跟读练习: 'The Most Magnificent Thing' read by Olivia Munn - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Welcome to Storyline Online brought to you by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
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I'm Olivia Munn, and today I'm going to read “The Most Magnificent Thing,” written and illustrated by Ashley Spires.
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For all the little perfectionists of the world.
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This is a regular girl and her best friend in the whole wide world.
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They do all kinds of things together.
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They race. They eat.
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They explore.
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They relax.
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She makes things.
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He unmakes things.
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One day the girl has a wonderful idea.
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She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing!
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She knows just how it will look.
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She knows just how it will work.
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All she has to do is make it.
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And she makes things all the time.
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Easy peasy!
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First, she hires an assistant.
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Next they gather their supplies.
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They set up somewhere out of the way and get to work.
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The girl tinkers and hammers and measures...
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...while her assistant pounces and growls and chews.
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When she is finished, she steps back to admire her work.
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She walks around one side.
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Her assistant examines the other side.
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It doesn't look right.
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Her assistant picks it up and gives it a shake.
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It doesn't feel right either.
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They are shocked to discover that the thing isn't magnificent.
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Or good. It isn't even kind of sort of okay.
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It is all WRONG.
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The girl tosses it aside and gives it another go.
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She smooths and wrenches and fiddles.
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Her assistant circles and tugs and wags.
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When she is finished, she stands up and takes a long look at it.
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Her assistant gives it a nudge with his paw.
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The thing is still wrong.
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She decides to try again.
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The girls saws and glues and adjusts.
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She stands and examines and stares.
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She twists and tweaks and fastens.
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She fixes and straightens and studies.
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She tries all different ways to make it better.
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She makes it square.
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She makes it round.
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She gives it legs. She adds antenna.
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She makes it fuzzy.
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She makes it long, short, rough, smooth, big, small — one even smells of stinky cheese!
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But none of them are MAGNIFICENT.
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Her hard work attracts a few admirers, but they don't understand.
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They can't see the MAGNIFICENT thing that she has in her mind.
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She gets MAD.
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The angrier she gets, the faster she works.
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She SMASHES pieces into shapes.
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She JAMS parts together.
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She PUMMELS the little bits in.
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Her hands feel too big to work, and her brain is too full of all the not right things.
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If only the thing...
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WOULD... JUST...
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WORK!!! The PAIN starts in her finger.
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It rushes up to her BRAIN...
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...and she EXPLODES!
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It is not her finest moment.
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I'm no good at this.
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I QUIT. Her assistant suggests a walk.
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It's not much help at first, But before long, she starts to feel different.
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Bit by bit, the mad gets pushed out of her head.
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As they stroll along, she comes across the first wrong thing she made.
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The bad feelings are about to start all over again.
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Then she notices something surprising.
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There are some parts of the WRONG things that are really quite RIGHT.
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The bolts on one, the shape of another, the wheel-to-seat ratio of the next.
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There are all sorts of parts that she likes!
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By the time she reaches the end of the trail, she finally knows how to make the thing MAGNIFICENT.
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She gets to work.
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She works carefully and slowly, tinkering, hammering, twisting, fiddling, gluing, painting.
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Her assistant makes sure there are no distractions.
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This is the perfect thing to ward off bears!
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This will stop that leak.
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This one's all wet.
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The afternoon fades into evening.
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Finally, she finishes.
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She alerts her assistant.
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The pair take a good long look.
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It leans a little to the left.
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and it's a bit heavier than expected.
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The color could use a bit of work, too.
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But it's just what she wanted!
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They climb aboard and take it for a spin.
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They are not disappointed.
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It really is THE MOST MAGNIFICENT THING.
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You know, I like it when she says she's going to quit.
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As a kid, I think I always wanted to be able to scream, like, “I quit!” My mom, I have a I have a tiger mom, Asian mom, who will not let me quit anything.
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I wanted to quit piano.
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I couldn't quit piano.
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I wanted to quit, Taekwondo, I couldn't quit.
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I want to quit swimming.
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I wanted to quit everything.
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And she never let me quit.
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And so, the thing that I love about this little girl saying she quits is that for me I know if I was allowed to quit at any point, then I would really have regretted it as an adult.
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And I'm so happy that my mother made me keep going and keep pushing through all the tough feelings and the hard feelings and the tired feelings so that I could stick with it.
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And I love that in this book because she says I quit.
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But we know there's so much more to the book.
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You know, there's still so many more pages left.
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So we know that she, she's not going to quit.
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She's not going to let herself down.
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Thank you for watching Storyline Online.
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Make sure to check out all of our stories.
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Keep watching and keep reading.
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关于这节课
在这一节课中，学习者将通过观看和模仿Olivia Munn朗读《最精彩的东西》来提高他们的英语口语能力。这本由Ashley Spires创作的书籍讲述了一个小女孩和她的助手在创造过程中的挑战和坚持。学习者将专注于故事中的情感表达、语调变化和词汇使用，以增强他们的英语沟通能力。通过这种学习方式，您将能更好地掌握英语口语练习，特别是在谈论创造力和坚持不懈的主题时。
关键词汇和短语
- Magnificent (壮丽的) - 用来形容某物非常美丽或出众。
- Assistant (助手) - 在工作或任务中协助某人的人。
- Tinker (修补) - 进行小的调整或修理以改善某物。
- Examine (检查) - 仔细观察某物的每个部分。
- Admire (欣赏) - 赞赏、赞美或钦佩某物。
- Try again (再试一次) - 表示继续努力寻找解决方案的决心。
- Fuzzy (模糊的) - 用来描述不清晰或不明确的东西。
- Stinky cheese (臭奶酪) - 一种形容某物奇怪或不可接受的幽默方式。
练习提示
在进行shadowing练习时，建议您保持耳朵专注于Olivia Munn所使用的语调与速率。故事中有些部分的语速较快，尤其是在描述小女孩创造的过程中。您可以先听一小段，尝试重复她的说话方式，以帮助您更好地掌握发音和流利度。
尽量模仿她的情感表达，尤其是她在感到失望或成功时的语调变化。通过这种方法，您不仅在练习英语口语，还能学习如何表达各种情感，这在现实交流中非常重要。
另外，利用看YouTube学英语的机会，反复观看视频，并尝试在每次观看后自己讲述故事的内容，这样可以帮助您巩固新学到的词汇和短语。同时，不妨考虑在练习过程中与其他学习者进行交流，共同讨论每一个角色的情感与反应，提高您对故事的理解。
采用shadowspeak的方法，慢慢增强自己的英语口语能力，您会惊讶于自己的进步！
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 |
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| 最高级 the -est / the most … — 一组中最高或最低的 | The Most Magnificent · her best · her finest |
| 动词 + -ing enjoy、keep、stop… + -ing — 后接 -ing 形式的动词 | keep pushing · Keep watching |
| “going to” 表将来 be going to + 动词 — 计划或明显即将发生的事 | I'm going to read · is going to make · she's going to quit |
| “will” 表将来 will + 动词 — 决定、承诺或预测 | will look · will work · will stop |
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。