跟读练习: Tony: A Soldier’s Journey - 通过视频学习英语口语
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In the fall of 1944, U.S.
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Army medic Anthony Tony Acevedo was sent to fight in Europe during World War II.
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He served in the 275th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division, known as the Trailblazers.
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In freezing temperatures and heavy snow, along with 600,000 fellow Americans, he faced a ferocious German offensive in the Battle of the Bulge.
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During the brutal six-week battle between December 1944 and January 1945, tens of thousands were killed or wounded.
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It was Tony's first combat experience, and he bravely tended to the wounded under machine gun fire.
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We went to battle and on my assignment, I headed with Company B and I just followed.
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I carried my duffel bag and all my equipment with me and
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everybody used to laugh at me and yell at me and say, Anthony, drop that, drop all that stuff.
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They're gonna kill you.
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You're a sore thumb, you.
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I said, no, this is, that's gonna save my life.
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We were marching towards a ridge and I heard an echo.
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Medic!
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Medic!
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Because there were machine guns going on back and forth
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and I was carrying my stuff with me so finally I picked up the sound and I started to head downhill.
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Then I saw up ahead a cave with Germans.
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Well, there were about six Germans in there with machine guns.
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I mean just you thought there were thousands of them.
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and at that time when they start shooting at me, my stuff went up in the air, my duffel bag and everything.
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I fell on the ground and crawled to my helmet.
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And before I knew it, I was with the fellas that were wounded.
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I had my prayer book with me and I would use some phrases that wouldn't be too long, but enough for that person,
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that soldier, to motivate him, make him feel motivated, feel free of fear.
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That's what he was.
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He was afraid.
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The Germans were getting closer and closer.
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We ran out of ammunition until finally we were caught when the Germans came up the hill and we had to surrender.
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When the Germans took us, they forced us to get our boots off and walk down the slope barefooted in the snow.
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It was up to our waist and marched for about almost a mile to the trucks.
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They were sent to Stalag 9B, a camp for prisoners of war near Bad Orb, Germany.
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Tony became prisoner number 27016.
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Conditions in the crowded camp were terrible.
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Tony used the limited medical supplies that he had managed to save in order to treat the sick and wounded.
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In January 1945, German officers began identifying and separating Jewish POWs
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and those whom they believed to be Jews from the rest of the American soldiers.
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Tony was also separated, perhaps because he was Mexican-American.
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The newly separated group, including Tony, were then transported to Berga under Elster, a forced labor camp in Germany.
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Much like the conditions in the prisoner of war camp, food was scarce and prisoners were given little sustenance for the hard days of forced labor.
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The bread was a mix of barley with sawdust, ground glass and ground sand.
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It would make you sick to the stomach.
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Disease and malnutrition would soon plague the American prisoners.
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On one occasion we received a package, a Red Cross package, and that's how I got my diary.
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Throughout his time in the camp, Tony kept a secret diary of his experiences.
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He wrote in it nearly every day.
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In it, he recorded how his group were forced to clear tunnels to make way for an underground factory
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that Nazi officials hoped would be out of sight of Allied bombers.
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March 21, 1945.
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More planes came over today.
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Their bombs were dropped not very far from here.
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Another one of our boys is pretty low today.
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He's not expected to live to light.
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April 3rd, 1945.
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Excellent news today.
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Americans are only a hundred kilometers from here.
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Rumors are that we are to be moved away.
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When the Nazi guards realized that the American troops were closing in, they evacuated the POWs from Berga on a forced march.
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April 9th, 1945.
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We marched 10 kilometers today.
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We started out with 304 men.
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Now we have 287.
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April 20th to 22nd, 1945.
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Day and night, it rained.
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Every man was wet from top to bottom.
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Every 25 yards there lay three or four men.
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Men that couldn't make the march had to drop out.
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They were shot.
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April 23, 1945.
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We were liberated today.
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Of the 350 American POWs at Berga under Elster, approximately 70 died.
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Most of them died or were executed during the forced evacuation of the camp.
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Tony's fountain pen miraculously endured his imprisonment.
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It allowed him to secretly document his first-hand account of life as an American prisoner of war in Germany,
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and would bear witness to the dates and causes of his fellow soldiers' deaths.
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This was, he explained, his moral obligation.
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God gave me that ink to last.
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Thank you.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节 B2 级别的口语课以视频“Tony: A Soldier’s Journey”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：German, prisoner, Tony, camp, forced。 这段视频共有 78 个句子、828 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 6:50。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 121 个词，很适合跟读。 只有 80% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇难度较高。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中最难的 15 个单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| prisoner 名词 | /ˈpɹɪzənə/ | 囚犯 |
| motivate 动词 | /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ | 激发 |
| diary 名词 | /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/ | 日記 /日记 |
| barley 名词 | /ˈbɑɹli/ | 大麥 /大麦, 洋薏 |
| ferocious 形容词 | /fəˈɹoʊʃəs/ | 猖, 兇猛 /凶猛 |
| liberate 动词 | /ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/ | 解放 |
| malnutrition 名词 | /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/ | 營養不良 /营养不良 |
| miraculously 副词 | /məˈɹækjələsli/ | 神奇地 |
| sustenance 名词 | /ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/ | 维持生计 |
| evacuate 动词 | /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/ | 撤離 /撤离, 疏散 |
| scarce 形容词 | /ˈskɛɚs/ | 缺乏的 |
| downhill 副词 | /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/ | 下坡 |
| rumor 名词 | /ˈɹumɚ/ | 傳聞 /传闻, 傳言 /传言 |
| evacuation 名词 | /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/ | 撤離 /撤离, 疏散 |
| endure 动词 | /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/ | 承受, 忍受 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| come up 动词 | 上來 /上来 |
| pick up 动词 | 拾取, 撿 /捡 |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 6 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 gonna, couldn't, they're。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: ferocious /fəˈɹoʊʃəs/, malnutrition /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, obligation /ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: malnutrition /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/, evacuate /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, bravely /ˈbɹeɪvli/, evacuate /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, barefooted /ˈbɛɚ.fʊt.ɪd/, ferocious /fəˈɹoʊʃəs/, liberate /ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/, sustenance /ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: barley /ˈbɑɹli/, bravely /ˈbɹeɪvli/, liberate /ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/, malnutrition /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/
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。
- 用正常速度逐句跟读，每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 prisoner, motivate, diary 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。