跟读练习: Oprah Winfrey - Who am I ? (with subtitles) - 通过视频学习英语口语
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The three things that I want to leave with you, just these three, I could do ten, I could do a whole life class.
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But just these three things will carry you if you let them.
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First and foremost, knowing who you are.
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Knowing who you are.
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Being able to answer this question, who am I?
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And what do I want?
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You know, many times when I go out of the country, I am baffled by that question.
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To explain what is your occupation.
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I've stood there for 10 minutes.
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Well, am I talk show host?
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Well, I'm more than a talk show host.
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Am I a business woman?
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I'm a business woman.
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I'm more than a business woman.
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Am I an entrepreneur?
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I'm more than an entrepreneur.
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So I just leave it blank or self-employed.
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So I'm not asking for the roles that you play as daughters.
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I'm not asking that question.
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What are the roles that you play as a daughter, as a friend, as a sister?
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You're going to be a lawyer, you're going to teach, you're going to be a pharmacist.
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I'm asking the bigger question of who am I?
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Who am I really?
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My answer is I am God's child.
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I am that which is born of all that is.
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I am, as Pierre de Chardin said, a spiritual being having a human experience.
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Come trailing the breath of the ancestors yet, but trailing the breath of the angels.
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And understanding that because I am connected to the source of all that is,
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All that is possible is possible for me.
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That's who I am.
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And what do I want?
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I don't want to just be successful in the world.
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I don't want to just make a mark or have a legacy.
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The answer to that question for me is I want to fulfill the highest,
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truest expression of myself as a human being.
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I want to fulfill the promise that the creator dreamed when he dreamed the cells that made up me.
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Number two, you must find a way to serve.
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Martin Luther King said that not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service.
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Now we live in a world where everybody wants to be famous and where we admire people for just being famous.
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We think being known brings us value.
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The truth is all of that will fade in time.
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In three years you won't be able to name the housewives a banana.
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The real truth is that service and significance,
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service and the significance that you bring to your service is that which is lasting.
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So to be able to whatever your occupation or job or talent or gift is,
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our honorees today getting doctorate degrees to apparently opposite fields,
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HIV and AIDS and the spoken word.
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But what they have in common is service, using the spoken word in service to community and the world,
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using your knowledge and information about HIV and AIDS and medicine in service to the world.
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And if you look at all the most successful people in the world, whether they know it or not, they have that paradigm of service.
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Everybody's talking about Mark Zuckerberg and IPO.
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Service, Jay-Z rapping, service.
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Through the word, to people, through song.
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For many years, I was really just happy to be on TV and people would stop and say, oh, you on TV?
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Yeah, I'm on TV.
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I like being on TV.
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It's a nice job.
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And it was about the time that I received my honorary doctorate from Spellman around 1993, so I don't know if that had something to do with it.
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I thought of myself as Dr. Winfrey.
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Then I went back
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and I took a long look at what it was I was doing on TV and made a decision
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that I was no longer going to just be on TV but I was going to use TV as a platform, as a force for good,
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and not be used by TV.
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And I will tell you,
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my decision to make that significant change in the way I operated on television,
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using television as a service, changed my career exponentially.
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Service through medicine, service through art.
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Using whatever it is you produce, your product, as a way of giving back to the world.
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When you shift the paradigm of whatever it is you choose to do to service, and you bring significance to that,
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success will, I promise you, follow you.
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Service and significance equals success.
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Number three, it's so simple but so hard to do.
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Always do the right thing.
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Always. Be excellent.
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People notice.
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Think of how you notice.
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You go to Taco Bell, somebody gives you extra napkin and some sauce, you notice.
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You wanna go back to that person.
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Because even at Taco Bell, excellence shows itself. Be excellent.
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Let excellence be your brand.
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Everybody talks about building a brand.
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I never even knew what that was.
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When people say, you're a brand, I would say, no, I'm just Oprah.
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What I recognize now is that my choice to in every way, in every example, in every experience,
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to do the right thing and the excellent thing is what has created the brand.
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years ago I did an ad for Revlon for for an ad they were doing called unforgettable women
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and what I know is that
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when you are excellent you become unforgettable people remember you you
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stand out regardless of what it is you become an unforgettable woman
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and that is what we all want we want to be unforgettable and not forgettable so doing the right thing even
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when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you i promise you
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that why because the third law of motion is always at work for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction.
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That is so true in all of our lives.
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That's what Newton said.
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Celia in the color purple said it.
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Everything you even try to do to me.
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Already done to you.
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So you don't have to worry about revenge or getting back at somebody.
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making sure they pay you just have to do the right thing
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and the right thing will follow you even
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when people don't support it people don't always like you
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and they're not always happy for you and
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if you surround yourself with people who are not accustomed to your success they become fearful they become scared
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because you are reflecting back something to them that they don't recognize.
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Now they're not gonna say,
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you know I'm very fearful because you're reflecting back to me something I don't recognize.
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They're going to say, you know what they're gonna say, they're gonna say who she thinks she is,
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who she thinks she is.
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That only happens when you are around people who do not mean and want and aspire to the best for you.
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People who want the best for you want you to be your best.
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So my greatest advice to you is to surround yourself with
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people who are going to fill your cup until your cup runneth over.
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So when people say you're so full of yourself you can say yeah.
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Yes I'm full.
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I'm so full my cup runneth over.
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And to know that once your cup runneth over you You cannot spend your life with your gallon size offerings,
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offering them to pint size people.
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You have got to surround yourself with gallon size people who can hang in the same company with you
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so that you're not offering your gallons to those little pipes out there who can't hold it anyway.
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Choice to change the world.
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I love that song.
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I love hearing you all sing that song
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and what I know for sure is that the biggest choices begin and end with you.
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Your internal big questions.
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Who do I want to be in the world.
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My relationship to source energy, to all that is God.
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I'm not talking about what you believe in God, I'm talking about your experience of that which is all life,
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which is divine and universal.
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I'm talking about the big deal, being connected and aligned with that,
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when you are tuned in and charged into that,
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whenever you feel empty, you go inside yourself and you connect to the source and you know that all things are possible.
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To know that and to choose to do the right thing in service and significance,
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I promise you.
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You will create a vessel of service for yourself first because you have to honor yourself first.
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You have to give to yourself first otherwise you have nothing to give away.
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You will create a vessel for yourself, for your family, your community and the world.
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and those three things will not only lead you to a
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blessed life I stand as a witness my life is
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so blessed I can't even take it in sometimes it will lead you not just to a gifted life
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and a rewarding life that fills you up but a sweet life.
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That's what you want.
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You want the sweetness.
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You want it to be so sweet so that even when the storms come,
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and they will, you'll know this too shall pass.
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This too shall pass.
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The storm is passing over and you shall not be moved because you know who you are.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节 B2 级别的口语课以视频“Oprah Winfrey - Who am I ?”为素材。 这段视频共有 146 个句子、1583 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 13:24。 说话人语速平稳,每分钟约 118 个词,很适合跟读。 87% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词,词汇容易理解。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中最难的 15 个单词,附发音和释义:
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| significance 名词 | /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/ | 重要性 |
| unforgettable 形容词 | /ˌʌnfə(ɹ)ˈɡɛtəbəl/ | 難忘 /难忘, 不能忘的 |
| gallon 名词 | /ˈɡælən/ | 加侖 /加仑 |
| surround 动词 | /səˈɹaʊnd/ | 包圍 /包围, 圍繞 /围绕 |
| doctorate 名词 | /ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/ | 博士 |
| paradigm 名词 | /ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪm/ | 範式 /范式, 範例 /范例 |
| fulfill 动词 | /fʊlˈfɪl/ | 履行 |
| entrepreneur 名词 | /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/ | 企業家 /企业家 |
| excellence 名词 | /ˈɛksələns/ | 卓越 |
| occupation 名词 | /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/ | 職業 /职业 |
| ancestor 名词 | /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/ | 祖先 |
| aspire 动词 | /əˈspaɪɚ/ | 熱望 /热望, 渴望 |
| baffle 动词 | /ˈbæf(ə)l/ | 迷惑, 使困惑 |
| exponentially 副词 | /ɛkspə(ʊ)ˈnɛnʃəli/ | 指数地 |
| forgettable 形容词 | 讓人印象不深的 /让人印象不深的, 不起眼兒 /不起眼儿 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| go back 动词 | 回去, 返回 | |
| make up 动词 | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | 組成 /组成 |
值得反复跟读的句子
视频中简短而完整的句子,可以直接用在日常对话里:
- Being able to answer this question, who am I?
- Am I a business woman?
- I'm more than a business woman.
- Am I an entrepreneur?
- I'm asking the bigger question of who am I?
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构,并附上视频中的原话:
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
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| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | that which is · people who are · people who do |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么,而不是谁做的 | is born · being known · are not accustomed |
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | I've stood · has created |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 45 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 I'm, don't, you're。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/, exponentially /ɛkspə(ʊ)ˈnɛnʃəli/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: significance /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/, unforgettable /ˌʌnfə(ɹ)ˈɡɛtəbəl/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/, exponentially /ɛkspə(ʊ)ˈnɛnʃəli/
中文母语者容易读错的音:
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚,后面不要加元音: significance /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/, surround /səˈɹaʊnd/, doctorate /ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/, excellence /ˈɛksələns/, bless /blɛs/
- /æ/ — 嘴张大,不要读成 /e/: gallon /ˈɡælən/, paradigm /ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪm/, ancestor /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/, baffle /ˈbæf(ə)l/, napkin /ˈnæpˌkɪn/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频,不要开口,记下不认识的单词。
- 用正常速度逐句跟读,每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比,特别注意 significance, unforgettable, gallon 这类单词。
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。












