跟读练习: TED English Course. B1.Lesson 1 - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Reviewer Gopjei Reviewer All right,
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so let's take four subjects that obviously go together.
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Big data, tattoos, immortality, and the Greeks.
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Right?
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And the issue about tattoos is that, without a word, tattoos really do shout.
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So you don't have to say a lot.
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And tattoos tell you a lot of stories.
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If I can ask an indiscreet question, how many of you have tattoos?
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A few, but not most.
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What happens if Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, cell phones, GPS,
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Foursquare, Yelp, Travel Advisor, all these things you deal with every day turn out to be electronic tattoos?
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And what if they provide as much information about who and what you are as any tattoo ever would?
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What's ended up happening over the past few decades is the kind of coverage
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that you had as a head of state or as a great celebrity, is now being applied to you every day by all these people who are tweeting,
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blogging, following you, watching your credit scores, and what you do to yourself.
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And electronic tattoos also shout.
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And as you're thinking of the consequences of that, it's getting really hard to hide from this stuff, among other things, because it's not just the electronic tattoos,
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it's facial recognition that's getting really good.
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So you can take a picture with an iPhone and get all the names, although again, sometimes it does make mistakes.
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But that means you can take a typical bar scene like this, take a picture, say, of this guy right here,
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get the name, and download all the records before you utter a word or speak to somebody,
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because everybody turns out to be absolutely plastered by electronic tattoos.
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And so there's companies like Face.com that now have about 18 billion faces online.
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Here's what happened to this company.
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There are other companies that will place a camera like this.
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This has nothing to do with Facebook.
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They take your picture, they tie it to the social media, they figure out you really like to wear black dresses.
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So maybe the person in the store comes up and says, hey, we've got five black dresses that would just look great on you.
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So what if Andy was wrong?
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Here's Andy's theory.
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What if we flip this?
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What if you're only going to be anonymous for 15 minutes?
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Well, then, because of electronic tattoos, maybe all of you and all of us are very close to immortality,
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because these tattoos will live far longer than our bodies will. And
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if that's true, then what we want to do is we want to go through four lessons from the Greeks
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and one lesson from Latin America.
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Why the Greeks?
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Well, the Greeks thought about what happens when gods and humans and immortality mix for a long time.
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So lesson number one, Sisyphus.
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Remember, did a horrible thing, condemned for all time to roll this rock up, it would roll back down, roll back up, roll back down.
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It's a little like your reputation.
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Once you get that electronic tattoo, you're going to be rolling up and down for a long time, so as you go through this stuff, just be careful what you post.
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Myth number two, Orpheus, wonderful guy, charming to be around, great partier, great singer, loses his beloved,
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charms his way into the underworld, only person to charm his way into the underworld, charms the gods of the underworld,
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they release his beauty on the condition he They never look at her until they're out.
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So he's walking out and walking out and walking out, and he just can't resist.
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He looks at her and loses her forever.
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With all this data out here, it might be a good idea not to look too far into the past of those you love.
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Lesson number three, Atalanta.
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Greatest runner, she would challenge anybody.
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If you won, she would marry you.
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If you lost, you died.
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How did Hypomenize beat her?
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Well, he had all these wonderful little golden apples, and she'd run ahead and he'd roll a little golden apple.
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She'd run ahead, he'd roll a little golden apple, she kept getting distracted.
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He eventually won the race.
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Just remember the purpose as all these little golden apples come
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and reach you and you want to post about them or tweet about them or send a late-light message.
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And then, of course, there's Narcissus.
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Nobody here would ever be accused or be familiar with Narcissus.
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But as you're thinking about Narcissus, just don't fall in love with your own reflection.
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Last lesson from a Latin American.
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This is the great poet Jorge Luis Borges.
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When he was threatened by the thugs of the Argentine military junta, he came back and said, oh, come on, how else can you threaten other than with death?
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The interesting thing, the original thing, would be to threaten somebody with immortality.
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And that, of course, is what we are all now threatened with today because of electronic tattoos.
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Thank you.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节 B1 级别的口语课以视频“TED English Course. B1.Lesson 1”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：tattoo, electronic, roll, lesson, immortality。 这段视频共有 67 个句子、838 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 5:45。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 146 个词，很适合跟读。 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
视频中最难的 15 个单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| tattoo 名词 | /tæˈtuː/ | 紋身 /纹身, 文身 |
| immortality 名词 | /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/ | 不朽, 永生 |
| threaten 动词 | /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/ | 威脅 /威胁, 恐嚇 /恐吓 |
| charm 名词 | /t͡ʃɑɹm/ | 護身符 /护身符 |
| underworld 名词 | /ˈʌndɚˌwɚld/ | 地獄 /地狱, 地府 |
| shout 动词 | /ʃaʊt/ | 喊叫, 呼喊 |
| tweet 名词 | /ˈtwiːt/ | 鳴叫 /鸣叫 |
| indiscreet 形容词 | /ɪndɪsˈkɹiːt/ | 不謹慎的 /不谨慎的 |
| plaster 名词 | /ˈplæstɚ/ | 石膏 |
| distract 动词 | /dɪˈstɹækt/ | 分心 |
| accuse 动词 | /əˈkjuz/ | 指責 /指责, 控告 |
| condemn 动词 | /kənˈdɛm/ | 譴責 /谴责, 斥責 /斥责 |
| utter 动词 | /ˈʌtəɹ/ | 發出 /发出, 說出 /说出 |
| consequence 名词 | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | 後果 /后果, 結果 /结果 |
| myth 名词 | /mɪθ/ | 迷思 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| go through 动词 | 通過 /通过 |
| come back 动词 | 回來 /回来, 返回 |
| come up 动词 | 上來 /上来 |
| end up 动词 | 到达 |
| figure out 动词 | 弄清楚 |
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 | being applied · be accused · was threatened |
| 现在进行时 am/is/are + -ing — 此刻或近期正在发生的事 | is now being · you're thinking |
| “going to” 表将来 be going to + 动词 — 计划或明显即将发生的事 | you're only going to be · you're going to be |
| “will” 表将来 will + 动词 — 决定、承诺或预测 | will place · will live |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 13 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 you're, don't, he'd。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “th” 音: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, myth /mɪθ/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: shout /ʃaʊt/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: immortality /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/, anonymous /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/
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: underworld /ˈʌndɚˌwɚld/, shout /ʃaʊt/, tweet /ˈtwiːt/, indiscreet /ɪndɪsˈkɹiːt/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: immortality /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/
- /æ/ — 嘴张大，不要读成 /e/: tattoo /tæˈtuː/, immortality /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/, plaster /ˈplæstɚ/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/
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 tattoo, immortality, threaten 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。