跟读练习: My Thoughts On Cleaning - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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The older I get, the more I've realized how much time I have to set aside just to clean.
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The older I get, the more I've realized how much time I have to set aside just to clean.
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I'll ask a friend, what'd you get up to last weekend?
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And they'll think for a bit and then say, I just cleaned.
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Crap, I gotta do that too.
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I've seen people, therapists, and the elderly all talk about how everyone's too gosh darn connected to their cell phones.
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How we don't allow ourselves a single moment to be present or alone with our thoughts.
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But when it comes to cleaning,
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I think you should fill that void up with as much noise as possible.
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Cleaning is such a boring and monotonous task that even people in the 1700s would pass the time by singing to themselves.
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And while these pilgrims didn't have endless podcasts to listen to,
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you have YouTube videos.
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Like this one.
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So I want this video to serve as the noise you listen to while you get up and clean something.
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Hopefully hearing a YouTuber talk about cleaning for the next 10 minutes will motivate you to start chipping away at
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that mess you've been putting off for months.
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I'm not asking you to drop everything and do a 3 hour deep clean of your closet,
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but half-assing something is still better than no-assing something.
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And I think you'd be surprised with how nice you can make a space look in only 10 minutes.
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I want to give the caveat that I'm not a clean freak.
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I've lived in a college dorm with a bunch of other guys,
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my sink is most likely full of dishes as you're watching this,
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and if anyone needs to do a three hour deep clean of their closet, it's me.
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And I also know how hard it can be to look at a room that's in such a bleak
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and disarray state that you get so overwhelmed by the mess that you don't even know where to start cleaning,
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so you never do, which perpetuates this never-ending cycle that makes your entire space and mental health messier.
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Luckily, I have a solution.
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If you don't even know where to begin dealing with the mess,
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the first step to cleaning any room is taking out the trash.
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That's it.
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That's all you have to do.
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All those empty bottles and boxes,
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get them out of there.
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Whenever I clean, I like to play this fun little game that I know you've never played before,
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because it's a game I invented.
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It's called...
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Is that where that goes?
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To play this game, all you have to do is point at an object and go...
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Is that where that goes?
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And if that object is where it goes, then you're good.
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You don't have to do anything.
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But if that object isn't where it goes,
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then you put it where it goes.
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And you beat the game once everything that's going to or needed to go,
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goes where it goes.
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So while you're grabbing trash bags and flattening out boxes,
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let me explain why I found cleaning to be so important in my adult life.
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I really have to thank my parents for distilling...
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I wouldn't call it a love for cleaning,
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but rather a tolerance for it.
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Growing up, my parents would print out physical job charts for the week,
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and every day us kids did all of our chores,
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we would earn one dollar.
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However, any single chore we didn't do,
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we would lose one dollar.
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Meaning, it was possible for us to come out of a week of doing chores in the red.
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My parents were earning money and teaching us about capitalism because my bed wasn't made.
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Still owe them 35 bucks.
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We were able to earn some money back doing Saturday chores.
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This is when we did a deeper clean like vacuuming or mopping.
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But Saturday chores didn't even hold a candle to the absolute worst chores we had to do,
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which were the dreaded...
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Company is coming over chores.
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For some reason, whenever company was on their merry way,
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it was vital that rooms said company would never even enter in the first place were spotless.
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This one time, I think my mom was hosting like book club or something,
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I finished mopping my bathroom,
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which was not a bathroom that anyone in book club would be using, by the way.
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And my mom did her usual room cleanliness inspection and said,
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I think you should wipe that bucket down too.
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She was making us clean.
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The cleaning instruments.
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Do you want me to vacuum the vacuum next?
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However, if it wasn't for all those chores my parents forced me to do,
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I feel like cleaning would have become something I dreaded doing,
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instead of something I can actually wind down the day with.
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I look forward to folding laundry and putting something on the TV
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because I feel like I did something productive while watching cartoons.
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And since I don't live with mom anymore,
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I don't have to clean my bucket.
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Which now doubles as a toilet.
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Cleaning has become such an integral part of my life that cleaning other people's spaces.. is how I show my affection.
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I'm about to put one of my best friends on complete blast here,
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but I think he'll be okay with it because he constantly asks me to put him in videos.
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I'm doing a video that's a puppet show with two bricks!
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Can I have one of the bricks?
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Okay.
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BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I recently visited one of my close friends,
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infamous swoosh, at his place in upstate New York.
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He's 24, living on his own for the first time with three other dudes,
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and the second I stepped into his house, I went, OOOOOOOOH.
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This is a guy's house.
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I don't think a woman's been in here in like.. ever.
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What really sealed it for me was the bathroom not having a trash can,
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but rather a loose trash bag leaning up against a wall.
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And it was full.
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I hadn't planned for this to be on the itinerary of my New York trip,
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but after seeing how dire Swoosh's living conditions were,
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I decided to take him to his local Target to get him some necessary supplies.
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I originally set out to get him three things.
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A trash can, trash bags, and a handheld vacuum.
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But as we were walking through Target,
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we passed the broom aisle,
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and I asked, You have a broom, right?
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And his shoulders started to slowly rise into a shrug,
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and I went, Dude!
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Then we passed the Brita filter aisle,
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and I said, You have one of these, right?
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You haven't just been drinking tap water this whole time, right?
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I mean, the sink's right there.
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You know, Swoosh, normally when people move into a new place,
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they do a big target run to get all the necessary cleaning supplies for their house.
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What do you mean?
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I did do a target run.
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Didn't you see that buffalo pinning in my office?
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Up until this point, Swoosh had been drying all of his dishes with paper towels,
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which I guess is good because I just assumed he was eating everything in his bare hands like a Neanderthal.
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So I think I'm saving him money in the long run.
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I'm really about to show my age here,
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but since I'm doing a whole video about cleaning,
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I just need to gush real quick about my favorite piece of cleaning equipment.
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This was one of the original three items I set out to get Swoosh before I knew how dire his situation was.
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This is completely unsponsored by the way,
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but the Bissell Pet Hair Eraser Hand Vacuum has divided my life into two moments.
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The time spent before I had this vacuum,
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and the time spent after.
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I love this vacuum so much that I've gifted it to friends on three separate occasions.
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Now, this next piece of advice I used to roll my eyes at,
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but after I started doing it,
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I've really been enjoying it.
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And that is to make your bed first thing in the morning.
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I used to think, why do I need to make my bed?
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I'm just going to get it messy again.
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But making your bed is having the first thing you do in the morning be something that benefits your future self.
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It helps set the tone for the day.
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And if you are able to complete that small task,
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then you're probably more likely to complete other more important tasks.
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No, making my bed didn't magically fix all my problems,
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but no matter what kind of day I was having,
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it was always nice ending it in a clean bed.
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Obviously, there's more to life than cleaning.
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I would know.
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I own all the Warrior Cat books.
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But I think everyone should enjoy the space they live in.
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I feel like a lot of us fall into a bad
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habit of dreading to do a task longer than it would take for us to just do said task.
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I definitely can be like that sometimes,
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but if you've been following along and been cleaning while this video played in the background,
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while your room might not be completely spotless,
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I hope you can see how much of a difference you made in only 10 minutes.
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Now imagine how much you can do in 20 minutes!
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Isn't cleaning while watching YouTube videos so fun?
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doing tasks so...accomplishing?
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So if you need to clean, go clean!
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Go clean your bedroom!
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Go clean your kitchen!
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Unclog that toilet!
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The world is your oyster!
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Get out there and CLEAN!
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