跟读练习: I hate being performative - 通过视频学习英语口语
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I hate being performative.
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I hate it when I can just feel this angst inside myself
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when I'm trying to either seek someone's approval or I'm trying to just fit in.
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Now, I think there's different levels.
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There's different levels of being performative or performance.
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And one is sort of, maybe all of them are sort of out of this sense of insecurity.
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But some of them, I guess, are worse than others.
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Some of them, someone is completely fake Someone could be, I don't know, maybe their whole life is a liar Just what they say and how they act is disingenuine
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Versus someone who is trying to fit in, but they don't quite know how And I guess that's where I am Not right now,
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but I have been in the latter
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Trying to either fit in with a group Or just feel like I am not a complete outsider
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and I guess especially in school high school I felt
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so much anxiety and maybe I wasn't performative
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but I was just very very aware too aware too conscious
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to the point where I guess I wasn't really doing a whole lot from the outside
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but from the inside I felt like I wasn't me I wasn't acting like myself
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and it was performance without any actual outside performance
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but just constant monitoring of myself which is in some sense performance
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or maybe just really bad anxiety
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but nonetheless I don't feel this way anymore at least not nearly as much as
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when I was in school maybe sometimes in some way I feel this way
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but um it's definitely gotten a lot better But I think it's weird because,
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especially with social media, but even maybe just in a place like school, you know, who is being real, who is just performing?
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And you wonder, well, who am I in relation to all this?
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Am I performing?
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Or is everyone just kind of hiding something, hiding how they really feel about their life?
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I don't know.
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Are people just kind of ignorant or are people just very good at performance?
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I don't know but I feel like in some way our whole life is just an act.
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We're all just trying to make people think we are someone
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that we don't really feel like or that we hope to be
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but we don't necessarily feel like we are
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and we're just doing things to convince everyone but
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if everyone's doing this then what's the point maybe we can all just drop the act
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and just start being more real with each other maybe we can stop trying to focus
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so much on being this person who is thought highly of instead just not care so much.
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I don't know.
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To many, it probably isn't that easy.
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Maybe even to me.
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I mean, just recording this video, maybe this is a performance.
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I don't know.
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But here's what I'll say.
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To me, I do not trust the person who is always agreeable, nor do I trust the person who is always disagreeable.
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I think especially on social media,
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there is sort of this idea that if you're someone who's super duper relatable or super duper just like repulsive or disagreeable,
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then you'll be popular.
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And I wonder, well, how much of it is just trying to be agreeable or trying to be disagreeable just for,
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you know, the views, the likes or the follows or whatever versus what do you actually think?
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Because that's what I want to know.
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I don't want to know what you think that is politically correct.
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I don't know what you want to think that you think other people will approve of.
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I just want to know what you think.
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And it's difficult in society, at least in Western society.
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Maybe this is probably just a whole world thing, but not wanting to be perceived in a certain way as negative based off of either how you act
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or what you think or your opinions.
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And it's maybe in some context, maybe in some context, you could say maybe it's a good thing.
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But I think overall, overall, probably in 99% of situations,
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it's bad because everyone kind of just keeps what they really think on the inside.
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and instead they just perform.
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And I don't think it helps anyone.
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I don't think it helps society.
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I don't think it helps people grow.
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I don't think it helps people get along better either.
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I think really it's just performance, like I've been saying so many times.
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But yeah, I don't want to be performative.
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It's like the thing about social media, posting on here, It's like, what's going to happen to me if I get famous?
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Or if people start, you know, commenting more, saying things, whatever, whether it's good or bad, what's going to happen?
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Will I turn into someone who I'm not actually?
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Will I just start performing and just lose myself?
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I hope not.
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I hope not.
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But maybe it's also a test of character. And that's the thing.
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Like you see people like when they get famous, some people say, oh, that guy really changed.
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They changed or they weren't the same way they are.
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But I wonder in what way?
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In what way did they change?
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Did they change in a better way or a worse way?
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It's usually a worse way when people talk about it that way. But why?
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Is it fame?
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Is it money?
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Is it power?
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I wonder.
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I really do.
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But I guess here's my declaration or proclamation.
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I'll say it out loud here.
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I declare that I will not let it destroy me or ruin me or strip out the things that are genuine.
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Because in some way, the more popular or famous you get, the more you have to lose.
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and it's like people care more about how they are perceived versus just in some sense their dignity
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their dignity their dignity of what they stand on what they believe in And I don't like that, you know?
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It's unfortunate.
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And I guess I don't want to become that way.
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So we'll have to see.
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We'll have to see what happens to me, to my life.
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In one way, I guess success would be a great thing.
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But in another way, it's a test.
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It's a test to see who will I become Will I just become another performer Or will I somehow remain me
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I think fame changes everyone To some extent
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But it shouldn't change you In a super negative way In some sense it should
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I don't know Amplify the good things about you I mean, I guess that's what I would hope it would do, but maybe that's just like wishful thinking.
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That's probably not what happens most of the time.
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But yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
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I don't want to be performative.
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I just want to be me.
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這支影片中,講者分享了對「表演性行為」的思考——為獲得認可或融入群體而假裝,內心卻充滿焦慮。從學生時代的自我監控到社交媒體上的虛假人設,她質疑「真實」的意義,並反思人與人之間能否拋開偽裝。這樣的日常對話場景貼近生活,非常適合用來練習英語口語,尤其是理解情感表達與複雜思考的表述。
日常溝通必學5個短語
- fit in:融入。例:「She tried to fit in with the new group.」(她試圖融入新群體。)
- out of insecurity:出於不安。例:「His lies are out of insecurity.」(他的謊言源於不安。)
- drop the act:停止假裝。例:「Let's drop the act and be honest.」(我們別裝了,誠實點吧。)
- politically correct:政治正確。例:「He always says politically correct things.」(他總是說政治正確的話。)
- thought highly of:被看重。例:「She wants to be thought highly of by her boss.」(她希望被老闆看重。)
影子跟讀(Shadow Speech)步驟指南
這支影片的難度在於情感豐富且語速中等,適合練習提高英語发音與語氣掌控。以下是具體步驟:
- 聽懂大意:先完整觀看影片,理解「表演性行為」的主題,標記焦慮、質疑等情感詞句。
- 逐句跟讀:打開字幕,逐句模仿語調(如「I hate being performative」的重音),專注shadow speak的節奏,尤其注意連讀(如「sort of」)。
- 錄音對比:錄下自己的朗讀,與原聲比對发音(如「angst」的/aːŋst/),糾正口音。
- 脫稿複述:關閉字幕,用自己的話複述核心觀點,鍛煉語言組織能力。
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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 |
|---|---|
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | someone who is · myself which is · person who is |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么,而不是谁做的 | is thought · be perceived · are perceived |
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