跟读练习: Don't Worry, No One Cares - 通过视频学习英语口语
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We tend to begin our lives with a deeply unrepresentative experience:
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that of being surrounded by people who care to an extraordinary extent about us.
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We look up from the dreams and confusions of early infancy and may find a smiling face or two,
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observing us with the utmost tenderness and concern.
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They watch us as a rivulet of saliva leaks slowly from the corner of our mouth
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and rush to wipe it away as if dabbing at a precious canvas, then indulgently stroke the fine, soft hairs on our delicate scalps.
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first smile.
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The applause rings for days when we take our initial steps, giggle, totter, fall and bravely try to resume our progress.
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It isn't just at home.
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At school, the best teachers encourage us when we find something difficult.
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They understand we might be shy.
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They are keen to detect and encourage the early tentative signs of our particular talents.
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Then, of course, we grow up and we're inducted into a horrific reality.
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We exist in a world of astonishing indifference to almost everything we are, think, say or do.
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We might be in late adolescence when the point really hits home.
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We might be in a bedsit at university or wandering the streets of the city at night on our own,
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when it occurs to us with full force how negligible a thing we are in the wider scheme.
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No one in the crowds we pass knows anything about us.
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Our welfare is of no concern to them.
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They jostle against us on the pavements and treat us as a mere impediment to their progress.
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We are tiny against the towers and brightly lit flashing advertising hoardings.
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We might die, and no one would even notice.
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It may be a stern truth, but we make it all the more so by focusing only on its darkest dimensions.
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We remain grief -stricken by how invisible we are, yet we cease to put this bracing thought to its proper philosophical purpose.
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that of rescuing us from another problem which is gnawing at us all the
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while an ongoing and highly corrosive sense of self -consciousness.
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In another side of our minds, we haven't accepted the indifference of others at all.
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In fact, we know and suffer intensely from just how much, as we feel sure, Others, are thinking of us.
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We are extremely worried about how high -pitched and odd our voice sounded
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when we asked the waiter for a bit more milk.
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We are certain that the sales attendant noticed how out of shape our stomach is.
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The people in the restaurant where we're eating alone are undoubtedly spending considerable time wondering why we have no friends.
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At work, they're still dwelling on that slightly stupid thing we said last month about the US sales strategy.
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A person we went to bed with four years ago is
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to this day thinking ill of us in some powerful but undefined way.
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We don't really have any evidence for this and yet it can feel like an emotional certainty.
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it can feel intuitively clear that our foolishness
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and less than impressive sides are being noted and dwelt on all the time by everyone at large.
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Every way in which we depart from what the world considers to be normal, upstanding and dignified has been registered by the widest constituency.
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To liberate us from this kind of punitive story, we may need to conduct a deliberately artificial thought exercise.
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We may have to set ourselves the challenge of examining how long we spend on the foolishness or just existence
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of other people.
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How we think
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and feel about other people we don't particularly know is perhaps the best guide to the workings of the average human imagination.
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To pretty much the rest of the world, we are the very same sort of strangers or casual acquaintances as we know and deal with in our own daily experience.
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And now here, the results can be surprising.
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Imagine that we are in an elevator, standing next to someone on our way to the 20th floor.
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They think they know that we disapprove of their choice of jacket.
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They think they know that we should have picked another one and that they look silly and pinched in this one.
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But in reality, we haven't noticed the jacket.
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In fact, we haven't noticed they were born, or that one day they're going to die.
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We're just worrying about how our partner responded when we mentioned our mother's cold to them last night.
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Or imagine it's well on the way into the last bit of a two -hour meeting
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that we sense that a colleague's hair really is a bit different today, though we can't quite put a finger on how,
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even though they spent a small fortune on their cut and thought intensely about the wisdom of visiting a new salon.
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In other words, when we take our own minds as a guide, we get a far more accurate
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and far less oppressive vision of what is likely to be going on in the heads of other people
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when they encounter us which is, in the nicest way, Not very much.
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This kind of news is both very bad and strangely good.
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On the one hand, no one may notice when we die.
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On the other, they are also sure not to have noticed
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when we spill some orange juice down our front or do our hair the wrong way.
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It's not that we or they are horrible.
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Our lack of caring isn't absolute.
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If we really saw a stranger in trouble in the water, we would dive in.
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When a friend is in tears, we are sympathetic.
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It's just that for the most part, we need to filter.
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Our everyday lack of care occurs for a perfectly sane and forgivable reason.
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We need to spend most of our waking energies on navigating and doing justice to our own intimate concerns.
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Once we've had to think about our relationship, our career, our finances, our health, our close relatives, our offspring, our upcoming holidays, our friends and the state of our household,
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there's just going to be very little time left to reflect on the suddenly high -pitched voice of a customer
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or the outfit of a colleague.
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We are owed the upside of an otherwise tragic insight.
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We shouldn't just suffer from the indifference of other people.
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We should, where it matters, properly reciprocate it.
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We shouldn't merely suffer from being ignored, we should accept the liberation implicit in the fact that we are being so.
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And then in turn, we should embark more courageously on those situations
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and adventures where a touch of foolishness is always going to be a possibility, like the start of a new business, a romantic invitation, or asking a question at a conference.
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We may fail, but we can believe with new certainty that almost no one will give a damn if we do.
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An idea that may, above anything else, help to contribute to our future success.
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Something which, as we now know, no one's going to much notice or care about anyway.
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At the School of Life, we believe that confidence is a skill we can all learn.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这段视频共有 83 个句子、1217 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 7:22。 说话人语速自然,每分钟约 165 个词,接近日常对话。 82% 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 15 个值得学习的单词,附发音和释义:
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| suffer 动词 | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | 受苦, 遭受 |
| occur 动词 | /əˈkɜː/ | 發生 /发生 |
| encourage 动词 | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | 鼓勵 /鼓励, 激勵 /激励 |
| jacket 名词 | /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ | 夾克 /夹克, 上衣 |
| certainty 名词 | /ˈsɝtn̩ti/ | 確信 /确信 |
| dwell 动词 | /dwɛl/ | 居住, 住 |
| finger 名词 | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | 手指, 指頭 /指头 |
| ignore 动词 | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | 無視 /无视, 忽略 |
| relative 名词 | /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/ | 親戚 /亲戚 |
| rescue 动词 | /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ | 拯救, 救援 |
| rush 动词 | /ɹʌʃ/ | 急速去, 急速做 |
| everyday 形容词 | /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/ | 日常的 |
| extent 名词 | /ɪkˈstɛnt/ | 範圍 /范围 |
| impressive 形容词 | /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/ | 令人印象深刻 |
| adventure 名词 | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | 奇遇, 冒險 /冒险 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| grow up 动词 | 長大 /长大 |
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 | haven't accepted · has been registered · haven't noticed |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么,而不是谁做的 | being surrounded · being noted · has been registered |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | people who care · problem which is |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 16 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 haven't, we're, don't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: rush /ɹʌʃ/, flash /flæʃ/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, considerable /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频,不要开口,记下不认识的单词。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读,熟练之后再回到正常速度。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比,特别注意 suffer, occur, encourage 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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