跟读练习: Life Regrets of 90 Year Olds - 通过视频学习英语口语
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If you could speak to your 20-year-old self, what would you say?
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I'd say keep going, enjoy yourself, keep busy, just take life as it comes.
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Don't worry about too many problems, you can't solve them all yourself.
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I would decide that I wouldn't want to go back to 20 years of myself.
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I like my life the way it is.
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I don't want to go back.
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And I hear people say, oh, the good old days.
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Oh, I wish I was back.
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I said, not me.
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I want to go forward and find out what it's going to be like forward, not backwards.
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I'm not a backwards person.
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I think the same thing that I did say to myself, and that is keep having fun while you're doing your life.
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Make sure you are honest about it.
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And don't expect to find everyone as you would like them to be.
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Every individual is each an individual and each have their own pluses and minuses.
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Get up and do more.
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Go enjoy yourself more.
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I was a little afraid to do stuff and go out.
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I should have went out more.
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What do you mean by that?
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Go where?
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Go anywhere.
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Go on trips.
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I've never been to another country.
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I could have went to another country.
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Sort of scares me.
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I don't like flying.
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I don't even remember back that far.
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20 years old.
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I was still in college.
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I was married.
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I had one son.
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My best advice would be think twice before you marry a minister.
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It's a very demanding job.
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I'd say, keep on this road, keep going, love everyone, and just be happy with where you are.
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I'm probably going to freak out everybody, but pray.
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God's the only one that can change things.
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You can't change them if they're really bad, but He can in an instant.
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Oh, they think that once we're old, you can just shove us in a closet and we don't have any mind to think with.
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I mean, some of us don't, but I've been very blessed in that I have my own mind
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and my own hearing and my own everything is still intact.
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That is no fun to get old, but I think it is.
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I think it is fun.
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You could cherish everything.
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Oh, growing old?
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Yeah.
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It's worse than you think if you don't have friends and people and you don't have your mind, I guess.
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What would you say to somebody who's afraid of growing up?
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You don't have a choice, so you might as well do the best you have.
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It's one thing that nobody can tell you, tell you if you can do it or not.
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They think it's hard.
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It isn't.
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It isn't hard at all, it's far too easy.
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What do you mean?
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Well, what I mean is that they think that life diminishes.
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It doesn't.
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It goes on exactly as you see it.
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And if I see it as diminished, then it is diminished.
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But I don't see it that way.
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I see it as life changes as we go.
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And it doesn't change a whole lot.
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You still have the same values.
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It's rather miraculous.
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I don't have longevity in my family.
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So for me to be 85, I've already outlived both of my parents.
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and I had a major major fall last November so
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that is why I am in this wonderful place I never thought
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that I would live to see 85 to be quite honest
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it's a God gift to me what does it feel like to be 92 same as always
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Meaning I have plenty of energy and I can do anything I want to, almost.
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I don't run anymore.
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But, you know, my age is only a number.
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If you think of yourself as being old, then you are.
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If you don't think of yourself as being old, then you are where you are.
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What does it feel like to be 97?
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I'm lucky because I felt twice.
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I broke my arm and wrist and side and I'm able to do everything back again.
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And I'm fine.
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I don't have to go to a doctor for a year.
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I said well a year's a long time.
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Who knows where I'll be.
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It feels like an age.
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I have no idea.
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I've been through a heck of a lot in my age.
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You look amazing, by the way.
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You look amazing.
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What does it feel like to be 90?
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Nothing.
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If my legs worked, I would still be out, working.
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But my legs don't work anymore.
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But no different.
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I'm very blessed, I'm healthy, I can go places, I can walk properly.
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I'm so blessed.
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And so, it's actually fun.
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You have to make your own secret to happiness, because if you don't, you won't be happy.
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You have to learn to live with people and have to learn to agree on everything that you want to do.
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And if you agree, it's fine.
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If you don't, you let it go.
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Be yourself and enjoy every moment of it of it.
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You only have one life that we know of.
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Actually, my belief is that we come back over and over and over again.
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We've all lived hundreds of times, probably thousands of times throughout the millennia.
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Well, you have to have a little fun too, but I did a lot of singing and that I loved the best
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and I had a trio so we went around Boston singing
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and we sang for a lot of service people and that really helped.
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The key to happiness is to know your God and have a really good faith.
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That's the key not only to happiness but to pure joy
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and there's a difference don't ask me to explain it but joy and happiness are two different things.
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External things can make you happy,
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but it's the joy that comes from deep within and having a good faith.
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Do you have any life regrets?
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No. I shouldn't have married a second husband, but outside of that, I'm already sick.
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Sure, lots of them.
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But I can't tell you what they are.
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They're not that important.
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What do you mean?
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Well, you know, if I said the wrong thing to someone at some point,
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I would not like to be hurtful to anyone by saying the wrong thing or whatever.
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You know, one needs to be kind to oneself and to others.
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That's one of the most important things in life, is learning to be kind to yourself, learning to be kind to others, always.
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No exceptions.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would live it exactly the same way.
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I'd like to take more trips.
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I have a bucket list that's still a mile long, which I know will never get fulfilled.
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I've kind of resigned myself to the fact that my life changed drastically when I fell a year ago in November
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and broke my femur.
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My sons and my brother kept saying, you'll never go home.
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and I wanted to prove them wrong, and they weren't.
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And so I kind of do it vicariously.
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Each time my grandson or my granddaughter go someplace, I live that through them.
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My older son right now is in Scotland with his wife.
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I'm living that vicariously through them.
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And they're very good about sending me pictures and letting me know how things are.
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Boy, that's a really good question.
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When I was young and in my early 20s, yeah, there was regrets because of the way I got pregnant.
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My mom and dad were embarrassed and furious at me,
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so they didn't like the fact that I was pregnant so young and unmarried.
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As life went on, they became calmer about it.
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And you know, the most wonderful thing are people and your children.
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I think you should be kind to people
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and I try not to argue with anybody
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because it doesn't do any good and
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when they got in trouble I just rolled my eyes and they'd laugh so that that would solve it.
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I'm still enjoying life.
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I tell the kids Don't worry about anything when I leave because I had a great life.
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And I did a lot of traveling when I could.
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I'd go on the cruises and things like that.
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So I can't complain.
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To be good to people.
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To be good to you.
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because if you don't love yourself, you don't love anybody.
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How do you love yourself?
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I love myself because I am happy.
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I'm still kicking, essentially.
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And I am enjoying life, and I enjoy life here.
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Everybody is good to me.
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and I'm equally good to them.
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Don't be rude to anybody.
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Be loving to all because love is the answer and the key to almost everything in this world.
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Being good to one another, being kind to one another, loving to one another.
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How do you do that when it feels impossible?
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Pray.
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Just simply pray.
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Briefly, and the Lord will guide you.
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Thank you.
为什么与这个视频练习口语？
通过观看90岁老人分享他们的生活遗憾，我们不仅能领悟到人生的智慧和深刻的道理，还可以在一个真实的语境中练习英语口语。这个视频提供了丰富的对话素材，让学习者能够在轻松的氛围中提高表达能力。在进行英语口语练习时，这种真实感可以帮助我们更自然地使用语言，避免死板的书面表达。」
在进行英语口语练习的过程中，shadow speak（影子口语练习）是一种有效的方式。学员们可以通过模仿视频中的发音、语调和语速，来加深对语言结构的理解，同时提升他们的实际口语能力。
语法与表达在语境中的应用
在视频中，发言者使用了以下几种关键表达结构，值得学习者注意：
- Keep going, enjoy yourself - 这里使用了祈使句，传达出积极向上的态度。类似的表达可以用在鼓励他人时，增强语气的坚定感。
- Don't worry about too many problems - 通过使用否定形式，讲话者提醒我们面对生活中的挑战时应保持镇定，增强了日常对话的自然流畅性。
- Every individual is each an individual - 这种结构强调了个体的独特性，适用于强调差异或多样性主题的讨论。
- What would you say to somebody who's afraid of growing up? - 这里的句式可以帮助学习者在提出假设性问题时更具表现力。
这些表达结构在日常对话中非常常见，学习者可以通过视频进行shadowing（影子模仿），帮助提高英语发音和流畅度。
常见发音陷阱
在这个视频中，有些单词和句子可能会让学习者在发音时遇到困难：
- Demanding - 这个词的发音常常被误读，注意元音的发音和重音的把握。
- Intact - 发音时应注意将“t”和“a”连接在一起，避免发音模糊。
- Worse than you think - 这个表达带有较强的语气，学习者应关注语调的变化，以增强表达时的情感。
通过仔细聆听视频并模仿发音，学习者不仅可以提高英语发音，更能够掌握更自然的沟通方式，提升与他人的互动能力，成为更自信的英语口语者。
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。