跟读练习: The Moth StorySLAM Winner: Matthew Dicks “MIT Restroom” - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Matthew Dix.
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You're next.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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I'm walking down a hallway yesterday in the mathematics building at MIT.
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It's a long hallway.
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They call it the infinite hallway because it's a building full of mathematical nerds.
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And they really are nerds.
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It's a building full of geniuses.
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And it's really odd to be in a building where objectively
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you know you are the stupidest person in the building right now.
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But I was, I'm not an MIT student or a faculty member.
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I was just there that day to teach people storytelling, people who put rockets in space and move atoms at a subatomic level.
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I was talking to geniuses and I felt like an idiot.
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I was in classrooms where the chalkboards were covered with these equations, but none of the equations had numbers in them.
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Like there's a point in math, I guess, where numbers just fall away.
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And there's just squiggles that I don't understand.
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It's incredible.
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I was walking down this hallway, and I walked past these two guys, 20-somethings, students, and I hear them talking.
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And one of them is saying, well, if you take 4 and 1 half, and you divide it by the differential, then you're going to take the variable.
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And that's what they're talking about.
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I thought, like in a movie at MIT, that's what they would be talking about, but it's in real life.
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And it was yesterday.
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It was opening day at Fenway and the last day of the NCAA tournament.
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And they were talking about math.
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And I just knew I didn't belong.
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And it was just like when I went to college.
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I got to college late in life.
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I started when I was 24.
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And I was with a bunch of really smart people, like 18 and 19 and 20 year olds, who had done high school right and gotten into college the real way.
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And when I went to college, at the same time I was managing a McDonald's restaurant full time.
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And I had just been homeless for a period of time, and I had been in jail.
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and I arrived on this beautiful pristine campus with these geniuses and I just felt like I never belonged.
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I would see signs on the walls for frat parties
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that I knew I would not be invited to
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and I would hear them talk about places to go on campus
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that I couldn't get to
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because I had to go worry about whether the fryer later was working properly
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and I never told anyone who I went to college with this truth about me.
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I just thought they would never want to know.
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It was an imposter situation there as well.
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And so I'm walking down this hallway of geniuses, and I'm going to the bathroom.
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I just finished my workshop.
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I gave everybody a break.
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I open the door to the bathroom.
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I walk in.
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I'm six steps in when I look up, and I see there's three women at the sink.
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And there's another one in the stall.
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I can hear her peeing.
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And the looks on their faces tell me this is not a gender-neutral restroom.
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And so I've walked into the women's room in the mathematical building at MIT.
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And so I apologize and slink out.
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I close the door, I see the men's room.
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It's clearly marked, it's right there.
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I look to see if the sign on the women's room door was marked, it was.
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Like I can't even read at this place.
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So I go into the men's room.
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It's eight urinals, nobody else is in the room.
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So I choose urinal number two.
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I step up to it, I start doing my business.
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I hear a guy walk in behind me a second later, and then he sidles up to the urinal right next to me.
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Which is weird.
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If you don't use urinals, it's weird.
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If there's eight guys, sure, we'll all get close and we'll pee.
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But if there's only one of us and there's eight, you just shouldn't bring exposed penises that close if it's not necessary.
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We don't need to cuddle while we pee.
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And I'm thinking, is this like a power move?
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Is he trying to like dominate me?
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Or is he just weird?
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Like, is he socially awkward and he doesn't understand how restrooms work?
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And then I wondered, is this my hang up?
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Like, do I have a problem?
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Do I have insecurity that I don't know about and I need to deal with?
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All of that goes through my head while I'm peeing.
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And I wash my hands and I leave without even seeing the guy.
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And I go back to my workshop.
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And as I walk in, it occurs to me, I was just teaching the geniuses before I left
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that we should find small moments in our lives to tell stories about.
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Those are the best ones to tell.
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And it occurs to me, I just had two small moments.
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They're not really worth the stage, but I'll share them.
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It's a good example.
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And so I do.
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When all the geniuses sit down, I tell them about how I plowed into the women's restroom and I'm an idiot.
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and then I tell them about how this crazy person stood next to me in the men's room, like a socially awkward, overly aggressive fool,
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and how it got in my head while I was trying to do something else.
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And then one of the geniuses raises his hand and he says, that was me in the restroom.
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And I go, oh God.
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And he's been in front of me the whole time.
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For an hour I've been talking to this guy, and he was the guy next to me.
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He's a faculty member.
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He's a genius.
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And so I start to apologize, and he says, no, no, no, hold on.
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He says, I had a moment too.
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He said, I walked into that restroom in a fog.
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I was thinking about what you had just talked about, and I just went up to a urinal, and I started using it, and then I thought, oh my God, why did I choose this one?
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And then he looked, and he said, I looked, I looked and I saw it was you.
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He said, oh my god, it's Matt the Storyteller.
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What do I do?
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What do you do when you're standing next to a storyteller who's peeing next to you?
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He said, I had that moment too.
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And I think, oh my god.
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He's a genius, but he's just a guy who has weird urinal moments like I do.
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And his name is Tom.
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Later on, he gives me a tour of the nanotech facility.
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He gives me nanotech swag and a bag to bring home to my kids.
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He offers me to tour MIT the next time with my family when we come back.
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And I start to think, maybe I did have a hang-up, but it was back in college when I didn't want to tell anyone that I was different than them.
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Like, maybe if I had told them I'm a manager at McDonald's, they wouldn't have thought anything of it.
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Maybe they would have thought well of it.
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And maybe if I had told them I was homeless before I showed up to college, they wouldn't have judged me.
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Like maybe I have been thinking that these people are more than people.
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Like they're geniuses.
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I am not smarter than anyone at MIT.
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But maybe they're not better than me too.
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Maybe people are just people.
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And maybe I have a lot to learn.
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Thank you.
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Matthew Dicks.
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为什么要通过这个视频来练习口语？
在这个视频中，演讲者Matthew Dicks分享了他在MIT的经历，探讨了与天才学生的交流以及自我怀疑的感受。通过观看和模仿这个视频，学习者可以感受到真实的口语环境，增加他们在此类学术环境中的英语表达能力。这种练习不仅能提高他们的雅思口语练习水平，还能帮助他们增强自信心。
语法与表达在语境中的应用
在Matthew的故事中，有几个关键的表达和语法结构值得关注：
- 反转叙述：他在提到自己与天才学生的差异时用到了“我就像个傻瓜”，这种夸张的自我贬低方式增加了叙述的趣味性。
- 引述直接对话：内容中提到学生们的对话“如果你把4和1/2除以微分”，这种引述让学习者理解学术交流中的高频词汇和使用情境。
- 时间状语的运用：例如“昨天，我走在走廊上”，这种结构让叙述更加生动，学习者可以模仿使用相似结构来描述自己的经历。
常见发音陷阱
视频中的一些单词和发音可能会对学习者造成困惑：
- “differential”：此词在快速交流时容易发音不清，建议在进行英语影子跟读时，多练习音节的清晰度。
- “squiggles”：这个词的发音可能需要特别关注，尝试重复以提高英语发音的准确性。
- “geniuses”：这是一个较长的单词，注意重音的放置，可以通过shadow speak的方式提高发音流利度。
通过练习这些词汇和句型，学习者不仅能够在雅思口语练习中表现更佳，还能提升整体的英语交流能力。
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 |
|---|---|
| 现在完成进行时 have/has been + -ing — 以前开始、现在仍在继续的动作 | I've been talking · have been thinking |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | were covered · would not be invited · was marked |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | people who put · anyone who I · guy who has |
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | I've walked · he's been |
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。