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I don't usually try to make my books as they come out better known by putting them onto social media

but I make an exception in the case of this book which has just come out last week called Essays.

What I have learnt about myself and the world with cover with me in my woodland path.

I'm doing that because I've been surprised,

indeed enormously warmed by the reception of a few of the

key people who've been involved in the process of bringing this book to publication.

I remember it as a book

which I wrote at the suggestion of my wife shortly after Covid

when she said write down what you've learned about your life

and so on and I started to dictate some short essays

and I greatly enjoyed it

and it ended up in 240 very short essays roughly modeled on the idea

and memory of Montaigne's essays but much much shorter.

And when recently I thought I would publish it, I thought, well, this is a useful book and I want it out there.

But some of the people, several of the people who were closely acquainted with it, thought it was really special.

And so I'll indicate their views by quoting them a little bit.

But basically to tell you of the structure, it is, as I say,

a number of essays on anything that struck me as useful and interesting and quirky.

For example, under the letter L, it's alphabetical, on the leaning tower of Pisa,

on liberty, on libraries, on limited good,

on loneliness, on losing, on love, on lying.

Well that's a tiny cross section and you can see that it covers serious and less serious subjects.

So what do my colleagues and friends say about it?

Well there's a forward by our close friend Baron JC von Fetten

and he writes as a Frenchman who was a great admirer of Montaigne

that in some ways my essays are go beyond Montaigne.

They are shorter, more succinct, more accessible.

And he starts his short forward as follows.

Essays may well constitute Alan MacFarlane's ultimate contribution to human knowledge.

It is written for scholars and the wider public alike.

The book is the result of 60 years of deep anthropological research conducted across the world,

using observation as its primary method and extracting knowledge through a rigorous process of analysis and reflection.

The reader will therefore find in each essay a remarkably practical set of insights and answers.

And he ends, after decades of experience, research and reflection, and after writing dozens of books,

McFarland has succeeded in turning his analytical gaze both upon the world and upon himself.

The result is essays, a work that distils lifetime search for wisdom.

The second person who has commented was the person who edited the book,

my friend Irene Galstian, and she's written about this several times in emails,

but this is a small extract from one email.

As you become a long-time reader of these essays, their effect on you goes to a different level.

And this is where they truly shine.

Well, shine is too vigorous a word for what I am trying to describe.

It's more like a glow.

With repeated reading, these little talks are calming in a way that can't be explained by their intellectual content alone. So those are two.

And then there's a wonderful postscript by Qin Yuchen,

who is translating the book into Chinese.

And I'll just read one part of her remarkable and beautiful postface.

What the letters do for me is what these essays did when I first read them.

They come in like air from outside.

The anxiety of my generation is real enough.

The rungs, as he put it, have gone from the ladder we were all brought up to climb.

What struck me was how precisely these small essays answer that predicament.

A letter written at first light by an 80-year-old grandfather,

who is also one of the great historical anthropologists of his time,

lifts you clear of all that and sets you down somewhere higher up and further off, from which the trouble is visible in its true proportion.

Old, general, survivable, shared with everyone who has ever lived.

We are not the first age of anxiety, he says, nor will we be the last.

I know of no better remedy.

And indeed, some of these essays which have gone up onto social media like YouTube and Chinese social media

have elicited those same sentiments from people who have heard them.

So, as I say, it's on Amazon Essays by Helen McFarlane,

and I think you may share their feeling.

It's a book which has a lot of my final and deeper reflections in it,

and I'm proud that my close friends anyway, think it's really worthwhile.

Thank you.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节 C1 级别的口语课以视频“Essays what book is SD 480p”为素材。视频中反复出现的词有：essay, reflection, letter, written。这段视频共有 65 个句子、810 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 7:06。说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 114 个词，很适合跟读。只有 79% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇难度较高。

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
litter 名词	/ˈlɪt.ɚ/	垫料
extract 名词	/ˈɛkstɹækt/	精
anthropologist 名词	/ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/	人類學家 /人类学家
distil 动词	/dəˈstɪl/	蒸餾 /蒸馏
elicit 动词	/ɪˈlɪsɪt/	引出
enormously 副词		大大
predicament 名词	/pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/	困境
vigorous 形容词	/ˈvɪɡəɹəs/	剛勁 /刚劲, 精力充沛的
dictate 动词	/ˈdɪkˌteɪt/	命令, 規定 /规定
woodland 名词	/ˈwʊd.lənd/	森林, 林地
loneliness 名词	/ˈloʊnlinəs/	寂寞, 孤獨 /孤独
rigorous 形容词	/ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/	嚴苛的 /严苛的, 嚴謹的 /严谨的
worthwhile 形容词	/ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/	值得, 划算
remedy 名词	/ˈɹɛmədi/	補救措施 /补救措施
constitute 动词	/ˈkɑnstɪt(j)uːt/	組成 /组成, 构成

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	发音	释义
come out 动词	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	出, 出來 /出来
write down 动词		寫下來 /写下来, 寫下 /写下

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 just come · have learnt · I've been
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物	book which has · people who were · person who has
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	who've been involved · is written · can't be explained

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 9 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I'll, I'm, can't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“th” 音: anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/
长单词——注意重音位置: alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, predicament /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/, analytical /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: extract /ˈɛkstɹækt/, acquaint /əˈkweɪnt/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, elicit /ɪˈlɪsɪt/, postscript /ˈpoʊst.skɹɪpt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, remarkably /ɹɪˈmɑɹkəbli/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/
/æ/ — 嘴张大，不要读成 /e/: extract /ˈɛkstɹækt/, admirer /ædˈmaɪ.ɹɚ/, alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

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。
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。
录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 litter, extract, anthropologist 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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