跟读练习: J.K. Rowling's Ultimate Advice For Every 20 Year Old | One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Given a time-turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self
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Given a time-turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self
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that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement.
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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life,
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though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.
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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control
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and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
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You might never fail on the scale I did but some failure in life is inevitable.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously
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that you might as well not have lived at all,
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in which case you fail by default.
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We all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure,
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but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
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One of the many things I learned at the end of that classics corridor,
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down which I ventured at the age of 18,
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in search of something I could not then define,
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was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch.
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
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That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives.
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It expresses in part our inescapable connection with the outside world.
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The fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing.
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But how much more are you likely to touch other people's lives?
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Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work,
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the education you have earned and received,
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give you unique status and unique responsibilities.
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If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice,
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if you choose to identify not only with the powerful but with the powerless,
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if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages,
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then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence,
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thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change.
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We do not need magic to transform our world.
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We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.
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We have the power to imagine better.
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Looking back at the 21 year old
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that I was at graduation is a slightly uncomfortable experience
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that I was at graduation is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become.
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Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself
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and what those closest of to me expected of me.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever was write novels.
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However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college,
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took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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I know the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil now.
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So they hoped that I would take a vocational degree.
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I wanted to study English literature.
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A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody and I went up to study modern languages.
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Hardly had my parents' car round the corner at the end of the road,
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then I ditched German and scuttled off down the classics corridor.
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I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying classics.
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They might well have found out for the first time on graduation day.
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Of all the subjects on this planet,
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I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology
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when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
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Now, I would like to make it clear in parenthesis that I do not blame my parents for their point of view.
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There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction.
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So why do I talk about the benefits of failure?
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Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
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I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was
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and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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Had I really succeeded at anything else,
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I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized
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and I was still alive and I still had a daughter whom I adored
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and I had an old typewriter and a big idea and
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so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.
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Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way.
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I discovered that I had a strong will and more discipline than I had suspected.
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I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.
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The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks
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means that you are ever after secure in your ability to survive.
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You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
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Such knowledge is a true gift for all that it is painfully won
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and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.
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I have one last hope for you,
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which is something that I already had at 21.
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The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life.
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They are my children's godparents,
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the people to whom I've been able to turn in times of real trouble.
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People who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters.
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At our graduation, we were bound by enormous affection,
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by our shared experience of a time that could never come again,
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and of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence
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that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.
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So today I wish you nothing better than similar friendships.
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And tomorrow I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine,
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you remember those of Seneca,
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another of those old Romans I met
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when I fled down the classics corridor in retreat from career ladders in search of ancient wisdom.
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As is a tale, so is life.
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Not how long it is,
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but how good it is, is what matters.
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背景与上下文
在这段精彩的演讲中，J.K.罗琳分享了她在22岁时所经历的挑战与反思。她强调生活并不是一份成就清单，而是通过不断的学习与自我认识来找到个人的快乐。在这个信息时代，青年人面临着来自社会与自我期望的多重压力，罗琳的智慧让我们意识到，内心的成长与宁静才是生活的真正意义。通过她的故事，我们可以得到启发，如何在面对挫折与困难时，保持积极的心态，勇往直前。
日常交流的五个核心短语
- 人生的复杂与挑战 - 生活中充满了不可控的因素，我们必须学会面对这些挑战。
- 内在成就会改变外部现实 - 自我的成长与内心的力量可以影响周围的世界。
- 每个人的责任与特权 - 利用我们的资源与知识，为那些无声者发声。
- 失败与成长 - 遇到失败是生活中的一部分，重要的是如何从中学习与反思。
- 想象力的力量 - 我们每个人都有能力去想象更美好的未来，改变自己与他人的命运。
逐步跟读指导
想要提升英语发音并加强口语能力，英语影子跟读非常有效。以下是一些步骤，帮助你正确掌握本视频的难度：
- 初步理解 - 先观看视频，理解大致内容和情感。注意J.K.罗琳的语调与节奏。
- 逐句对照 - 拿到文字稿，逐句朗读，然后跟着视频进行
shadow speech，模仿她的发音和语调。 - 录音自我评估 - 使用录音工具记录自己的声音，与罗琳的演讲进行对比，找出差距。
- 反复练习 - 选择关键短语进行重复练习，帮助提高自然流畅性。
- 应用日常 - 尝试在生活中使用这些短语，与朋友或老师交流，加强记忆与实际应用。
通过这些步骤，你不仅可以提升你的英语发音，提高英语发音的同时，也能更好地理解并感受J.K.罗琳传达的强大信息。记住，持之以恒的练习与反思，才能让你在shadowspeaks中获得突破！
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。