跟读练习: Frank Sinatra - That's Life (Audio) - 通过视频学习英语口语

这段视频共有 20 个句子、241 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 2:48。 说话人语速较慢，每分钟约 86 个词，你有足够的时间模仿每一个音。 只有 76% 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 12 个不太常见的单词，附发音和释义：

• deny /dəˈnaɪ/ (动词) — 否認 /否认, 否定. To disallow or reject.
• poet /ˈpoʊ.ət/ (名词) — 詩人 /诗人. A person who writes poems.
• pirate /ˈpaɪɹət/ (名词) — 海盜 /海盗, 海賊 /海贼. A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
• puppet /ˈpʌpɪt/ (名词) — 木偶, 人偶. Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
• pawn /ˈpɔːn/ (名词) — 兵. The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only…
• spin /spɪn/ (动词) — 轉動 /转动, 自轉 /自转. To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
• shake /ˈʃeɪk/ (动词) — 搖 /摇. To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
• pauper /ˈpɔ.pɚ/ (名词) — 窮光蛋 /穷光蛋, 窮鬼 /穷鬼. One who is extremely poor.
• jump /d͡ʒʌmp/ (动词) — 跳, 蹦跳. To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
• lay /leɪ/ (动词) — 放, 置. To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
• bird /ˈbɜːd/ (名词) — чёр, чёчёзы. An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of…
• quit /kwɪt/ (动词) — 走, 離開 /离开. To leave (a place).

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 16 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I've, can't, gonna。请按听到的简短形式来说。

如何用这段视频练习

1. 先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
2. 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。
3. 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 deny, poet, pirate 这类单词。

视频中的语法

说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：