跟读练习: Why Parents Bully Their Children - 通过视频学习英语口语
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What is the most strange and saddest phenomena of psychological life?
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One of the strangest and saddest phenomena of psychological life is that there are parents, too many parents, who end up,
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while sometimes only half realizing it, bullying their own children.
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Why do parents bully their children?
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In short, in order to try to feel better about themselves themselves.
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Because they suffer intensely in the very same area that they are choosing to bully their child in.
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Someone made them feel awful and they surmise,
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by twisted logic, that they will feel better through the process of making their own child feel very bad indeed.
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They aren't doing it personally.
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The child is just collateral damage to a misguided project of healing and an attenuation of symptoms.
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It doesn't make any sense, of course, but But it may actually work for the parent for a time.
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Let's imagine a parent who harbours a terrible fear of being stupid.
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Somewhere in their own past, they were belittled and made to feel hugely inadequate.
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Now a child comes along, their own child, full of the normal hesitations and weaknesses of early infancy.
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Without really realising what they're up to, the parent grows inflamed and incensed by this child's apparent stupidity
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and starts to mock and attack in another person what they fear and hate in themselves.
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It makes them feel a bit better.
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The child becomes a repository of all that they fail to tolerate in themselves.
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They, the child, are the dumb one, so they, the parent, don't have to be.
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They, the child, are the stupid and ugly one, so they, the parent, don't have to be.
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And therefore, the parent is liberated to live more easily within itself self.
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The bad is contained and localised.
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It can't be in them if it's all in little him or her.
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It can take bullied children a very long time to realise that they have even been bullied.
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They don't after all grow up thinking
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that someone else has actually made them feel stupid or made them feel ugly or made them feel soiled,
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let alone their own parent whom they depend on and admire and long to be loved by.
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They simply think that they are stupid, ugly and soiled.
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There is no call for an explanation or a cause.
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Yet, if we are those now grown -up bullied children, we don't need to wonder too much more about what might have happened to us.
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We simply need to take stock of how we feel about ourselves
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and guess that the terrible judgements and sensations that we have about ourselves did not arise spontaneously.
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The feelings we harbour of ourselves are legacies of real occurrences in the world.
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Someone who isn't necessarily owning up to it made us feel a certain way
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and that is why now we are in such pain.
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Typically, those who've been bullied don't look backwards.
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Their illnesses point them relentlessly to the present and the future.
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The bullied anticipate terrible things happening to them that echo events
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that once happened to them but that they don't remember in any way.
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They are causeless paranoiacs, self -haters and warriors.
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Catastrophe is never far away.
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A person feels they're ugly because two decades ago a mother made them feel as such.
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A person feels they've done something very wrong because even further back someone did something very wrong to them.
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The fear contains the imprint of unconscious history.
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We overcome our bullying when we learn to discriminate between what actually belongs to us and what was placed in us.
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Between who we are and what we've been told we are.
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Between how our caregivers like to present themselves and what they've actually done.
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Our triggers and apprehensions lie along the fault lines of our early traumas.
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So they can guide us back to what we suffered through when we are ready to explore.
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We're on our way to overcoming bullying when we can say at last, I'm not ugly, I was made to feel unacceptable.
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I haven't done anything wrong.
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Something wrong was done to me.
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And in general, I am not awful.
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Something awful happened to me.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节口语课以视频“Why Parents Bully Their Children”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有:parent, bullied, ugly, themselves, stupid。 这段视频共有 54 个句子、701 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 4:07。 说话人语速自然,每分钟约 170 个词,接近日常对话。 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 15 个值得学习的单词,附发音和释义:
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| bully 名词 | /ˈbʊli/ | 霸凌者, 土霸 |
| ugly 形容词 | /ˈʌɡli/ | 難看 /难看, 醜 /丑 |
| awful 形容词 | /ˈɔːfʊl/ | 壞 /坏, 糟糕 |
| bullying 名词 | /ˈbʊ.li.ɪŋ/ | 欺負 /欺负, 恃強欺弱 /恃强欺弱 |
| suffer 动词 | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | 受苦, 遭受 |
| soil 名词 | /sɔɪl/ | 土壤, 泥土 |
| overcome 动词 | /ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/ | 征服, 克服 |
| phenomenon 名词 | /fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/ | 現象 /现象 |
| necessarily 副词 | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | 必然地, 必定地 |
| explanation 名词 | /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/ | 解釋 /解释, 說明 /说明 |
| illness 名词 | /ˈɪl.nəs/ | 疾病, 病症 |
| belong 动词 | /bɪˈlɒŋ/ | 屬於 /属于 |
| legacy 名词 | /ˈlɛɡəsi/ | 遺產 /遗产 |
| apparent 形容词 | /əˈpæɹənt/ | 明确的 |
| explore 动词 | /ɪkˈsploɹ/ | 探索, 探險 /探险 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| grow up 动词 | 長大 /长大 |
| come along 动词 | 陪伴, 陪同 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么,而不是谁做的 | were belittled · is liberated · is contained |
| 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 even been bullied · has actually made · who've been bullied |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 19 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 don't, they're, they've。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/, sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, apprehension /æp.ɹiˈhɛn.ʃən/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, phenomenon /fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, unacceptable /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/
中文母语者容易读错的音:
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/,上齿轻触下唇: overcome /ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/, caregiver /ˈkɛɹɡɪvɚ/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚,后面不要加元音: illness /ˈɪl.nəs/, apparent /əˈpæɹənt/, twist /twɪst/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/, weakness /ˈwik.nɪs/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, explore /ɪkˈsploɹ/, tolerate /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹeɪt/, collateral /kəˈlætəɹəl/, liberate /ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/
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 bully, ugly, awful 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。
































