跟读练习: Why are weddings so damn expensive? - 通过视频学习英语口语
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<<Phone ringing"Hello?" I'm, uh, planning a wedding for next spring." "a quick quote for a venue for a family gathering" "between 120 and 130 guests." "for 125 people" "we're aiming for April 16th" "the 16th" "That's going to be a $15,000 food and beverage minimum" "The food and beverage minimum is $17,000." This 2000 dollar difference is what's known as the "wedding mark-up" where some venders charge a higher price for weddings than for other similar parties so why are weddings so expensive?
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The wedding website "The Knot"surveyed thousands of its members and found that the average cost of their weddings was thirty-one thousand dollars last year that's not including honeymoon wedding dresses average at thirteen hundred dollars and catering comes in its $68 dollars per person. And those numbers are a lot higher if you live in places like New York Chicago DC or San Francisco the wedding industry is kinda weird and it's an industry that I have quite a bit of experience in my way Isabel and I run a wedding videography business in Washington DC and here's my take on my way to so expensive There's this economic concept called asymmetric information. With most things you buy you have a pretty good gauge in what you're getting for what you pay for.
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you pretty sure that an 8 dollar avocado is way too much because you've bought avocados before. Familiarity with a market produces balanced information between buyers and sellers and so they can settle on a fair price This is like economics 101.
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but most people shopping for wedding stuff and very little if any experience with what they're buying.
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cake, dress, napkins, catering, venues, flowers.
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This is something you just don't buy very often so you have a very good gauge on what should be paying.
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This is made a lot harder by the fact that we wedding vendors have a hard time posting our prices. You usually have to reach out and inquire to get any sort of pricing information.
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Imagine if you had asked for pricing for every item in the grocery store. Shopping would be a lot harder. When I first was starting my business I read on a blogs about marketing to prospective clients.
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And overwhelming message that I kept reading is "steer away from talking about price" Blogger: "we've put together a free report that shows you how to answer "price question" with those email leads in a way that steers them away from price quickly so you can get them on the phone or to a meeting where you can book them!" And then there's Pinterest. Planning: "Pinterest can be really useful I think using it as a starting point" It's an amazing tool for wedding inspiration or if you have an experience wedding planner by your side, but usually doesn't help with the price question.
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"...and you see all these like amazing dresses and you can click on it to like get more information.
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you're going to get a lot more pictures , but you're not gonna find any pricing information. And of course there's always the option to "repin" it if you'd liked. If you are like a normal person with a budget like you're setting yourself up to be let down. Another thing that makes wedding so expensive is the once in a lifetime mentality.
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The classic line for brides shopping for a wedding dress is: Designer: "It's the dress of your life , and if there's ever one picture will have of you, it's the one in your wedding dress wedding dress." That's wedding dress designer and artist talking on Planet Money. I'm as guilty as anyone at this: Here's were very first ads. it's all about that once in a lifetime feel.
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It's just really hard not to splurge when you put so much weight into one day.
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So, it's easy to look at this and think there's no doubt that wedding vendors are ripping off their clients.
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But there's another side to the story that i think is important to mention.
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Planner: "Corporate flowers for example all there's probably going to be direction but maybe there's a little bit more flexibility where as a bride had dreamt up a certain flowers and she in want to talk to the florist multiple times about the bouquet and the ribbon treatment and the fact that her grandmother's broaches gonna be on that Bouquet.
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It's a lot of time and energy spent on those flowers and that's gonna be reflected in the price." The upshot of this is that the emotional weight of weddings usually means more work for vendors, and thus higher prices. And the most demanding clients are the ones that set the prices for everyone. So the best thing you can do to avoid being swindled is to demand the price range before hearing a sales pitch.
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we vendors might hate it but it's the fair thing to do.
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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“Why are weddings so damn expensive?”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：wedding, price, dress, dollar, vendors。 这段视频共有 18 个句子、820 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 4:30。 说话人语速较快，每分钟约 182 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
视频中最难的 15 个单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| vendor 名词 | /ˈvɛn.dɚ/ | 賣主 /卖主, 賣家 /卖家 |
| avocado 名词 | /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/ | 鱷梨 /鳄梨, 酪梨 |
| bouquet 名词 | /buːˈkeɪ/ | 花束 |
| catering 名词 | /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/ | 外燴 /外烩 |
| beverage 名词 | /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | 飲料 /饮料, 飲品 /饮品 |
| steer 动词 | /stɪɹ/ | 掌舵, 驾驶 |
| gauge 名词 | /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ | 標準尺寸 /标准尺寸, 標準規格 /标准规格 |
| bride 名词 | /bɹaɪd/ | 新娘, 新婦 /新妇 |
| florist 名词 | /ˈflɒɹɪst/ | 花商, 花店 |
| inquire 动词 | /ɪnˈkwaɪɹ/ | 詢問 /询问, 打聽 /打听 |
| napkin 名词 | /ˈnæpˌkɪn/ | 餐巾, 餐巾紙 /餐巾纸 |
| overwhelm 动词 | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | 吞沒 /吞没 |
| swindle 动词 | /ˈswɪndəl/ | 詐取 /诈取, 騙取 /骗取 |
| honeymoon 名词 | /ˈhʌn.iˌmuːn/ | 蜜月 |
| mentality 名词 | /mɛnˈtæləti/ | 心態 /心态, 心理 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| let down 动词 | 辜負 /辜负, 對不起 /对不起 |
| put together 动词 | 拼合, 組合 /组合 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 条件句 if + 从句，will/would + 动词 — 条件及其结果 | if there's ever one picture will have |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | is made · be let · be reflected |
| 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 | you've bought · we've put |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 17 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 you're, gonna, I'm。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- 长单词——注意重音位置: avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, asymmetric /ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: vendor /ˈvɛn.dɚ/, avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, beverage /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, prospective /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: beverage /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, gauge /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, bride /bɹaɪd/, asymmetric /ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/, broach /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/
- /æ/ — 嘴张大，不要读成 /e/: planner /ˈplænɚ/, napkin /ˈnæpˌkɪn/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/
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 vendor, avocado, bouquet 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。