跟读练习: From Pain to Progress: Your Journey to Finding Hope - 通过视频学习英语口语

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My first walk on my own was absolutely heartbreaking.
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While I was walking, I actually said to myself, this is one of the hardest things you have ever done.
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It was the most acute pain.
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It was heartbreaking because it was what he loves.
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It's just what he loves.
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And then, you know, I just thought, I'm on my own here, and he should be here, you know.
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I then walked down and I sat and I looked up at the mountain and I thought, Good on you.
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Good on you, girl.
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You did that.
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Graham would be proud of me.
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His slogan for everything was onward and upward.
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And he would be saying, that's my girl.
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I really feel I need to kind of live for him, in a way. Because he'd want that.
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He really, really would.
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Graham's dying was such a shock because everything was kind of perfect.
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He was well, he was on a hike with his mates down the Wild Coast, so happy.
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A place we've walked a hundred times.
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And then he got to the airport after the six days away and he phoned up and said, can't wait to see you sweetie pie,
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I have so much to tell you.
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And he never came home and I was preparing the dinner
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and I started to get edgy because now it's six and I'm working out, look he's against the traffic, where is he, you know.
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Then the phone rang and a person who was not first language English speaker
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said his name in a way that clearly he hadn't said his name to her.
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She was reading it.
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Are you related to Graham Charnock?
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And I said, yes, yes, what's wrong?
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And she said, you need to bring the family, he's collapsed.
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I drove to the hospital and they rushed me down to the clinic
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and the minute I walked in and there's three big burly policemen waiting for me, I just knew, I just knew,
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this is it, this is it.
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The huge comfort is he did just die so suddenly
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and someone mentioned there was a little bump on his head and he obviously dropped.
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He didn't even know to put his hand up.
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And one of the doctor friends that took me out said, Liz, he wouldn't have known what hit him.
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He had a heart attack and that's it.
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And that's what I've chosen to believe and I believe it.
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For a long time after Graham died, I didn't get a yearning to go back to the studio.
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It just wasn't, it wasn't even, it didn't cross my mind.
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I didn't feel a creative urge or anything.
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It just wasn't what I was dealing with.
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And I just visualized and processed the walk Graham did.
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There was a part of me that was so sad that I hadn't been there with him.
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So I felt that I knew where he'd been and I knew the views he was looking at and so on.
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So I just worked on,
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in an abstract way, I just worked on these scenes of the Wild Coast and imagined I was walking down with him.
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I wrote little words on it like I hear you whisper to me in the wind and the waves.
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It's a lonely walk.
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Sorry.
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It's a lonely walk without you.
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I'll always be with you.
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Yeah, but for me that was my process and it's nice to look back and see it's not somber,
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but it makes me feel on some level that I was there with him.
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I do chat to him, sometime.
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I don't believe he's hovering around me, or looking out for me, but I feel his presence.
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I especially feel his presence in nature, or on the mountain, or hearing a bird sound or something.
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For me it's perfectly natural.
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If he was here, what would I say to him?
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I think that I would just see him and tell him that I'm doing the best I can.
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I miss you.
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I miss...
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I miss you very painfully at times, but it's not going to get me down.
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I'm going to keep going.
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I've only lost Graham a year next month.
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And according to the way it must be, the way it must be is you wear black in many, many cultures for a year at least, maybe two.
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And here I am, I have the pain, but not all the time.
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There's excitement, there are possibilities.
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I'm 72.
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How much longer have I got?
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Graham said to me not long before he died, God, you're so lucky.
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You've got six years that I don't have.
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You've got six years, because I'm six years younger.
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And he said, just think of what you can do and where you can go.
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And I was kind of horrified.
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I said, what do you mean?
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You fitter than I am.
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You're brighter than I am.
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You remember the names, I forget them.
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He said, no, no, no, you've got six years, Les.
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And you know, the more I think about it, the more I think, I have got to get out there.
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It's not going to take away the pain.
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It's not going to take away 48 years of connection
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and sharing and having that person always looking out for you and always being there and excited to get together.
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It's not going to take that away.
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But I have got to start on my own new adventures.
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I've got to fill those six years.
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They're my gift.
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I have been in touch with friends, I've lost their husbands, sometimes three years ago, sometimes four years ago.
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And there's no judgement here, there's no judgement, but they haven't moved on into a new space.
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I'm finding it very difficult to walk out as an individual person.
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And I totally understand that.
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But I lie awake at night when I'm feeling excited about something and I think,
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do I love him less than my friends love their husbands? And maybe I'm selfish.
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And then I think, how am I selfish?
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Who doesn't benefit from me making an effort to get back into life?
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For all my sadness and all those moments when I lean across
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and he's not there and I come home
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and something's worrying me about an interaction I might have had
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and all I want to do is get into my safe space where Graham is
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and he and we talk about it and he's there
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and as I'm driving home I think who is there you know I'll go through all of
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that but at the same time there's that little bubble that comes up that says yes take the gift
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The other day my son said something to me and I think for me
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It was one of the best compliments I've ever had.
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He just said, you know, Mom, when you walk into a room, when you leave the room, everyone feels happier and lighter.
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And I thought about that and I thought, that is the most beautiful thing anyone could say.
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So maybe that's my purpose.
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I realise that with what's going on in the world, I can make very little impact on a gram scale.
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But I make a huge impact every day in my life by just my interactions.
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That's why I'm here.
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In small ways, giving somebody a moment of light in the day.
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And that comes very naturally to me because I get as much from it.
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The beauty is the helping hand.
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The beauty is what lifts you up.
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The nature, the space, it's the one thing that kind of stays constant while everything else is changing.
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But with the beauty comes extreme pain, exquisite pain.
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It's in the beauty that I feel the missing, and yet it's uplifting.
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It is a beautiful world.
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Thank you so much for watching this story all the way to the end
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and a special thank you to all of you on Patreon who help us to make these films.
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If you want to join us on the journey please click the link over here, I think.
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It just wouldn't be possible without you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

本课的词汇与口语要点

这节 B2 级别的口语课以视频“From Pain to Progress: Your Journey to Finding Hope”为素材。 这段视频共有 123 个句子、1375 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 13:11。 说话人语速较慢,每分钟约 104 个词,你有足够的时间模仿每一个音。 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

视频中最难的 15 个单词,附发音和释义:

单词发音释义
selfish 形容词/ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/自私
onward 副词/ˈɒnwəd/向前
sombre 形容词/ˈsɑmbɚ/陰沉 /阴沉, 陰鬱 /阴郁
visualize 动词/ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/遙想 /遥想
exquisite 形容词/ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/精緻 /精致
slogan 名词/ˈsloʊɡən/標語 /标语, 口號 /口号
gram 名词/ˈɡɹæm/克, 公克
sadness 名词/ˈsædnəs/悲傷 /悲伤, 悲哀
compliment 名词/ˈkɑmpləmənt/稱讚 /称赞, 道賀 /道贺
hike 名词/haɪk/遠足 /远足
acute 形容词/əˈkjut/激烈, 敏銳 /敏锐
urge 动词/ɜːd͡ʒ/催促
lean 动词/ˈliːn/傾斜 /倾斜
awake 动词/əˈweɪk/醒, 醒來 /醒来
abstract 名词/ˈæbˌstɹækt/摘要

视频中出现的短语动词

单词发音释义
come up 动词上來 /上来
go through 动词通過 /通过
look back 动词回顧 /回顾
work out 动词/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/計算 /计算, 算出

值得反复跟读的句子

视频中简短而完整的句子,可以直接用在日常对话里:

  • A place we've walked a hundred times.
  • And I said, yes, yes, what's wrong?
  • I didn't feel a creative urge or anything.
  • How much longer have I got?
  • I said, what do you mean?

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 43 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 I'm, I've, didn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, visualize /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/

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: selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, onward /ˈɒnwəd/, visualize /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/, exquisite /ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/, upward /ˈʌpwɚd/
  • /æ/ — 嘴张大,不要读成 /e/: gram /ˈɡɹæm/, sadness /ˈsædnəs/, abstract /ˈæbˌstɹækt/, collapse /kəˈlæps/

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 selfish, onward, sombre 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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