跟读练习: The myth behind the Chinese zodiac - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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What's your sign?
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What's your sign?
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In Western astrology, it's a constellation determined by when your birthday falls in the calendar.
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But according to the Chinese zodiac, or sheng xiao, it's your shu xiang, meaning the animal assigned to your birth year.
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And of the many myths explaining these animal signs and their arrangement, The most enduring one is that of the great race.
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As the story goes, Yu Di, or Jade Emperor, ruler of the heavens, wanted to devise a way to measure time.
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So, he organized a race.
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The first 12 animals to make it across the river would
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earn a spot on the zodiac calendar in the order they arrived.
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The rat rose with the sun to get an early start.
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But on the way into the river, he met the horse, the tiger, and the ox.
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Because the rat was small and couldn't swim very well, he asked the bigger animals for help.
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While the tiger and horse refused, the kind-hearted ox agreed to carry the rat across.
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Yet, just as they were about to reach the other side, the rat jumped off the ox's head and secured first place.
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The ox came in second, with the powerful tiger right behind him.
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The rabbit, too small to battle the current, nimbly hopped across stones and logs to come in fourth.
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Next came the dragon, who could have flown directly across, but stopped to help some creatures she had encountered on the way.
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After her came the horse, galloping across the river.
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But just as she got across, the snake slithered by.
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The startled horse reared back, letting the snake sneak into sixth place.
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The Jade Emperor looked out at the river and spotted the sheep, the monkey, and the rooster, all atop a raft, working together to push it through the weeds.
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When they made it across, the trio agreed to give eighth place to the sheep, who had had been the most comforting and harmonious of them, followed by the monkey and the rooster.
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Next came the dog, scrambling onto the shore.
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He was a great swimmer, but frolicked in the water for so long that he only managed to come in 11th.
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The final spot was claimed by the pig, who had gotten hungry and stopped to eat and nap, before finally waddling across the finish line.
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And so, each year is associated with one of the animals in this order, with the cycle starting over every 60 years.
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Why 60 and not 12?
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Well, the traditional Chinese calendar is made up of two overlapping systems.
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The animals of the zodiac are associated with what's called the 12 earthly branches, or 十二地支.
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Another system, the 10 heavenly stems, or 十天干, is linked with the five classical elements of metal,
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金, wood, 木, water, 水, fire, 火, and earth, 土.
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Each element is assigned 阴, or 阳, creating a 10-year cycle.
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When the 12 animals of the earthly branches are matched with the five elements, plus the yin or the yang of the heavenly stems,
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it creates 60 years of different combinations, known as a sexagenary cycle, or gan zhi.
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So someone born in 1980 would have the sign of yang metal monkey, while someone born in 2007 would be Yin Fire Pig.
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In fact, you can also have an inner animal based on your birth month, a true animal based on your birth date, and a secret animal based on your birth hour.
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It was the great race that supposedly determined which animals were enshrined in the Chinese zodiac.
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But as the system spread through Asia, other cultures made changes to reflect their communities.
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So if you consult the Vietnamese zodiac, you may discover that you're a cat, not a rabbit.
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And if you're in Thailand, a mythical snake called a naga replaces the dragon.
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So whether or not you play stock in what the zodiac says about you as an individual, it certainly reveals much about the culture it comes from.
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关于本课
在本课中，学生将通过观看有关中国生肖的视频，练习英语听力和口语。该视频讲述了与生肖相关的神话故事，特别是“伟大的赛跑”。通过对话的阴阳变化和故事情节的叙述，学习者将提升自己的英语发音和口语表达能力。
关键词汇与短语
- 生肖 (shēngxiào) - Chinese zodiac
- 伟大的赛跑 (wěidà de sàipǎo) - The Great Race
- 玉帝 (Yù Dì) - Jade Emperor
- 顺序 (shùnxù) - Order
- 元素 (yuánsù) - Element
- 阴阳 (yīn yáng) - Yin and Yang
- 十二地支 (shí'èr zhī) - Twelve Earthly Branches
- 生肖循环 (shēngxiào xúnhuán) - Sexagenary cycle
练习建议
在观看视频时，建议进行英语影子跟读。可以选择暂停视频，并模仿讲解者的语调和语速。这有助于提高你的英语口语练习和对话连贯性。尤其注意视频中的关键短语，比如“伟大的赛跑”与“生肖”，尝试重复这些词汇以强化记忆。结合看YouTube学英语的方法，可以通过反复听取与模仿来提升对发音的敏感度。
在开始时，可以慢慢跟读，确保每个单词的正确发音。随着自信心的提高，可以逐渐加快声音的速度，最终达到与视频中的讲解者一样的流畅程度。这种方式不仅可以帮助学生理解内容，还能有效地提高英语发音。对于初学者来说，使用本视频作为shadowing site，并花时间练习每个部分会有助于他们的口语能力提升。
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。