跟读练习: What I discovered in New York City trash | Robin Nagle - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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I was about 10 years old on a camping trip with my dad in the Adirondack Mountains, a wilderness area in the northern part of New York State.
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I was about 10 years old on a camping trip with my dad in the Adirondack Mountains, a wilderness area in the northern part of New York State.
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It was a beautiful day.
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The forest was sparkling.
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The sun made the leaves glow like stained glass, and if it weren't for the path we were following, we could almost pretend we were the first human beings to ever walk that land.
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We got to our campsite.
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It was a lean-to on a bluff looking over a crystal, beautiful lake, when I discovered a horror.
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Behind the lean-to was a dump, maybe 40 feet square with rotting apple cores and balled-up aluminum foil, and a dead sneaker.
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And I was astonished, I was very angry, and I was deeply confused.
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The campers who were too lazy to take out what they had brought in, who did they think would clean up after them?
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That question stayed with me, and it simplified a little.
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Who cleans up after us?
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However you configure or wherever you place the us, who cleans up after us in Istanbul?
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Who cleans up after us in Rio or in Paris or in London?
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Here in New York, the Department of Sanitation cleans up after us, to the tune of 11,000 tons of garbage and 2,000 tons of recyclables every day.
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I wanted to get to know them as individuals.
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I wanted to understand who takes the job.
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What's it like to wear the uniform and bear that burden?
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So I started a research project with them.
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I rode in the trucks and walked the routes and interviewed people in offices and facilities all over the city, and I learned a lot, but I was still an outsider.
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I needed to go deeper.
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So I took the job as a sanitation worker.
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I didn't just ride in the trucks now. I drove the trucks.
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And I operated the mechanical brooms and I plowed the snow.
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It was a remarkable privilege and an amazing education.
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Everyone asks about the smell.
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It's there, but it's not as prevalent as you think, and on days when it is really bad, you get used to it rather quickly.
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The weight takes a long time to get used to.
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I knew people who were several years on the job whose bodies were still adjusting to the burden of bearing on your body tons of trash every week.
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Then there's the danger.
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, sanitation work is one of the 10 most dangerous occupations in the country, and I learned why.
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You're in and out of traffic all day, and it's zooming around you.
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It just wants to get past you, so it's often the motorist is not paying attention.
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That's really bad for the worker.
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And then the garbage itself is full of hazards that often fly back out of the truck and do terrible harm.
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I also learned about the relentlessness of trash.
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When you step off the curb and you see a city from behind a truck, you come to understand that trash is like a force of nature unto itself.
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It never stops coming.
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It's also like a form of respiration or circulation.
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It must always be in motion.
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And then there's the stigma.
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You put on the uniform, and you become invisible until someone is upset with you for whatever reason like you've blocked traffic with your truck, or you're taking a break too close to their home, or you're drinking coffee in their diner, and they will come and scorn you, and tell you that they don't want you anywhere near them.
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I find the stigma especially ironic, because I strongly believe that sanitation workers are the most important labor force on the streets of the city, for three reasons.
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They are the first guardians of public health.
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If they're not taking away trash efficiently and effectively every day, it starts to spill out of its containments, and the dangers inherent to it threaten us in very real ways.
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Diseases we've had in check for decades and centuries burst forth again and start to harm us.
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The economy needs them.
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If we can't throw out the old stuff, we have no room for the new stuff, so then the engines of the economy start to sputter when consumption is compromised.
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I'm not advocating capitalism, I'm just pointing out their relationship.
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And then there's what I call our average, necessary quotidian velocity.
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By that I simply mean how fast we're used to moving in the contemporary day and age.
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We usually don't care for, repair, clean, carry around our coffee cup, our shopping bag, our bottle of water.
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We use them, we throw them out, we forget about them, because we know there's a workforce on the other side that's going to take it all away.
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So I want to suggest today a couple of ways to think about sanitation that will perhaps help ameliorate the stigma and bring them into this conversation of how to craft a city that is sustainable and humane.
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Their work, I think, is kind of liturgical.
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They're on the streets every day, rhythmically.
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They wear a uniform in many cities.
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You know when to expect them.
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And their work lets us do our work.
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They are almost a form of reassurance.
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The flow that they maintain keeps us safe from ourselves, from our own dross, our cast-offs, and that flow must be maintained always no matter what.
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On the day after September 11 in 2001, I heard the growl of a sanitation truck on the street, and I grabbed my infant son and I ran downstairs and there was a man doing his paper recycling route like he did every Wednesday.
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And I tried to thank him for doing his work on that day of all days, but I started to cry.
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And he looked at me, and he just nodded, and he said, "We're going to be okay.
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We're going to be okay." It was a little while later that I started my research with sanitation, and I met that man again.
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His name is Paulie, and we worked together many times, and we became good friends.
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I want to believe that Paulie was right.
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We are going to be okay.
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But in our effort to reconfigure how we as a species exist on this planet, we must include and take account of all the costs, including the very real human cost of the labor.
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And we also would be well informed to reach out to the people who do that work and get their expertise on how do we think about, how do we create systems around sustainability that perhaps take us from curbside recycling, which is a remarkable success across 40 years, across the United States and countries around the world, and lift us up to a broader horizon where we're looking at other forms of waste that could be lessened from manufacturing and industrial sources.
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Municipal waste, what we think of when we talk about garbage, accounts for three percent of the nation's waste stream.
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It's a remarkable statistic.
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So in the flow of your days, in the flow of your lives, next time you see someone whose job is to clean up after you, take a moment to acknowledge them.
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Take a moment to say thank you.
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背景与上下文
在探讨纽约市垃圾处理角色的过程中，演讲者Robin Nagle分享了她在与父亲的露营旅行中第一次接触到人类活动带来的环境影响的经历。她描述了对垃圾堆的震惊、愤怒与困惑，同时也引发了一个重要的思考：“谁来清理这些垃圾？”通过深入了解城市的清洁工，她发现这些工人不仅是公共健康的守护者，也是经济运作的必要一环。清洁工的工作不仅艰辛，且充满隐患，社会对于他们的认知和支持也显得尤为重要。
日常交流的五个重要短语
- Who cleans up after us?（谁来清理我们留下的垃圾？）
- It was a remarkable privilege and an amazing education.（这是一种非凡的特权和极具启发性的教育。）
- Sanitation work is one of the 10 most dangerous occupations.（清洁工是全国十大危险职业之一。）
- The weight takes a long time to get used to.（适应这种重量需要很长时间。）
- We have no room for the new stuff.（我们没有空间容纳新的东西。）
逐步跟读指导
为了更有效地掌握这些短语并提升英语口语能力，可以遵循以下“英语影子跟读”的步骤来练习：
- 选择视频片段：选择演讲者Robin Nagle的部分，以便集中于她的表达和发音。
- 聆听与模仿：初次观看时，专注于听清楚演讲者的每一句话，注意他们的语速和语调，特别是上述短语的发音。
- 逐句重复：暂停视频，逐句跟读。尝试模仿演讲者的语音语调，确保语速自然。
- 情景应用：在日常生活中找到与这些短语相关的情境，使用它们进行对话练习，例如讨论环境保护或城市管理。
- 提升反馈：可以录下自己的声音并与演讲者进行对比，寻找发音和语调的差异，不断调整和改进。
通过看YouTube学英语，应用这种逐步的“shadow speech”方法，你可以提升自己的英语口语能力，并加深对日常对话主题的理解。
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。