跟读练习: I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks To Get Thinner - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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My name is Christine, and I stopped eating for two weeks to get thinner.
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My name is Christine, and I stopped eating for two weeks to get thinner.
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Whilst online, I came across a dieting blog by a girl called Sophie,
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who had been on a diet where you eat under 400 calories a day.
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She posted some pictures, and she looked amazing.
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I decided then that becoming thinner would fix my problems,
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everyone would compliment me on my new body,
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and I'd get my confidence back.
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I wasn't the sort of person who did things by halves.
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It was all or nothing.
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I'd read online that if you feel hungry,
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drinking a glass of water will make them go away.
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Even better, a can of Diet Coke and chewing gum would fill you up even more.
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I could do this.
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It was much easier than I expected.
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I purposely overslept, so I had to run to school without having breakfast.
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At lunch, I ate my ration of two carrots and Diet Coke.
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And I told my parents that I was studying for a test,
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so wanted dinner in my room.
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As soon as they'd left,
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I'd flush it down the toilet.
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Although for the first few days,
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I did go hungry, I loved the feeling of control this gave me.
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And the hunger pangs got less and less.
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I didn't want to tell my friends what I was doing in case they copied me,
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but I did tell Sophie,
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the girl who had written the blog,
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that I was inspired by her.
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She told me I had so much willpower to not eat anything at all,
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and that she wished she could be as strong.
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We decided to encourage each other in our quest for perfection.
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Although I loved being in control of my diet and my life,
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after a few days, my friends had finally noticed that I wasn't eating,
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and whenever they asked, I would snap and say that I wasn't feeling well.
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I hated them for trying to sabotage my diet.
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At the weekend, I walked across my city to avoid any temptation of food,
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but I had to sit down a lot because I kept feeling dizzy.
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Then, I started fainting.
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The first time it was when I got up too fast from my bed.
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I woke up, shaken on the floor,
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and vowed to get up more slowly next time.
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Then it happened at school,
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in front of my whole class.
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I was finding it easy to eat nothing now,
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as I had very little appetite anyway.
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I was feeling very, like,
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sick and lethargic most of the time,
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but Sophie told me she was feeling it too,
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and it would probably get better.
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We would message each other into the night with inspiration, quotes, and pictures.
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I stopped really talking to anyone else.
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I passed out in school again,
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but this time they couldn't get me to wake up.
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I finally woke up in hospital on an IV drip,
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extremely confused and feeling worse than I'd ever done in my life.
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My parents were there, and they told me
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that my brain had shut my body down because it just didn't have enough fuel,
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but that I was going to be all right.
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I felt too weak to cry.
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It took me a few weeks to fully recover,
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and luckily, because I hadn't been starving myself for very long,
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I hadn't done any lasting damage.
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I somehow found Sophie's parents,
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and it turns out that she has a very serious eating disorder that has been going on for years.
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I am now seeing a counselor,
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but I consider myself lucky that it didn't get too far.
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I have learned that despite what magazines or blogs might tell you,
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being thinner will not make you happy or sort out your problems.
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It will make you feel isolated and alone.
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Talking about how you are feeling with those who love you will help solve your problems.
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If you have any crazy dieting stories,
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please share in the comments below.
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- 过去完成时: 她提到“我已经停止进食...”这显示了她在回顾过去的经历时如何使用时态。
- 条件句: “如果你觉得饿,可以喝一杯水。”这种句型在提供建议时非常常见,有助于学习者理解如何给出假设条件。
- 叠加的情感表达: 她使用了如“我讨厌他们试图破坏我的饮食”这样的句子,展现出情感的复杂性,增加了语言的表达深度。
- 直接引语: 她引用了其他人的话,如“我希望我能像你一样坚强”,这种句式有助于增强叙述的生动性。
常见发音陷阱
在这个视频中,有一些发音可能让学习者感到困惑:
- dizziness(头晕)这个单词的发音在语速较快时容易出现错误,注意元音的清晰发音。
- fainting(晕厥)一词的发音需要注意元音和辅音的连接,以确保清楚传达意思。
- 在尝试跟读时,学习者可能会被某些连音(如“to eat”可能听起来像“t'eat”)所困惑,建立正确的发音习惯至关重要。
为了提高英语发音,可以结合英语影子跟读的方法,反复模仿视频中的发音和语调,提高口语流利度和准确性。
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