跟读练习: Ocean Vuong Shares with Oprah What She Meant to Him and His Mother - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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When you called me, this is Oprah.
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When you called me, this is Oprah.
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How are you?
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What?
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This is Oprah Winfrey.
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How are you?
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I recognized the voice right away.
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I just didn't believe that you were talking to me for any real reason.
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But when I heard your voice,
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I said, this is the voice I heard all my life at 4 o'clock when I answered the phone.
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And you know, I wanted to tell you this,
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that your voice was a kind of mediation for all of these women in the nail salon,
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both the workers and the people who went there to get their nails done.
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Because I saw them when they came in with their husbands
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and the husbands would wait for a while and then they would leave.
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And after a while, it would just be all women.
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And I found that their voices changed with your voice among them.
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And as a child, it was so interesting to hear speech,
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everyone talking differently, They were more vulnerable,
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they were more open with each other.
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And I got to see my mother kind of use the show
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as a way to open up for herself and to learn the language.
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She would not always understand what was happening,
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but she would have this little trick where she would,
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every time there was like an inflected moment in the show with your voice,
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my mother would work on a client and she would go, Oh boy.
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And then the client would, it always works.
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You could, any given time,
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you could just say, oh boy.
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And then the client would say, isn't that right?
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And then she would learn what was happening from them because her voice,
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her head is down.
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She couldn't hear it.
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But I saw this kind of town square that your voice created and the themes and what was really touching for me,
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and I didn't understand it at that time.
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For a community that I grew up in,
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working poor, immigrants, reading was very intimidating.
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We didn't step into bookstores or libraries.
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It felt like an impenetrable world that was not for us.
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And it was aligned with elitism and power and institutions and higher learning that we thought,
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well, that ship has sailed for us.
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But when you held up the books in your show,
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my mother recognized that and says, oh, this is accessible.
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making the act of reading both accessibly dignified,
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but also fruitful for people who are outside of these realms of institutional elitism.
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And I saw the women talk about books in your show,
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and then they would walk across the Barnes & Noble,
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across the mall, and they would have language.
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And they would come in and they would say,
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this is the book I want.
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I know how to talk about it.
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And there's a kind of dignified confidence to literacy.
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I don't know if anyone has talked about that,
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but I think that was the major byproduct
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that your show did is that it made working class people who don't have access to centers of knowledge.
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They don't get to be in a classroom and have high philosophy around craft or what have you.
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They get to participate in the vehicle of culture and you make culture legible to them who often don't have that chance.
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So I just want to say thank you so much for that.
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Oh my God.
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Now I'm going to cry.
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Well, I think your mother is with us in spirit today.
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She would be so proud that it is now your book that I'm holding up and telling the world about her son.
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And when you were, you know,
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working in the nail salon,
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you're working at the Boston Market,
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How did you get to be Ocean Vong, the celebrated writer?
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Well, my mother knew I was a nerd.
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And we came up in Vietnam as rice farmers.
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I was the first to go to college, the first to read.
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And we've been rice farmers very happily for hundreds of years.
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It was the war that ejected us from that idyllic world into this one.
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And so by geopolitical violence and accident,
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I'm now a professor in a way.
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But she knew that in this country,
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the sentence will be the medium that can make us change and change our lives.
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She didn't understand it, but she knew it was powerful.
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So she would drop me off before her shift at the nail salon,
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at the public library, and she gave me this mandate.
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She said, you go in there and you read everything,
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especially what you don't understand.
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Wow.
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And it's so interesting because that's what I give my students now.
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I said, you have to move towards the unknown, the mystery.
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The condition of not knowing is the first step of knowledge.
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Wow.
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Don't be afraid of not knowing.
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You owe it to yourself to go to the root of the mystery.
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And that is to work not only a pedagogy and education,
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but also of life.
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It goes beyond books.
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When I called you, I told you that when I told you I was choosing this as a book club,
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I said, I still think about High.
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I still think about Sony.
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I still think about these characters.
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Readers, didn't you love these characters?
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And don't they stay with you?
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And so I am just wondering how this story came to be.
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I'm always fascinated by the process by which authors come to tell their story.
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It feels like the emperor was always inside you somewhere.
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How did it come to be?
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Yeah, you know, America has often been founded on the idea of the nuclear family.
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And one antidote to that might be the found family.
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Yeah.
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But I actually think when we look at the history of our culture,
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it's the circumstantial family founded around labor.
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And so when I worked at Boston Market as a teenager,
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I found that it was actually the relationships that you had with people you don't choose.
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people who are cobbled together working through a shift,
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and you start to know their footsteps.
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You start to feel the cologne they wear,
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the gum, and when that gum will expire.
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You can hear how they cough, how they talk.
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And the intimacy that comes from the circumstantial labor cobbled together is actually the foundation of so much of our country.
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So much of it is founded on labor,
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loneliness, and love in the midst of all that.
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I think that's so powerful, don't you all?
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You have your chosen family.
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You have your family that you're born into.
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Many people have a chosen family that they found.
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But all of us who work,
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and certainly I remember during certainly all the years that I spent here in Chicago,
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25 years just down the street,
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that we were our own circumstantial family
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and were integrated in each other's lives in a way
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that you weren't integrated in the lives of all the people who were your biological family.
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And I have to say,
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you've created the most memorable,
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misfit, motley crew of characters.
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And I love that each one of them had their own level of kindness in their own unique way.
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And I think that that kind of group uh,
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happens all over the world.
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People create camaraderie with each other.
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在这个视频中，Ocean Vuong 分享了他与母亲以及 Oprah 之间的感人故事。通过与 Oprah 的对话，我们可以深入了解口语交流的真实场景，以及不同人群如何通过语言建立联系和理解。观看这个视频并模仿交流，不仅能增强你的口语能力，还能让你在真实场合中更自信地表达自己。
尤其是在讲述个人故事和文化背景时，练习使用自然的表达方式，可以帮助学习者更好地融入英语环境。通过“shadow speech”或“shadowspeak”，你可以在练习的同时，感受到语言的节奏和情感。
语法与表达的语境分析
在视频中，使用了一些关键的语法结构和表达方式，学习这些可以提升你的口语能力：
- 直接引语：“this is Oprah Winfrey.” 直接引述让对话更加生动，适合在日常交流中使用。
- 条件句：“if you could just say, oh boy.” 条件句的使用可以帮助增加表达的灵活性。
- 描述性语言：“I found that their voices changed with your voice.” 这类描述性语言有助于让信息更具体，更容易让听众产生共鸣。
通过重复这些结构，你可以在实际交流中更加流利自如，进一步提高你的“shadow speak”能力。
常见发音陷阱
在这个视频中，有一些难以发音的单词和口音值得注意：
- “accessible”：这个词的发音可能对一些学习者构成挑战，尤其是元音的发音需要特别注意。
- “impenetrable”：相似的发音和重音位置可能会导致发音错误，建议反复练习以加强记忆。
- 名词和动词的重音变化：在日常对话中，强调不同词汇的重音位置对传达信息的清晰度至关重要。
多通过“shadowspeaks”的方式进行模仿练习，可以帮助你克服这些发音陷阱，提升你的口语表达能力。
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