跟读练习: stop running away from reality. - 通过视频学习英语口语
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My life is like a Christopher Nolan movie.
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I don't really understand what's going on.
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What would you tell him or her?
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I'd say don't try to understand it, just feel it.
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Thank you.
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I feel that over the last couple decades, I feel that over time,
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we've started to view reality as the core cousin to our dreams in a sense.
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We've started to think of reality as this kind of grey pebble at the center of wonderful abstract thought that transcends it.
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And I want to make the case to you that our dreams, our virtual realities, these abstractions that we enjoy and we surround ourselves with,
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they are subsets of reality.
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Inception had something to say about this, and I apologize to those of you who haven't seen it because I'm about to spoil the ending of it for you.
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But at the end of the film, there's a spinning top that's spinning and if it falls or doesn't for is the key idea.
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Is it a dream?
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Is it reality?
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And the way the end of that film worked, Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Cobb, he was off with his kids, he was in his own subjective reality,
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and didn't really care anymore.
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And that makes a statement that perhaps all levels of reality are equally valid.
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The camera moves over to the spinning top, and just before the spinning top appears to be wobbling, there's a cut to black.
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I skip out of the back of the theater before people catch me.
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And there's a very, very strong reaction from the audience, usually a bit of a groan.
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But the point is, objectively, it matters to the audience in absolute terms,
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even though what they're watching is a fiction, is its own virtual reality.
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But the question of whether that's a dream
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or whether it's real is the one I've been asked the most about any of the films I've made.
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It matters to people enormously.
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And that's the point about reality.
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Reality matters.
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It won't be transcended.
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We had a dream of being outside for this occasion.
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Reality intervened and we're in here.
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We live in the real world, we deal in the real world.
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And I think what I was saying earlier about communications, it's time for something of a reframing.
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And it's something that your generation could do that my generation can't.
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We are firmly embedded in the belief that we have changed the world in all kinds of incredible ways.
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And we have all kinds of ways of selling this to you.
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And, you know, we use fancy words like disruption, which is essentially a form of sort of economic nihilism,
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whereby you judge the value of a company by how much
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it can stop other companies making money rather than what they actually make themselves.
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That's there for those of you going into finance, by the way.
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Just trying to lay a little groundwork there.
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And we use words, slippery words, like algorithm.
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Now if you hear someone use the word algorithm and they're not a mathematics professor or a computer scientist, they're probably trying to obscure what it is they actually do,
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what their company does.
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At the very least, they're trying to evade any responsibility for what it is
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that their company does or what it actually does.
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I would love for you to be suspicious of this.
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I would love for you to look at fundamentals, to look at, okay, what are we really doing in the world?
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What is the change that is being affected?
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how can we actually move the ball forward, progress in this way?
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Oscar Wilde once said, the old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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You do know everything.
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I'm clearly in my suspicious phase.
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And I'd love to impart some of that to you because I think there's an enormous amount of work to be done.
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And in the great tradition of these speeches, I don't have to tell you how to do it I just have to tell you that it's your problem now
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And in the great tradition of these speeches
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Generally what happens is the speaker says something along the lines of you need to chase your dreams
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But I'm not gonna say that because I don't believe it.
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I don't want you to chase your dreams I want you to chase your reality.
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And I want you to understand that you chase your reality not at the expense of your dreams, but as the foundation of your dreams.
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It's very, very important that you take the elevated position that you have achieved over these four years.
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The advantage is that this fantastic education has conferred on you
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and you do everything you can with it to improve the world, to improve reality.
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in whatever field you're going off to work in, I think looking at fundamentals, looking at how people are really affected by what you do,
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I think you have limitless potential.
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And there's been a certain amount of talk about Batman.
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But nobody's pointed out the most important thing about Bruce Wayne, which is, yes, he attended Princeton, but he didn't graduate.
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He didn't graduate, and so as of tomorrow, you are all already better than Batman.
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You're doing me a great honor by inviting me here to be a part of this very, very important time in your lives.
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I am so excited for your future and so very grateful for you inviting me here.
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And I wish you all the best tomorrow and indeed with the rest of your lives.
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Thank you very much.
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I never went to film school.
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I never studied filmmaking in any way.
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I started making films when I was a kid, when I was, I think, seven years old.
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making films using my dad's Super 8 camera and action figures, doing stop-motion films, a little bit of animation, and a certain amount of live action.
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And I just carried on making films as I grew up.
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And over the years they got bigger, hopefully better, but more elaborate.
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And there never really was a period of my life where I completely stopped doing that.
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So I was always moving up eventually from Super 8 to 16mm films.
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And then I think what following represents is kind of the
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peak of what I was able to do on my own or just with friends,
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just using our own resources and borrowing equipment and sort of using the things around us to make a film.
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You have to stick to your guns.
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You have to find something that you can do that maybe other people couldn't do.
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And even if that seems different or doesn't fit into people's expectations, that's what's going to distinguish it if you can do it successfully.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节 C1 级别的口语课以视频“stop running away from reality”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：reality, film, dream。 这段视频共有 85 个句子、1143 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 8:08。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 140 个词，很适合跟读。 86% 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
视频中最难的 15 个单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| transcend 动词 | /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛnd/ | 超越 |
| algorithm 名词 | /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/ | 算法, 演算法 |
| suspicious 形容词 | /səˈspɪʃ.əs/ | 可疑 |
| confer 动词 | /kənˈfɜː/ | 頒授 /颁授, 授予 |
| enormously 副词 | 大大 | |
| filmmaking 名词 | 電影製作 /电影制作 | |
| groundwork 名词 | /ˈɡɹaʊndˌwɜːɹk/ | 基礎 /基础, 基礎性工作 /基础性工作 |
| nihilism 名词 | /ˈnaɪ.əˌlɪz.m̩/ | 虛無主義 /虚无主义 |
| pebble 名词 | /ˈpɛbəl/ | 礫石 /砾石, 石子 |
| subset 名词 | /ˈsʌbˌsɛt/ | 子集 |
| slippery 形容词 | /ˈslɪpəɹi/ | 滑 |
| inception 名词 | /ɪnˈsɛpʃən/ | 开端 |
| surround 动词 | /səˈɹaʊnd/ | 包圍 /包围, 圍繞 /围绕 |
| subjective 形容词 | /səbˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/ | 主觀 /主观 |
| obscure 形容词 | /əbˈskjʊɹ/ | 不清楚, 陰暗 /阴暗 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| grow up 动词 | 長大 /长大 |
| point out 动词 | 指, 指出 |
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：
- I don't really understand what's going on.
- What would you tell him or her?
- Reality intervened and we're in here.
- I'm clearly in my suspicious phase.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | we've started · haven't seen · I've been asked |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | I've been asked · won't be transcended · being affected |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | disruption, which is · Wayne, which is |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 31 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 don't, they're, didn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, abstraction /æbˈstɹæk.ʃn̩/, inception /ɪnˈsɛpʃən/, disruption /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/, distinguish /dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: objectively /əbˈd͡ʒɛktɪvli/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, elaborate /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/
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 transcend, algorithm, suspicious 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。