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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Beth.
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What's up, Beth?
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You look a little sad.
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Well, recently I've been spending lots of time with my cat and houseplants, if you know what I mean.
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I'm feeling a bit lonely.
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It might help to know that you're not the only one feeling lonely.
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Loneliness has been called the modern epidemic.
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Although millions of us live together in towns and cities, more and more people report feeling lonely and unconnected to those they live close to.
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Loneliness can affect anyone.
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And while everyone's experience of loneliness is different, its effects can be serious.
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Research has shown that loneliness puts people at greater risk of many health issues, including dementia and heart disease.
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So how can loneliness be fixed?
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In this programme, we'll be hearing about one project in the Netherlands aiming to do just that.
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And as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.
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But first I have a question for you, Beth.
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Here in the UK, an organisation called The Campaign to End Loneliness has been offering advice and support since 2011.
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So according to the campaign, what proportion of British adults report feeling lonely at at least some of the time.
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Is it a 29% b 39% or c 49%?
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Erm, I would guess it's 39%.
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OK Beth, I'll reveal the answer later in the programme.
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Feeling lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone.
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Some people can happily spend lots of time on their own, while others may be surrounded by people but still feel disconnected.
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So what do we mean when we say we feel lonely?
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Here's Myra Anubi, presenter of BBC World Service programme People Fixing the World, explaining what loneliness means to her.
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It's that feeling when you crave people's company and you find it hard to connect, or maybe you just feel left out with no one to turn to.
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Now, feeling lonely isn't just uncomfortable.
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When it's experienced over time, it's been associated with health issues like a higher risk of having depression, dementia or even heart disease.
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When we're lonely, we crave people's company.
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We want their company a lot.
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We might also feel left out – unhappy because we're not included in what others are doing.
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And maybe we have no one to turn to – no one we can go to and ask for support and help.
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Someone who suffered all these feelings was Bep de Bruun.
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In 2013, Bep, aged 74, was found dead at her home in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Her death wasn't suspicious, but it shocked the whole country because it turned out she'd been dead for 10 years.
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Bepp had lost contact with her only child and kept to herself in her apartment.
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So when she died sometime in 2003, no one realised.
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Bepp's tragic story inspired a national campaign to combat loneliness, including one project called Omar's Soup, a kitchen bringing lonely elderly people together with school children and students to make soup.
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Omar means grandma in Dutch and the project encourages young people to spend time with their grandparents' generation.
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Here, Claire Bates, reporter for BBC World Service programme People Fixing the World, explains how the project got started.
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Well, it's run by two young guys called Max Cranendijk and Martin Canters.
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And now they were concerned their grandparents' generation were becoming isolated and lonely.
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And meanwhile, they had lots of student friends who had free time.
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So, they thought, why not try to bring these two generations together through making soup?
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Omar's Soup was started by Max and Martin, two local guys, or men.
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They wanted to involve their student friends because they had lots of free time.
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Time when they do not have to work or study and can do what they want.
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Max and Martin found the perfect way to help elderly people who felt lonely by bringing them together with students.
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If you bring someone together, you help people or groups to become friendly or to do something together, especially something they wouldn't usually do, like make soup.
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Omar's soup has been a big success and has spread to other cities across the Netherlands, including Rotterdam, the hometown of Beppe de Bruyne, making her tragic death the spark for something much more hopeful.
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I think it's time to reveal the answer to your question, Neil.
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Right, I asked you what proportion of British adults report feeling lonely at least some of the time?
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And I said it was 39 per cent.
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Which was the wrong answer, I'm afraid, Beth.
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Sadly, the correct answer is even higher – 49 per cent of adults, that's around 26 million people in the UK, making it even more important to reach out and connect with others.
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OK, it's time to recap the vocabulary we've learned in this programme, starting with the verb crave – to have a strong wish or desire for something.
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If you feel left out, you're unhappy because you've been excluded from something.
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To turn to someone means to go to someone and ask them for help or support.
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A guy is an informal way of saying a man.
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Free time, also called leisure time, is time when you do not have to work or study and can do what you want.
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And finally, the phrasal verb, to bring someone together, means to help people or groups become friendly or do something together, especially if they usually don't.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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But if you're feeling lonely, remember you're not alone.
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So reach out by joining us again next time here at 6 Minute English.
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Goodbye for now!
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Bye!
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为什么要通过这个视频练习口语？
在这段来自BBC Learning English的6分钟视频中，主持人Neil和Beth讨论了现代人面临的孤独问题。通过这种对话形式，学习者可以不仅提高他们的英语口语能力，还能深入了解情感表达和社会议题。观看此视频可以帮助你在真实的交流中理解如何表达自己的情感和感受，尤其是在与他人沟通孤独感时。
通过参与这种真实的对话场景练习，你能够掌握更流利的口语表达。此外，结合视频内容进行shadowing练习，也就是跟读练习，可以加速你的语言学习。不妨在 看YouTube学英语 的过程中，尝试shadowspeak，你将会发现自己的发音和语调有明显改善。
语法与上下文中的表达
在视频中，诸如“feel lonely”和“crave people’s company”的表达方式可以为学习者提供丰富的语言学习材料。其中，
- “feel lonely”: 这是一个常用的表达，直接描述个人的情感状态，适合在日常对话中使用。
- “crave people's company”: 这个短语从更深层次阐述了孤独的感觉，使用“crave”一词表明了一种强烈的需求，非常生动。
- “has been called”: 这个结构常用于描述过去发生的事情对现在的影响，有助于理解时间和状态的变化。
通过研究这些表达，用于雅思口语练习时将能帮助你提升语言准确性和流畅度。
常见发音陷阱
在观看过程中，学习者可能会发现一些发音比较困难的单词，像是“loneliness”和“dementia”。以下是一些发音小贴士：
- “loneliness”: 注意“lonely”的重音在第一个音节，而“-ness”则需要轻声发出。
- “dementia”: 这词相对复杂，需要注意音节划分，重音在第二个音节。
通过重复练习这些词汇的发音，学生们可以加深对这些词的记忆，同时在日常交流中更自信地使用它们。同时，在进行英语影子跟读时，可以有效提高自己的语音和语调。
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。