跟读练习: The Value of TIME - Powerful Motivational Speech - 通过视频学习英语口语
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When asked what's the biggest mistake we make in life, the Buddha replied, the biggest mistake is you think you have time.
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Time is free, but it's priceless.
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You can't own it, but you can use it.
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You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
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And once it's lost, you can never get it back.
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The average person lives 78 years.
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We spend 28 .3 years of our life sleeping.
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That's almost a third of our life, but 30 % of us struggle to sleep well.
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We spend 10 .5 years of our life working, but over 50 % of us want to leave our current jobs.
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Time is more valuable than money.
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You can get more money, but you can never get more time.
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We spend nine years on TV and social media.
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We spend six years doing chores.
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We spend four years eating and drinking.
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We spend three and a half years in education.
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We spend two and a half years grooming.
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We spend two and a half years shopping.
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We spend one and a half years in childcare and we spend 1 .3 years commuting.
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That leaves us with nine years.
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How will we spend that time?
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Steve Jobs said your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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So there's good news and there's bad news.
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The bad news is time flies, the good news is you're the pilot.
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Imagine you wake up every day with $86 ,400 in your bank account
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and at the end of the night it's all gone.
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Whether you spent it or not.
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And then the next day you get another $86 ,400.
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What would we do with it?
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Every day 86 ,400 seconds are deposited into your life account.
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At the end of the day, once they're all used up, you get a new 86 ,400 seconds.
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We would never waste it if it was money.
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So why do we waste it when it comes to time?
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Those seconds are so much more powerful than dollars because you can always make more dollars, you can't always make more time.
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To realise the value of one year, ask a student who failed a grade.
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To realise the value of one month, ask a mother who lost her child in the final month.
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To realise the value of one week, ask the editor of an online magazine.
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To realise the value of one hour, ask the couple who's in a long distance relationship.
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To realize the value of one minute, ask the person who just missed a bus, train or plane
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To realize the value of one second, ask the person who just missed an accident
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And to realize the value of a millisecond,
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ask the person who just came second at the Olympics We think that it's people wasting our time,
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that it's really us giving them the permission to do that and in reality these two people live inside us.
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Don't let someone be a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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Some of us lose the people most important to us because we don't value their time.
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Some of us don't recognize how important someone is to us until they're gone.
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Inside all of us are two voices.
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One voice that wants to uplift, one voice that wants us to expand, one voice that wants us to grow and then there's the other voice,
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the voice that holds us back, the voice that makes us lazy, the voice that makes us complacent, the voice that restricts us from our potential.
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Every day from the moment we wake up to the moment
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we go to sleep inside of us there's this battle between the two voices and guess which one wins?
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The one that we listen to the most, the one that we feed, the one that we amplify.
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It is our choice of how we use our time.
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Life and time are the best two teachers.
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Life teaches us to make good use of time and time teaches us the value of life.
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And as William Shakespeare said, time is very slow for those who want, very fast for those who are scared,
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very long for those who are sad very short for those who celebrate but for those who love time is eternal
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节口语课以视频“The Value of TIME - Powerful Motivational Speech”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：spend, voice, value, realise, waste。 这段视频共有 56 个句子、703 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 4:38。 说话人语速自然，每分钟约 152 个词，接近日常对话。 94% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇容易理解。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中 13 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| priority 名词 | /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ | 優先權 /优先权, 更重要的事 |
| expand 动词 | /ɪkˈspænd/ | 擴展 /扩展, 擴張 /扩张 |
| deposit 名词 | /dɪˈpɑ.zɪt/ | 沉積 /沉积 |
| lazy 形容词 | /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/ | 懶 /懒, 懶惰 /懒惰 |
| leaf 名词 | /lif/ | еезы, еер |
| eternal 形容词 | /ɪˈtɝ.nl̩/ | 永恆 /永恒, 永遠 /永远 |
| scare 动词 | /skɛɚ/ | 嚇唬 /吓唬, 使害怕 |
| restrict 动词 | /ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/ | 限制, 制限 |
| priceless 形容词 | /ˈpɹaɪslɪs/ | 無價 /无价 |
| childcare 名词 | 幼托, 兒童看護 /儿童看护 | |
| chore 名词 | /t͡ʃoɹ/ | 家務 /家务, 家事 |
| complacent 形容词 | /kəmˈpleɪsənt/ | 得意, 自滿 /自满 |
| millisecond 名词 | /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/ | 毫秒 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| wake up 动词 | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | 醒, 醒來 /醒来 |
值得反复跟读的句子
视频中简短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常对话里：
- You can't own it, but you can use it.
- You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
- How will we spend that time?
- What would we do with it?
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 10 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 don't, can't, they're。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- 长单词——注意重音位置: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, millisecond /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: expand /ɪkˈspænd/, deposit /dɪˈpɑ.zɪt/, leaf /lif/, restrict /ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/, priceless /ˈpɹaɪslɪs/
- /æ/ — 嘴张大，不要读成 /e/: expand /ɪkˈspænd/, amplify /ˈæm.plə.faɪ/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 priority, expand, deposit 这类单词。
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。