跟读练习: The Moment I Realized I Was Wrong | The Moth StorySLAM Winner - 通过视频学习英语口语

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I'm standing in line at McDonald's on a Monday morning trying
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not to get involved with this situation that's happening in front of me.
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I've promised my wife Alicia
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that I will no longer get involved in public disagreements unless I am directly pulled into that public disagreement.
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And it's really hard because this is a bad one.
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Like a week ago we were standing in CVS
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and it was a long line and one cashier and the woman in front of us turned and said, can you believe how slow this woman is
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and I said in a voice loud enough for all of
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the CVS to hear why are you telling me how slow
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she is go tell her don't talk about people behind their back
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and my wife she's already gone she just walked out she
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knows she just as soon as I take a breath she's gone
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and the woman's losing her mind
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but I hate it I'm standing up at Gillette Stadium it is a national anthem
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and some thick neck idiot five rows behind me shouts at
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this poor soul who's forgotten to take his hat off on a two-degree day.
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He says, take the hat off.
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And so I turn around and I say, I don't know, I think it's more disrespectful to shout during the national anthem than it is to leave your hat on,
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you idiot, which is not a safe thing to do.
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Like, I acknowledge my wife is right.
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It is dangerous out there in public.
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There are high stakes.
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You do not know what people are going to do when you sort of do the things that I do.
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But this is a bad one in McDonald's.
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Maria is behind the counter.
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She is an employee who serves me every single day.
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And there's a woman who is placing an order and things have gone wrong.
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This woman, she's an older woman and she's awful.
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She is cornstalk wrapped in barbed wire.
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She's like this horrible thing.
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And she's ordered a big breakfast hot cake, and the woman is complaining that it's too much.
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And I know what's wrong, because I worked at McDonald's.
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I managed a McDonald's for 10 years, from the age of 16 to 26, to put myself through college.
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I know instantly that this woman wants hot cakes, but she's affixed the word big breakfast to it for reasons we will never understand.
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And now Maria has charged her for both items, and that's why it's too much.
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And I could just sweep in and fix it, but my wife has forbidden it.
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So I stand and I wait.
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And eventually, Gloria comes over, the manager, and she knows right away what's wrong, and she fixes it.
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And Cornstalk with barbed wire goes off to make her coffee.
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And I step up to Maria, and I smile, the smile of, can you believe what people do these days?
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And she smiles back to me, the smile of, I go through this all the time.
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And I know, because I remember going through it too.
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So I get my cup, and I go over to fill my Diet Coke, and the lady's right there, and as I'm filling it, she turns to me and she says,
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can you believe how stupid these people are?
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And I am so happy, because the door is open.
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Like, she has involved me, and now I get to respond.
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My wife cannot complain, so I turn to her and I say, you are an awful person.
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You are a terrible, despicable, and she tries to talk, but I run right over her with my words.
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I say, no, no, no, you're an awful, you're a terrible person, you're the worst.
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You are just awful.
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And for the rest of the day, every time I speak to someone, I'm gonna tell them about you and how awful you are.
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And she begins to cry.
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And I think, perfect, I have done my job here, take my Diet Coke, my Egg McMuffin, I leave.
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I am a social justice warrior.
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I go to my classroom where I teach 10 year olds and I tell them the story and they listen.
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And the mood in the room is not what I expect.
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And when I'm done, Alexis, the sort of student who was in charge that year, the leader of the class, She speaks first.
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She says, you went too far, Mr. Dix.
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And I say, what are you talking about?
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She was terrible.
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And he, and Alexis says, you became the bad guy in your own story.
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And I'm like, no, I did not.
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She was terrible and she needed to be told.
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And so I asked the class, raise your hand if you think I did the right thing.
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Two hands go up.
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The two most morally questionable children in my class that year.
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Like, future criminals agree with me.
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And I couldn't believe it.
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Like, I genuinely felt I did the right thing.
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And I believed that.
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Until the next day, I walked into McDonald's.
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And I saw Maria at the counter waiting for me.
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And it just hit me in a way I had not realized.
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For ten years, I worked at McDonald's.
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And almost every day, at least one person treated me like a non-human.
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I was once hit by a car in the parking lot, bringing food out, and the person leaned out of the window and said, sorry, and just continued to drive,
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as if I was irrelevant.
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It happened to me every day, and it happens every day to Maria and Gloria and all these people.
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And that was 25 years ago.
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I thought I had put that stuff down and walked on
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and it took Alexis and 17 other decent 10 year old children to let me know I had not put anything down.
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Like the anger and the shame and the embarrassment and the rage that I felt every day doing that job,
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that decent hard-working respectable job, all of that it's still right here.
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And as much as I wanted to pretend
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that I was doing the right thing that day and helping Maria
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when she couldn't speak for herself because of the position she was in, that That was all nonsense.
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The only thing I did that day was took 10 years of anger
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and shame and embarrassment and decided this is the person I'm going to unload it on.
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25 years and to this day it is still right here.
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I'm still trying to put it down.
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I am not saying I did the wrong thing that day.
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But I think Alexis was right, that I probably went too far.
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That when 18 10-year-olds think that you have gone a little too far and done a little too much,
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you have to start to think that they may be right.
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Thank you.

关于本课

在本课中，学习者将通过分析和练习视频中的对话，增强他们的听力和口语表达能力。特别是，您将体验到在公共场合中常见的互动场景，并学习如何用英语表达个人看法和反应。这种练习不仅能提高您的沟通技巧，也能帮助您在真实的社交场合中更加自信地使用英语。

关键词汇与短语

  • 公共争论 (public disagreement) - 描述在公共场合发生的意见不合。
  • 不尊重 (disrespectful) - 用来形容行为或言语缺乏尊重。
  • 抱怨 (complain) - 当人们对某事表示不满时使用的动词。
  • 下订单 (place an order) - 在餐厅或商店中请求购买某物的过程。
  • 解决问题 (fix the problem) - 指找到并实施解决某种困境的方法。
  • 感到高兴 (feel happy) - 表达当事情朝着好的方向发展时的情绪状态。

练习提示

在观看视频时，建议您尝试进行英语影子跟读。由于视频的语速适中，您可以通过shadow speech练习提高自己的发音和语调。尤其要注意演讲者在表达愤怒和不满时的语气变化，这将有助于您在雅思口语练习中更加自然地表达个人情感。您可以暂停每个完整的句子，模仿演讲者的语调和节奏，甚至可以借助镜子观察自己的口型和表情，以增强练习效果。

为了更有效地提高英语发音，建议您每天花15分钟专注于这种跟读练习。通过长期坚持，您会发现自己的口语流利度和自信心都有显著提升。这不仅适用于英语学习，也可以帮助您在其他场合中自如地与他人交流。

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。