跟读练习: Project Risk Workshop: What Could Go Wrong? - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Okay, everyone, thanks for coming.
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Today we're building the risk register for the payments launch.
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Ha, great. Two hours of imagining disasters.
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Honestly, that's my favorite part of the job.
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Every risk gets a likelihood, an impact, and an owner.
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So, what keeps you up at night?
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Honestly? The fraud-check provider.
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Every single transaction goes through their API,
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and we have no fallback whatsoever.
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Wait, so it's a single point of failure?
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Exactly. If they go down, we go down.
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Okay. That's high impact. What about likelihood?
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Well... they had two outages last quarter.
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Hmm, let's talk worst-case scenario, then.
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How long could we go without taking payments?
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Ugh, maybe an hour before customers start screaming.
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An hour? That could cost us half a million dollars!
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Right, so this goes straight to the top of the register.
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Let's look at mitigation first.
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Oh, we could add a second provider as a backup!
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Hmm, that's another contract, and another invoice.
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It comes down to our risk appetite, really.
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How much downtime is the business willing to accept?
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Well... frankly, close to none.
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Then we're paying for the backup. Simple.
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And our contingency plan, if both providers fail?
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We just queue the orders and process them later.
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Great. So who'll own this risk?
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Ha, I suppose that's me, isn't it?
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Congratulations. Nobody else wanted it anyway.
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Even with the backup, there's still some residual risk.
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There always is. But I can live with this.
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Excellent! One down, only forty-six to go!
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Forty-six? I'm going to need more coffee.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Project Risk Workshop: What Could Go Wrong?”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: risk, provider, backup, hour. This video has 34 sentences and 260 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:00. The speaker talks at a steady 130 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 11 of its 34 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 12 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| likelihood noun | /ˈlaɪklihʊd/ | The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable. |
| contingency noun | /kənˈtɪnd͡ʒənsi/ | The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance. |
| downtime noun | /ˈdaʊnˌtaɪm/ | Time lost due to the failure of some system or machinery, such as a computer crash or power outage. |
| fallback noun | /ˈfɔːl.bæk/ | An act of falling back. |
| invoice noun | /ˈɪnˌvɔɪs/ | A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has… |
| mitigation noun | /mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/ | A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant. |
| outage noun | /ˈaʊ.tɪd͡ʒ/ | A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply. |
| residual adjective | /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.u.əl/ | Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over. |
| queue noun | /kju/ | A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is… |
| appetite noun | /ˈæp.əˌtaɪt/ | A desire to eat food or consume drinks. |
| whatsoever adverb | /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/ | In any way; at all; whatever. |
| frankly adverb | /fɹæŋkli/ | In a frank or candid manner, especially in a way that may seem too open, excessively honest, or slightly blunt. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
| come down to verb | To reach by moving down or reducing. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Honestly, that's my favorite part of the job.
- Wait, so it's a single point of failure?
- Hmm, let's talk worst-case scenario, then.
- How long could we go without taking payments?
- Ha, I suppose that's me, isn't it?
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 5 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, I'm, isn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: contingency /kənˈtɪnd͡ʒənsi/, mitigation /mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/, residual /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.u.əl/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like likelihood, contingency, downtime.
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。