跟读练习: My Best Life Advice For You | What 83 Years Of Living Has Taught Me | Life Over 60 - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Hello and welcome.
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So nice to see you again.
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Thank you so much for joining me for a few minutes for this conversation today.
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As you know, those of you who follow me,
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my granddaughter and her friend came to Florida to visit with me
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while they were going to a country music concert in Fort Lauderdale.
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And we had the best conversation and I want to share that with you today.
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Let us all just take a minute,
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stop, and look around, and be thankful for everything that we have right now in this moment.
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It seems as though when you're an elder,
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you get asked a lot of questions because everyone is curious about your life and about what your ideas are on life.
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well my granddaughter is 18 and she
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and her friend came down here to Fort Lauderdale for a country music festival
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and had a great time we went out to breakfast as you know
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because I've shown pictures and while we were sitting after breakfast
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and walking along and we sat down near the beach she asked me a question
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and she said Nana what advice would you give me that will help me age just the way you have.
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I said, well, I don't know whether I can help you age,
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but I can tell you in all the years that I have lived,
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things that I have learned that have helped me lead a better life,
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and maybe not a longer life, but a better life.
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And I said, well, McLean,
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I have learned a lot in my lifetime.
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I've made a lot of mistakes.
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But the best thing about those mistakes is
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that I took the lessons from them so that I was not making those same mistakes over again.
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But the first thing I told her is,
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in your life, do what is right, not what is easy.
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And I want you to think about that.
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Sometimes we take the easy route because it's,
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you know, less complicated and good for us and maybe not really good for everybody else.
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But I want you to take the other road.
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I want you to do what is right,
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whether it's in your college,
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whether it's with your friends or your workplace or your family.
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Don't take the easy road,
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but just sit down and think about it.
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And maybe the easy road is the right road.
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But don't take the easy road and always think about taking the right road.
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Now, I know a lot of you probably have had circumstances in your life when you have had to make that decision.
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And maybe when you were younger,
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you made those decisions because it was easier for you.
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But now that you're mature and you've lived a little bit longer,
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maybe you realize that that was a mistake and you should have taken the right road.
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I have always tried to take the right road,
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although it has not always been easy.
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And mainly, I think probably the biggest thing that I did is when my husband became ill,
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I gave up a thriving career on television.
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It was so hard for me because I absolutely loved what I did.
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I loved getting up and going to work every single day.
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I loved it.
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But I knew that when I lost my husband and when I was the main caretaker of my children,
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I knew the right road was to be with them and not to have them lose both their mother and their father.
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I knew the right road was to stay with them
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and to raise them and to be able to have some type of work that I could support us all,
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but yet that I could be there with them more.
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It wasn't easy, but I knew it was what I should do.
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It was the right road,
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and it's because I love them.
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So that is the first thing that I would say to my granddaughter
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or to anyone always try to take the right road
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when you're younger weren't we full of dreams oh I can remember the dreams
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that I had were absolutely maybe out of touch for when I was living in this small industrial town in Ohio.
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But dreams are only dreams until you take action.
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Maybe it takes you a long time to realize that dream.
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It took me 50 years to realize my dream of being on the stage in New York City
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and acting or being in film or being on television.
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It took me 50 years,
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but I never let go of that dream back in my mind.
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The time frame may not be the one that is meant for you,
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but if you have a dream,
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don't only dream that dream,
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but take action to try to make it come true.
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treat others always the way
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that you want to be treated you know at the end
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of all of my videos I always said be kind to whomever crosses your path
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and that's because this has been one of the things
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that I have learned throughout the life treat others the way that you want to be treated
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because I have found everything in life that you give out, you get back.
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Everything.
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If you give out negativity and hate and spite and jealousy,
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that'll come back to bite you.
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It really will.
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But if you give out love,
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support, kindness, all of those things will come back to you.
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But I do believe so much in treating others the way that I want to be treated.
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I think that is extremely, extremely important.
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Take risks.
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And if you fail, don't stop there.
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Don't stop.
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Get up off of your knees.
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As I've said a thousand times,
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get up off of your knees and don't quit.
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Because if you quit, you will never realize anything in life.
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Never.
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Everything will just stop and fail and you will wind up being extremely unhappy.
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And you're going to wonder, why am I here?
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But don't quit if you have a dream,
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if you have a purpose,
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if you have a goal,
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whatever it is in your life that you want to do, don't quit.
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Even if you're planting a garden and you spread those little seedlings out
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so beautifully and you water and you water and you water and only half of them come out up,
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don't give up.
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Plant new seeds and water them and they surely will grow.
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But that's like our lives.
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If we don't plant good seeds,
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then we will never grow.
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And nothing, very few good things probably will happen to us because we don't follow through on everything.
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So try not to quit.
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And that, I think, is something that I think encourages even young people,
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too, because in this world,
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things to be so overwhelming that they sometimes just give up because it seems too hard.
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Remember, I always talk about your gut instinct
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and how important it is in everything that we do
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and how many times we don't listen to that instinct that is 99.9% right most of the time.
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listen to your instinct whenever you are wondering about something
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and whenever you have to make a decision in your life whenever you meet someone
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and there's a vibe there that you are feeling whether it's negative
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or positive listen to your instinct how many times in your life has your inner voice told you something
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and you pushed her aside and said shut up I don't want to hear it.
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And you go on because your heart tells you to or because you want to,
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and it turns out to be the wrong thing.
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And then you look back and you said, uh-huh.
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My instinct told me way back when that this was not a good choice for me.
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Listen to your instinct.
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So if you start young,
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McLean, and you can always take that gut instinct and roll it around and think about it,
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probably the choice that you will make from that will be the right one for you.
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We've talked about this a lot.
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Learn something every day.
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You are never too young to be curious and to try to learn something new every day,
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even if it's a new way of tying your scarves,
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even if it's something new in technology,
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even if it's a new book coming out or learning a new skill.
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be curious about life be curious about the planet around you
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and try to be curious about your friends
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and what is happening with them because
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so often whatever is happening with them they hide
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and what you see on the surface is not what they're feeling how many times maybe we can reach out
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and help other people.
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If we actually listen and we learn,
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ask questions about them, ask them how they're feeling,
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anything in life, never stop learning.
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And that, I think, will keep you young forever to the very last breath.
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And when you think of all of the older women who in their 80s became famous
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because they were living their dream
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and they were not too old to learn something new believe
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in yourself we have talked about this too i mean some of these things i know that we have discussed before,
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but believe in yourself, McLean.
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Believe in yourself.
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Don't ever let outside static or other people's opinions shape your own view of you.
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Because if you do that,
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a lot of times you'll miss out on opportunities,
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and a lot of times your self-worth will be eroded away.
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And basically that kind of comes down to the last thing I want to talk about.
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Don't worry.
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Don't ever worry about what other people think.
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Now, I probably spent three quarters of my life worrying about what other people thought.
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whatever people thought about me,
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what other people thought about my marriage,
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what other people thought about my circumstances,
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how I dressed, you know,
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whatever people thought about anything.
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I was so concerned about my public image and what people thought and even my private image.
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What, you know, when I was having problems with my husband who was ill,
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oh my, I'm so embarrassed,
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What are people going to think?
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You know, how stupid I am or how uncaring I am or how could I make such choices in my life?
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Don't worry about what other people think.
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And then when I went through menopause,
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I gained 20 pounds or maybe 30 pounds.
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And I thought, oh, gee,
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people will think I'm fat.
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You know, who cares?
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Who cares?
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Let it go.
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And when you're young, that is so hard.
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because you really don't know who you are yet,
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and you don't usually have the mature self-confidence to be strong enough to believe that you are unique and you are special.
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But don't worry what other people think.
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Be unique.
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Be memorable.
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Be confident.
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Be proud.
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But mainly, be you.
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I hope she remembers and will take my advice as she goes along through her life in college and business and beyond,
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or maybe getting married and have a family if I'm not here on this planet.
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I hope she will remember.
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If you were to sit down with your children or your grandchild or maybe your granddaughter because it's basically,
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I can't be both male and female,
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but basically toward young women.
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And if they would ask you,
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what are the pieces, best pieces of advice you can give me?
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Just exactly what would you tell them?
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I really would love to know.
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If you can and if you have time and if you don't mind thinking about it,
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Please put your responses down in the comments.
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I would genuinely love to know what seven excellent pieces of advice would you give to your child
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or to your grandchild to help them lead a better life going forward.
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thanks so much for joining me today i am blessed
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and i feel so special that all of you have come to share conversations with me
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and share a little bit of time with me sophie is
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down here on the floor sleeping she's having a senior moment of relaxation after her long walk today
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and it's really hot down here in Florida.
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Please do something wonderful for yourself today.
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Be kind to whomever crosses your path.
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Let's all share the love and pray for world peace.
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Thank you again, and I hope to see you in my next video.
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背景与重要性
在这段视频中，演讲者分享了她83年的人生经验，特别是关于如何过好生活的智慧。她的孙女前来探望，并询问如何能够像她一样优雅地老去。演讲者分享了许多宝贵的经验教训，强调了人生中的选择、梦想的实现以及对他人的善待。这些主题不仅反映了她对生活的深入思考，也为年轻一代提供了重要的指导。
日常交流的五个重要短语
- 做正确的事，而不是容易的事。 - 强调在生活中做出明智的选择。
- 梦想只有付诸行动才能实现。 - 鼓励人们为了实现梦想而努力。
- 用你希望对待自己的方式对待他人。 - 提醒我们在与他人互动时保持善良。
- 不要忘记你的梦想。 - 鼓励人们坚持自己的计划和目标。
- 学会从错误中吸取教训。 - 强调经验的重要性。
逐步跟读指南
为了提高英语口语能力并熟练掌握演讲者的讲话方式，您可以采取以下步骤进行shadow speech练习：
- 反复观看视频：仔细观看视频，尤其注意演讲者的语音和情感表达。
- 逐句跟读：打开字幕，尝试逐句跟读。可以停下视频，模仿发音，确保自己的发音正确。
- 练习情感表达：注意演讲者在表达不同观点时使用的语调和情感，尝试在自己的跟读中加入这些元素。
- 录音对比：用手机录下自己的跟读，然后与原视频对比，找出发音和语调上的差距。
- 持续练习：定期进行这种shadowing练习，有助于提高英语发音和流利度，最终实现雅思口语练习的目标。
通过这种方法，您不仅可以提高发音技巧，还能更加深入地理解和运用日常英语交流中的重要短语。无论是在工作、学习还是生活中，这些交流能力都将对您大有裨益。
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。