跟读练习: Why the UK is in the EU - 通过视频学习英语口语
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The writing's on the wall.
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Well, in any event, we'll have to think of something to make the public think kindly towards administration because of the Europass.
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Quite.
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Europass?
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Europass.
欧洲通行框架
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European Identity Card.
欧洲身份证
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Well, Bernard, surely you've informed the Minister...
伯纳德，你肯定已经通知部长了吧……
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Minister, didn't you do your boxes last night?
部长，您昨晚不是已经整理好您的箱子了吗？
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No, I was redrafting the redraft of the draft.
不，我当时正在修改草案的修改稿。
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Well, briefly, Minister, Brussels is about to decree
部长，简单来说，布鲁塞尔即将颁布法令
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that there should be a new European Identity Card to be carried by all citizens of the EEC.
应当发行一种新的欧洲身份证，供欧洲经济共同体所有公民携带。
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Now the Foreign Office is quite ready to go along with it as a quid pro quo
现在外交部完全愿意以此作为交换条件予以配合。
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for a deal over the butter mountain, the wine lake and the milk ocean.
为了解决黄油山、葡萄酒湖和牛奶海的过剩农产品问题达成一项交易。
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The lamb war and the cod stink.
羊肉战争和鳕鱼之争。
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And quite obviously the Prime Minister wants you to introduce the legislation.
很显然，首相希望你提出这项立法。
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Me?
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Yes, well it's well known that you're pro-Europe you see
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and it would simplify our administration enormously in the long run So it's a good idea.
从长远来看，这将极大地简化我们的行政管理，所以这是个好主意。
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Good idea.
好主意。
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Good idea.
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Good idea.
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Not a good idea.
这可不是个好主意。
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Political suicide.
政治自杀。
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Trying to make British people carry compulsory identification papers.
试图让英国民众携带强制身份证件。
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They'll say I'm introducing a police state again.
他们又会说我在推行警察国家那一套。
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Is this what we fought two world wars for Humphrey?
汉弗莱，这难道就是我们打两次世界大战换来的结果吗？
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Well Minister it's really little more than a sort of driving license.
部长，这其实只不过是一种类似驾驶执照的东西罢了。
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It's the last meal in my coffin that's what it is.
这就是我棺材里的最后一顿饭，就是这么回事。
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You might get away with calling it Euro Club Express.
你或许可以称它为 Euro Club Express 而不会有什么问题。
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Why do we have to introduce it?
我们为什么非得介绍它？
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Can't the Foreign Office do it?
外交部就不能办这件事吗？
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Well in fact that was the Prime Minister's original suggestion
事实上，那是首相最初的提议。
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that the Foreign Secretary thought that this was a Home Office matter
外交大臣认为这是内政部的职责范围。
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and the Home Office took the view that it was essentially an administrative matter and the Prime Minister agreed.
内政部认为这本质上是一个行政问题，首相对此表示同意。
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They're all playing pass the parcel.
他们都在玩传包裹游戏。
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Can you blame them when you can hear it ticking?
你都能听到那滴答声了，还能怪他们吗？
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Well I'm afraid that the identity card bill is planned to be the last action of this department.
嗯，恐怕身份证法案被计划作为这个部门的最后一项行动。
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Wonderful ammunition for the anti-Europeans.
这是反欧派的绝佳论据。
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Yes, don't the Foreign Office realize what damage this will do to the European idea?
是啊，外交部难道没有意识到这会对欧洲一体化理念造成多大的损害吗？
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Well, I'm sure they do.
嗯，我相信他们确实是这样。
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That's why they support it.
这就是他们支持它的原因。
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Well, surely the Foreign Office is pro-Europe, isn't it?
嗯，英国外交部肯定是亲欧的，不是吗？
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Yes and no. If you'll forgive the expression.
可以说是，也可以说不是。希望你能谅解我这么说。
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The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really anti-Europe.
外交部表面上支持欧洲一体化，实则是因为它骨子里反对欧洲一体化。
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The Civil Service was united in its desire to make sure that the common market didn't work.
整个文官体系都一致希望确保共同市场无法运作。
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That's why we went into it.
这就是我们当初投身其中的原因。
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What are you talking about?
你在说什么？
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Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years to create a disunited Europe.
大臣，英国至少在过去500年里一直秉持着相同的外交政策目标，那就是建立一个分裂的欧洲。
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In that cause, we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians.
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Divide and rule, you see.
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Why should we change now, when it's worked so well?
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Ancient history, surely.
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Yes, and current policy.
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We had to break the whole thing up, so we had to get inside.
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We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work.
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Now that we're inside, we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing.
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Set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch.
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The Foreign Office is terribly pleased.
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It's just like old times.
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Surely we're all committed to the European ideal.
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Really, Minister?
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If not, why are we pressing for an increase in the membership?
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Well, for the same reason.
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It's just like the United Nations, in fact.
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The more members it has, the more arguments it can stir up, the more futile and impotent it becomes.
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Appalling cynicism.
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Yes.
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We call it diplomacy, Minister.
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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 the UK is in the EU”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：Minister, foreign, Europe, European, French。 这段视频共有 68 个句子、618 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 3:29。 说话人语速自然，每分钟约 178 个词，接近日常对话。 87% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇容易理解。 全部 68 个句子中有 13 个是问句，适合练习疑问语调和简短回答。
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 |
|---|---|---|
| cynicism 名词 | /ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/ | 犬儒主義 /犬儒主义 |
| enormously 副词 | 大大 | |
| futile 形容词 | /ˈfju.taɪl/ | 無用 /无用, 枉然 |
| impotent 形容词 | /ˈɪm.pə.tənt/ | 不舉 /不举, 不行 |
| simplify 动词 | /ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/ | 簡化 /简化 |
| parcel 名词 | /ˈpɑɹsəl/ | 包裹, 郵包 /邮包 |
| diplomacy 名词 | /dɪˈpləʊməsi/ | 外交 |
| tick 名词 | /tɪk/ | 蜱 |
| coffin 名词 | /ˈkɔfɪn/ | 棺材, 棺 |
| decree 名词 | /dɪˈkɹiː/ | 法令, 上諭 /上谕 |
| ammunition 名词 | /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/ | 軍火 /军火, 彈藥 /弹药 |
| stir 动词 | /stɝ/ | 攪拌 /搅拌, 攪 /搅 |
| lamb 名词 | /ˈlæm/ | 羊羔, 羔 |
| divide 动词 | /dɪˈvaɪd/ | 分, 分裂 |
| inform 动词 | /ɪnˈfɔɹm/ | 通知, 告知 |
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：
- Minister, didn't you do your boxes last night?
- They'll say I'm introducing a police state again.
- Why do we have to introduce it?
- What are you talking about?
- Why should we change now, when it's worked so well?
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 | you've informed · has had · have fought |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | be carried · is planned · was united |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 17 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I'm, didn't, we're。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, identification /aɪˌdɛn(t)ɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: cynicism /ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/, compulsory /kəmˈpʌlsəɹi/, diplomacy /dɪˈpləʊməsi/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, identification /aɪˌdɛn(t)ɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: disunite /dɪsjuːˈnaɪt/, impotent /ˈɪm.pə.tənt/, tick /tɪk/, divide /dɪˈvaɪd/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: parcel /ˈpɑɹsəl/, compulsory /kəmˈpʌlsəɹi/, terribly /ˈtɛɹ.ɪ.bli/
- /æ/ — 嘴张大，不要读成 /e/: ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, lamb /ˈlæm/
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 cynicism, enormously, futile 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。