跟读练习: The Economics of Happiness - Trailer - 通过视频学习英语口语
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The number of Americans who say, yes, I'm very happy with my life, peaks in 1956 and goes slowly but steadily downhill ever since.
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The stresses on the average household have increased enormously.
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There is a constant pressure on people to have bigger, better, more.
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And all the time we're exposed to images of a certain level of material success, a certain level of looks,
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a certain lifestyle that we're kind of measuring ourselves up to and seeing ourselves not as good as.
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It's a terrific onslaught of marketing, advertising, brain-working.
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It's a system run amok.
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We often hear about efficiencies of scale, but actually the truth is what we've developed today is a system that could not be more wasteful.
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We have tuna fish caught on the east coast of America, flown to Japan, processed, flown back to America and sold to consumers.
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We have English apples flown to South Africa to be waxed, flown back again to be sold to consumers.
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The whole process involves incredible quantities of waste.
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Only with a full cost accounting system, a true cost accounting system, will we begin to understand that goods
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that are shipped from 10,000 miles away are actually far more expensive than goods produced locally.
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If you shorten the distance between producers and consumers, you're cutting out your food miles, you're cutting out your emissions, your oil dependency.
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If we're going to buy food in San Francisco, let's buy it regionally.
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We've got to begin localizing our politics,
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localizing our economies, localizing our spirits, even our spiritual nature.
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Local knowledge is knowledge that tells you about life.
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It is about living.
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I call it grandmother's knowledge, and I think the biggest thing we need, the task for today, is to create grandmother's universities everywhere so that local knowledge never disappears.
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If we can embrace the challenge, if we can engage our creative brilliance in this process,
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the future with less oil could be preferable to the present with lots of oil.
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I'm sorry.
为何这个视频是学英语的好素材？
看视频学英语是提升口语的高效方式，这部视频不仅话题深刻，语言表达也十分自然，非常适合雅思口语练习。其对话节奏适中，用词贴近生活却不失深度，能帮助学习者掌握地道的表达逻辑。视频中对社会现象的分析的部分，更是练习观点阐述的绝佳材料，对于备考雅思口语的同学来说，这样的内容能有效锻炼思维和语言组织能力。
拆解地道表达，掌握自然发音
我们来拆解几个句子，看看它们为何听起来自然流畅。
- “The stresses on the average household have increased enormously.” 这里“enormously”用得精准，比“very much”更具表现力，体现了压力增长的程度，符合英语母语者的表达习惯。
- “It's a system run amok.” “run amok”是固定短语，意为“失控”，用在这里简洁生动，避免了冗长的解释，展现了地道的短语运用。
- “Only with a full cost accounting system, a true cost accounting system, will we begin to understand...” 重复“a true cost accounting system”起到了强调作用，这种口语中的重复技巧能让表达更有感染力，也更符合日常交流的习惯。
Shadowing练习法，提升口语流畅度
利用shadowing site进行练习是提升口语的有效方法。建议采用“重复-录音”的循环练习法：首先播放视频片段，逐句跟读，注意模仿发音、语调和节奏；然后用shadow speech的方式，在视频播放后立即重复，尽量做到同步；最后录音对比，找出与原音的差距。这样的练习能帮助学习者快速适应英语的语速和语调，提升口语的流畅度。对于刚开始接触shadowing的同学，可以从短句子开始，逐渐增加长度。坚持使用这种方法，结合视频内容，你的口语水平定会有所提升。此外，shadowspeaks也是一个不错的练习方式，通过模仿视频中的对话，能让你在真实的语境中掌握语言运用技巧。
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。