跟读练习: Social Media is Warping Your Mind - 通过视频学习英语口语

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It is literally diminishing and neutralizing the power of the human brain.

And these people, they are literally people who are programming us with their algorithms.

They understand the power that this has.

They know what they can do with it.

Have no conscientiousness about it.

How is social media making us dumber?

And do you think brain rot is a real disease?

i've noticed it in myself so

if i can notice something in myself i don't have to feel like i'm superior to everyone else

and it makes me understand what people are going through

and i've noticed in myself levels of distraction that i didn't have before and so i for instance

instagram now only in the last three or four years have i started really paying attention to Instagram.

And the feed is unbelievable.

You know, these videos are addicting.

They're amazing.

Animals, comedians, you know, exercises that you didn't know about, things like that, products.

And you get addicted and you watch more and more of them.

And it cuts off your ability to focus deeply on something

because your mind is split up into 30 second little bits here

and there and and there and there and there

and i realized the reason it works is

because it operates on your emotions it's not a conscious cognitive thing

they know how to operate on your emotions they know what hooks you things

that are pleasant things that are entertaining things that make you angry things

that are informing you of something

that you never thought of before they hit your emotions and they hit the most vital emotion of all, which is loneliness.

You feel like you're a part of something.

You're not so alone, right?

Okay, you're in some kind of virtual community.

But the human brain was designed for focus.

That's our power.

That is our superpower.

It's what made us who we are.

The fact that unlike an animal, and believe me, I think animals are incredibly intelligent, but they're always distracted.

They're always looking around.

Where's the predator coming next?

When am I going to get eaten?

You know, how do I protect myself?

Where do I get food?

We develop the ability to be able to be safe, first of all, and then to focus deeply on things like a rock

that we can now turn into a weapon or a tool, right?

Our brains developed out of our ability to focus without distractions for a minute, for two minutes, for five minutes for 30 minutes

when our ancestors tracked large game in order to hunt

and kill them they had to focus for hours and days tracking

that game that's what developed the human brain that's how we're able to write books create music design buildings

that don't fall down build things create things that are beautiful that are useful these constant distractions,

these constant sense of what are other people doing that I'm not doing,

what am I missing, is continually breaking that focus.

It's like a circuit.

The circuit is being short -circuited, you know, 20 times in the space of a couple minutes.

Whereas if that two minutes where you're like getting all these little bits of feedings from your social media,

If you were to take those two minutes and focus on a problem, focus on yourself, focus on your life, something very different would be happening.

So it is literally deteriorating our brains.

It is literally diminishing and neutralizing the power of the human brain.

And I don't say that from a position of superiority in judgment because I see it in myself.

I see it and I understand it very deeply.

And it's very human and these people who are programming us, and they are literally people who are programming us with their algorithms.

They understand the power that this has.

They know what they can do with it.

And they completely have no conscientiousness about it.

They take no responsibility for what they're doing to young people in their brains

and how young people can't read a book anymore.

They can't go through a 300 -page book

because it's too long they're too distracted right they can't write an essay anymore

because well they can get ai now to write the essay for them

but and once again i'm not preaching i understand it

if i were 20 years old growing up in this world i would be like

that and it's already infecting me but it is rotting our brains and Anybody who argues against that, I don't know.

I mean, the evidence I think is overwhelming that this is actually happening.

But I wrote in my book, Mastery, literally it's a manual about how the human brain operates.

And it's based on science and studies.

And I'm showing you that this is the brain that we all inherited.

And we are literally now in the process of trying to rewire our brains in a way that is not human,

is not effective, is not powerful.

and as far as the mechanism that makes us distracted

and kind of takes us away from our roots of being

able to focus on problems for an extended period of time is it just

we're not built to experience all these different emotions back to back so quickly

or is it all these different novel dopamine stimuli like what is it exactly well as i said it's emotion based

so if it were just thoughts and ideas if they were just posts about plato and nietzsche and philosophy

and you know all that stuff wouldn't have the power that it has we'd be able to control it

In fact, we probably wouldn't be very interested in it.

But because it plays on our emotions, we have to pay attention.

And because we are, we think of ourselves as rational beings, but we are really emotional beings to the core.

And we have very deep, rich emotions, and they play on those emotions.

And when you get something that excites you, you see on your feed, something that excites you, you can't ignore it and and

and it becomes an addiction you go down this hole so

so people are getting addicted to like experiencing a bunch of emotions essentially I guess you could put it

that way they're addicted to the experience of being taken outside of their day -to -day life

and into this alternate realm where everything is interesting right okay

so I love animals that's like one of my passions and I see, I don't really do TikTok, so I'm mostly on Instagram.

And I know there's a whole bunch of other things that people are, Instagram's kind of passe probably.

But I noticed there's like things about elephants or about tigers.

Gee, I can't ignore that.

They're so well done.

They're so interesting that I have to watch it, right?

And then now that I've watched one of them, now 10 of them suddenly appear.

They flood.

I noticed, like I started, I'm trying to like get my posture better because of my stroke.

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I saw one of post about how to correct your shoulders and loosen them up.

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And now hundreds of them.

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And I have to watch them because I'm something I'm interested in.

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They know how to hook you.

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They know how to, you're addicted to the experience of social media itself, of being entertained, diverted, distracted.

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I think that's the source of it.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节口语课以视频“Social Media is Warping Your Mind”为素材。视频中反复出现的词有：brain, emotion, focus。这段视频共有 106 个句子、1254 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 8:18。说话人语速自然，每分钟约 151 个词，接近日常对话。 85% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：

单词	发音	释义
emotion 名词	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	感情, 情感
addict 名词	/ˈæd.ɪkt/	上癮的人 /上瘾的人
distract 动词	/dɪˈstɹækt/	分心
deeply 副词	/ˈdi(ː)pli/	深, 深深
ignore 动词	/ɪɡˈnɔː/	無視 /无视, 忽略
hook 名词	/hʊk/	鉤 /钩, 鉤子 /钩子
essay 名词	/ˈɛs.eɪ/	雜文 /杂文, 論文 /论文
algorithm 名词	/ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/	算法, 演算法
argue 动词	/ˈɑɹ.ɡju/	辯論 /辩论, 爭辯 /争辩
superior 形容词	/sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/	優越 /优越
passion 名词	/ˈpæʃən/	激情, 熱情 /热情
essentially 副词	/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/	本質上 /本质上, 基本上
whereas	/(h)wɛɹˈæz/	然而
vital 形容词	/ˈvaɪtəl/	生命的
flood 名词	/flʌd/	洪水, 洪災 /洪灾

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	发音	释义
go through 动词		通過 /通过
cut off 动词	/ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf]	切下, 割下
fall down 动词	/fɔl ˈdaʊn/	落下, 倒下
go down 动词		下降, 下去
look around 动词		環顧 /环顾

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：

How is social media making us dumber?
You feel like you're a part of something.
When am I going to get eaten?
You know, how do I protect myself?
Where do I get food?

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
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	is split · was designed · being taken
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物	people who are · all, which is · Anybody who argues
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 noticed · I've watched

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 41 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I'm, they're, can't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
长单词——注意重音位置: superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: vital /ˈvaɪtəl/, virtual /ˈvɜɹt͡ʃuəl/, cognitive /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, divert /daɪˈvɝt/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: addict /ˈæd.ɪkt/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/, circuit /ˈsɝ.kɪt/, hook /hʊk/, whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, virtual /ˈvɜɹt͡ʃuəl/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, neutralize /ˈnutɹəˌlaɪz/

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。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 emotion, addict, distract 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。

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