跟读练习: Cost of living crisis in one of Britain's poorest areas - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Harper Hay, North Manchester, is known as one of the most deprived areas in Britain.
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Harper Hay, North Manchester, is known as one of the most deprived areas in Britain.
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Debt is massive, housing is a big issue.
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It's not just people on benefits, it's the working families.
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And saying sorry when they come in,
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in despair, families in despair, which is frightening.
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Paul Day runs the Harper Hay Neighbourhood Centre.
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He says he's never seen things so bad.
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Rents around here have gone up £600 to £1,200 a month.
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We're doing, sadly, two food banks a week.
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We do free cafe for the local people to make sure they get their feed.
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We have wellbeing classes for the older people.
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We've got youth sessions.
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Grubs up, people.
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Come and get some pizza.
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So, food first.
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but Dean Byrne and Lisa Davenport are here for the weekly meeting run by the charity Debt Justice
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to share stories and look for solutions for people struggling with debt as it collides with the cost of living.
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Somewhere along the line something's gone wrong and we understand,
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I think, that prices do have to rise but it's gone like that and how is anybody able to afford that?
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Lisa runs a youth charity.
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There's no surprise that cost of living is a top issue for voters.
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She says no-one here is immune from hardship.
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People, even my own staff team,
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accessing food banks, you know, our clothing banks.
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Your own staff?
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Our own staff, yeah.
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You know, I run an organisation because everybody's in the same boat.
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I'm struggling myself and I see more and more people struggling.
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I mean, I'm over 60 and,
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you know, I'm looking at trying to get back into work.
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Do you feel a disconnect between what you hear from any
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or all of the politicians and what is happening here to you and to the people you know?
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Absolutely.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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You know, our children, what hope have they got?
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I'm trying to inspire and raise aspirations of young people
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and they see this level of poverty and don't see a way out of it.
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It's like an epidemic of hopelessness for people and they do need hope.
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A few miles away in Rochdale,
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the pressing issue here too is survival.
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I and millions of other people are stuck.
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There is no way to move forward.
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Yeah, can you watch this one as well?
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Jo Barker Marsh once earned a good living,
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travelling the world as an audiovisual producer.
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Right now, she can't work.
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A 15-year-old son, Harry, has additional needs and isn't in full-time school.
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She's on universal credit and,
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at their lowest point, relied on food banks and borrowing.
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If anything hits us like a big bill,
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then the time to recover is really extended and often it means that you might take on another loan.
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Jo says they went eight months without a working boiler.
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It's weird because you kind of just have to layer up.
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I don't know.
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It's not nice.
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Because obviously when it gets to winter and it starts getting colder,
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it's just, I don't know.
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Because everything's colder, like the walls,
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the floor, everything gets colder, not just yourself.
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Decisions whether made by the Bank of England or the government feel done to her rather than for her.
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It's really degrading.
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It's degrading to know that somebody,
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you know, without being political,
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but somebody in government can make a really,
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really, what appears to be a casual decision.
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and I now pay a third more for my mortgage.
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So swimming lessons, football, transport, haircuts, you know, everything.
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Is a haircut a luxury?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, actually, for a lot of people in the UK,
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a haircut is a luxury.
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What is that like for you as a teenager,
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that actually you know there are things that you can't have that maybe your friends can get more easily.
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It's really hard to explain,
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because obviously I'm not jealous,
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I'm happy, but it does make me a bit sad sometimes because it's like,
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sometimes I wish, why can't I?
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Jo hopes Harry will go to a new school in September and that she can go back to work,
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that they'll never have to turn to food banks or go months without heat again.
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Definitely couldn't go back there.
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I wouldn't make it.
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And I just want the last bit of Harry's childhood to be decent,
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do you know what I mean?
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And I want every person who's pushing themselves forward in this general election to have a bit of humility
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and humanity when they're making decisions and when they're making casual statements about what they will and won't do.
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Back at Harper Hay, Paul isn't optimistic.
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Do you get any sense that they understand what the cost of living crisis actually means here?
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No. No, not at all.
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They haven't got a clue.
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Come and live it.
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Come here instead of going on one of your corporate dinners.
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Come here, spend a day with us,
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see what the people are saying.
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Live that.
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So whoever wins has work to do.
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Promises to improve lives are one thing thing,
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convincing people here they will deliver,
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that is a task in itself.
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背景与背景信息
哈珀海（Harper Hay）位于英国北曼彻斯特，被认为是英国最贫困的地区之一。在这里，债务问题非常严重，住房问题尤为突出。这个社区的困境并不仅限于依赖福利的人们，甚至许多在职家庭也面临着巨大的经济压力。当地的居民在绝望中聚集，很多家庭都在挣扎求生，令人感到恐慌和无助。保罗·戴（Paul Day）经营着哈珀海社区中心，他提到这里的房租已经上涨到了每月600至1200英镑，很多人甚至为了生存而依赖食物银行。随着生活成本的不断上涨，债务问题和生存压力交织在一起，使本地区的很多人倍感无奈。
日常交流的五个重要短语
- “我正在努力解决这个问题。” - 表达面对困难的决心。
- “我们需要更多的帮助。” - 强调社区对支持的渴望。
- “这是一个困扰我们的主要问题。” - 讨论一个关键议题。
- “我看到更多的人在挣扎。” - 描述周围人们的困境。
- “这令人感到绝望。” - 传达对现状的失望与悲哀。
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