跟读练习: Don't Despair - 通过视频学习英语口语
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The difficult thing about being in despair is that we feel we know exactly what the future's going to bring.
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More darkness, more misery, more sadness.
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But in our worst moods, we should answer our tragic sense with a simple question.
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How can we know?
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On what basis has this dark certainty of ongoing damnation be formed?
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How can we, from our vantage point under the bedclothes, tell what the rest of our lives will be like.
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Have we got a crane from which to inspect the recesses of next summer?
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Can we from here meet everyone we're going to be introduced to in the next 18 months?
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Have we become clairvoyants as well?
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We can't be sure that things are going to improve from here.
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That would be naivety.
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But it's equally naive to imagine that we know they're going to stay appalling too.
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We haven't got the necessary information.
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glancing at the horizon with a hood covering most of our eyes.
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We didn't see the last disaster coming, we certainly don't know much about the future.
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There's a famous saying attributed to Zhu Enlai, the first premier of Communist China, when he was asked what he thought about the French Revolution.
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It's too early to tell, he replied, of an event that had occurred nearly two centuries before.
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We should want to imitate the modesty in our lives.
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Maybe that our partner left us is a disaster, or one of the most strangely fruitful things that will ever have happened to us.
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That they aren't answering our calls could be a calamity, or five years from now an immense stroke of luck.
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It's too early to tell.
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How was today?
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It may have been an ordinary, gentle day of no consequence whatsoever, or the moment when, without our noticing,
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a thread was caught that will eventually unravel our lives.
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It's too early to tell.
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We say everything's lost, but we haven't got the right to speak for everything.
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Maybe a betrayal opens us to the greatest love story we're ever going to experience.
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Maybe their sudden change of mind has saved us from a danger we can't yet see.
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we did lose the only person who can understand us.
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It's too early to tell.
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At the close of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, the chorus warns, call no man happy till he dies.
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And we might add, call no man unhappy till he dies either.
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We just don't know how large a hole we are in.
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All we have a right to is a modest, sceptical awe at the mystery of everything.
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