跟读练习: Why Does Time Feel Faster As We Get Older?｜全英Talk：长大之后，时间越过越快？如何应对时间贫困？ - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Do you feel time moves faster when you get older?
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I actually do feel that.
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When I'm writing a journal, I unconsciously write down the year 2016.
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I was like, oh my god, why is my memory still stuck there?
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And every year when I have my birthday, I feel like I was a teenager not that long ago.
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And my memories from my childhood and teenage years seem to be more vivid.
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Now I'm more than 30 years old, I feel like time moves even faster.
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Why does this happen?
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One reason is that our perception of time changes as we get older.
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When we are 10 years old, one year is just 10% of the life we've already lived.
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And when you are 31 years old, like me, one year is just 3% of your life so far.
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And another factor is that as you get older, your life becomes more stable and repetitive.
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You enter the job market, you stay in the same position for several years, you get along with the same co-workers or friends, and you do the similar things over and over again.
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So there's nothing new in your life.
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But when you were a teenager, there are so many firsts.
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You probably remember your first trip, your first day at a new school, your first birthday party, your first kiss,
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and the first time experiences tend to leave more memories than the repetitive ones.
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There have also been several moments in my life where I felt time really stopped.
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I think that is related to the overloads of information and emotions.
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You know, when you are experiencing very strong emotions like fear, nervousness, excitement, or happiness, time tends to slow down.
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I still remember one experience I didn't expect it to happen at all.
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I was in a very serious car accident.
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I still remember the moment when I was sitting in a car and two trucks hit my car from the back.
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and I remember how the windows were shattered.
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So that also reminded me that when you go through extremely emotional and traumatic events,
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your brain automatically flashes back to them vividly.
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Anyway, our time perception and memories are related to the strengths of emotions that we experience at particular moments.
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I'm not asking you to do anything extreme, but I'm saying that maybe sometimes you can bring some novelty into your life, Maybe take a new project,
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find a new job, meet new people, and try new foods or try a new kind of coffee.
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These little changes may make you feel like your life is not just one repetitive routine.
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But it doesn't matter how many new experiences we create for ourselves, how exciting our life is, how wonderful the world is.
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We all face the same dilemma.
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We don't feel we have enough time for life.
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This problem is often described as time poverty.
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While modern society contributes to the problem, I think it has more to do with the nature of being human.
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No matter where you live, where you come from, and how much money you have, we have to face the brutal fact, which is our life is finite.
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I always remember a good point from the book, 4,000 Weeks.
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As human beings, we are given the gift of creativity, imagination, and all kinds of capabilities.
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But we also seem to have infinite ambitions, and our ambitions seem to always exceed the limits of time we we have omers.
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So there's always a fundamental contradiction between our physical limits and our imagination.
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And as intelligent creatures, we have to endure the pain of time limits.
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So this reminded me of ancient Chinese wisdom.
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爱无生之事,互相长江之无穷
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It translates into we grieve over the brevity of our own lives while looking at the endless flow of the Yangtze River.
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And the modern society makes this contradiction even stronger as it offers
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so many opportunities and so many new things for us to try.
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There's so many books I want to read, so many hobbies I want to develop, so many songs I want to sing, and so many new things I want to learn,
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but there's simply not enough time for all of them.
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Even now, I am very lucky to have a flexible job as an entrepreneur and content creator.
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I still constantly feel that I don't have enough time for everything I want to do in my life.
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You know, brainstorming, researching, writing books, creating videos, and creating courses, all of these things take a large amount of time.
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If I spend more time on a productive work, I have less time for my personal hobbies like drawing, singing, playing the piano, etc. We have to admit
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that time is one of few things that is fundamentally limited for every one of us.
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I don't think the ultimate solution is to become more productive.
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You will find that even if you are super productive, you will always have more tasks to complete.
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You will always have more ambitious desires and things you want to do, and you still end up with a full to-do list.
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So you can always maximize your productivity, but you will always hit a ceiling.
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So we have to ask ourselves a more fundamental question.
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How do we spend our limited time on earth on the things that really matter?
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So sometimes we don't need addition, we need subtraction.
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There's research suggesting that having two to five hours of discretionary time every day is associated with higher well-being.
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If you are too busy, you will feel stressed out, anxious.
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If you have too much free time, you will feel you lack a sense of purpose and you feel unmotivated.
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So maybe give yourself some space in your day.
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Give yourself two hours to do the things that are unrelated to your work.
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Take a walk, walk your dog, draw, sing, meditate, anything you like.
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We don't have eternal life, we are human beings.
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Maybe we have to learn to accept the limits and work within them.
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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 Does Time Feel Faster As We Get Older?｜全英Talk：长大之后，时间越过越快？如何应对时间贫困？”为素材。 这段视频共有 67 个句子、1009 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 6:05。 说话人语速自然，每分钟约 166 个词，接近日常对话。 86% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| emotion 名词 | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | 感情, 情感 |
| contradiction 名词 | /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/ | 反对, 反驳 |
| ambition 名词 | /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/ | 奢望, 抱負 /抱负 |
| hobby 名词 | /ˈhɑ.bi/ | 愛好 /爱好, 嗜好 |
| teenager 名词 | /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/ | 少年, 青少年 |
| perception 名词 | /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/ | 知覺 /知觉, 感知 |
| brainstorming 名词 | 頭腦風暴 /头脑风暴, 腦力激盪 /脑力激荡 | |
| excite 动词 | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | 激動 /激动 |
| meditate 动词 | /ˈmɛ.dɪˌteɪt/ | 沉思, 冥想 |
| overload 动词 | /ˌəʊvəˈləʊd/ | 超載 /超载 |
| shatter 动词 | /ˈʃætɚ/ | 使破碎, 使碎裂 |
| subtraction 名词 | /səbˈtɹækʃən/ | 減法 /减法 |
| maximize 动词 | /ˈmæksəmaɪz/ | 最大化 |
| novelty 名词 | /ˈnɑvəlti/ | 新奇 |
| dilemma 名词 | /daɪˈlɛmə/ | 困境, 進退兩難的境地 /进退两难的境地 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| go through 动词 | 通過 /通过 |
| slow down 动词 | 減速 /减速, 放慢 |
| write down 动词 | 寫下來 /写下来, 寫下 /写下 |
值得反复跟读的句子
视频中简短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常对话里：
- Do you feel time moves faster when you get older?
- We don't feel we have enough time for life.
- We don't have eternal life, we are human beings.
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 you are super productive, you will always · If you are too busy, you will feel |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | is related · were shattered · are related |
| 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 already lived · have also been |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 12 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 don't, I'm, didn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, contradiction /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, discretionary /dɪsˈkɹɛʃəˌnɛɹi/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: repetitive /ɹɪˈpɛtɪtɪv/, contradiction /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/, discretionary /dɪsˈkɹɛʃəˌnɛɹi/, unconsciously /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəsli/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/
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 emotion, contradiction, ambition 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。