跟读练习: The Stoic Lesson of Marcus Aurelius' Crumbling Statue - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Okay, so there's a story about how they're restoring the famous Marcus Aurelius column in Rome.
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Okay, so there's a story about how they're restoring the famous Marcus Aurelius column in Rome.
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If you don't know about the column,
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it's a masterpiece of sculpture and carving depicting the 14 years that Marcus Aurelius spends at war with the Marco Mani tribes.
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And they put up this 94-foot column in his honor that still stands to this day.
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There's actually a stoic lesson in this because,
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yes, 19 centuries later, a monument to his accomplishments still stands.
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And even though it's a little worn down and needs some restoration,
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you might say that this disproves Marcus's reminders and meditations that posthumous fame doesn't last and no one will remember him.
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But I actually think the fact that it's still there is precisely the point.
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Because if you look at the top of this column,
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there's not a statue of Marcus Aurelius on top.
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It's actually St. Paul.
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In the 16th century, Pope Sixtus V decides to take the monument to Marcus Aurelius and reuse it for his own purposes.
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And in the end, that's what Marcus Aurelius' greatest accomplishment becomes,
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a pedestal for somebody else.
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And that is what Marcus is saying.
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That's what history does to all of us,
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even those of us famous enough to be remembered for one year or one century or 1,000 years.
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History takes us and it remixes and reuses us.
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It perverts us and undermines our legacy.
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It contradicts us, it absorbs us,
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and it uses us for our own purposes.
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On a long enough timeline,
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everyone's will and legacy is ignored.
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Their graves are lost and obscured.
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Their memory is written over.
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And we should remember this before it's too late.
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And let's say it didn't happen.
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Let's say it was still shiny and gleaming.
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Why would that matter?
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He says in meditations, Meditations people who are excited by posthumous fame forget
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that the people who remember them will die soon too and
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that those After them in turn until their memory passed from one to another like a candle flame
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Gutters and goes out and then he says suppose that that actually wasn't true.
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Perhaps you are remembered forever He says what good would that do you?
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He says I don't just mean when you're dead
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But in your own lifetime what use is praise except to make your lifestyle a little more comfortable?
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He's trying to remind himself that reputation,
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fame, impressing people, that doesn't matter.
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Who you are as a person,
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that's the only thing that counts.
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Who you are as a person to the people around you.
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Did you do good with the resources that you had?
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It's like the Shelley poem about Ozymandias, right?
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The statue falling over in the desert,
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two legs, the head there laying in the sand.
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A colossal wreck, he says, boundless and bare even though this person was so powerful and important in life,
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very little of it remains.
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Now this is not the state of Marcus Aurelius' monument.
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You can go see it, it's still standing there.
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I've seen it myself.
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And yet, the same stoic lesson is actually there if you look for it.
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Okay.
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So if he's saying that being remembered is not important,
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that posthumous fame is worthless,
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what is he saying that does matter?
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Well, he does address this in meditations too.
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He says, forget everything else.
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Keep hold of this alone and remember it.
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Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.
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The rest has been lived already or is impossible to see.
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The span we live is small,
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small as the corner of earth in which we live it,
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small as even the greatest renown,
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passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures,
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ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.
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He's saying that all you have is this moment.
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All you have is who you are in this moment,
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creating some enormous legacy that other people get to live in,
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focusing on impressing people who you will never meet.
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What good will that do you?
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He's saying what matters is that you do good now,
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that you live a good life,
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that you live a good life as a good person.
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That's what Marcus Aurelius is striving to do in meditations.
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And the irony is in not caring about posthumism,
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in not caring about his accomplishments lasting,
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in just trying to be a good man,
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to concentrate on what he has to do as he writes in meditations,
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to fix his eyes on it,
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reminding himself that his tax is just to be a good human being and to do it,
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he says, without hesitation, to speak the truth as he sees it,
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with kindness and with humility and without hypocrisy,
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in that, ironically, he does create a real legacy and we are still talking about him today.
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Sometime around the year 170 AD,
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the most powerful man in the world sat down to write.
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His name was Marcus Aurelius.
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And miraculously, these writings survived.
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And within them are some of the greatest and wisest insights ever put down.
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Sometimes these insights are really obvious.
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They jump out off the page at you,
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but other ones you have to return to.
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You have to understand the deeper context.
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You have to understand what he meant,
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where he was coming from,
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why he would have been saying this to fully understand him.
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Sometimes you're just not old enough yet.
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Sometimes you just haven't read it enough times,
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which is why over the last couple of years,
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we developed this deep dive into Marcus Realizes Meditations.
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We really struggled to come up with a title for it,
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but we just call it How to Read Meditations.
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a guide, a course, a challenge,
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a companion for understanding one of the most important works ever put down in any language,
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in any era, by any person.
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How do you take the insights from 2,000 years ago from one of the most impressive people to ever live
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and apply them to your daily life?
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And we'd love to have you join us.
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We're digging into it here in the month of March.
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Mark Stavilius was born in March.
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We're calling it Mark Stavilius Month here at Daily Stoic.
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And we'd love to have you.
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And you can join us,
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sign up right now at dailystoic.com slash meditations.
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- 后人不记得你 - "No one will remember you." 这句话强调了时间对名声的影响。
- 名声的短暂 - "Posthumous fame doesn't last." 这一点体现了名声的瞬息万变。
- 历史会重塑我们 - "History takes us and remixes us." 指出历史如何塑造我们的遗产。
- 生活的本质在于行动 - "Who you are as a person is what counts." 强调个人品格的重要性。
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- 选择合适的片段：选择视频中大约1-2分钟的段落进行练习，为逐步学习创造小而可管理的目标。
- 初次观看：首次观看时，专注于理解整体内容，不必急于模仿发音。注意视频中的语调与情感表达。
- 逐句跟读：暂停视频，在每个句子后尝试模仿发音和节奏。尤其关注重要短语，如“后人不记得你”。
- 重复练习：反复观看和跟读，运用英语影子跟读（shadowspeak）的技巧，帮助提高流利度和发音准确性。
- 录音比较：将自己的声音录下来，和视频中的原声进行比较，从而发现发音和节奏上的差异。
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