跟读练习: Why People Love Virgins - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Hi, my name is Aline and I was a virgin until I got married.
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And this is why.
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Ever since I was a little girl, people always said to me, don't have sex.
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I heard people say, here is a piece of gum.
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Then they would chew it and spit it out.
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Do you want this piece of gum now that it's chewed?
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They would compare sex to chewing gum.
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nobody wants you once you're chewed up and used.
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You lose your value.
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It seemed like whether I did this one thing or not would define me completely. But why?
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Why is everybody so obsessed with virginity?
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And why isn't it a big problem for men as well?
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In many societies, the more people you have sex with, the less valued you are.
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That is, if you're a woman.
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But if you're a man and have sex, people say...
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Oh, come on!
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Boys will be boys.
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It's not a big deal.
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In fact, in many cultures around the world, if you're not a virgin, you can't get married.
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And sometimes, your life might even be in danger.
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Here's why.
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A long time ago, there were no condoms, no birth control pills.
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So if you had sex, you were very likely to get pregnant.
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And men wanted to make sure that the baby was really their baby to carry on their bloodline.
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So they would marry a virgin.
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Women were seen as property, like an animal, or like land.
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And that's how virginity became a way of controlling women that is still used to this day.
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In some parts of the world, parents check the bedsheets after the wedding night to make sure there is blood.
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Doctors would do virginity tests before marriage,
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all to make sure that the bride was actually a virgin because otherwise the families would call off the wedding.
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and family members wait whole night out of the room
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and the next day they proudly show the blood to everyone that the bride was virgin.
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So I grew up in a very conservative religion.
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I saved myself for marriage and then guess what?
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When I got married, I had so much shame around sexuality that I couldn't even have sex.
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Because of these thoughts putting so much shame and this pressure around sexuality and being a woman.
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It's getting so crazy that in some cultures, women who have had sex feel forced to get plastic surgery
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on their private parts to make them look as virgin-like as possible.
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And the discrimination doesn't end there.
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For women who are not virgins in Morocco, it can be very hard to get married.
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In the island of Kiribati, you could be disowned.
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And until last year in Indonesia, you could not join the army.
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Over 5,000 women a year are killed in honor killings, for not being a virgin, and for bringing shame to their families.
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When the only people who should be ashamed are the ones killing women.
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But this video is not about virgins.
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It's about double standards and how we are always trying to control women.
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We tell girls to save themselves for marriage, but we encourage guys to do the exact opposite.
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I want to say here and now that a woman's virginity is not important.
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It does not matter and it does not define her.
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Women are so much more than their sexuality.
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They are their talents, their careers, their families, their personalities.
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So I really feel like what we need to do in this world is change how we're talking about sex.
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I totally think it's okay to not have sex if you don't want to, but what I think is not okay is when other people are forcing these decisions on you,
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are forcing the shame on you, when it's happening only to women and not to men.
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That's where the problems really lie.
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But some countries are taking steps in the right direction.
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Like in France, India, or Pakistan, where the governments are taking steps to ban virginity tests
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and are even considering jail time for doctors who do these tests on women.
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It will take a lot more than a few laws to change how society views women.
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But we have to start somewhere.
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My hope is that someday soon a woman is defined not by her virginity, but by who she is.
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And that starts with me, and that starts with you.
本节课你将练习什么？
通过这段视频，你能学习如何用英语谈论社会现象与性别平等，同时提升“看视频学英语”的能力。视频中包含真实的口语表达和情感传递，非常适合练习影子跟读（shadow speak）。你会跟着视频中的语气和节奏模仿，不仅能锻炼发音，还能理解语言背后的文化含义。
核心词汇与短语
- double standards：双重标准（视频中用来描述男女在贞操观念上的差异）
- honor killings：荣誉谋杀（指因女性“失贞”而被家族杀害的行为）
- birth control pills：避孕药（视频中提到的避孕方式）
- plastic surgery：整形手术（部分女性为假装处女而进行的手术）
- shame around sexuality：性羞耻（视频中女性因贞操观念产生的心理负担）
影子跟读练习技巧
视频中的语速适中，语气充满情感，非常适合“英语影子跟读”练习。建议你先完整看一遍视频，熟悉内容和情感基调。然后逐句暂停，模仿说话人的语气——比如提到“双重标准”时的愤慨，讲述个人经历时的无奈。刚开始可以慢一点，重点抓节奏和重音，比如“Women are so much more than their sexuality”这句话，要强调“so much more”，突出核心观点。
练习时可以使用“shadow speech”技巧，即延迟0.5秒跟读，这样能更好地匹配发音和语调。每天坚持10分钟，你会发现自己的口语流畅度和情感表达能力都有提升。记住，影子跟读（shadowspeaks）不仅是模仿声音，更是理解语言背后的故事，这样才能说得更自然、更有感染力。
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。