跟读练习: "Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs (WWDC'97) - 通过视频学习英语口语

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What about OpenDoc?

Yeah.

What about it?

I don't know.

It's dead, right?

Huh?

It's dead, right?

I don't know.

I spent a lot of time working on it.

Yeah.

I'm sad.

Well, you know, let me say something that's sort of generic.

I know some of you spent a lot of time working on stuff that we put a bullet in the head of.

I apologize.

I feel your pain.

But Apple suffered for several years from lousy engineering management.

I have to say it.

And there were people that were going off in 18 different directions, doing arguably interesting things in each one of them.

Good engineers.

Lousy management.

And what happened was you look at the farm that's been created with all these different animals going in different directions, and it doesn't add up.

The total is less than the sum of the parts.

And so we had to decide what are the fundamental directions we're going in and what makes sense and what doesn't.

And there were a bunch of things that didn't.

and microcosmically they might have made sense, macrocosmically they made no sense.

And, you know, the hardest thing is, when you think about focusing, right, you think, well, focusing is saying yes,

no. Focusing is about saying no. Focusing is about saying no. And you've got to say no,

no, no, no. And when you say no, you piss off people.

And they go talk to the San Jose Mercury and they write a shitty article about you.

You know?

And it's really a pisser.

because you want to be nice.

You don't want to tell the San Jose Mercury, the person that's telling you this,

you know, just was asked to leave or this or that or this or that.

So you take the lumps.

And Apple's been taking their share of lumps for the last six months in a very unfair way.

And it's been taking them, you know, like an adult.

And I'm proud of that.

And there's more to come, I'm sure.

There's more to come.

I mean, some of these, I read these articles about some of these people that have left.

I know some of these people.

They haven't done anything in seven years.

And, you know, they leave and it's like, you know, it's like the company's going to fall apart the next day.

And so, you know, I think there'll be stories like that that come and go.

But focus is about saying no.

And the result of

that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

And OpenDoc, I mean, I was for putting a bullet in the head of OpenDoc.

A, I didn't think it was great technology, but B, it didn't fit the rest of the world isn't going to use OpenDoc.

And I think as a container strategy, there's some stuff in the Java space that's much better.

And even the OpenDoc guys were basically trying to rewrite the whole thing in Java anyway, which was a restart.

So it didn't make sense.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节口语课以视频“"Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs”为素材。视频中反复出现的词有：Opendoc, focusing, sense, directions。这段视频共有 55 个句子、528 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 2:59。说话人语速自然，每分钟约 177 个词，接近日常对话。 85% 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 10 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：

单词	发音	释义
bullet 名词	/ˈbʊlɪt/	子彈 /子弹, 槍子 /枪子
lump 名词	/lʌmp/	塊 /块, 土粒
suffer 动词	/ˈsʌfɚ/	受苦, 遭受
fundamental 形容词	/ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/	基本
unfair 形容词	/ʌnˈfɛɚ/	不公平
apologize 动词	/əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/	道歉
container 名词	/kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/	容器
arguably 副词	/ˈɑɹɡjuəbli/	按理說 /按理说, 可以說 /可以说
lousy 形容词	/ˈlaʊ.zi/	蹩脚
rewrite 动词	/ɹiˈɹaɪt/	重寫 /重写

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
现在完成进行时 have/has been + -ing — 以前开始、现在仍在继续的动作	Apple's been taking · it's been taking
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	that's been created · have left · haven't done
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物	people that were · people that have · anyway, which was
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	been created · was asked

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 17 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 didn't, don't, I'm。请按听到的简短形式来说。

长单词——注意重音位置: fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/

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: bullet /ˈbʊlɪt/, lump /lʌmp/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, generic /dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/, restart /ˈɹiːˌstɑɹt/

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 bullet, lump, suffer 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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