通过母语者的真实故事学英语 | A1–B2 听力练习
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | Do you wanna start thinking in English faster | 你想用英语开始思考吗? |
| 0:03 | instead of translating everything in your head? | 而不是翻译你脑子里的一切? |
| 0:07 | In this video, you are gonna shadow a real story | 在这段视频中,你会 阴影一个真实的故事 |
| 0:10 | written the way native English speakers actually talk. | 写着讲英语的原住民说话方式 |
| 0:15 | This helps you connect English words | 帮助您连接英语单词 |
| 0:17 | directly to the meaning. | 直接到意义。 |
| 0:19 | So your brain starts processing English faster | 所以,你的大脑 开始处理英语更快 |
| 0:23 | and more naturally. | 更自然一点 |
| 0:25 | Shadowing also improves your pronunciation, | 影射也改善了你的读音, |
| 0:28 | rhythm, accent, listening, and speaking | 节奏、口音、听、说话 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do you wanna start thinking in English faster | 你想用英语开始思考吗? |
| 2 | instead of translating everything in your head? | 而不是翻译你脑子里的一切? |
| 3 | In this video, you are gonna shadow a real story | 在这段视频中,你会 阴影一个真实的故事 |
| 4 | written the way native English speakers actually talk. | 写着讲英语的原住民说话方式 |
| 5 | This helps you connect English words | 帮助您连接英语单词 |
| 6 | directly to the meaning. | 直接到意义。 |
| 7 | So your brain starts processing English faster | 所以,你的大脑 开始处理英语更快 |
| 8 | and more naturally. | 更自然一点 |
| 9 | Shadowing also improves your pronunciation, | 影射也改善了你的读音, |
| 10 | rhythm, accent, listening, and speaking | 节奏、口音、听、说话 |
| 11 | because you are copying real English in real time. | 因为你正在实时复制真正的英语。 |
| 12 | And since this is a story, | 既然这是个故事 |
| 13 | you'll also learn new vocabulary, natural expressions, | 你也会学习新的词汇 自然表达 |
| 14 | and sentence patterns | 和句子图案 |
| 15 | that native English speakers actually use. | 当地英语的使用者 |
| 16 | So don't just watch, read with me. | 所以不要只是看, 和我一起读书。 |
| 17 | Shadow out loud and train your brain | 高声影射出你的大脑 |
| 18 | to think in English from start to finish. | 从头到尾用英语思考 |
| 19 | Let's begin. | 让我们开始。 |
| 20 | I'm either a hole for taking a job | 我要么找份工作,要么就当个洞 |
| 21 | that conflicted with my best friend's wedding | 这和我最好的朋友的婚礼有冲突 |
| 22 | after he refused to compromise on unreasonable demands. | 在他拒绝不合理的要求妥协之后 |
| 23 | As you shadow me, I want you guys to remember | 你们跟踪我时,我要你们记住 |
| 24 | what you're reading and what you're shadowing | 你在读什么,你在跟踪什么 |
| 25 | because at the end, I will ask you to summarize | 因为到最后,我会请你总结一下 |
| 26 | what we just read and take a video of yourself | 我们刚刚读到的 并拍下你的视频 |
| 27 | giving the summary so you can watch it back at a later date. | 提供摘要,以便你以后再看。 |
| 28 | Throughout the video, you will also see words | 整个视频,你也会看到文字 |
| 29 | flash on screen that you should try to learn | 在屏幕上闪烁, 您应该尝试学习 |
| 30 | if you don't already know them. | 如果你还没有认识他们。 |
| 31 | These are part of my 3,000 Most Common English Words series | 这些是我三千个最普通的英语词汇系列的一部分 |
| 32 | designed to help you understand up to 95% of spoken English. | 帮助你理解95%的英语 |
| 33 | If you wanna get the PDF with all 3,000 words | 如果你想得到PDF 全部3000个字 |
| 34 | with definitions and real examples, | 定义和真实实例, |
| 35 | then get it in the description. | 然后在描述中得到它。 |
| 36 | Let's continue. | 让我们继续。 |
| 37 | Using a throwaway, obviously. | 很明显是用丢弃的 |
| 38 | So my best friend got engaged about a year ago | 我最好的朋友约一年前订婚了 |
| 39 | and asked me to be a groomsman. | 叫我当新郎 |
| 40 | I said yes immediately because that's what you do. | 我马上答应了,因为你就是这么做的 |
| 41 | We've known each other since like middle school | 我们从中学就认识了 |
| 42 | and I was genuinely excited. | 我真的很兴奋 |
| 43 | But then planning started and it got weird. | 但后来计划开始了,结果变得很奇怪. |
| 44 | His fiance, who I've never been super close with, | 他的未婚夫,我从来没有 超级亲密, |
| 45 | started making all these demands | 开始提出所有这些要求 |
| 46 | about what the groomsman needed to do. | 关于新郎需要做什么 |
| 47 | Custom shirts, specific haircuts, | 定制的衬衫,特定的发型, |
| 48 | mandatory bachelor party at her chosen location, | 强制单身派对 在她选择的地点, |
| 49 | contributions to things I've never agreed to. | 为我从未同意的事做出贡献 |
| 50 | It was getting expensive and honestly kind of controlling. | 它越来越昂贵 诚实的控制。 |
| 51 | I mentioned to my friend | 我跟我朋友说过 |
| 52 | that some of the stuff seemed excessive. | 有些东西看起来太过分了 |
| 53 | Like I get wanting your wedding to look nice | 就像我想你的婚礼看起来不错一样 |
| 54 | but requiring specific haircuts felt over the line. | 但需要特别的理发 感觉过线。 |
| 55 | He just said, it's not that big a deal. | 他刚刚说,这没什么大不了的。 |
| 56 | Come on and shut down the conversation. | 来吧,关闭谈话。 |
| 57 | That's when I kind of started pulling back emotionally | 那时我开始情绪化 |
| 58 | from the whole thing. | 从整个事情。 |
| 59 | Fast forward to about three months before the wedding | 快速前进到约三个月前的婚礼 |
| 60 | and I got a new job offer | 我得到了一个新的工作机会 |
| 61 | that required me to relocate for like two weeks of training | 那需要我搬家训练两周 |
| 62 | right before the wedding. | 就在婚礼之前 |
| 63 | I told him immediately | 我马上告诉他了 |
| 64 | and said I'd try to reschedule it or work something out. | 并说,我会尝试 重新安排时间或解决一些事情。 |
| 65 | He lost it. | 他弄丢了 |
| 66 | Started saying I was abandoning him | 开始说我抛弃了他 |
| 67 | and that real friends would just turn down the job. | 真正的朋友会拒绝工作 |
| 68 | I reminded him that I need to actually have a career | 我提醒他,我需要真正的事业 |
| 69 | and that I was still going to be there for the wedding. | 我仍然会去参加婚礼 |
| 70 | Here's the thing though. | 事情是这样的 |
| 71 | I could have tried harder to reschedule. | 我本可以更努力地重新安排时间的 |
| 72 | I didn't really push back with my new employer | 我其实没有和新雇主推后 |
| 73 | because honestly I was kind of | 因为说实话,我有点 |
| 74 | over the whole wedding stress at that point. | 在婚礼上的压力。 |
| 75 | I think subconsciously I wanted an out. | 我潜意识地想出去 |
| 76 | His fiance apparently told him | 他的未婚夫显然告诉他了 |
| 77 | it was suspicious timing and that I was being selfish. | 这是可疑的时机 而我很自私 |
| 78 | My friend basically told me I was either fully committed | 我朋友基本上告诉我 我要么全心全意 |
| 79 | or not committed at all. | 或根本没有犯罪 |
| 80 | I ended up keeping the job training and going | 我最后还是继续工作训练 |
| 81 | but I told him I'd only make it back | 但我告诉他我只会回来 |
| 82 | the day before the wedding. | 婚礼前一天 |
| 83 | That meant I couldn't go to the rehearsal dinner | 那表示我不能去排练晚餐 |
| 84 | or the bachelor party. | 或者单身派对 |
| 85 | He said that was unacceptable | 他说这是不可接受的 |
| 86 | and that if I couldn't be there for everything | 如果我不能为一切而去 |
| 87 | then I shouldn't be in the wedding at all. | 那我就不该参加婚礼了 |
| 88 | So I got dropped as a groomsman | 所以,我被抛弃 作为一个新郎 |
| 89 | like a week before the wedding. | 就像婚礼前一周一样 |
| 90 | I was upset but also kind of relieved. | 我很难过,但也有点松了一口气 |
| 91 | Get my 3,000 most common English words PDF | 拿我的3000个最常用的英语单词 PDF |
| 92 | and learn the words that will help you understand | 并学会那些能帮助你理解的话语 |
| 93 | up to 95% of everyday English. | 高达每日英语的95%. |
| 94 | It includes real definitions, | 它包括真实的定义, |
| 95 | real example sentences for every meaning | 真实的示例句子 |
| 96 | and everything is organized by CEFR level | 所有东西都由CEFR级别组织 |
| 97 | and topic. | 和话题。 |
| 98 | Click the link in the description to get it. | 点击描述中的链接获取它 。 |
| 99 | Which tells me something about how I was feeling | 这告诉我一些关于我的感受 |
| 100 | about the whole thing. | 关于整个事情。 |
| 101 | Now a few months later he's still mad at me. | 几个月后他还在生我的气 |
| 102 | He says I chose a job over my best friend. | 他说我选择了工作而不是我最好的朋友 |
| 103 | I say he chose his fiance's demands over our friendship. | 我说他选择未婚夫的要求 而不是我们的友谊 |
| 104 | My other friends are split. | 我的其他朋友都分开了 |
| 105 | Some say I should have just turned down the job. | 有人说我本该拒绝的 |
| 106 | Others say the wedding demands were unreasonable | 别人说婚礼的要求不合理 |
| 107 | and he was being controlling about it. | 他正在控制着它。 |
| 108 | The thing is I could have handled this better. | 问题是,我本可以处理得更好 |
| 109 | I could have been more honest about feeling uncomfortable | 我本可以更诚实地说 觉得不舒服 |
| 110 | instead of just pulling back. | 而不是只是拉回来。 |
| 111 | And yeah, I definitely could have tried harder | 是的,我绝对可以更努力 |
| 112 | with the job thing | 与工作的东西 |
| 113 | but he also could have been more flexible | 但他本可以更灵活些 |
| 114 | and reasonable about what he was asking of me. | 他对我的要求很合理 |
| 115 | Am I the a-hole? | 我是一个洞? |
| 116 | So before I give my opinion we have an update | 所以在我发表意见之前 我们有最新消息 |
| 117 | but I would like to say some things. | 但我想说一些事情。 |
| 118 | If it was me and it was my wedding | 如果是我 也是我的婚礼 |
| 119 | I would not want my friends to turn down a job offer | 我不希望我的朋友拒绝工作 |
| 120 | that would advance their career just for my wedding. | 这会促进他们的事业 只为我的婚礼。 |
| 121 | I understand a wedding is important | 我知道婚礼很重要 |
| 122 | but we're talking about his entire life. | 但我们是在谈论他的一生 |
| 123 | He's still gonna be there on the wedding day | 婚礼那天他还在那里 |
| 124 | and that's more than enough. | 这已经足够了 |
| 125 | I don't need him to ruin his life for one day | 我不需要他毁了他一天的生活 |
| 126 | because it's my wedding. | 因为这是我的婚礼。 |
| 127 | That is unreasonable. | 这不合理。 |
| 128 | Major update. | 主要更新。 |
| 129 | Things got worse, not better. | 事情变得更糟,不是更好。 |
| 130 | I decided to actually call him | 我决定给他打电话 |
| 131 | instead of waiting for next week. | 而不是等待下周。 |
| 132 | Figured I'd strike while the iron was hot | 我估计趁热打铁 |
| 133 | since I was feeling like maybe | 因为我觉得也许 |
| 134 | we could actually talk about this. | 我们可以谈谈这个 |
| 135 | He answered and seemed kind of cold right off the bat. | 他回答,似乎有点冷 球棒。 |
| 136 | I started by apologizing for checking out | 我开始道歉 退房 |
| 137 | and not being honest with him | 而不对他诚实 |
| 138 | about how stressed the wedding stuff was making me. | 关于婚礼的事让我很紧张 |
| 139 | I thought that would open things up. | 我想那会打开东西。 |
| 140 | Instead he said, yeah, well, | 相反,他说,是的,嗯, |
| 141 | you've been posting about this on Reddit, haven't you? | 你在Reddit上贴过这个吧? |
| 142 | His wife apparently saw a thread | 他老婆显然看到一条线 |
| 143 | that sounded like it could be us and showed it to him. | 听起来可能是我们 给他看了 |
| 144 | And now he's pissed. | 现在他生气了 |
| 145 | He's saying I'm airing dirty laundry online | 他说我在网上播脏衣服 |
| 146 | for strangers to judge him and his wife | 让陌生人审判他和他的妻子 |
| 147 | that I'm trying to make her look bad. | 我试图让她看起来很糟糕。 |
| 148 | I literally don't even know how she found it. | 我甚至不知道她是怎么发现的 |
| 149 | It was only up for like an hour before I called him. | 我给他打电话前只有一小时 |
| 150 | The post just went up. | 邮递员刚上岗 |
| 151 | I'm pretty sure I didn't leave any obvious details | 我敢肯定,我没有留下任何明显的细节 |
| 152 | that would lead back to us. | 那会带回我们 |
| 153 | But either she recognized stuff | 但要么她认出来的东西 |
| 154 | or someone in our friend group figured it out and told them. | 或者我们的朋友组里有人想通并告诉他们 |
| 155 | Either way, it feels like a violation. | 不管怎么样,这感觉就像违反。 |
| 156 | I tried to explain that I used a throwaway | 我试图解释,我用一个丢弃 |
| 157 | and kept things vague, but he wasn't hearing it. | 和保持事物模糊, 但他没有听到它。 |
| 158 | He said if I'm willing to post about our friendship online, | 他说如果我愿意在网上发表我们的友谊 |
| 159 | then clearly I don't actually value the friendship. | 很明显,我并不重视这种友谊 |
| 160 | He told me not to contact him again | 他叫我不要再联系他 |
| 161 | and blocked me on everything. | 挡住了我的一切。 |
| 162 | His wife apparently also texted some of the other groomsmen | 他的妻子还给其他新郎发了短信 |
| 163 | saying I'm trash talking them online, | 说我是垃圾 谈论在线, |
| 164 | which obviously isn't great for my reputation | 这显然对我名声不好 |
| 165 | in the friend group. | 在朋友团体。 |
| 166 | So yeah, the opposite of reconciliation happened. | 所以,是的,相反的和解发生了。 |
| 167 | I'm actually furious right now | 我现在真的很生气 |
| 168 | because I came to Reddit to process my feelings | 因为我来Reddit是为了处理我的感受 |
| 169 | and now it's literally destroyed | 现在它被彻底摧毁了 |
| 170 | what was left of the friendship. | 剩下的友谊。 |
| 171 | I don't know if I should have told him | 我不知道我该不该告诉他 |
| 172 | or if I should have just kept it to myself. | 或者我应该一直保密 |
| 173 | I genuinely don't know what to do now. | 我现在真的不知道该怎么办了 |
| 174 | Yeah, that's kind of like a risk you always run | 是啊,你总是这样冒险 |
| 175 | by posting stuff like this online | 在网上发布这样的信息 |
| 176 | because even if you make it like anonymous | 因为即使你做它像匿名 |
| 177 | and don't put names or you put fake names or something, | 不要写名字 或者你写假名字什么的 |
| 178 | the details still are similar. | 细节仍然相似。 |
| 179 | So someone can always be like, | 所以有人可以永远是这样, |
| 180 | oh, they're talking about me or this is me. | 哦,他们在谈论我 或者这就是我。 |
| 181 | But the fact that they found that within an hour | 但事实上,他们发现在一个小时内 |
| 182 | is kind of crazy. | 有点疯狂 |
| 183 | Maybe they were expecting it to be posted on Reddit. | 也许他们想把它贴在Reddit上 |
| 184 | I don't know. | 师曰. |
| 185 | But overall, I don't necessarily think | 但总而言之,我不认为 |
| 186 | you did anything wrong. | 你做错了什么。 |
| 187 | I think your friend is just upset | 我觉得你的朋友只是不高兴 |
| 188 | because he probably read the comments | 因为他可能读了评论 |
| 189 | and saw that him and his wife were in the wrong | 并且看见他和他的妻子在迷误中, |
| 190 | and they were being very controlling | 他们非常控制 |
| 191 | and they seemed like the problem. | 他们似乎有问题 |
| 192 | So that's probably why he was upset. | 所以也许这就是他生气的原因 |
| 193 | Like I said in the beginning, | 正如我一开始所说, |
| 194 | I want you guys to take out your phone | 我要你们把手机拿出来 |
| 195 | and record yourself giving a quick summary, | 并记录自己 一个简短的总结, |
| 196 | maybe one or two sentences of the story | 也许故事的一两句 |
| 197 | you just read. | 你只是读。 |
| 198 | Onto the next. | 接下来 |
| 199 | Am I the a-hole for telling a funny story | 我是说一个有趣的故事的洞 |
| 200 | at a wedding about the bride? | 在婚礼上谈新娘的事? |
| 201 | This happened a couple of weeks ago, | 这发生在几个星期前, |
| 202 | but I am still reeling from it | 但我还是从它中回转 |
| 203 | and want to know if I was being an a-hole. | 想知道我是不是个混蛋 |
| 204 | Me, 30 male, and my friend, 30 female, | 我,30个男性,我的朋友,30个女性 |
| 205 | who I'll call Colleen, have known each other | 我打给科琳 认识他 |
| 206 | since we were kids. | 自从我们还是孩子。 |
| 207 | Her family is deeply Catholic, | 她的家人很虔诚 |
| 208 | but she isn't nearly as religious. | 但她没有那么虔诚 |
| 209 | Important later. | 重要以后。 |
| 210 | Years ago, she met a guy, I'll call him Mike, | 几年前,她遇到了一个男人, 我会叫他迈克, |
| 211 | and they became committed. | 他们就变成有决心的。 |
| 212 | I met him and got along great with him | 我遇见他,和他相处得很好 |
| 213 | and the three of us hung out a lot. | 我们三个经常在一起 |
| 214 | So he proposed and they held a big wedding. | 于是他求婚,他们举行了一场盛大的婚礼. |
| 215 | The actual wedding came and went | 真正的婚礼来了又走了 |
| 216 | and at the reception afterwards, | 之后在招待会上, |
| 217 | some of us were giving speeches. | 我们有些人在演讲。 |
| 218 | I went up and told them how happy I was for them | 我上去告诉他们我为他们感到多幸福 |
| 219 | and decided to tell the audience | 决定告诉观众 |
| 220 | about some of our experiences in college together. | 我们一起上大学的一些经历 |
| 221 | Ooh, this can go really bad. | 哦,这可能会非常糟糕。 |
| 222 | I hope this guy isn't clueless | 我希望这家伙不是无稽之谈 |
| 223 | and doesn't say any really personal stories | 并且不说任何真正的个人故事 |
| 224 | that they would obviously not want other people to know, | 他们显然不希望别人知道, |
| 225 | but by the sounds of it, he's probably going to do that. | 但从它的声音来看, 他可能会做到这一点。 |
| 226 | That's just my guess. | 这只是我的猜测。 |
| 227 | To summarize, my speech, it went something like | 总结一下,我的演讲, 它去的东西像 |
| 228 | when me and Colleen went to college together, | 当我和科琳一起上大学时 |
| 229 | Colleen let loose and changed completely from her days | 柯琳松了口气 彻底改变了过去 |
| 230 | at Catholic school, but then she met Mike | 在天主教学校, 但她后来遇到了迈克 |
| 231 | and it seemed like he calmed her down. | 看来他让她冷静下来了 |
| 232 | I'm happy for them and wish them much success. | 我为他们感到高兴,并祝他们成功。 |
| 233 | The thing is, it's probably true, that's why he said it. | 问题是,这可能是真的, 这就是为什么他说。 |
| 234 | He must know what he was doing by saying that | 他必须知道自己在做什么 说: |
| 235 | because if their family is extremely Catholic | 因为如果他们的家庭是极端的天主教徒 |
| 236 | and then you say this at their wedding, that she let loose, | 然后你在他们的婚礼上说, 她松绑, |
| 237 | then that just implies one thing. | 那就意味着一件事 |
| 238 | I feel like he definitely knew what he was doing. | 我觉得他肯定知道他在做什么 |
| 239 | The husband also has a right to know what she did, | 丈夫也有权知道她做了什么 |
| 240 | but the husband also has a right to know, | 但丈夫也有权知道, |
| 241 | since it's going to be his wife. | 因为这将是他的妻子。 |
| 242 | The audience for the most part was laughing | 大部分观众都在笑 |
| 243 | throughout my speech and seemed to enjoy it. | 在我发言的整个过程中 似乎很享受 |
| 244 | And given how me, Colleen and Mike hung out a lot | 鉴于我,科琳和迈克经常在一起 |
| 245 | and how we all had a crude sense of humor, | 和我们如何有一个粗糙的幽默感, |
| 246 | I thought they would appreciate it. | 我想他们会很感激的 |
| 247 | Okay, so by the sounds of it, | 好吧,所以通过它的声音, |
| 248 | he was saying it more in a joking matter. | 他在开玩笑的时候说得更多 |
| 249 | Oh, she let loose in university, but he calmed her down. | 哦,她松了 在大学, 但他让她冷静下来。 |
| 250 | I didn't realize this was a big deal | 我没想到这是件大事 |
| 251 | until later on in the wedding. | 直到后来的婚礼。 |
| 252 | I went up to the table Colleen's parents were sitting at, | 我去了桌 科琳的父母坐在, |
| 253 | but they shunned me away very quickly. | 但他们很快就把我赶走了 |
| 254 | I went up to Colleen and Mike | 我去了科琳和迈克 |
| 255 | to ask them if her parents were okay. | 问他们父母是否没事 |
| 256 | They immediately told me, we need to talk. | 他们马上告诉我,我们需要谈谈。 |
| 257 | They took me into the back of the venue | 他们把我带到会场后面 |
| 258 | and asked me about the speech. | 问我演讲的内容 |
| 259 | I told them that most people enjoyed it | 我告诉他们大多数人都喜欢 |
| 260 | and they should understand college | 他们应该理解大学 |
| 261 | is a time for going a little crazy | 是有点疯狂的时候 |
| 262 | and figuring yourself out. | 并想出自己出来。 |
| 263 | Colleen yelled at me and said, I had no right. | 科琳对我大吼大叫,说我没有权利 |
| 264 | She was screaming so hard that Mike had to calm her down. | 她尖叫得如此激烈,以至于迈克不得不让她冷静下来. |
| 265 | She ended up leaving and Mike said, | 她最后离开了,迈克说, |
| 266 | look, it was a funny story, | 你看,这是一个有趣的故事, |
| 267 | but try to keep it between us three next time. | 但下回尽量保持我们三个之间的距离 |
| 268 | So Mike seems like a really chill guy | 所以迈克看起来很冷酷 |
| 269 | and Colleen kind of seems like | 科琳似乎喜欢 |
| 270 | she just didn't want her personal business | 她只是不想要她的私人事业 |
| 271 | to be told to her entire extremely religious family, | 被告诉 她整个极端宗教家庭, |
| 272 | which honestly, I don't blame her. | 老实说 我不怪她 |
| 273 | Since then, I've tried texting Colleen back, | 从那时起,我试着给科琳发短信回来, |
| 274 | but she blocked me everywhere. | 但她到处都挡住了我 |
| 275 | Mike hasn't been responding either. | 迈克也没有回应 |
| 276 | Given that most people in the audience enjoyed it | 鉴于观众中大多数人都喜欢 |
| 277 | and probably forgot about it now, | 现在可能忘记了 |
| 278 | I don't know why this is a big deal. | 我不知道为什么这是个大问题 |
| 279 | I think it's a big deal because yeah, | 我觉得这很重要 因为... |
| 280 | maybe most people in the audience don't remember | 也许大多数观众不记得了 |
| 281 | because they're not that close to Colleen | 因为他们和科琳没有那么近 |
| 282 | or that close to Mike, | 或接近迈克, |
| 283 | but the people that do remember | 惟能觉悟的民众, |
| 284 | will be her parents and his parents. | 将是她的父母 |
| 285 | So they will remember | 他们将觉悟, |
| 286 | and that's the most important people | 这是最重要的人 |
| 287 | that she probably didn't want them to know that. | 她可能不想让他们知道这一点。 |
| 288 | That's why it's a big deal. | 故为大乘. |
| 289 | Remember guys, give me a summary of the story | 记住,给我一个故事摘要 |
| 290 | and I want you to take a video | 我要你拍个视频 |
| 291 | because in a month or two, | 因为一两个月后 |
| 292 | you can look back at this video | 你可以回顾这段视频 |
| 293 | and see how much your pronunciation, your accent, | 看看你的读音和口音 |
| 294 | your rhythm and your confidence has improved. | 你的节奏和信心都提高了 |
| 295 | Am I the a-hole for refusing to give up my wedding dress | 我是拒绝放弃婚纱的混蛋吗? |
| 296 | the day after the wedding? | 婚礼的第二天? |
| 297 | So first, some context. | 所以,首先,一些背景。 |
| 298 | I'm getting married this Saturday | 我这周六就要结婚了 |
| 299 | and my fiance and I are paying the wedding ourselves. | 我和我未婚夫自己付婚礼的钱 |
| 300 | Well, most of it. | 大部分时间 |
| 301 | There's been some presence here and there | 这儿和那里都有 |
| 302 | like the liquor from my parents, they insisted, | 就像我父母的酒 他们坚持 |
| 303 | and in from my aunt | 从我姨妈那里 |
| 304 | whom I have a bit of a tense relationship with. | 我和他的关系有点紧张 |
| 305 | She gave me my wedding gown. | 她给了我我的婚纱 |
| 306 | The thing about the wedding gown is | 结婚礼服的事是 |
| 307 | it used to belong to my cousin, | 它曾经属于我的表弟, |
| 308 | which is one of my bridesmaids. | 这也是我的伴娘之一 |
| 309 | She was about to get married, | 她要结婚了, |
| 310 | but they broke things off because he was cheating. | 但他们断了关系 因为他在作弊 |
| 311 | But that's another story. | 但这是另一个故事。 |
| 312 | My aunt bought this wedding dress for her | 我姨妈为她买了这件婚纱 |
| 313 | and it was brand new. | 这是全新的。 |
| 314 | It was never used | 从来没用过 |
| 315 | and they had it sitting on their closet | 他们把它放在衣柜里 |
| 316 | for about a year or two. | 大约一两年。 |
| 317 | When she found out I was getting married, | 当她发现我结婚了, |
| 318 | she got as excited as if I was her daughter as well | 她兴奋得好像我也是她女儿一样 |
| 319 | and told me about the dress, | 并告诉我的裙子, |
| 320 | asking me if I wanted it. | 问我要不要 |
| 321 | It's not the dress I envisioned, | 这不是我想象中的裙子, |
| 322 | but since we are paying the wedding ourselves | 既然我们自己付婚礼的钱 |
| 323 | and my fiance said that I was going to have to rent a dress | 我未婚夫说我要租件衣服 |
| 324 | because we don't have the money to buy one. | 因为我们没钱买 |
| 325 | And I was really sad about that | 我很难过 |
| 326 | because I wanted to own my own dress. | 因为我想拥有自己的裙子。 |
| 327 | I said yes. | 我说是的。 |
| 328 | And once I tried it on, | 一旦我尝试了它, |
| 329 | I fell in love with it. | 我爱上了它。 |
| 330 | She gave me that dress as a gift | 她把裙子当礼物送给我 |
| 331 | and to alter as I saw fit. | 并改变我所认为合适的。 |
| 332 | But like I said, I fell in love with it as it was. | 但正如我所说,我爱上了它。 |
| 333 | But I should have known that dress came with strings. | 但我应该知道那件衣服是带弦的 |
| 334 | Yesterday, I was coming back from a trip | 昨天,我旅行回来 |
| 335 | visiting my parents. | 拜访我的父母。 |
| 336 | And when I got off the plane, | 当我下飞机时 |
| 337 | I found a voicemail from my aunt. | 我从姨妈那里找到语音信箱 |
| 338 | She told me that another of my cousins is getting married | 她告诉我 我另一个表妹要结婚了 |
| 339 | and she was asking if I could give her my dress | 她问我能不能把裙子给她 |
| 340 | the day after the wedding | 婚礼的第二天 |
| 341 | so she could tear it apart and take the lace off it | 这样她就可以撕裂它 并把它的带子 |
| 342 | and do with the dress as she wanted for her wedding. | 并做她想要的婚纱。 |
| 343 | And it broke me. | 也让我心碎了 |
| 344 | This cousin in particular is the favorite | 这个表哥特别受欢迎 |
| 345 | of everyone sometimes, even of my own parents | 每个人有时,甚至我自己的父母 |
| 346 | when we were younger. | 我们年轻的时候 |
| 347 | Mostly because she's really charismatic | 主要是因为她很有魅力 |
| 348 | and also she's white and blonde | 她又白又金发 |
| 349 | and I'm a little on the darker side. | 我有点在黑暗的一面。 |
| 350 | You can imagine. | 你可以想象出来。 |
| 351 | I don't have any rivalry with her. | 我和她没有竞争 |
| 352 | I adore her and I knew she wouldn't want this wedding dress | 我爱她,我知道她不会想要这件婚纱 |
| 353 | because I already talked to her | 因为我已经跟她谈过了 |
| 354 | about the style of the wedding that she wanted | 关于她想要的婚礼风格 |
| 355 | and how she wanted something more bohemian on the beach. | 还有她想在沙滩上多吃点波西米亚菜 |
| 356 | So I know she wasn't the one to ask for this. | 所以我知道不是她要求这么做的 |
| 357 | It was just my aunt. | 只是我姨妈 |
| 358 | Still, my wedding is this Saturday | 不过,我的婚礼是这个星期六 |
| 359 | and I feel like it's the worst timing for my aunt | 我觉得这对我姨妈来说是最糟糕的时机 |
| 360 | to say this because I wouldn't be against | 因为我不会反对 |
| 361 | sharing my wedding dress. | 分享我的婚纱 |
| 362 | I was dreaming of maybe someday | 我梦到也许有一天 |
| 363 | I can give it to one of my cousins | 我可以把它给我的一个表妹 |
| 364 | or maybe to my goddaughter. | 或也许对我的教女。 |
| 365 | Someone that like me wasn't able | 像我这样的人不能 |
| 366 | to buy their own wedding dress | 买自己的婚纱 |
| 367 | and they can have this one. | 他们可以拥有这个。 |
| 368 | And to have that option taken away from me | 并且让那个选择从我身边夺走 |
| 369 | and to feel like I was given something | 感觉我得到了一些东西 |
| 370 | just to be taken away even before I could use it. | 我还没用完就被带走了 |
| 371 | I don't know if I'm being irrational here | 我不知道我在这里是不是不理智 |
| 372 | but this has given me a lot of sadness. | 但是这让我很伤心 |
| 373 | Now when I think about the wedding dress | 现在当我想起婚纱时 |
| 374 | and when I think of my wedding | 当我想起我的婚礼 |
| 375 | and I'm trying really hard to be happy and be excited. | 我非常努力地感到快乐和兴奋 |
| 376 | This is my wedding week for god's sake. | 看在上帝的份上,这是我的婚礼周 |
| 377 | Oh, and on top of that, | 哦,此外, |
| 378 | my cousin lives in another country | 我表哥住在别的国家 |
| 379 | and will be leaving like three days after the wedding. | 结婚三天后就会离开 |
| 380 | So my aunt wanted me to give it to her | 所以我姨妈要我送给她 |
| 381 | the day after I get married. | 我结婚的第二天。 |
| 382 | And I think that also affects me | 我觉得这也影响到我 |
| 383 | because I don't get to have my wedding dress | 因为我没有婚纱 |
| 384 | the day after the wedding. | 婚礼的第二天。 |
| 385 | I just wanted to be able to take my wedding dress | 我只是想能穿我的婚纱 |
| 386 | back to my home and have it in my closet. | 回到我家里 放在我的衣柜里 |
| 387 | And I know it's stupid, | 我知道这是愚蠢的, |
| 388 | but I've always wanted to have my wedding dress | 但我一直想要我的婚纱 |
| 389 | and be able to decide what to do with it. | 并能决定如何处置. |
| 390 | So what do y'all think? | 你们觉得怎么样? |
| 391 | If you're serious about becoming fluent in English, | 如果你是认真的 要变得流利英语, |
| 392 | I've built a full speaking and pronunciation course | 我建了一个完整的演讲和发音课程 |
| 393 | that shows you exactly what to do step by step. | 说明你该一步一步地做什么 |
| 394 | You get instant access to 80 plus video lessons right away. | 你可以立刻进入80加视频课程 |
| 395 | And I add three to five brand new lessons every week. | 我每周增加三到五个全新的课程。 |
| 396 | So you can keep improving consistently. | 这样你就可以不断进步 |
| 397 | And this is not just a course full of random videos. | 这不仅仅是一个充满随机视频的课程。 |
| 398 | You'll get an exclusive chat GPT prompt | 你会得到独家聊天的GPT提示 |
| 399 | that allows you to master the pronunciation of any word | 使您能够掌握任意单词的发音 |
| 400 | plus a clear practice structure. | 加上明确的练习结构。 |
| 401 | So you always know exactly how to study, | 所以你总是知道如何学习 |
| 402 | what to focus on and how to make real progress. | 重点是什么以及如何取得真正的进展。 |
| 403 | Inside we work on pronunciation, | 里面我们研究发音 |
| 404 | accent, rhythm and natural speaking. | 口音,节奏和自然说话。 |
| 405 | So you can stop hesitating, | 这样你就可以停止犹豫 |
| 406 | sound more natural and speak English with real confidence. | 听起来更自然 并且会说英语 充满信心。 |
| 407 | Join today in the description. | 加入今天的描述。 |
| 408 | So, so far my thoughts are, | 因此,到目前为止,我的想法是, |
| 409 | you can't give a gift to someone and then take it back. | 你不能把礼物给别人 然后拿回去 |
| 410 | Once you give it to someone, it's theirs. | 一旦你把它给某人,这是他们的。 |
| 411 | You can't ask for a gift back. | 不可求礼还. |
| 412 | That's why it's a gift. | 故曰礼. |
| 413 | It's not like a loan. | 不似借钱. |
| 414 | You're not loaning them something. | 你没有借他们的东西。 |
| 415 | So the aunt is in the wrong here | 这么说姨妈错了 |
| 416 | for asking something back just to give to someone else. | 问回什么只是为了给别人 |
| 417 | It's wrong. | 这是错误的。 |
| 418 | We have an update though. | 但我们有最新消息 |
| 419 | So I did as some suggested | 所以,我做了一些建议 |
| 420 | and spoke directly with my cousin first. | 然后直接跟我表妹谈了 |
| 421 | And as expected, she had no idea | 和预期,她不知道 |
| 422 | nor did she want the dress at all. | 她根本不想要这裙子 |
| 423 | She's not counting pennies | 她不计钱 |
| 424 | to do the wedding of her dreams like I did. | 做她的婚礼 像我做的。 |
| 425 | So she really doesn't need it. | 所以她真的不需要这个 |
| 426 | And as I mentioned, she wants a beach wedding | 正如我所提到的 她想要一个海滩婚礼 |
| 427 | and the style of the dress doesn't match. | 和服的风格不匹配. |
| 428 | After that, I sent a text to my aunt | 之后,我给我姑妈发了条短信 |
| 429 | saying I spoke to my cousin | 说我跟我表哥谈过 |
| 430 | and that she didn't want the dress | 她不想穿这裙子 |
| 431 | and that I also wanted to keep my wedding dress. | 我还想保留我的婚纱 |
| 432 | She just replied with an, | 她刚回答说 |
| 433 | ah, okay, knowing her, she's upset, | 啊,好吧,认识她,她很生气 |
| 434 | but I really don't care. | 但我真的不关心。 |
| 435 | Now I'm trying to recompose myself | 现在我想重新编曲 |
| 436 | and feel like I can be excited again. | 并感觉我可以再次兴奋。 |
| 437 | Hopefully I'll stop feeling this pit in my chest. | 希望我不再感觉到这个坑在我的胸口。 |
| 438 | Remember if you wanna get the 3,000 | 记住,如果你想得到3000 |
| 439 | most common English words PDF, it's in the description. | 最常见的英语单词PDF,在描述中. |
| 440 | Bye guys. | 再见 |
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