跟读练习: Why a Walk in the Park Can Save Your Life - 通过视频学习英语口语

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Imagine that we've been in the apartment by ourselves since the previous evening, and now, at the start of the weekend, it's 11 in the morning.

A succession of small bits of bad news have been coming in over the past 24 hours.

Someone's unhappy with our performance at work.

A customer complained about our attention to detail.

We have a traffic fine to pay.

The milk is off.

A friend is accusing us of not caring enough about them.

And then, the final straw, someone we very much hoped to see for dinner, cancelled on us abruptly, with an unconvincing excuse about their mother.

We try to keep the different strands separate, but eventually, in the stillness of the small living room, they coalesce into an overwhelming impression.

We're not very worthy.

There's something wrong with us.

We're ugly inside and out.

We've been like this since the start.

No one likes us.

We're going to die alone, unhappy and mediocre.

The impression is stronger than we are.

We curl into a ball and can't hold back a tear, which rolls onto and is absorbed by the grey-green sofa.

Ten minutes pass, then another twenty.

Finally, we can't take it any longer.

We have to pull ourselves out of the spin.

So, with a newfound urgency, we grab our jacket, run downstairs and head for the nearby park.

This expanse of green was laid out by a group of enlightened planners and municipal engineers a few generations ago.

There's an inner and an outer circle, a small fountain, a playground and a statue of a man who pioneered research into bees.

More importantly, the park has very little idea of us.

It hasn't heard of our place of employment.

It doesn't have any views on our romantic life.

It couldn't care less whether we're alive or dead.

And the ignorance, far from crushing us further, has an immediate soothing effect.

A grand oak tree that's been sitting patiently in this spot for 150 years at least, has priorities blessedly far from our own.

It's pulling nutrients from the soil, it's showing its freshest, newest leaves to the sun.

It's providing a nesting place for robins and an athletic park for grey squirrels.

The indifference is not nature's alone.

There's a person in scrubs on a break from the nearby hospital, sitting on a bench with a flask of tea.

They might later be fixing up catheters on the children's ward or ministering to a dying nonagenarian.

To their left, a little boy is playing tag with his father.

His joyful screams are unabashed.

It's a game, but something very serious, about love and self-esteem and having a home, is also being exercised.

Overhead planes, perhaps heading back from Singapore or Madrid, are locking onto the final approach beacons at the airport to the west.

In the distance, a line of uncomplaining pylons is bringing in electricity from the coast to power hair dryers and video games.

Our strange, extraordinary, pathetic species in all our glory, complexity and mundanity.

With all this in view, it suddenly seems not to matter quite so much that we may or may not be a wretch, that a lover has let us down.

Heaven knows they might have their reasons and we aren't perfect either.

or that we should, in all fairness, probably make more of an effort with our career.

The individual ego diminishes.

We let ourselves dissolve into a wider realm.

What happens to us no longer has to be the measure of everything.

We are, in part, also the trees, the houses, the clouds overhead, the pigeon who has come to peck at a leftover sandwich,

and the young boy now being hugged tightly by his dad.

Our ultimate fate ceases to concern us so tightly.

What does it matter quite so much what we're worth or where we end up?

We rejoin the ocean from which we've been in frightened exile for too long.

None of the elements that have helped us to recover our balance care to articulate a theory of existence.

They may have one nevertheless.

The oak tree has its own distinctive silent take on love, achievement, success and power, as do the clouds,

the robins, the squirrels and the contrails.

Each one of them is whispering very quietly indeed, matter less, forget more, open your heart, let go of your resentments, surrender.

We can be so much happier

when we manage for a time to still the clamour of the I and live less intimately with ourselves,

when we stop insisting that everything that happens to us must say something profound about us, when we can wear our fate more lightly.

We may end up alone, we may be foolish, we may be sad.

None of it, the park tells us, might matter too much anyway.

We'll cope, after all, perhaps we'll go to the cinema alone tonight, or have a drink on the terrace.

We haven't just taken a walk, we've had a covert philosophy lesson.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这段视频共有 63 个句子、840 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 5:01。说话人语速自然，每分钟约 167 个词，接近日常对话。只有 78% 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 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：

单词	发音	释义
cloud 名词	/ˈklaʊ̯d/	йүн, 雲 /云
fate 名词	/feɪt/	命運 /命运, 氣數 /气数
impression 名词	/ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/	印記 /印记
robin 名词	/ˈɹɑ.bɪn/	知更鳥 /知更鸟, 歐亞鴝 /欧亚鸲
unhappy 形容词	/ʌnˈhæpi/	不高興 /不高兴, 不開心 /不开心
overhead 名词	/ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/	間接費用 /间接费用
squirrel 名词	/ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/	松鼠, 灰鼠
lesson 名词	/ˈlɛs.ən/	課業 /课业, -課 /-课
element 名词	/ˈɛləmənt/	要素
silent 形容词	/ˈsaɪ̯lənt/	安靜 /安静, 恬靜 /恬静
romantic 形容词	/ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/	浪漫
soil 名词	/sɔɪl/	土壤, 泥土
ugly 形容词	/ˈʌɡli/	難看 /难看, 醜 /丑
priority 名词	/pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/	優先權 /优先权, 更重要的事
bench 名词	/ˈbɛnt͡ʃ/	長椅 /长椅

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	释义
end up 动词	到达

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
现在完成进行时 have/has been + -ing — 以前开始、现在仍在继续的动作	have been coming · that's been sitting
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	we've been · hasn't heard · has let
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	is absorbed · was laid · are unabashed

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 18 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 we're, we've, can't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“th” 音: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, catheter /ˈkæθɪtɚ/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, succession /səkˈsɛʃ.ən/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/, diminish /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/
长单词——注意重音位置: electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, municipal /mjuˈnɪsɪpəl/

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 cloud, fate, impression 这类单词。

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