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He was telling me that he nearly died.

I was sitting on the sofa talking to my mate's dad.

It's always a little bit strange talking to your childhood friend's parents

when you're older because on the one hand it's nice to see them and their world with older and wiser eyes.

It's nice to see them as people.

But on the other hand, childhood is not an easy thing to shake off.

Hi Johnny, come on in, he said.

Hi Mr Hammond, thanks for having me stay.

Hey, can Alex come and play please?

I reply suddenly in a squeaky prepubescent voice wearing shorts and carrying my primary school bag.

But as I sat there in the nostalgic liminal space between adulthood and childhood, Mr Hammond told me about how he had nearly died.

It wasn't one of those I got a diagnosis and then I pulled through kinds of stories.

This was a hit by lightning, hungry shark attack, act of God kind of thing.

one minute he was fine

and the next he was in the back of an ambulance

careening down the road to the hospital without oversharing another person's story i would just say

that it involved a lot of blood hours on an operating table

and a few weeks in the ward do you know what johnny he said to me all of

that you need to make the most of it stuff is all just abstract

and remote until it happens of course you think it

and you say it but until something like this happens you don't feel it

I told Mr Hammond to write down his story for me, especially his post-encounter philosophies, but until that time you have me.

And so this week we're going to look at life-changing moments along with Anton Chekhov.

In Chekhov's play The Seagull, we are asked to imagine a seagull flying over a lake.

The gull is swooping and diving, fishing and cawing.

It's entirely consumed by the busyness of being a seagull.

And then, in the squeeze of a trigger, it's gone.

A man on the shore holding a rifle is bored, and with no game and no fun to be had, he decides to pull up his gun and shoot the bird for no other reason than idleness.

Of course, as with any great literature, the metaphors are wrapped in allegories.

In the play, we meet a cast of characters who are obsessed with their own plans.

They have these unfulfilled longings.

They want fame, they want riches, they want love, they want pure art.

Like a seagull flapping back to land, they have their eyes only for the shore, and so blinkered and distracted,

they are vulnerable to the misfortune of life's mercurial rifle.

So much of our lives is spent planning and preparing for things, and yet often the most significant moments come out of the blue.

These are what the psychiatrist Carl Jaspers called boundary situations.

A boundary situation is a rupture.

It's a transformative experience that we cannot initiate, plan or even avoid.

We can only encounter it.

The mundane, every part of our life, putting on socks, ordering a pizza, planning a holiday, that kind of thing, are what Jaspers calls a situation being.

But a boundary situation is one that thunders down to shake the foundations of your very existence.

It changes who you are and it happens

when you wake up in a hospital bed having only just beaten the reaper's odds.

Although these boundary situations change a bit in Jasper's works, he broadly sorted them into four categories.

First, you have death.

We fear our loved ones dying and we fear the very fact of our own death.

When you know grief, when you reflect on mortality, you often find some kind of revelation.

As my friend's dad told me, we always know about death, but when it's a boundary situation.

It comes crashing into our lives like some grim and unforeseen curtain call.

Second, suffering.

As the Buddha pointed out long before Jaspers, it is impossible to entirely avoid suffering.

Our paths will hit old age, sickness and a great deal of pain.

Some of this we can see coming, a tooth filling, a long run, a 14-hour flight to Australia.

But the rest comes along unexpectedly.

It hits us with such a shocking intensity that we're almost glad that we didn't see it coming.

We come home from the hospital with a new life to live.

Then there is guilt.

There will come a time in life, often in adulthood, when we feel responsible for things.

And this is a sudden awareness that our actions will impact those around us.

That we are the reason for those tears, that laughter, that pain, that joy.

The profound pull of the heart changes how we live and it often comes on unexpectedly.

Finally you have chance.

No matter how ordered we might want our lives to be, there will always be an unpredictable exception.

We can hope for the best and make all of the plans

that we want but we will never fully control all of the facts that affect our existence.

We want order, we want regularity but we get the capricious throws of chance.

What Chekhov's Seagull, Jaspers and Mr Hammond all get right is

that we are each more vulnerable than we might want to allow.

A wedding, three years and the fortune in the planning is ruined by a single stomach bug.

An hour-long journey home for Christmas winds up getting you stuck in the traffic of a freak snowstorm.

A lifetime achievement is overshadowed by a national disaster.

A long and gentle retirement is blown off course by a near-death detour to the operating table.

Our lives are defined by the unforeseen and unplannable.

We have our dreams and hopes and we are flying to some distant horizon, yet life doesn't care.

Around every corner, at every flap of our wings,

everything can change and that's all the more reason to enjoy the view from where we are as long as it lasts.

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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“The 4 moments that will change your life”为素材。视频中反复出现的词有：situation, seagull, boundary, Jaspers, Hammond。这段视频共有 76 个句子、1029 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 5:39。说话人语速较快，每分钟约 182 个词，会出现较多连读和弱读。只有 81% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇难度较高。

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
boundary 名词	/ˈbaʊndɹi/	邊界 /边界
adulthood 名词		成年
unexpectedly 副词	/ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/	竟然, 出乎意料地
rifle 名词	/ˈɹaɪfəl/	步槍 /步枪, 來福槍 /来福枪
allegory 名词	/ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/	諷喻 /讽喻, 託寓 /托寓
capricious 形容词	/kəˈpɹɪʃəs/	反复无常的, 善变的
detour 名词	/ˈdi.toɹ/	繞行 /绕行, 彎路 /弯路
misfortune 名词	/mɪsˈfɔɹt͡ʃən/	不幸, 禍 /祸
obsess 动词	/əbˈsɛs/	迷住, 著魔
overshadow 动词	/ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/	使黯然失色, 使相形見絀 /使相形见绌
regularity 名词	/ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/	正則性 /正则性, 規則性 /规则性
rupture 名词	/ˈɹʌpt͡ʃɚ/	破裂
snowstorm 名词	/ˈsnəʊstɔːm/	暴風雪 /暴风雪, 大風雪 /大风雪
longing 名词	/ˈlɔːŋɪŋ/	渴望
sock 名词	/sɑk/	襪子 /袜子

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	释义
come along 动词	陪伴, 陪同
point out 动词	指, 指出
write down 动词	寫下來 /写下来, 寫下 /写下

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 7 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 we're, didn't, doesn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“th” 音: tooth /tuθ/, thunder /ˈθʌndɚ/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: capricious /kəˈpɹɪʃəs/, overshadow /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/, initiate /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
长单词——注意重音位置: unexpectedly /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/, allegory /ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/, mercurial /mɝˈkjʊ.ɹi.əl/, overshadow /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/, regularity /ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: overshadow /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/, transformative /tɹænsˈfɔɹmətɪv/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, dive /daɪv/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: flap /flæp/, busyness /ˈbɪz.i.nəs/, capricious /kəˈpɹɪʃəs/, idleness /ˈaɪdəlnəs/, obsess /əbˈsɛs/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: rifle /ˈɹaɪfəl/, allegory /ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/, blinker /ˈblɪŋkəɹ/, mercurial /mɝˈkjʊ.ɹi.əl/, regularity /ˌɹɛɡjuˈlæɹəti/

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 boundary, adulthood, unexpectedly 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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