't possibly have space or energy or time to think about climate change.
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So if you think about another of the greatest threats to their climate, I would say it's poverty.
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People cannot take actions if they can't afford them
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and they can't even think about it if they've just got to survive tomorrow and live for another day.
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And finally, I can't finish without, sorry, referring to Donald Trump again.
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Because if you want to identify another of the greatest threats,
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I'm surprised no one else has referred to this tonight, but Donald Trump, of course,
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was not democratically elected president of the United States.
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He got fewer votes than Hillary Clinton did.
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And as our third speaker said, there are countries like Germany, and indeed I'd add Denmark into this,
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where 42% of the electricity comes from renewables.
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The countries in the world that are doing best on climate change are the most democratic countries.
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So I'd suggest to you one of your alternative greatest threats is the lack of democracy in our society,
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the lack of democracy that produced Donald Trump that's the problem, not individual apathy.
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So please, as you choose which door to walk through over there, do you want to blame the single mum from Brixton?
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If so, you should vote for the proposition.
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If you want to blame the owner of the Daily Mail, poverty and lack of democracy, please walk through our side.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节 B2 级别的口语课以视频“Climate Change Debate”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：speaker, climate, threat, apathy, proposition。 这段视频共有 98 个句子、1260 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 10:19。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 122 个词，很适合跟读。 86% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中最难的 15 个单词，附发音和释义：

单词发音释义
apathy 名词/ˈæ.pə.θi/冷漠
proposition 名词/ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/建議 /建议, 提議 /提议
insulation 名词/ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/孤立
motorist 名词/ˈməʊ.tə.ɹɪst/汽車駕駛員 /汽车驾驶员, 司機 /司机
electorate 名词/ɪˈlɛktəɹət/選民 /选民
preempt 动词/ˌpɹiːˈɛmpt/搶占, 搶先 /抢先
coherent 形容词/koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/凝聚的
hugely 副词/ˈhjuːd͡ʒli/大大
wed 动词/ˈwɛd/結婚 /结婚
emission 名词/ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/排放
tenant 名词/ˈtɛ.nənt/房客
inadequate 形容词/ɪnˈædəkwɪt/不適當 /不适当, 不足
confess 动词/kənˈfɛs/承認 /承认, 懺悔 /忏悔
cocktail 名词/ˈkɑk.teɪl/雞尾酒 /鸡尾酒, 調酒 /调酒
renewable 形容词/ɹɪˈnu.ə.bl̩/可再生

视频中出现的短语动词

单词释义
come up with 动词想出, 提出
go up 动词上昇 /上升, 上去

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has been · have put · has changed
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物website, which has · someone who doesn

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 24 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 can't, don't, haven't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: proposition /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/, insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/, emission /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/
  • 长单词——注意重音位置: proposition /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/, insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/, electorate /ɪˈlɛktəɹət/, democratically /ˌdɛməˈkɹætəkli/, inadequate /ɪnˈædəkwɪt/

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 apathy, proposition, insulation 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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