跟读练习: How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Earlier this year, I was in Taipei, Taiwan, where I decided I wanted to make a TikTok about Cup Noodle.
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Earlier this year, I was in Taipei, Taiwan, where I decided I wanted to make a TikTok about Cup Noodle.
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Only this brilliant TikTok never happened because of the shock I got when I opened up the app and flipped it into selfie mode.
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The face looking back at me was a face, but not exactly my face.
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A whole array of beauty filters had automatically worked me over, and I could not turn them off.
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There was so much going on here: skin smoothing, skin lightening, teeth whitening, nose narrowing, bigger eyes, and it gave me a thinner, softer jawline.
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This was a whole lot of nonconsensual filtering or what someone joked was forced catfishing.
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And for me, it's the perfect example of something called the technological gaze at work.
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What is it?
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Women have had to play to the male gaze forever, you know what that is.
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But the technological gaze describes an algorithmically driven perspective that we learn to internalize, perform for and optimize for.
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And then, by taking in all our data, the machines learn to perform us, in an endless feedback loop.
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We learn it so young.
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An estimated 80 percent of 13-year-old girls in America have already used filters or some kind of editing to alter their appearance online.
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And these days, the filters are hyperrealistic because they tend to be AI-generated.
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They come with a suite of characteristics teaching us how to look, things like arched eyebrows, or higher cheekbones or plump lips.
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What then happens is we see the gap between the way we look in the mirror and the way we look in these filters, and the digital world begins to dictate real-world beauty standards.
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We've seen it in celebrity culture, and I know this, because I saw it when I lived and worked in Seoul, South Korea, as the NPR Bureau Chief there nearly 10 years ago.
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Seoul is all about optimizing your face and your body.
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If you want your vagina rejuvenated, your skull reshaped, any part of your body lifted or enhanced, have at it.
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It's the cosmetic surgery capital of the world.
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Nearly half of all Korean women have already undergone some kind of plastic surgery by the time they're in their 20s.
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No other place comes close.
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These days, traptox is really popular.
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That's injecting Botox into the base of your neck, your trapezius muscles, to give the appearance of a longer neck.
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Calves are being injected with Botox for the same reason.
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Having a slimmer jawline is so desirable that a Seoul plastic surgery clinic once displayed the human bones of jaws it had shaved down in a glass vase in its lobby.
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This has since been removed, but this kind of body augmentation work isn't just accepted, it is expected, because in Seoul, looks matter so much for your professional and personal advancement.
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Headshots are required on résumés.
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Hiring bosses make character judgments based on your face.
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You were often bullied if you were bald or big.
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Trying to look better is framed as a route to economic security and a matter of personal responsibility.
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But Korea just shows us a more concentrated and extreme example of the pretty privilege that exists everywhere.
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Look at fatphobia in the United States, helping drive off-the-charts, off-label use of Ozempic, not for diabetes, but for weight loss.
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It makes sense when we are so rewarded for thinness and stigmatized for fatness.
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And all I'm saying is we should reckon with this, because the more narrow our idea of beauty is, the wider the pool of ugly becomes.
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And digital culture is now reshaping our actual faces and bodies.
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Under the technological gaze, I worry that our bodies become projects to be worked on ... forever.
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And if we don’t slow down this body augmentation arms race that I saw in Seoul, then the enhancements that were available there only get farther and farther out of reach.
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And not just for women.
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Because if we are chasing digital beauty, well, then, the limit does not exist.
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AI's idea of attractiveness is only increasingly inhuman ... and cyborgian.
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I don't want this.
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I don't want my daughters coming up in a world in which their looks are the most important things about them.
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It is incredibly marginalizing to everybody who can’t fit in and exhausting for everyone who can, because you are constantly having to make or pay for interventions in order to keep up.
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So what do we do?
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Filters aren't going anywhere, but we can challenge what the system is optimized for by changing what it means to be beautiful.
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Just as the solution to homophobia isn't to make everyone straight, and the solution to racism isn't to make everyone white, the solution to lookism and fatphobia isn't to make everyone interchangeably skinny and conventionally pretty.
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In fact, it's the opposite.
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It's to celebrate diversity and the differences that make us who we are, that are inherent to the human condition.
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And ultimately, we have to disrupt a system that reduces our worthiness to our looks.
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Even though my face is rounder and probably darker than an algorithm would like, I have come here tonight wearing my actual face.
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And my hope for all of you is that you feel comfortable and will continue to feel comfortable doing the same.
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Because I see a wide variety of jawlines out here tonight, and let me just say they are all worthy.
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Thank you. (Cheers and applause)
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本课介绍
在这一课程中，学习者将练习如何用英语讨论数字文化对我们外貌和身体的影响。我们将探讨与美丽标准相关的现代问题，并通过视频中的示例来提升英语发音和口语能力。通过此课，学生可以提高其在雅思口语练习中的表现，也可以在日常交流中更加自信。
关键词与短语
- 脸部特效 (beauty filters)
- 技术凝视 (technological gaze)
- 整形手术 (plastic surgery)
- 完美特权 (pretty privilege)
- 外貌歧视 (lookism)
- 多样性 (diversity)
- 自我价值 (self-worth)
- 人工智能 (AI)
练习技巧
在练习过程中，请尝试使用反向模仿（shadowing）技巧，这对于提高英语发音非常有效。针对该视频的节奏和语调，可以尝试以下方法：
- 反复播放视频：播放视频的某一段落，暂停并模仿视频中的讲话者的语音语调，以提高对英语口语的敏感度。
- 录音对比：录下自己朗读视频内容的声音，然后与视频中的发音进行对比，观察有何不同。
- 关注情感表达：注意讲话者在不同段落展现的情感，尽量在自己的朗读中表达出相似的情感色彩，以提高语音的表现力。
- 使用关键词：在练习时，尽量使用从视频中提取的关键词和短语，这样可以帮助提升在雅思口语练习中的用词多样性。
总之，通过使用shadowing技巧，您不仅可以提高英语发音，还能在交流中自信地表达自己的观点。这样不仅有助于雅思口语练习，也能在日常生活中更流利地运用英语。
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。