跟读练习: How To Make Life Exciting Again (Every Adult Needs This) - 通过视频学习英语口语
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When I try and introduce things to improve my health, I don't tend to enjoy them and therefore I don't stick to them.
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What can I do?
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What lies behind this question is the false belief that you can either enjoy your life or be healthy.
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And the truth is any change you want to make in
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the long term kind of has to be enjoyable to a certain degree or you're not going to do it.
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Now, I've I've been getting this question more and more over the past few years,
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and I actually quite like the question because health can absolutely be fun
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and exciting and something you want to engage with when you find the right thing.
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Now, I have got an example of this in my own life.
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Now, I've been, I would say, pretty healthy for a number of years,
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but something I have brought into my life about eight months ago has completely transformed it, and I'm not exaggerating.
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What is that thing?
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It's playing paddle.
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Now, paddle is a sport that is blowing up all around the world for a variety of different reasons,
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but I want to tell you five things that it's done for me.
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Number one, it's fun, right?
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The reason I play three, four, sometimes even five times a week is because it's enjoyable.
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I'm not doing it for my health.
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Yes, there are health benefits, I'm doing it because I enjoy it.
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And I don't think we think about that enough
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when thinking about health behaviors or habits we want to bring into our life.
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We know from the research that doing things that you love makes you more resilient to stress.
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And I can tell you that playing paddle has helped me become more resilient to stress.
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So it is fun, that's why I do it a lot.
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Second thing it's done for me is yeah, it's really good for me, it's movement.
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I'm getting out, I sometimes play outdoors, sometimes I play indoors, but I am getting fitter.
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Something I've noticed since I started playing is that my resting heart rate has come down.
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Now resting heart rate is a key metric for longevity.
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It's basically showing us, you know, our cardiac health and efficiency.
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And there are a few caveats, but basically, if you can get your resting heart rate to come down a little bit, it generally indicates better fitness.
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Again, I want to emphasize, I've not played paddle in order to bring my wrestling heart rate down.
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The wrestling heart rate coming down was a nice consequence of meeting something that I'm enjoying.
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Thirdly, I'm learning a new skill.
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I'm doing something that I enjoy, but paddle is something I've never played before.
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Yes, I played a lot of squash when I was a kid, a lot of tennis, so I'm familiar with racket sports, but this is a brand new It's a different racket, a different ball.
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There's a new set of rules.
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And I know that as I get older, one of the things that's going to help me preserve my cognition
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and reduce the chances of me getting cognitive decline as I get older is learning new things.
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If you've heard my conversations with Dr. Tommy Wood on my podcast, he talks a lot about this and explains a lot of the science.
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So I'm learning a new skill, which is really good for my brain.
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As well as learning a new skill, I'm also learning new strategies.
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One of the things I love about paddle, and for me is one of the things that makes it a lot of fun, is that it's a game based hugely on tactics.
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Yeah, technique is important, but tactics are arguably more important once you've got a base level of technique.
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So I'm spending a lot of time on YouTube watching tactic videos.
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There's a channel on YouTube called Paddle Drive.
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I love those videos because I'm learning What is the right shot to play?
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Should I be altering my speed here?
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When do you come into the net?
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If you do come into the net, where do you stand in the net?
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So again, I'm stimulating my brain.
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Again, I'm really enjoying it, but I know that this is really, really good for me, both physically and mentally.
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The fourth thing I want to talk about, and perhaps this is one of the most important things
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and one of the reasons why paddle is blowing up so much in many countries around the world,
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it's because sociality is built into the game.
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Right, you don't really play singles.
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99% of the games are played as doubles.
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Okay, so you play with someone else.
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Now you might go with a partner.
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I've been playing a lot with my son, right?
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So I've taken up with my son, and I've got to say playing with my boy as a doubles team
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and playing other people is one of my favorite parts of my week, it's something I really enjoy.
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It's really good for us to bond.
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But I don't always play with him.
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And I book my game on an app.
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Now, I think this is one of the reasons it's doing
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so well these days is because you could find that you have an hour spare in your day.
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And you could look online and see, is there a game near me?
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And so this is what happened a few days ago.
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I jumped on a game with three people I didn't know.
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Yes, we had a great game.
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I didn't win that game.
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But we had a great game and we had a lot of fun.
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We were laughing.
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Afterwards, we had a coffee together.
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And I tell you, the three people I was playing with are unlikely to have been three people I would naturally socialize with.
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We are from different cultures, different ethnicities, and we all had very, very different jobs.
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And that's one of the things that made it so much fun.
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I think in a world now where we think there's so much division and certainly it seems that way online, I think a sport like paddle,
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because it has community and sociality built into its very nature, it's almost the antidote to that.
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You don't really care what political party your opponent votes for.
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You don't even ask.
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You don't really care what their job is.
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All you care about is, is my partner a good partner?
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Are the people you're playing against fun people to play against?
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It's all about fun.
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I mean, we know that in many countries, here in the UK, we know in North America, loneliness is on the rise.
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People are feeling more and more isolated.
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They're spending more and more time on screens.
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But when I go and play paddle, I'm not on my screen.
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Okay, I'm interacting with other human beings.
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I'm moving my body.
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We're laughing.
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It's just so much fun.
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And I tell you, one thing that it's done for me
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is it really has helped me manage the stress in my life.
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If you're tired or feeling tired, I'd put together a free guide to help you reset your energy.
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Three things I see most often that quietly drain people's energy and what you can actually do about it.
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Small changes that will make a huge difference to your energy.
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When I'm playing paddle for those 60 minutes or even 90 minutes sometimes, I'm not thinking about anything else.
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I'm not thinking about my emails, my work, what I've got to do at home, nothing.
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I'm fully present and engaged in the game.
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The fifth and final thing I'll say, because I could probably do you a one-hour video on what I enjoy about paddle,
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the fifth thing I'll say is that it wakes up a younger part of me.
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So I'm 48 years old, and I tell you, when I play paddle, I feel like a kid.
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In fact, I'm often playing with guys in their early 20s or their early 30s.
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And I'm pleased I can still kick it around with them.
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I can still sprint.
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I can still compete.
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But I really enjoy playing with that age group.
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And I would say that, yes, playing with them, but also for me, it is such a fun game.
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Someone said to me, it almost feels like you're playing a beach game.
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So for me, paddle is an enjoyable new hobby that has transformed my life for many of these reasons.
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And so the question I'd have for you is, what's your equivalent?
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You know, you don't have to play paddle like me.
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You may not have access to paddle.
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There may not be courts near you.
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You may not enjoy it.
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Maybe there's a cost issue.
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I get that.
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But I think all of us could do with having a think about what is the activity
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that I I can bring into my life.
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A friend of mine gets it with skateboarding.
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Another mate of mine gets it from rock climbing, indoor rock climbing.
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One of my other buddies gets it from cycling.
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I could give you so many examples.
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The point is, you've got to find what that thing is for you.
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And if you haven't found it yet, keep experimenting until you find it.
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If you enjoyed that video, I think you're really going to enjoy this one where I outlined five powerful ideas that will improve your life immediately.
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I figured out over two decades of medical practice that these are the tips and techniques that really move the needle.
背景与语境
在现代生活中，许多人常常忽视健康与快乐的结合。视频中提到的演讲者，分享了个人的经历，探讨了一个常见的问题：如何在追求健康的同时找到乐趣。他强调，长期的改变必须是愉悦的，否则人们不会持之以恒。通过讲述他自己通过打帕德尔（paddle）运动获得的乐趣和健康好处，演讲者展示了运动如何能够改善生活质量。这个话题对于希望改善生活、学习英语的朋友们来说，充满启发。
日常交流中的五个常用短语
- 健康与快乐不应对立: 健康的生活方式可以是有趣的。
- 学习新技能: 学习新事物有助于提升大脑认知能力。
- 运动带来的积极影响: 运动不仅提升体能，还能减轻压力。
- 战术与技巧: 在游戏中，战略思考往往比技巧更加重要。
- 休息心率的重要性: 较低的休息心率是健康的标志。
逐步影子跟读指南
要利用视频内容提高英语口语技巧，可以通过以下步骤进行影子跟读（shadow speech）练习：
- 复听视频: 首先，多次播放视频，注意语者的发音、语调和停顿。
- 逐句跟读: 在听的同时，尝试模仿其发音。可以暂停视频，以便更好地跟读。
- 分段练习: 将较长的句子分成若干部分，逐一练习，直到熟练为止。
- 录音对比: 自己录音后，与视频中的发音进行对比，找出差异，改进发音。
- 持续实践: 每天利用视频进行英语口语练习，至少保持20分钟，可以逐步提高流利度，进而提高英语发音。
通过这种有效的影子跟读（shadow speak）技巧，学习者不仅能够提升口语表达能力，还能增强对日常生活中的健康与快乐结合的理解，与他人进行更自然的交流。
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。