跟读练习: What Happened To Simon Baker After The Mentalist? - 通过视频学习英语口语
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This is Simon Baker in an interview from 2008, trying to convince people to give The Mentalist a chance.
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He has no idea just how big it would get, or how beloved his character, Patrick Jane, would become.
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He has no idea this is the role he'll always be remembered for.
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Seven seasons later, in 2015, the show ends, and instead of his career taking off the way everyone expected, he just seemed to disappear.
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So what happened to Simon Baker after The Mentalist, and why haven't we seen more of him since?
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To answer that, you have to go back all the way to the beginning.
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Simon Baker was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1969, though he barely spent any time there.
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His family moved to Papua New Guinea, and then his parents split up.
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His mother remarried a butcher named Tom Denny, and the family eventually settled in Lenox Head, a small coastal town on Australia's east coast.
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He said he didn't grow up with money, but he grew up with a lot of space, right next to the ocean, which is where his obsession with surfing comes from.
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Before acting was on the table, he worked a few jobs around Australia, mixing cement as a laborer, washing dishes, working in pubs.
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He said that bouncing between all those jobs ended up being useful later, since it taught him how to read and slip into all kinds of different people.
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No, I used to work in pubs in Australia.
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You did?
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Yeah, that was kind of my acting school, really.
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Some of the shenanigans that you see.
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Then a friend talked him into auditioning for a role, and that's how his acting career actually started.
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He landed a part on the soap opera E Street in the early 90s, followed by Home and Away, and in 1993 he won a Logi Award,
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Australia's biggest television honor for most popular new talent.
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That was enough to get him noticed
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and not long after he made the move to the United States to try his luck in Hollywood.
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His breakthrough came with a small role in LA Confidential in 1997.
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Just a few minutes of screen time was enough to show his talent and put him on the radar.
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Over the next decade he built a solid name for himself.
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He wasn't a massive star yet but he was a working actor who kept landing good roles.
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He played a key part in Ride with the Devil, took the lead in The Ring 2
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and played the hero in Land of the Dead then in
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2006 he landed one of his most recognizable roles playing christian
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thompson in the devil wears prada he'd also proven he could
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lead a show from 2001 to 2004 he starred in the
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guardian playing a corporate lawyer sentenced to over a thousand hours
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of community service after a drug conviction the performance was strong enough to earn him his first golden globe nomination
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by 2008 simon baker had landed the role of his life
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patrick jane in the mentalist a former fake psychic who now solves crimes by reading people.
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What made Jane so easy to like was how Simon chose to play him.
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He could have gone dark with the character, he could have played up the grief and the manipulation, but he didn't.
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He kept it light.
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You could tell Jane was actually enjoying himself, which made it easy for everyone else to enjoy him too.
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He was always a step ahead of everyone else, but it never felt mean, mostly because of that smile he always had on.
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He'd lie straight to someone's face, playing them completely, and he'd just smile through it like was the most fun he'd had all day.
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It softened every trick he pulled, so the viewers never stopped being on his side.
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People genuinely liked spending time with this character.
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The recognition followed fast.
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In 2009, just one season in, Baker picked up an Emmy nomination.
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Simon Baker, The Mentalist.
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The following year, he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Drama.
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He also won multiple People's Choice Awards for Favorite TV Drama Actor over the show's run, which says a lot about how audiences felt about him.
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And in February 2013, right in the middle of the show's run, he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Walking down here and seeing all these names, and I never imagined that my name would be one of those names.
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I just, it didn't even enter my mind.
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After The Mentalist ended, everyone expected Simon Baker's career to keep climbing, but that's not what happened.
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Being the lead of a series running 20 -plus episodes a year isn't easy, and Patrick Jane was in almost every scene, which led to Simon working 12, sometimes 14 hours a day,
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five days a week, for the better part of a decade.
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Somewhere in all of that, he started noticing what it was costing him at home.
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It's been an exciting and an interesting period of time, but ultimately our family's become really close because of it,
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because we've kind of been fixed address for a little while.
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He was splitting his time between Los Angeles and Australia while the show filmed, watching his kids grow up mostly through visits and phone calls instead of actually being there.
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So when the show ended, he didn't chase the next big role.
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He said he was looking forward to spending more time at home
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and that dedicating himself to his family mattered more than anything else.
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He'd already worked hard enough as a younger actor to provide for his family
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and he just wasn't as hungry for work anymore.
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Back in Australia, Simon felt the need to help the film industry that first believed in him.
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He directed a film called Breath, an adaptation of a novel about two teenage surfers and it did well enough to win him the Best Director Award.
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From there, he kept showing up in smaller and more personal films, the kind of projects that never made headlines in the U .S., but let him work as an actor,
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producer, and director without the pressure of being the face of a hit show.
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I finished The Mentalist, I went back to Australia, I did a couple of, did a few jobs in Australia to sort of support my industry there.
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And then this came up and I thought, you know what, it's been a while.
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And now, over a decade after The Mentalist, Simon's returning to a major Hollywood role in a new series.
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It's starting to look like the comeback everyone expected years ago might finally be happening.
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That's what makes Simon Baker so special.
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He had one of the biggest shows on television, and instead of chasing the next big thing, he walked away from it.
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For his kids.
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For time, he knew he couldn't get back.
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That's not the move people expect from someone at the height of their career.
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Fame doesn't usually get put on hold, but his did, and over a decade later, it's hard not to see that choice as the right one.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这段视频共有 76 个句子、1195 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 5:37。 说话人语速较快，每分钟约 213 个词，会出现较多连读和弱读。 84% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| baker 名词 | /ˈbeɪ.kɚ/ | 麵包師傅 /面包师傅 |
| chase 动词 | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | 追逐, 追 |
| devil 名词 | /ˈdɛvəl/ | шэтани, йиблисы |
| globe 名词 | /ɡloʊb/ | 地球儀 /地球仪 |
| pub 名词 | /pʌb/ | 酒吧, 酒館 /酒馆 |
| nomination 名词 | /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/ | 提名, 指名 |
| earn 动词 | /ɝn/ | 掙 /挣, 賺 /赚 |
| trick 名词 | /ˈtɹɪk/ | 詭計 /诡计, 騙術 /骗术 |
| recognition 名词 | /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ | 認出 /认出 |
| wash 动词 | /wɑʃ/ | 洗, 洗滌 /洗涤 |
| hungry 形容词 | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | 飢餓 /饥饿, 餓 /饿 |
| producer 名词 | /pɹəˈdjuːsə/ | 製作者 /制作者 |
| solve 动词 | /sɒlv/ | 解決 /解决 |
| slip 动词 | /ˈslɪp/ | 滑 |
| opera 名词 | /ˈɒp.ə.ɹə/ | 歌劇 /歌剧, 戲曲 /戏曲 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| come up 动词 | 上來 /上来 |
| end up 动词 | 到达 |
| go back 动词 | 回去, 返回 |
| grow up 动词 | 長大 /长大 |
| look forward to 动词 | 期待, 向往 |
| pick up 动词 | 拾取, 撿 /捡 |
| take off 动词 | 脫 /脱 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | be remembered · was born · was nominated |
| 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 | haven't we seen · It's been |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 17 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 he'd, didn't, wasn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: nomination /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, wash /wɑʃ/, dish /dɪʃ/, conviction /kənˈvɪkʃən/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: nomination /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, adaptation /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/
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 baker, chase, devil 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。