【满满干货】 英语初学必看，别再死背单词了！｜适合初学者｜
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | I have a secret to tell you. | 我有秘密要告诉你 |
| 0:01 | When I was younger, I almost never learned to speak a second language | 我年轻时几乎没学过第二语言 |
| 0:05 | at all. | 一点也不 |
| 0:06 | I almost gave up completely. | 我差点完全放弃了 |
| 0:08 | And today, I'm going to tell you my real story. | 今天我要告诉你我的真实故事 |
| 0:12 | A story | 一个故事 |
| 0:13 | about failure. | 关于失败。 |
| 0:15 | A story about fear. | 一个关于恐惧的故事。 |
| 0:17 | And a story about how I finally learned to read and speak | 我终于学会了阅读和说话 |
| 0:22 | in a new language, one small story at a time. | 在新语言,一个小故事一次。 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I have a secret to tell you. | 我有秘密要告诉你 |
| 2 | When I was younger, I almost never learned to speak a second language | 我年轻时几乎没学过第二语言 |
| 3 | at all. | 一点也不 |
| 4 | I almost gave up completely. | 我差点完全放弃了 |
| 5 | And today, I'm going to tell you my real story. | 今天我要告诉你我的真实故事 |
| 6 | A story | 一个故事 |
| 7 | about failure. | 关于失败。 |
| 8 | A story about fear. | 一个关于恐惧的故事。 |
| 9 | And a story about how I finally learned to read and speak | 我终于学会了阅读和说话 |
| 10 | in a new language, one small story at a time. | 在新语言,一个小故事一次。 |
| 11 | If you have ever felt like learning English | 如果你曾想学英语 |
| 12 | is too hard for you, this story is for you. | 对你来说太难了,这个故事是为你。 |
| 13 | Stay with me. | 陪着我 |
| 14 | Because today, you are not just | 因为今天,你不只是 |
| 15 | going to listen, you are going to practice reading and listening at the same time. | 你要同时练习阅读和倾听 |
| 16 | And | 还有 |
| 17 | by the end, you will understand more than you think. | 最终,你会理解 比你想象的更多。 |
| 18 | Let me start at the beginning. | 让我从头开始 |
| 19 | My name does not matter right now. | 现在我的名字不重要 |
| 20 | What matters is my story. | 重要的是我的故事。 |
| 21 | I grew up in a small town. | 我在一个小镇长大的 |
| 22 | In | 内 |
| 23 | my town, nobody spoke English. | 我镇上没人会说英语 |
| 24 | My parents did not speak English. | 我父母不会说英语 |
| 25 | My friends did not | 我的朋友没有 |
| 26 | speak English. | 说英语。 |
| 27 | The only English I heard was in songs on the radio. | 我唯一听到的英语是收音机里的歌曲 |
| 28 | And even then, I did | 即使那时,我做到了 |
| 29 | not understand the words. | 不懂这些话 |
| 30 | I just liked the sound. | 我只是喜欢这个声音。 |
| 31 | When I was 12 years old, I started | 当我12岁的时候,我开始 |
| 32 | English class at school. | 学校英语班. |
| 33 | My teacher was very strict. | 我的老师很严格 |
| 34 | Strict means very serious and not | 严格意味着非常严重,而不是 |
| 35 | relaxed. | 放松点 |
| 36 | She wanted us to memorise long lists of words. | 她想让我们回忆起一长串的词汇 |
| 37 | Every week, we had a test. | 我们每周都做测试 |
| 38 | Every | 每个 |
| 39 | week, I was scared. | 一个星期,我很害怕。 |
| 40 | I would study the words. | 我会研究这些话 |
| 41 | I would write them again and again. | 我会一遍又一遍地写 |
| 42 | But on | 但继续 |
| 43 | the test day, my mind would go blank. | 测试日,我脑海一片空白 |
| 44 | Blank means empty, like a white piece of paper with | 白纸白纸是空的 |
| 45 | nothing on it. | 没什么 |
| 46 | I remember one test very clearly. | 我记得一个非常明确的测试。 |
| 47 | The teacher gave us 20 words to memorise. | 老师给我们20个词来回忆 |
| 48 | I studied for three hours the night before. | 我前夜学习了三小时 |
| 49 | Three hours. | 三小时 |
| 50 | I was so tired. | 我当时好累 |
| 51 | But when I sat | 但我坐的时候 |
| 52 | down for the test, I could not remember anything. | 下到测试, 我不记得任何东西。 |
| 53 | My hands were shaking. | 我的手在颤抖。 |
| 54 | Shaking means moving | 摇晃意味着移动 |
| 55 | without control, like when you are very nervous or very cold. | 没有控制, 就像当你非常紧张或非常冷。 |
| 56 | I looked at the paper, I looked | 我看报纸,我看 |
| 57 | at the clock, and I started to cry. | 在钟声中,我开始哭。 |
| 58 | Not loudly, just quiet tears running down my face. | 不大声,只是静静的泪从我脸上流下来。 |
| 59 | The | 那个 |
| 60 | teacher saw me crying. | 老师看到我哭了 |
| 61 | She did not say anything kind. | 她什么都没说 |
| 62 | She just said, you need to study harder. | 她刚刚说,你需要 学习得更努力。 |
| 63 | Harder means with more effort, more work. | 更硬意味着更多的努力,更多的工作. |
| 64 | I felt so small. | 我觉得如此之小。 |
| 65 | I felt stupid. | 我觉得很蠢 |
| 66 | I felt like | 我觉得 |
| 67 | English was not for me. | 英语不适合我 |
| 68 | Do you know this feeling? | 你知道这种感觉吗? |
| 69 | Have you ever felt like you are not smart | 你有没有觉得自己不聪明 |
| 70 | enough to learn something? | 足够学东西了吗? |
| 71 | Have you ever cried because you tried so hard and still failed? | 你曾经哭过吗? 因为你这么努力还是失败了? |
| 72 | If you have felt this way, I want you to know something important. | 如果你有这种感觉 我想告诉你一些重要的事 |
| 73 | You are not alone. | 你不是一个人 |
| 74 | And | 还有 |
| 75 | more than that, you are not stupid. | 不仅如此,你并不愚蠢。 |
| 76 | The method was wrong, not you. | 这个方法是错误的,不是你。 |
| 77 | After that test, I told my mother I wanted to quit English class. | 测试结束后,我告诉妈妈我想退出英语课. |
| 78 | Quit means to stop | 退出意味着停止 |
| 79 | doing something completely. | 做点什么 |
| 80 | My mother was a simple woman. | 我妈妈是个简单的女人 |
| 81 | She worked very hard. | 她很努力地工作着. |
| 82 | | |
| 83 | did not go to university. | 没有上大学。 |
| 84 | But she said something to me that I will never forget. | 但她对我说了些我永远不会忘记的话 |
| 85 | She said, | 她说, |
| 86 | you do not need to memorise the whole language in one day. | 您无需在一天之内记住整个语言。 |
| 87 | You only need to understand one | 你只需要明白一个 |
| 88 | small story today. | 今天有个小故事 |
| 89 | Just one. | 只有一个 |
| 90 | I did not understand what she meant at the time. | 我不懂她当时的意思 |
| 91 | But I remember | 但我记得 |
| 92 | her words. | 她的话 |
| 93 | One small story. | 一个小故事 |
| 94 | Just one. | 只有一个 |
| 95 | A few weeks later, something changed my life completely. | 几周后,有些事情彻底改变了我的生活。 |
| 96 | My uncle came to visit from another | 我叔叔从别的地方来看我 |
| 97 | city. | 城区. |
| 98 | He brought me a gift. | 他带了礼物给我 |
| 99 | It was a small book. | 这是一本小书。 |
| 100 | A very small book. | 一本小书 |
| 101 | It had only ten pages. | 它只有十页。 |
| 102 | And on each page, there was a short story written in very simple English. | 每页都有一个简短的英语故事。 |
| 103 | Simple means | 简单手段 |
| 104 | easy to understand, not complicated. | 容易理解,不复杂。 |
| 105 | I remember opening that book for the first time. | 我记得我第一次打开那本书 |
| 106 | I was | и琌 |
| 107 | scared. | 吓坏了 |
| 108 | I thought, I cannot read this. | 我想,我不能读这个。 |
| 109 | I am bad at English. | 我英语不好 |
| 110 | But my uncle said something | 但我叔叔说了些话 |
| 111 | kind to me. | 对我很好 |
| 112 | He said, just try the first sentence. | 他说,只要试试第一句。 |
| 113 | Only one sentence. | 仅一句. |
| 114 | If you understand it, you | 如果你明白这一点,你 |
| 115 | are already winning. | 已经赢了。 |
| 116 | So I tried. | 所以我试过了 |
| 117 | I looked at the first sentence. | 我观初句. |
| 118 | It said, I have a small | 上面说,我有一个小 |
| 119 | dog. | 狗养的 |
| 120 | I have a small dog. | 我有一个小狗。 |
| 121 | I understood every word. | 我理解每一个字。 |
| 122 | I felt something inside me. | 我内心有感觉 |
| 123 | A small | 一个小 |
| 124 | light. | 轻 |
| 125 | A small light means a small feeling of hope. | 小光意为小希望感. |
| 126 | Of happiness. | 快乐 |
| 127 | I understood a whole | 我理解一个整体 |
| 128 | sentence in English. | 句子用英语。 |
| 129 | I was so excited that I ran to show my mother. | 我很兴奋,我跑去给我妈妈看 |
| 130 | I said, I can read | 我说,我识字 |
| 131 | English. | 英语。 |
| 132 | I have a small dog. | 我有一个小狗。 |
| 133 | My mother smiled and said, see, you only needed one small story. | 我妈妈笑着说 你只需要一个小故事 |
| 134 | That night, I read the whole little book. | 那晚我读了整本小书 |
| 135 | Ten pages. | 十页. |
| 136 | Simple sentences. | 简单句子. |
| 137 | Simple stories. | 简单的故事。 |
| 138 | And for the first time in my life, I felt like maybe, just maybe, I could learn English. | 第一次,我觉得也许,也许,也许,我可以学英语。 |
| 139 | This is why today, I want to share my story with you in the same way, not with complicated | 这就是为什么今天,我想跟你分享我的故事 用同样的方式,而不是复杂的 |
| 140 | grammar rules, not with long vocabulary lists, but with a simple story in simple English, | 语法规则,不包含长的词汇列表,但有一个简单的英语故事, |
| 141 | the same way my uncle's little book helped me many years ago. | 就像我叔叔的小书 帮助我很多年前。 |
| 142 | So let me continue my story. | 让我继续我的故事。 |
| 143 | After that little book, something inside me changed. | 在那本小书之后 我内心有些变化 |
| 144 | I was no longer afraid of English. | 我不再害怕英语了 |
| 145 | I started looking for more small stories everywhere. | 我开始到处寻找更多的小故事。 |
| 146 | I asked my uncle to send me more | 我叫我叔叔再寄给我 |
| 147 | books. | 书 |
| 148 | He could not always send books because he lived far away. | 他不能总是寄书 因为他住得很远。 |
| 149 | So I started writing my own | 所以我开始自己写 |
| 150 | small stories. | 小说。 |
| 151 | I wrote about my dog. | 我写了我的狗。 |
| 152 | I wrote about my school. | 我写了我的学校。 |
| 153 | I wrote about my family. | 我写了我的家庭。 |
| 154 | Simple sentences. | 简单句子. |
| 155 | Easy words. | 易语. |
| 156 | Do you know what is interesting? | 你知道什么是有趣的吗? |
| 157 | When I wrote my own simple stories, | 当我写自己的简单故事时 |
| 158 | I remembered the words much better than when I memorised lists. | 我记得这些话 比我回忆列表时要好得多 |
| 159 | Why do you think that happened? | 为什么会这样? |
| 160 | Take a moment and think about this question. | 慢慢想想这个问题 |
| 161 | Why does a story help you remember words better than | 为什么一个故事能帮助你记起比 |
| 162 | a list? | 名单? |
| 163 | I believe it is because a story has feeling. | 我相信是因为一个故事有感觉 |
| 164 | A story has connection. | 一个故事有联系。 |
| 165 | A list of words | 单词列表 |
| 166 | has no feeling at all. | 一点感觉都没有 |
| 167 | A list is just words sitting there, alone, with no story holding | 单词只是单词,没有故事 |
| 168 | them together. | 他们在一起。 |
| 169 | But a story, even a very simple one, has a beginning, a middle and an end. | 但一个故事,甚至一个非常简单的故事,有一个开始,中间和结尾. |
| 170 | Your brain remembers stories more easily because your brain loves stories. | 你的大脑更容易记住故事 因为你的大脑喜欢故事。 |
| 171 | Your brain was made | 你的大脑是制造出来的 |
| 172 | for stories, not for lists. | 故事,不是名单。 |
| 173 | Let me give you an example right now. | 现在让我举个例子。 |
| 174 | I am going to tell you two | 我要告诉你们两个 |
| 175 | things. | 东西。 |
| 176 | First I will give you a list. | 我先给你一份清单 |
| 177 | Then I will give you a story. | 然后我会给你一个故事。 |
| 178 | Listen carefully and notice how | 仔细听好,注意注意 |
| 179 | you feel differently. | 你感觉不一样 |
| 180 | Here is the list. | 这是名单。 |
| 181 | Apple, run, blue, fast, hungry. | 苹果,运行,蓝色,快速,饥饿。 |
| 182 | Now here is the story. | 下面是故事。 |
| 183 | I was very hungry. | 我当时很饿 |
| 184 | I saw a blue apple on the table. | 我看见桌上有个蓝苹果 |
| 185 | I wanted to eat it quickly, so I had to | 我想快点吃 所以我不得不吃 |
| 186 | run fast to get there before my brother. | 跑快点赶到我哥哥之前 |
| 187 | Did you notice the difference? | 你注意到区别了吗? |
| 188 | The story uses the same | 故事也一样 |
| 189 | words but it feels different in your mind. | 话语,但感觉不同 在你的脑海。 |
| 190 | The story creates a picture. | 故事创造了一个图片。 |
| 191 | You can almost see the | 你几乎可以看到 |
| 192 | blue apple and the boy running. | 蓝苹果和那个男孩在跑 |
| 193 | This is the power of story. | 这是故事的力量。 |
| 194 | This is why simple stories are so | 这就是为什么简单的故事是如此 |
| 195 | powerful for learning a new language. | 能够学习新语言 |
| 196 | Now let me go back to my own story because | 现在让我回到我自己的故事,因为 |
| 197 | there is more to tell you. | 还有很多事要告诉你 |
| 198 | After many months of reading simple stories, my English began to improve | 在读了几个月的简单故事后 我的英语开始进步 |
| 199 | slowly, very slowly. | 慢慢来 非常慢慢来 |
| 200 | I did not become fluent overnight. | 我一夜之间没有变得流利。 |
| 201 | Fluent means speaking very smoothly | 流利的意思是说话很顺畅 |
| 202 | and naturally, almost like a native speaker. | 自然,几乎像一个母语。 |
| 203 | I was not fluent, not even close. | 我没有流利,甚至没有接近。 |
| 204 | But something | 不过有些事 |
| 205 | important happened. | 发生了重大事件。 |
| 206 | I stopped being afraid. | 我不再害怕了。 |
| 207 | Being afraid was the real problem before. | 以前真正的问题就是害怕 |
| 208 | Not my intelligence, not my memory, my fear. | 不是我的智力,我的记忆,我的恐惧。 |
| 209 | Fear makes your mind go blank, just like it did during | 恐惧让你的脑子一片空白 就像在那时一样 |
| 210 | that terrible test. | 那可怕的测试。 |
| 211 | But when you read simple stories, fear slowly disappears. | 但是当你读到简单的故事时,恐惧会慢慢消失. |
| 212 | Because simple | 因为很简单 |
| 213 | stories do not test you. | 故事不会考验你 |
| 214 | Simple stories teach you gently. | 简单的故事会慢慢教你 |
| 215 | I want to ask you something now. | 我想问你一件事 |
| 216 | Are you afraid of English? | 你怕英语吗? |
| 217 | Be honest with yourself. | 诚实自在. |
| 218 | Many people who are learning English carry fear | 许多学习英语的人都带着恐惧 |
| 219 | inside them. | 在他们体内。 |
| 220 | Fear of making mistakes, fear of sounding stupid, fear of being laughed at. | 害怕犯错,害怕听起来愚蠢,害怕被人嘲笑. |
| 221 | If you carry this fear, I understand you completely. | 如果你带着恐惧 我完全理解你 |
| 222 | Because I carried this same fear for | 因为我带着同样的恐惧 |
| 223 | many years. | 多年来 |
| 224 | But here is something important I learned. | 但我学到了很重要的东西 |
| 225 | Mistakes are not your enemy. | 错误不是你的敌人。 |
| 226 | Mistakes | 错误 |
| 227 | are your teacher. | 是你的老师 |
| 228 | Every time you make a mistake and someone gently corrects you, your brain learns | 每次你犯错 有人轻轻纠正你 你的大脑就会学会 |
| 229 | something new. | 新的东西。 |
| 230 | The problem is not making mistakes. | 问题不是犯错。 |
| 231 | The problem is being too afraid to try at all. | 问题在于太害怕,根本不敢尝试。 |
| 232 | Let me continue my story. | 让我继续我的故事。 |
| 233 | When I was about 15 years old, something difficult happened in my | 15岁左右,我遇到了一些困难 |
| 234 | life. | 活着 |
| 235 | My father lost his job. | 我父亲失业了 |
| 236 | Lost his job means he no longer had work, no longer had income, | 失去工作意味着他不再有工作 不再有收入 |
| 237 | no longer had money coming into the family. | 不再有钱进入家庭。 |
| 238 | This was a very hard time for my family. | 这对我的家人来说是非常艰难的 |
| 239 | We had very | 我们有非常 |
| 240 | little money. | 小钱。 |
| 241 | We could not buy new books. | 我们不能买新书 |
| 242 | We could not buy new clothes. | 我们不能买新衣服。 |
| 243 | Life became very difficult. | 生活变得非常困难。 |
| 244 | During this hard time, I almost stopped learning English completely. | 在这困难时期,我几乎完全停止学习英语. |
| 245 | I thought, | 我以为 |
| 246 | what is the point? | 有什么意义? |
| 247 | My family needs money, not English stories. | 我的家人需要钱 不是英国故事 |
| 248 | I felt guilty. | 我觉得内疚 |
| 249 | Guilty means | 有罪意味着 |
| 250 | feeling bad about something you think you should not be doing. | 对你认为不该做的事感到难过 |
| 251 | I felt guilty spending time reading | 我觉得很内疚 花时间看书 |
| 252 | stories when my family was struggling. | 我家人挣扎时的故事 |
| 253 | Struggling means having a very hard time, fighting against | 挣扎意味着有非常困难的时期,对抗 |
| 254 | difficulty. | 困难 |
| 255 | But one evening, something happened that changed everything again. | 但是有一天晚上 发生了一些事情 改变了一切 |
| 256 | I was sitting | 我坐着 |
| 257 | outside my house. | 在我家门外 |
| 258 | The sun was setting. | 太阳下山了。 |
| 259 | Setting means going down, disappearing behind the mountains. | 设定意味着下山 消失在山后 |
| 260 | I was feeling very sad. | 我感到非常难过。 |
| 261 | My mother came and sat next to me. | 我母亲过来坐在我旁边 |
| 262 | She did not say anything for a long time. | 她很久没说什么了 |
| 263 | We just sat together in silence. | 我们只是默默地坐在一起 |
| 264 | Silence means no sound at all. | 寂灭意为无声. |
| 265 | Just quiet. | 只是安静。 |
| 266 | Finally, she spoke. | 最后,她说话。 |
| 267 | She said, I know things are difficult right now, but difficult times do not last forever. | 她说,我知道事情是困难的 现在,但困难的时代不会永远。 |
| 268 | And the things you learn now, nobody can take away from you. | 而现在你学到的东西, 没有人可以夺走你。 |
| 269 | Not even hard times. | 甚至没有困难的时候。 |
| 270 | She paused, | 她停下来, |
| 271 | and then she said something I will remember my whole life. | 然后她说了些我一辈子都会记得的事 |
| 272 | She said, your English stories, | 她说,你的英语故事, |
| 273 | your small stories, they are like seeds. | 你的小故事, 它们就像种子。 |
| 274 | Seeds means the small things you plant that grow into | 种子是指你种的小东西 生长成 |
| 275 | something bigger later. | 晚点再吃 |
| 276 | Keep planting your seeds, even during hard times. | 继续播种 即使在困难时期 |
| 277 | One day, they will grow. | 有一天,它们会长大。 |
| 278 | I did not fully understand her words that evening, but I never forgot them. | 我当时不完全理解她的话 但我从来没有忘记过 |
| 279 | And many years later, | 许多年后, |
| 280 | I finally understood what she meant. | 我终于明白她的意思了 |
| 281 | Let me tell you what happened next in my story. | 让我告诉你接下来发生了什么 |
| 282 | Even during the hard times, I continued to read small stories whenever I could. | 即使在困难时期,我仍然尽可能地读小故事。 |
| 283 | I read during | 我读的时候 |
| 284 | breaks at school. | 在学校休息。 |
| 285 | I read before sleeping. | 我在睡觉前看书 |
| 286 | I read whenever I found a few minutes of free time. | 我每次找到几分钟的空闲时间都会看 |
| 287 | Free time means time when you have nothing else you need to do. | 空闲时间意味着你没有别的事要做的时候. |
| 288 | Three years passed. | 三年过. |
| 289 | I was 18 years | 我那时才18岁 |
| 290 | old now. | 现在老了。 |
| 291 | My family's situation had improved a little. | 我家的情况稍有好转. |
| 292 | My father found new work. | 我父亲找到了新工作 |
| 293 | We were not rich, | 我们不有钱, |
| 294 | but we were stable. | 但我们是稳定的。 |
| 295 | Stable means steady, not changing too much in a good situation. | 稳定意味着稳定,在良好的情况下不会改变太多。 |
| 296 | One day, an opportunity came. | 有一天,机会来了。 |
| 297 | Opportunity means a chance to do something good, a chance for | 机会意味着做好事的机会 机会 |
| 298 | something positive to happen. | 某事会发生。 |
| 299 | A foreign company was opening in my city. | 一家外国公司正在我市开业 |
| 300 | They needed workers who | 他们需要工人 |
| 301 | could speak some English. | 可以说一些英语。 |
| 302 | Not perfect English, just basic communication skills. | 不是完美的英语,只是基本的交流技巧。 |
| 303 | Basic means simple, | 基本意味着简单, |
| 304 | the most important and necessary parts. | 最重要的和必要的部分。 |
| 305 | I remember the interview very clearly. | 我清楚地记得那次采访 |
| 306 | I was so nervous. | 我很紧张。 |
| 307 | My hands were cold. | 我的手很凉 |
| 308 | My heart was beating fast. | 我的心跳得很快。 |
| 309 | The interviewer asked me simple | 采访员问我很简单 |
| 310 | questions in English. | 英文问题。 |
| 311 | Tell me about yourself. | 说说你自己 |
| 312 | What do you like to do? | 你喜欢做什么? |
| 313 | Why do you want this job? | 你为什么想要这份工作? |
| 314 | And here is something amazing. | 这是一件令人惊奇的事。 |
| 315 | I could answer, not perfectly. | 我可以回答,不完美。 |
| 316 | My grammar was not perfect. | 我的语法并不完美。 |
| 317 | и | |
| 318 | accent was not perfect. | 口音并不完美。 |
| 319 | But I could communicate. | 但我能沟通 |
| 320 | I could tell my story. | 我可以讲我的故事。 |
| 321 | All those years of reading | 这么多年的阅读 |
| 322 | simple stories, all those years of practising simple sentences, they had prepared me for | 简单的故事, 这么多年的练习 简单的句子, 他们给我准备了 |
| 323 | this moment. | 此时此刻 |
| 324 | I got the job. | 我得到了这份工作。 |
| 325 | It was a simple job at first. | 一开始这工作很简单 |
| 326 | Simple means not complicated, | 简单意味着不复杂, |
| 327 | not difficult to do, but it was the beginning of something important. | 不难做,但这是重要事情的开始。 |
| 328 | It was the beginning of | 这是开始 |
| 329 | using English in real life, not just in a textbook. | 在现实生活中使用英语,而不只是在教科书中. |
| 330 | Do you understand now what my mother | 你现在明白我母亲是什么了吗? |
| 331 | meant about seeds? | 说种子? |
| 332 | The simple stories I read for years, when I was just a child trying to understand | 我读了好几年的简单故事 当我还是个孩子时 试图理解 |
| 333 | I have a small dog, those simple stories were seeds. | 我有一条小狗 那些简单的故事是种子 |
| 334 | And finally, years later, those seeds grew | 最后,数年后,这些种子逐渐生长 |
| 335 | into something real. | 变成真实的东西。 |
| 336 | A job opportunity. | 工作机会 |
| 337 | A chance for a better life. | 一个更好的生活的机会。 |
| 338 | I want to pause here and ask | 我想暂停一下,问 |
| 339 | you another question. | 又一个问题 |
| 340 | What seeds are you planting right now? | 你现在种什么种子? |
| 341 | Maybe you are reading this story today. | 也许你今天在读这个故事 |
| 342 | Maybe you understand most of it. | 也许你能理解大部分 |
| 343 | Or maybe you understand only some of it. | 或许你只懂其中一部分 |
| 344 | Either way, you are | 不管怎样,你是 |
| 345 | planting a seed today. | 今天种一个种子。 |
| 346 | You may not see the result today, or tomorrow, or even next month. | 你可能今天、明天、甚至下个月都看不到结果。 |
| 347 | But like | 但喜欢 |
| 348 | my mother said, the seeds you plant do not disappear. | 我妈妈说 你种的种子不会消失 |
| 349 | They grow slowly, quietly, until one day you wake | 他们慢慢地悄悄地成长 直到有一天你醒来 |
| 350 | up and realise you can understand things you never thought you could understand. | 并意识到你能理解一些你从未想过能理解的事情。 |
| 351 | Let me continue my | 让我继续我的 |
| 352 | story a little more, because there are still important lessons to share with you. | 故事多一点 因为还有重要的教训要和你们分享 |
| 353 | After I got | 之后,我得到了 |
| 354 | that job, my English continued to grow. | 那个工作,我的英语继续增长。 |
| 355 | Not because I suddenly became a genius. | 不是因为我突然成了天才 |
| 356 | Genius means someone | 天才是指一个人 |
| 357 | with extremely high intelligence. | 与极高的智力。 |
| 358 | I am not a genius. | 我不是一个天才。 |
| 359 | I am just someone who continued practising, | 我只是一个继续练习的人, |
| 360 | slowly, story by story, sentence by sentence. | 慢慢地,故事逐个讲,句子逐个讲. |
| 361 | At my job I met colleagues from different countries. | 在我的工作上,我会见了不同国家的同事。 |
| 362 | Colleagues means people you work with. | 同事是指和你合作的人 |
| 363 | Some colleagues spoke perfect English. | 有些同事会说完美的英语. |
| 364 | Some colleagues, | 一些同事, |
| 365 | like me, were still learning. | 像我一样,还在学习 |
| 366 | I remember feeling embarrassed sometimes when I made mistakes in | 我记得有时候我犯错时感到尴尬 |
| 367 | front of colleagues who spoke better English than me. | 面对那些说英语比我好的同事 |
| 368 | Embarrassed means feeling shy or uncomfortable | 尴尬意味着感到害羞或不舒服 |
| 369 | because of a mistake or a situation. | 因为错误或情况。 |
| 370 | But one colleague, his name does not matter, taught me | 但有个同事,他的名字不重要,教我 |
| 371 | something very important. | 一件很重要的事 很重要的一件东西 |
| 372 | One day, after I made a small mistake in English during a meeting, | 有一天,在一次会面中我犯了一个小错误 |
| 373 | I apologised many times. | 我道歉过很多次。 |
| 374 | I said, I am sorry, my English is not good. | 我说,对不起,我的英语不好。 |
| 375 | He looked at me kindly and | 他温柔地看着我 |
| 376 | said, your English is not perfect, but it is good enough to communicate with me right now. | 说,你的英语不完美, 但是它已经足够好 现在与我沟通。 |
| 377 | And that is what matters most. | 这才是最重要的。 |
| 378 | Perfect English does not exist. | 完美的英语并不存在。 |
| 379 | Useful English does exist. | 有用的英语的确存在. |
| 380 | I think about these words often. | 我经常想这些话 |
| 381 | Useful means something that helps you, | 有用的东西 帮助你, |
| 382 | something practical, something you can actually use in your life. | 一些实用的东西, 一些你可以实际使用在你的生活中。 |
| 383 | Many English learners spend | 许多英语学习者花费 |
| 384 | so much time trying to be perfect that they forget the real goal. | 想要完美 却忘记了真正的目标 |
| 385 | The real goal is not perfection. | 真正的目标不是完美的。 |
| 386 | The real goal is communication. | 真正的目标是沟通。 |
| 387 | The real goal is connection with other people. | 真正的目标是与其他人的联系. |
| 388 | This is why I believe simple stories are so powerful. | 这就是为什么我认为简单的故事是如此强大。 |
| 389 | Simple stories teach you useful English, | 简单的故事教你有用的英语, |
| 390 | not perfect English. | 不是完美的英语。 |
| 391 | Simple stories teach you to communicate, to understand, | 简单的故事教你沟通 理解 |
| 392 | to connect with other people, even if you make small mistakes along the way. | 即使你一路犯小错 也要和其他人联系 |
| 393 | Let me share another part of my story with you. | 让我告诉你我的故事的另一部分 |
| 394 | As the years passed, I continued to grow in my | 几年过去了,我继续成长 |
| 395 | career. | 职业。 |
| 396 | Career means your job, your professional life over time. | 职业意味着你的工作,你的职业生活随时间推移。 |
| 397 | I started reading more advanced | 我开始读更高级的 |
| 398 | stories. | 故事 故事 故事 故事 故事 故事 |
| 399 | I started watching simple videos in English. | 我开始看英语的简单视频。 |
| 400 | I started listening to people | 我开始听人说话 |
| 401 | speaking English, even when I did not understand every single word. | 说英语, 即使我不明白每个词。 |
| 402 | This is something important | 这很重要 |
| 403 | I want to teach you. | 我想教你们 |
| 404 | You do not need to understand 100% of what you hear or read. | 你不需要百分之百理解你听到或读的东西。 |
| 405 | Even understanding 50% or even 30% is valuable. | 即使了解50%甚至30%也是有价值的。 |
| 406 | Every time you understand even a small part, | 每当你理解一点点, |
| 407 | your brain is learning. | 你的大脑在学习。 |
| 408 | Your brain is connecting pieces together, slowly building a bigger picture. | 你的大脑正在连接片段, 慢慢地建立一个更大的画面。 |
| 409 | I remember watching an English video once, very early in my learning journey. | 我记得我看过一次英语视频, 在我学习的路上非常早。 |
| 410 | I understood maybe 20% of the words, just 20%. | 我大概听懂20%的词,只有20%。 |
| 411 | I felt frustrated. | 我感到沮丧。 |
| 412 | Frustrated means feeling annoyed | 失意就是觉得烦恼 |
| 413 | or upset because something is difficult or not going well. | 或难过,因为有些事情是困难的 或不顺利。 |
| 414 | I wanted to give up and stop watching. | 我想放弃和停止观看。 |
| 415 | But I remembered my mother's words about seeds. | 但我记得我妈妈关于种子的话 |
| 416 | I remembered my uncle's small book. | 我记得叔叔的小书 |
| 417 | I remembered the feeling of understanding my very first sentence. | 我记得理解我第一句的感觉。 |
| 418 | I have a small dog. | 我有一个小狗。 |
| 419 | So I continued watching. | 所以我继续观察。 |
| 420 | Not just that day, but many days after that. | 不只是那一天, 之后的很多天。 |
| 421 | Slowly, the 20% became 30%, then 40%. | 慢慢地,20%变成了30%,然后是40%。 |
| 422 | Then, after many months, I could understand most | 几个月后,我就能理解 |
| 423 | of what people were saying. | 人们所说的话。 |
| 424 | This process took time. | 这一过程需要时间。 |
| 425 | It was not instant. | 它不是瞬间。 |
| 426 | Instant means happening | 即刻发生 |
| 427 | immediately, right away, without waiting. | 马上,马上,不用等 |
| 428 | Learning a language is almost never instant. | 学习一种语言几乎从来不是瞬间。 |
| 429 | It happens slowly, like a plant growing from a seed. | 它发生缓慢,就像植物从种子中生长. |
| 430 | You water the seed every day, | 你每天给种子浇水 |
| 431 | you give it sunlight every day. | 你每天给它阳光。 |
| 432 | And one day, you look at it, and it has grown into something | 有一天,你看着它, 它已经发展成某种东西 |
| 433 | beautiful, something strong. | 漂亮 强壮的东西 |
| 434 | Now, let me tell you about a moment in my life that I consider | 现在,让我告诉你 我生命的一刻,我认为 |
| 435 | one of the most important moments of my whole story. | 我整个故事中最重要的时刻之一 |
| 436 | Several years after getting that first job, | 在得到第一份工作几年后, |
| 437 | I had the opportunity to travel to an English-speaking country for work. | 我有机会前往一个英语国家工作。 |
| 438 | This was a dream I never thought would become true when I was a young boy crying over a vocabulary | 我从小就为词汇哭泣 没想到会变成真的梦 |
| 439 | test. | 测试。 |
| 440 | I remember landing at the airport. | 我记得降落在机场。 |
| 441 | I remember hearing English everywhere around me. | 我记得我周围到处听到英语 |
| 442 | Real English, spoken by real people, at normal speed, with different accents. | 真正的英语,由真实的人说,以正常的速度,有不同的口音. |
| 443 | I felt scared again, | 我又觉得害怕了 |
| 444 | just like I felt scared as a child. | 就像小时候我感到害怕一样 |
| 445 | But this time, something was different. | 但这次有些事情不一样 |
| 446 | I had years of simple | 我有过多年的简单 |
| 447 | stories behind me. | 我身后的故事。 |
| 448 | I had years of practice behind me. | 我多年的练习 |
| 449 | I was not perfect, but I was prepared. | 我并不完美,但是我已经准备好了。 |
| 450 | During that trip, I had to communicate every single day in English. | 在那次旅行中,我不得不每天用英语交流。 |
| 451 | I had to order food. | 我不得不订购食物。 |
| 452 | I had to ask for directions. | 我得问路 |
| 453 | I had to have conversations with new people. | 我必须和新人谈话 |
| 454 | And here is something beautiful that happened. | 这里发生了一件美丽的事情。 |
| 455 | I realised I could do it, not perfectly, | 我意识到我可以做到这一点,不是完美的, |
| 456 | but successfully. | 但却成功 |
| 457 | I made mistakes, yes. | 我犯了错误,是的。 |
| 458 | People sometimes did not understand me perfectly, | 人们有时不完全理解我 |
| 459 | and I did not always understand them perfectly. | 我并不总是完全理解他们 |
| 460 | But we communicated. | 但我们沟通了 |
| 461 | We connected. | 我们互相联系了 |
| 462 | We understood | 我们明白 |
| 463 | each other, even with imperfections. | 彼此之间,即使不完美。 |
| 464 | One evening during that trip, I sat alone in my hotel room, | 有天晚上,我独自坐在酒店房间 |
| 465 | and I thought about my whole journey. | 我想了我的整个旅程。 |
| 466 | I thought about the crying boy who failed his vocabulary | 我想到那个哭的男孩 他的词汇失败了 |
| 467 | test. | 测试。 |
| 468 | I thought about the small book with ten pages that my uncle gave me. | 我想到了小书 和10页 我叔叔给我。 |
| 469 | I thought about my mother's words about seeds. | 思惟母说种子. |
| 470 | I thought about my colleague, who taught me that | 我想到我的同事,谁教我的 |
| 471 | useful English matters more than perfect English. | 有用的英语比完美的英语更重要。 |
| 472 | And I felt something very deep inside me. | 我内心深处有感觉 |
| 473 | I felt proud. | 我感到骄傲。 |
| 474 | Proud means feeling good about something you have achieved, | 骄傲意味着感觉好一些 你的成就, |
| 475 | something you have worked hard for. | 你为之付出的心血 |
| 476 | I want to ask you something important right now. | 我想问你一些重要的事 |
| 477 | Close your eyes for a moment if you can, or just pause your thoughts. | 闭上眼睛,如果你可以, 或者只是暂停你的想法。 |
| 478 | Imagine yourself | 想像一下你自己 想象一下你自己的样子 |
| 479 | many years from now, after years of practising English, after reading many simple stories like | 很多年后,经过多年的英语实践, 阅读了许多简单的故事,如 |
| 480 | this one. | 这个 |
| 481 | Imagine yourself communicating successfully in English, maybe at work, | 想象一下自己成功地用英语沟通 也许在工作上 |
| 482 | maybe while travelling, maybe just having a conversation with someone new. | 也许在旅行时 也许只是和新人谈话 |
| 483 | How does that | 怎么会这样 |
| 484 | feel? | 感觉? |
| 485 | Hold on to that feeling. | 坚持住这种感觉。 |
| 486 | That feeling is your motivation. | 那种感觉是你的动机。 |
| 487 | That feeling is your seed growing. | 这种感觉是你的种子生长。 |
| 488 | Now, I want to share some important lessons from my story, lessons that I believe can help you on | 现在,我想分享一些重要的经验教训 从我的故事, 我相信可以帮助你 |
| 489 | your own English learning journey. | 你自己的英语学习之旅。 |
| 490 | The first lesson is this. | 第一课是这个。 |
| 491 | Simple stories are more powerful | 简单的故事更有力 |
| 492 | than complicated grammar rules. | 比复杂的语法规则。 |
| 493 | When you read a simple story, your brain learns naturally, | 当你读一个简单的故事, 你的大脑自然学习, |
| 494 | the same way a child learns their first language. | 和孩子学习第一语言一样 |
| 495 | You do not need to understand every grammar rule | 你不需要理解每个语法规则 |
| 496 | to understand a story. | 要理解一个故事。 |
| 497 | You just need to follow the story, sentence by sentence, word by word, | 你只需要跟随故事,句子,字句, |
| 498 | slowly. | 慢慢来 |
| 499 | The second lesson is this. | 第二课是这个。 |
| 500 | Fear is often the biggest barrier to learning, | 恐惧往往是学习的最大障碍 |
| 501 | not your intelligence. | 不是你的情报 |
| 502 | Many people believe they are simply bad at languages. | 许多人认为他们只是对语言不好。 |
| 503 | But often, | 但经常 |
| 504 | the real problem is fear. | 真正的问题是恐惧。 |
| 505 | Fear of mistakes. | 怕犯错 |
| 506 | Fear of judgement. | 恐有决断. |
| 507 | When you remove fear and allow | 当你消除恐惧并允许 |
| 508 | yourself to make mistakes naturally, your learning becomes much faster and much more enjoyable. | 自己自然会犯错误 你的学习会更快 更令人愉快 |
| 509 | The third lesson is this. | 第三课是这个。 |
| 510 | Consistency matters more than perfection. | 一致性比完美更重要。 |
| 511 | I did not become better | 我没有变好 |
| 512 | at English in one day, one week, or even one month. | 在英语的一天,一个星期,甚至一个月。 |
| 513 | It took years of small, consistent practice. | 历经多年的小规模、一贯的做法。 |
| 514 | Reading a little bit every day is much more powerful than reading a lot one day and then | 一天读一点比一天多得多 |
| 515 | stopping for weeks. | 停止数周。 |
| 516 | The fourth lesson is this. | 第四课是这个. |
| 517 | Useful English is more valuable than perfect | 有用英语比完美更有价值 |
| 518 | English. | 英语。 |
| 519 | Do not wait until you speak perfectly to start communicating. | 不要等到你说话完美地开始交流 |
| 520 | Start communicating now | 开始沟通 |
| 521 | with the English you have today. | 今天的英语 |
| 522 | Perfection will come slowly, naturally, through practice. | 完美自然会慢慢地通过练习而来。 |
| 523 | But communication, real connection with other people, that can happen right now, today, | 但是,沟通,真正的联系 其他人,这是可以发生的 现在,今天, |
| 524 | even with imperfect English. | 即使是不完美的英语。 |
| 525 | The fifth lesson is this. | 第五课是这个. |
| 526 | Understanding even a small percentage is | 理解一个小百分比 |
| 527 | still valuable progress. | 仍然是宝贵的进展。 |
| 528 | You do not need to understand everything to benefit from listening | 你不需要了解所有东西 才能从倾听中受益 |
| 529 | or reading practice. | 或阅读练习。 |
| 530 | Even understanding 30%, 40%, 50% is building your skills. | 甚至30%,40%,50% 正在培养你的技能。 |
| 531 | Every small | 每个小 |
| 532 | piece of understanding adds up over time, just like small seeds growing into a strong tree. | 一点点的理解随着时间推移而增加 就像小种子生长成一棵强壮的树 |
| 533 | The sixth lesson, and maybe the most important one, is this. | 第六课,也许最重要的课,就是这个。 |
| 534 | Your story matters. | 你的故事很重要。 |
| 535 | Just like my | 就像我的一样 |
| 536 | simple story about a small dog helped me begin my journey, your own story, your own life, | 关于一只小狗的简单故事 让我开始我的旅程,你自己的故事,你自己的生活, |
| 537 | your own experiences, they can become your practice material too. | 他们也可以成为你的练习材料 |
| 538 | Try writing simple | 尝试简单的写法 |
| 539 | sentences about your own life. | 关于你自己的人生的句子。 |
| 540 | Try telling your own story in simple English. | 试着用简单的英语讲你自己的故事. |
| 541 | This personal | 这个人 |
| 542 | connection makes learning much more meaningful and much more memorable. | 联系使学习更有意义,更令人难忘。 |
| 543 | As I come to the end | 当我走到尽头 |
| 544 | of my story today, I want to remind you of something my mother told me many years ago, | 关于我今天的故事 我想提醒你一些事情 我妈妈几年前告诉我, |
| 545 | sitting outside our house as the sun was setting. | 坐在我们家外面太阳落山的时候 |
| 546 | She said that the things you learn cannot be taken | 她说你学的东西不能拿走 |
| 547 | away from you, even during difficult times. | 远离你,即使在困难时期。 |
| 548 | I believe this is true for you too. | 我相信这对你也是 |
| 549 | Whatever | 随便啦 |
| 550 | situation you are in right now, whatever difficulties you are facing, the English you | 你现在的处境 无论你面临什么困难 |
| 551 | are learning today, even through this simple story, is a seed. | 今天,即使通过这个简单的故事, 学习还是个种子。 |
| 552 | And like all seeds, with patience, | 像所有的种子一样,有耐心, |
| 553 | with consistency, and with care, it will grow. | 与一致, 和小心, 它会增长。 |
| 554 | I do not know your full story, I do not know where | 我不知道你的完整的故事, 我不知道在哪里 |
| 555 | you come from, what difficulties you have faced, or what dreams you are working toward, but I know | 你来自,你面临的困难, 或你正在努力的梦想, 但我知道 |
| 556 | this. | 这个 |
| 557 | If a young boy who once cried over a vocabulary test, who once felt stupid and hopeless | 如果一个曾经为词汇测试哭泣的男孩 曾经感到愚蠢和绝望 |
| 558 | about learning English, could eventually communicate successfully in English, travel internationally, | 关于学习英语, 最终能够成功地用英语沟通, 国际旅行, |
| 559 | and build a career using this language, then you can do it too. | 并用这种语言建立事业,然后你也可以做到这一点。 |
| 560 | Your story is just as powerful as | 你的故事也和 |
| 561 | mine, maybe even more powerful. | 我的,也许更强大。 |
| 562 | So here is my gentle invitation to you today, continue practicing | 今天我邀请你继续练习 |
| 563 | with simple stories just like this one. | 简单的故事就像这个。 |
| 564 | Do not rush, do not judge yourself too harshly when you make | 不要急,不要太苛刻地判断自己 当你做 |
| 565 | mistakes. | 错误。 |
| 566 | Remember that every sentence you understand, even partially, is a small seed | 记住,你所理解的每一个句子,即使是部分的句子,都是小种子 |
| 567 | planted in your mind. | 植入你的心灵。 |
| 568 | Water it with consistency. | 水与一致. |
| 569 | Give it sunlight with patience. | 耐心地给它阳光 |
| 570 | And trust that, | 相信这一点, |
| 571 | just like my story, your story of learning English will continue to grow, one simple story at a time. | 就像我的故事一样 你学习英语的故事会继续增长 一次一个简单的故事 |
| 572 | Thank you for spending this time with me today, listening to my story, practicing your English | 谢谢你今天陪我 听我讲故事 练习英语 |
| 573 | with patience and an open heart. | 以坚忍和开阔的心。 |
| 574 | I hope you return again soon for another simple story, | 我希望你很快再回来 找另一个简单的故事 |
| 575 | another small step on your journey toward fluency and confidence. | 在你走向流利和自信的旅程中又迈出了一小步。 |
| 576 | Until then, take care of yourself, | 在那之前 照顾好自己 |
| 577 | be gentle with your own learning process, and remember, you only need to understand one small | 温柔地对待自己的学习过程, 记住,你只需要理解一个小 |
| 578 | story today. | 今天的故事。 |
| 579 | Just one. | 只有一个 |
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