跟读练习: Why Religious Beliefs Aren't Just Silly - 通过视频学习英语口语

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From a distance, it can all seem very silly.

These people have gone to Lourdes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in the hope that the Virgin Mary might cure them of cancer and heart disease.

These people have gone to Medjugorje in Bosnia Herzegovina to pray they might get a chance to talk to dead beloved relatives.

And these people are praying at the Western Wailing Wall of the old Jewish Temple in Jeruselam and leaving all sort of notes for God to read in the cracks between the stones.

No wonder some Atheists just think the whole of religion is ludicrous, and they aren't bothered about saying so very directly.

But that's the wrong way to look at religion.

What religion teaches us isn't about what's true, but about what many of us here on earth desperately want to be true, for some pretty understandable reasons.

At one point in the bible, Jesus goes into the house of a man called Jarus, whose 12-year-old daughter has just died.

Everyone is weeping and lamenting. But Jesus calmly says that she's not dead, she's just asleep.

"Little girl, I say to you get up!" He says.

We shouldn't laugh or dismiss the whole thing as nonsense.

When your child is very sick, you may well end up believing in miracles.

Because at the end of the day, under immense psychological pressures, you love your child more than you care about the laws of physics and biology.

And when your loved ones do die, it can take a very robust mind indeed not to imagine, late at night when the sadness becomes overwhelming, that somehow your parent, or child, or friend, is somewhere still around and in a better place than they were.

And that they might be able to see us as we go about our daily lives and forgive us and understand what we, perhaps, never found a way to say to them.

And when you're in a complete mess, and all you want to do is cry in shame, you might well start to long for someone who could understand. Someone wise and forgiving, with kindly sympathetic eyes who wont judge and will be patient and kindly, like an ideal mother.

Science may very rightly deny the existence of the Virgin Mary, let alone paradise and miracles.

But these beliefs shouldn't just be interpreted as pieces of stupidity.

They are signs of extreme emotional distress and desperation, which should rightly elicit in us understanding and sympathy.

Religious beliefs are, of course, technically false.

But they're coming from a very tender and vulnerable place, which needs our empathy.

Of course Atheists are technically right. But there's no point getting maddened by the apparent irrationality of the religious.

We have to understand it and appreciate the intensity of the longings that lead some of us to believe in fantasies against all odds.

Because reality is just sometimes unbearably painful.

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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 Religious Beliefs Aren't Just Silly”为素材。这段视频共有 24 个句子、490 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 2:57。说话人语速自然，每分钟约 166 个词，接近日常对话。 82% 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
technically 副词	/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/	嚴格來說 /严格来说
miracle 名词	/ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/	奇跡 /奇迹
elicit 动词	/ɪˈlɪsɪt/	引出
foothill 名词		山麓, 山腳 /山脚
ludicrous 形容词	/ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/	滑稽的, 荒唐的
overwhelm 动词	/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/	吞沒 /吞没
longing 名词	/ˈlɔːŋɪŋ/	渴望
desperation 名词	/ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/	絕望 /绝望
stupidity 名词	/stuˈpɪdɪti/	愚蠢
empathy 名词	/ˈɛmpəθi/	移情, 同感
understandable 形容词		可懂的, 可以理解的
sympathetic 形容词	/ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/	同情的
dismiss 动词	/dɪsˈmɪs/	解僱 /解雇
sadness 名词	/ˈsædnəs/	悲傷 /悲伤, 悲哀
immense 形容词	/ɪˈmɛns/	廣大 /广大, 巨大

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	释义
end up 动词	到达
get up 动词	起床

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
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 gone · has just died
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	aren't bothered · be interpreted

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 6 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 shouldn't, aren't, isn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“th” 音: empathy /ˈɛmpəθi/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: irrationality /ɪˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/
长单词——注意重音位置: technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, irrationality /ɪˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/, stupidity /stuˈpɪdɪti/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, beloved /bɪˈlʌvd/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: elicit /ɪˈlɪsɪt/, lament /ləˈmɛnt/, ludicrous /ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/, interpret /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: rightly /ˈɹaɪtli/, miracle /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/, irrationality /ɪˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/, ludicrous /ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/, calmly /ˈkɑː(ɹ)m.li/

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 technically, miracle, elicit 这类单词。

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