跟读练习: 安海瑟薇 聯合國感人演講｜性別平權：育兒不是媽媽一個人的責任｜字正腔圓 最佳英聽教材 - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Thank you so much for those words.
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Thank you so much for those words.
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Wow.
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President of the General Assembly,
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United Nations, UN Deputy Secretary General,
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Executive Director UN Women, distinguished ladies and gentlemen.
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When I was a very young person,
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I began my career as an actress.
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Whenever my mother wasn't free to drive me into Manhattan for auditions,
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I would take the train from suburban New Jersey and meet my father,
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who would have left his desk at the law office where he worked,
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and we would meet under the upper platform arrival and departure sign in Penn Station.
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We would then get on the subway together,
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and when we surfaced, he would ask me, which way is north?
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I wasn't very good at finding north in the beginning,
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but I auditioned a fair amount,
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and so my dad kept asking me, which way is north?
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Over time, I got better at finding it.
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I was struck by that memory yesterday while boarding the plane to come here,
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not just by how far my life has come since then,
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but by how meaningful that seemingly small lesson has been.
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When I was still a child,
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my father developed my sense of direction,
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and now, as an adult,
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I trust my ability to navigate space.
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My father helped give me the confidence to guide myself through the world.
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In late March last year,
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2016, I became a parent for the first time.
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I remember the indescribable and,
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as I understand it, pretty universal experience of holding my weak old son and feeling my priorities change on a cellular level.
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I remember I experienced a shift in consciousness
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that gave me the ability to maintain my love of career and also cherish something else,
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someone else, so much, much more.
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Like so many parents, I wondered how I was going to balance my work with my new role as parent,
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and in that moment, I remember that the statistic for the U.S.'s policy on maternity leave flashed in my mind.
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American women are currently entitled to 12 weeks unpaid leave.
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American men are entitled to nothing.
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That information landed differently for me when one week after my son's birth,
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I could barely walk.
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That information landed differently
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when I was getting to know a human who was completely dependent on my husband and I for everything.
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When I was dependent on my husband for most things and
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when we were relearning everything we thought we knew about our family and our relationship.
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It landed differently.
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Somehow, we and every American parent were expected to be back to normal in under three months without income?
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I remember thinking to myself,
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if the practical reality of pregnancy is another mouth to feed in your home,
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and America is a country where most people are living paycheck to paycheck,
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how does 12 weeks unpaid leave economically work?
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The truth is, for too many people, it doesn't.
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One in four American women go back to work two weeks after giving birth
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because they can't afford to take off any more time than that.
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That's 25 percent of American women.
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Equally disturbing, women who can afford to take a full 12 weeks often don't because it'll mean incurring a motherhood penalty,
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meaning they will be perceived as less dedicated to their job and will be passed over for promotions and other career advancement.
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In my own household, my mother had to choose between a career and raising three children,
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a choice that left her unpaid and underappreciated as a homemaker because there just wasn't support for both paths.
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The memory of being in the city with my dad is
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a particularly meaningful one since he was the sole breadwinner in our house
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and my brothers and my time with him was always limited by how much he had to work.
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And we were an incredibly privileged family.
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Our hardships were the stuff of other families' dreams.
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The deeper into the issue of paid parental leave I go,
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the clearer I see the connection between persisting barriers to women's full equality
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and empowerment and the need to redefine and in some cases de-stigmatize men's roles as caregivers.
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In other words, in order to liberate women,
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we need to liberate men.
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The assumption and common practice that women and girls look after the home
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and the family is a stubborn and very real stereotype that not only discriminates against women,
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but It limits men's participation and connection within the family and society.
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These limitations have broad ranging and significant effects for them and for the children.
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We know this.
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So why do we continue to undervalue fathers and overburden mothers?
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Paid parental leave is not about taking days off work.
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It's about creating the freedom to define roles,
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to choose how to invest time and to establish new positive cycles of behavior.
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Companies that have offered paid parental leave for employees have reported improved employee retention,
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reduced absenteeism and training costs,
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and boosted productivity and morale.
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Far from not being able to afford to have paid parental leave,
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it seems we can't afford not to.
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In fact, a study in Sweden showed that for every month fathers took paternity leave,
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the mother's income increased by 6.7%.
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That's 6.7% more economic freedom for the whole family.
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Data from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey shows
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that most fathers report that they would work less if it meant that they could spend more time with their children.
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And picking up on the thread that the Prime Minister mentioned,
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I'd like to ask, how many of us here today saw our dads enough growing up?
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How many of you dads here see your kids enough now?
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We need to help each other if we are going to grow.
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Along with UN Women, I am issuing a call to action for countries,
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companies, and institutions globally to step up and become champions for paid parental leave.
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In 2013, provisions for paid parental leave were in only 66 countries out of 190 UN member states.
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I look forward to beginning with the UN itself,
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which has not yet achieved parity,
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and whose paid parental leave policies are currently up for review.
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Oh, you're going to see a lot of me.
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Let us lead by example in creating a world in
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which women and men are not economically punished for wanting to be parents.
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I don't mean to imply that you need to have children to care about and benefit from this issue.
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Whether or not you have or want kids,
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you will benefit by living in a more evolved world with policies not based on gender.
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We all benefit from living in a more compassionate time where our needs do not make us weak.
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They make us fully human.
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Maternity leave or any workplace policy based on gender can,
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at this moment in history,
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only ever be a gilded cage.
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Though it was created to make life easier for women,
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we now know it creates a perception of women as being inconvenient to the workplace.
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We now know it chains men to an emotionally limited path,
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and it cannot, by definition,
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serve the reality of a world in which there is more than one type of family.
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Because in the modern world,
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some families have two daddies.
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How exactly does maternity leave serve them?
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Today, on International Women's Day,
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I would like to thank all of those who went before in creating our current policies.
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Let us honor them and build upon what they started by shifting our language
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and therefore our consciousness away from gender and towards opportunity.
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Let us honor our own parent sacrifice by creating a path for a more fair,
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farther reaching truth to define all of our lives,
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especially the lives of our children.
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Because paid parental leave does more than give more time for parents to spend with their kids.
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It changes the story of what children observe and will from themselves imagine possible.
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I see cause for hope.
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In my own country, the United States,
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currently the only high-income country in the world without paid maternity,
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let alone parental leave.
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Great work has begun in the states of New York,
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California, New Jersey, Rhode Island,
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and Washington, which are currently all implementing paid parental leave programs.
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First Lady Shirlane McRae
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and Mayor Bill de Blasio have granted paid parental leave to over 20,000 government employees in New York City.
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We can do this.
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Bringing about change cannot just be the responsibility of those who need it most.
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We must have the support of those in the highest levels of power if we are ever to achieve parity.
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That is why it's such an honor to recognize and congratulate pioneers of paid parental leave like the global company Danone.
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Today I am proud to announce Danone Global CEO,
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Emmanuel Faber, as our inaugural he for She thematic champion for paid parental leave.
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As part of this announcement,
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Danone will implement a global,
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18 weeks, gender neutral, paid parental leave policy for the company's 100,000 employees by the year 2020.
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Monsieur Faber, when Ambassador Emma Watson delivered her now iconic he for she speech
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and stated that if we live in a world where men occupy a majority of positions of power,
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we need men to believe in the necessity of change,
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I believe she was speaking about visionaries like you.
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Merci.
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Imagine what the world could look like one generation from now.
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If a policy like Danone's becomes the new standard,
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if 100,000 people become 100 million,
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a billion, more, every generation must find their north.
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When women around the world demanded the right to vote,
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we took a fundamental step towards equality, north.
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When same-sex marriage was passed in the U.S.,
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we put an end to a discriminatory law, north.
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When millions of men and boys and prime ministers and deputy directors of the UN,
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sorry, the president of the General Assembly,
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that's what happens when I go off script.
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When men, like the men in this room and around the world,
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the ones we cannot see,
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the ones who support us in ways we cannot know but we feel.
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When they answered Emma Watson's call to be he for she, the world grew.
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North.
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we must ask ourselves, how will we be more tomorrow than we are today?
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The whole world grows when people like you and me take a stand
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because we know that beyond the idea of how men and women are different,
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there is a deeper truth,
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that love is love, and parents are parents.
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Thank you.
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為什麼要用這段影片練習口說？
安海瑟薇在聯合國的演講不僅是針對性別平權的一次感性表達，還為我們提供了豐富的口語練習機會。在這段演講中，她以自己成為母親的經歷作為切入點，深入探討了育兒的責任和女性面臨的挑戰。透過觀看這種具啟發性和情感聯繫的內容，學習者可以從中提升自己的英语发音，並訓練用語言表達複雜情感的能力。這不僅有助於改善聽力理解，也讓口說練習變得更加生動有趣。另一方面，透過看YouTube学英语，學習者能夠接觸到不同的口音和用語，並模仿演講者的語調和節奏，這不僅提高了口語能力，也增強了文化理解。
語法與表達在上下文中的應用
- 擁有的經歷：安海瑟薇提到了"當我還是小孩時，我的父親培養了我的方向感"，這句話引入了過去時的用法，幫助學習者理解如何描述過去的事件。
- 感受的變化：她說到“我感受到我的優先事項在細胞層面上改變”，這裡運用了當代簡單過去時，表達情感的轉變。
- 依賴關係：短語“完全依賴我的丈夫和我”展示了在描述依賴關係時的常用結構，加深了對英語日常用語的理解。
這些語法結構不僅豐富了演講內容，還能在學習者的口說練習中起到積極的推動作用。
常見的發音陷阱
在這段演講中，有一些單詞和短語對學習者的發音挑戰較大。特別是“maternity leave”（產假）和“dependent”（依賴），這些詞彙在英美語音中可能會因口音不同而有所變化。因此，在英语影子跟读的練習過程中，學習者應特別注意尾音和重音位置，以達到真正的提高效果。此外，在shadowing site上反覆練習，可以有效幫助改善這些發音問題。
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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。