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How did we get so mean?
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The problem with me.
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And then third, the key to loving.
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First, how did we get so mean?
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A couple years ago, I read an article and saved it.
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It was written by David Brooks.
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He wrote an article in The Atlantic with that title, How America Got So Mean.
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And he points out something there in the article
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that I think most of us have come to see or to realize and that it seems that people are getting meaner.
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We're getting meaner.
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Simply just how we increasingly treat those out in public or complete strangers.
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Brooks mentions in the article about an owner of a restaurant who recounts
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that he has to kick somebody out of his restaurant for crude or rude behavior about once a week.
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Something he said he didn't have to do like years, decades ago.
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The Wall Street Journal just on Monday had an article saying how nurses around the country are leaving in droves.
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What's one of the main reasons nurses are quitting?
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The way they say that they're being treated by patients and the patient's families.
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A number of nurses that were interviewed for the article talked about how not just verbal altercations, but even violence, physical, of getting punched,
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getting kicked, getting spit upon.
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And Brooks, in the article in The Atlantic, he asked the question, how did we get this way?
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How did we get so mean, or how are we getting meaner?
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And he argues that the problem goes deeper than because of what social media is doing or politics.
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He says that we've largely stopped forming people in virtue, in moral character.
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He says there were times when institutions, there are institutions like family, the institution of family, schools,
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churches placed a lot of emphasis on teaching people on how to be good and decent human beings.
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But that's changed.
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Emphasis has changed.
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Instead of teaching people how to become good, we started telling people that they're already good.
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And because you're already good, what you need to do and what really matters is that you just need to get in touch with yourself.
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You just need to discover yourself, discover who you are, doing what feels right for you.
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And Brooks says that the result of this is what we've created is what he calls a self -referential world.
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A world where it increasingly revolves around me.
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What I feel, what I want, what I think, what makes me happy.
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And when everything revolves around me, it becomes really hard to care about the other.
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And we can become mean.
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Which brings me secondly here to the problem with me.
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In the gospel today, we hear once again that the Pharisees are trying to trap Jesus.
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They come up to him and they try to trap him by the question of which is the greatest of the commandments.
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And you don't have time really to say on how this is a trap.
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But out of the 600 commandments, they come up and they say, which of the commandments is the greatest?
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And notice what Jesus doesn't say.
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He doesn't say be a good person, be polite, have good manners.
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He says love God with your whole mind, heart, and soul and love your neighbor as yourself.
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He boils everything down to love.
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why because love requires us to get over ourselves and
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that is not something we do well as human beings to love god means to have him at the center
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which means i cannot be the center to love my neighbor means
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that someone else good someone else's good matters to me
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and not just my own but the wild thing is
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that this cuts so much deeper than we first think the problem is
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so much deeper it reveals the the of the problem that's we within us be
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because of sin is so much deeper because we know
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that it's possible to do good things for people and still have it be all about me.
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You might say like, well, I'm a good person.
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Like I'm not one of those people that David Brooks is talking about in that article about being mean.
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Like I'm a generous person.
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I'm kind.
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I treat people well.
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But I can be generous because of what people will think about me and what I get in return.
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I can go out of my way to help somebody.
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But if they don't say thank you, how it bothers.
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See, my generosity, even in my generosity, there can be alternative motives on why I do the things that I do,
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that I treat people well well, it might be because it's out in public and that they'll think well of me.
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It can still be self -referential.
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And the place where our self -centeredness is most clearly seen is with those that are closest to us.
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St. Jose Maria Escriva, they composed a book of a lot of his one -
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or two -liner heavy -hitting quotes on different topics.
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It's called The Way.
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It's a great book to have on your, you know, your coffee table to pick up and just look at some of his quotes.
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And one of them, he's describing the person who seems to be wonderful from a distance.
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But it is a very different person up close.
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He says this.
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He says, your charity or your love.
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Your charity is ostentatious.
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It's showy.
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From afar, you attract you give off light from near you repel you lack warmth what a pity
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what a pity he says from afar you attract you give off light
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from nearby you repel and lack warmth from afar what a what a wonderful person he is Why,
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you know, man, he's really just a great guy.
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He's so kind.
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Or she's so generous.
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The way, how loving she is.
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From near, perhaps with our spouse or with our kids.
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Impatient, rude, crude even.
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That can be a very uncomfortable truth.
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The uncomfortable truth that even when, and it's on display then, when it becomes more distance, when we're trying to love others,
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we can still find a way that it might still have the corners of our hearts where it's about ourselves.
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This is sin in us.
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Our will being bent, which brings us to the key, the key to loving.
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It's really the required prerequisite of loving God and loving our neighbor.
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See, what we need, what we desperately need is to be loved by someone whose love is completely free of selfishness,
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who doesn't have an ounce of self -centeredness in it, someone who isn't trying to get something out of it by loving us.
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God has nothing to gain by loving you and me.
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and yet he gives everything.
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Romans 5a, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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Not when we had everything all put together, not when we stopped sinning, not when while we were still sinners, Christ died for you and me.
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That's the love in which we need to receive.
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this is why others commenting on this
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and church fathers on the jesus's greatest commandment of loving god
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and loving our neighbor ourselves what do a lot of times they point to first john chapter four we love
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because he first loved us we cannot it sounds cliche right we can't give what we haven't received
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but it is so true especially when it comes to this and receiving the authentic and non -self -referential love.
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You notice, you're saying Paul in the second readings, right?
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He's talking about the Thessalonians received the gospel,
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became imitators of Christ, and then they became models for others.
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They received, they were formed, and then they became an example for other people to live their life, to be men and women of virtue,
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to be men and women of love.
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We need to teach our young people.
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We need to be taught about moral character and virtue.
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We need to teach them how to love.
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We have to show them what love looks like.
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But it starts with, and perhaps it's most importantly, to teach them how to receive the love of God, that your life matters.
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That you're worth the trouble.
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That God went to the cross for you.
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That an infinite God loves you more than you can imagine.
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But perhaps that starts with us receiving that.
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And so let me ask you.
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When was the last time you actually received the love of God?
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Where you sat with it?
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You soaked it in.
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you absorbed it
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give the Lord 30 minutes this week where you're going to sit down
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and you intentionally say this time this 30 minutes is just to sit and to soak in the love of God
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whether that's coming here to the church or the adoration chapel or it's finding a spot in your home
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you might consider praying with the four verses Isaiah chapter 43 verses 1 to 4.
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Open up the scriptures to those four passages for 30 minutes as you read it.
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Your only objective is to receive and soak in authentic,
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non -self -referential, non -self -centered love.
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If we want a generation that knows how to love and maybe to be not so mean,
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we have to become people who know how to love.
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And perhaps that begins with first allowing ourselves to sit and receive the love of God.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节口语课以视频“Why Have We Become So Mean?”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：loving, article, self。 这段视频共有 131 个句子、1577 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 11:42。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 135 个词，很适合跟读。 87% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇容易理解。
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 |
|---|---|---|
| neighbour 名词 | /ˈneɪbɚ/ | 鄰居 /邻居, 比鄰 /比邻 |
| institution 名词 | /ˌɪn.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/ | 制度 |
| nurse 名词 | /nɝs/ | 護士 /护士, 看護 /看护 |
| trap 名词 | /tɹæp/ | 陷阱, 圈套 |
| generous 形容词 | /ˈd͡ʒɛn(ə)ɹəs/ | 慷慨, 大方 |
| soak 动词 | /soʊk/ | 濕透 /湿透 |
| moral 形容词 | /ˈmoɹəl/ | 道德的 |
| charity 名词 | /ˈtʃæɹɪti/ | 慈善機構 /慈善机构 |
| discover 动词 | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | 發現 /发现, 發覺 /发觉 |
| rude 形容词 | /ɹuːd/ | 粗暴, 無禮 /无礼 |
| attract 动词 | /əˈtɹækt/ | 吸引 |
| emphasis 名词 | /ˈɛmfəsɪs/ | 強調 /强调 |
| uncomfortable 形容词 | /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ | 不舒服 |
| gospel 名词 | /ˈɡɑspəl/ | 福音書 /福音书 |
| verse 名词 | /ˈvɝs/ | 詩 /诗 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| give off 动词 | /ɡɪv ɒf/ | 散發 /散发, 發出 /发出 |
| come up 动词 | 上來 /上来 | |
| pick up 动词 | 拾取, 撿 /捡 | |
| point out 动词 | 指, 指出 | |
| put together 动词 | 拼合, 組合 /组合 | |
| sit down 动词 | 坐下, 坐 |
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：
- How did we get so mean?
- First, how did we get so mean?
- What's one of the main reasons nurses are quitting?
- How did we get so mean, or how are we getting meaner?
- Where you sat with it?
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 | was written · being treated · were interviewed |
| 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 | have come · has changed · we've created |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | person who seems · someone who isn · people who know |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 24 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I'm, you're, doesn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “th” 音: authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/, warmth /wɔɹmθ/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: institution /ˌɪn.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, impatient /ɪmˈpeɪʃənt/, referential /ɹɛfəˈɹɛnʃəl/, adoration /ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: institution /ˌɪn.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, generosity /ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹɑ.sə.ti/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, desperately /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: virtue /ˈvɝt͡ʃu/, discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, verse /ˈvɝs/, reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, drove /dɹoʊv/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: nurse /nɝs/, trap /tɹæp/, generous /ˈd͡ʒɛn(ə)ɹəs/, soak /soʊk/, rude /ɹuːd/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: moral /ˈmoɹəl/, reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, desperately /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/, referential /ɹɛfəˈɹɛnʃəl/
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。
- 用正常速度逐句跟读，每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 neighbour, institution, nurse 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。