跟读练习: Finding Hope in a Fractured World | Joshua Luke Smith (Spoken Word) - 通过视频学习英语口语
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We have killed our prophets, and we have killed for profits.
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We have lost our sense of the transcendent, and it has cost us our conscience.
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In those days, men will become like monsters trading honesty for nonsense,
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tying nooshes around the necks of anyone who refuses to bow before Molech.
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There must be more.
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There must be more There must be more
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Rome wasn't built in a day But I bet they built Babel in a morning
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See we have become laborers Hell bent on taking heaven's glory We have forgotten
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that better story
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So this day is a good time for mourning As the
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light of a blood moon adorns the coming dawn This day is a good time for the gnashing of teeth
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For the people to speak of their wounds and defeat
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for what could be worse for our children's children than the inheritance of ungrieved grief.
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The rivers of blood, they run red in our streets, for we have concreted over the Euphrates.
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Now we live east of Eden and south of Hades.
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I saw a mother clutching her babies, praying to a God she doesn't believe in,
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but where else is she to turn when she's being forced to sacrifice her children on an altar to hedonism?
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Here's the meaning, freedom ain't free unless it costs you.
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And you can't bear the weight of liberation if you can't carry a cross too.
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Walking up a hill shaped like a skull in nothing other than God's shoes.
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We come from dust.
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Yet unlike those statues of clay that one day will rust, to quote Sagan, we are made of star stuff,
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yet like pagans we have traded love for lust, leaning upon a crutch of our self-sufficiency,
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trying to heal a wound with the same consciousness that caused it.
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So how can man live differently?
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I submit that we must return to a vision that we forgot, a vision that we lost in our infancy.
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You You know when fairytales were true?
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What was it that C.S.
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Lewis mused?
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May you believe in those old stories again, where dragons are slain and goodness prevails, and heaven and earth are separated by no more than a veil,
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or a wardrobe, or a desk, or no less a heart that cannot help but confess there must be more, there must be more, there must be more.
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So here we are gathered, battle-ragged, and backstabbed, gagged and dragged through trenches with arrows in our backs and rations in our sacks,
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bruised, bloodied and blackened with hands calloused from stacking bricks upon bricks upon bricks.
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But we are mystics, those who have seen a great vision where one day even this day of great darkness will itself be eclipsed.
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And in the midst of the rubble will stand not a tower or a temple of power but a humble Ebenezer.
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The evidence of good and faithful work, the evidence of a redeemer, and generations from now, they will not know our names,
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but we pray that they have been carried on our backs and spurred on by our claim that there must be more.
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There must be more.
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There must be more.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
这段视频的口语练习目标
这段充满力量的口语诗适合想要提升英语影子跟读能力和雅思口语练习中“情感表达”与“节奏把控”的学习者。它的语速适中但饱含张力，能帮助你突破“机械跟读”的瓶颈，学会用声音传递情绪，这正是雅思口语高分的关键。
实用短语库
- lost our sense of the transcendent（失去对超验的感知）
- trading honesty for nonsense（用诚实换取废话）
- inheritance of ungrieved grief（未被哀悼的悲伤遗产）
- freedom ain't free unless it costs you（自由并非免费，除非你为之付出代价）
- battle-ragged and backstabbed（满身伤痕且遭人背叛）
这些表达兼具文学性与口语感染力，适合用于雅思口语的“观点阐述”或“故事讲述”部分。
突破你的薄弱环节
视频中的shadow speech练习难点在于“重音与停顿”。比如重复出现的“there must be more”，每次发音的轻重变化都传递着不同的情绪——从疑惑到坚定。建议先逐句跟读，标记重音位置，再尝试“影子跟读”（延迟0.5秒模仿），感受语言的节奏感。此外，诗中的长句（如“we have become laborers... heaven's glory”）需要学会自然断句，避免吞音，这对提升口语流畅度至关重要。
看视频学英语，不仅是学单词，更是学如何用语言“讲故事”。不妨把这段视频当作日常影子跟读的素材，坚持一周，你会发现自己的口语更有“灵魂”。
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。