中级英语故事|磨耳朵

Tristan Palumbo

我是来自英国的剑桥认证英语老师 Tristan Palumbo(英国外教),有 12 年教学经验,曾在英国、日本、韩国、意大利和越南任教。 用真人发音的清晰慢速英语,带你磨耳朵、听来自世界各地的真实故事,适合中级学习者。 每集简介都附完整的中英文双语文字稿。 给我每天10分钟,我帮你快速练出流利口语。 体验我的 App: https://studio.com/apps/tristan/coffeechat 有任何问题?加我微信:coffeechatenglish 这些故事提供丰富的「可理解输入」(Comprehensible Input)。通过听和读这些故事,你会自然地学到新的词汇和表达,同时巩固已经熟悉的语言点。40 多年来,这种「可理解输入」学习法一直被公认为最有效的自然语言习得方法之一。

  1. 6天前

    英语对话B2|5个疯狂飞机故事:机长被吸出机外!

    他们在 17,300 英尺高空抓住他的双腿! �含双语逐字稿。给我每天10分钟,我帮你快速练出流利口语。有问题?想和 Tristan 一对一上课?加我微信:coffeechatenglish 英国母语外教|中级英语听力|B1|磨耳朵|可理解性输入|慢速英语 听之前,先快速看一眼下面的双语逐字稿,了解大意。听得更懂,学得更快。 � 那么,你好,James。 So, hello James. 你好,Tristan。 Hello Tristan. 我们是两位英语、英语老师。在今天的B2英语对话里。我们将分享一些疯狂的飞机故事。你准备好了吗? We are two English, English teachers. In today's B2 English conversation. We will share some crazy airplane stories. Are you ready? 我绝对准备好了。你准备好了吗,Tristan? I am definitely ready. Are you ready, Tristan? � 那么,先讲一个最近的故事。故事从迪拜开始。174个人正在前往以色列特拉维夫的路上。 So, to start with is a recent one. This starts in Dubai. 174 people on their way to Tel Aviv in Israel. 三个半小时的航班——吃早餐,看电影,你知道的,然后回家。这不是一趟长途航班。 Three-and-a-half-hour flight — breakfast, film, you know, go home. It's not a long flight. 驾驶舱里有两名飞行员。我们有机长Smit Machchhar。我可能得查一下这些名字的发音。 In the cockpit are the two pilots. We have Captain Smit Machchhar. I might have to look at the pronunciation of these names. 这是个响亮有力的名字!Smit机长。我喜欢。 That's a good strong name! Captain Smit. I like it. 他来自印度,而他的第一副驾驶——第一副驾驶就是副机长——今年29岁。他来自阿曼,名字叫Hamam al-Hammami。这是那个地区的一个典型名字。 And he's from India, and his first officer — first officer is the co-pilot — he's 29 years old. He's from Oman, and his name is Hamam al-Hammami. A classic name from that region. 飞行大约还剩一个小时的时候,你知道,他们下方全是沙漠。他们正在飞入约旦。 About an hour left into the flight, you know, below them is all desert. They're going into Jordan. 然后人们听到驾驶舱里传来喊叫声,驾驶舱门后正在发生打斗。一场打斗。 Then people hear shouting from the cockpit, and behind the cockpit door there is a fight happening. A fight. 那个阿曼人抓起了……你知道他抓起了什么吗? The Omani guy grabs… Do you know what he grabbed? 有一件武器。嗯,是一个工具,一个他们放在驾驶舱里的危险工具。一把应急斧。他拿起应急斧,用它攻击机长。 There's a weapon. Well, there is a tool, a dangerous tool that they keep in the cockpit. An emergency axe. He takes the emergency axe and he attacks the captain with it. 所有人都在尖叫。飞机开始下坠。 Everyone's screaming. The plane begins to fall. 所以,当然,所有人都吓疯了,吓得要命。 So, of course, everyone's freaking the duck out, freaking the fridge out. 他们变得歇斯底里。飞机上的每个人都歇斯底里。 They've become hysterical. Everybody on the plane is hysterical. 是的,是的。他们都疯了,因为飞机下降了14,000英尺。人们纷纷给家人打电话。 Yes, yes. They've gone mental, because it drops 14,000 feet. People ringing their families. 然后驾驶舱门打开了。我会说那位印度机长——我念不出他的名字,Machchhar——他流血很严重,正在和一个拿着斧头的人搏斗,但他设法够到了门的解锁装置。 Then the cockpit door opens. I'd say the Indian captain — I can't pronounce his name, Machchhar — he's bleeding badly, fighting a man with an axe, but he was able to reach the door unlock. 乘客们向前冲。 The passengers run forward. 一个水管工。一个水管工。他把副驾驶从机长身上拉开,把他按住,这个水管工甚至抓住了操纵杆。 A plumber. A plumber. He pulls the first officer off the captain, holds him down, and the plumber even grabs the controls. 当然,谁来让飞机降落呢,对吧?那位印度机长,他流血很严重。而另一位机长,嗯,他真的在喊:"Allahu Akbar(真主至大)!"真的,不是开玩笑。你知道的,老一套。 And of course, who's going to land it, right? The Indian captain, he's bleeding badly. And the other captain, well, he's literally shouting, "Allahu Akbar!" Like, no joke. You know, the classic. 我更震惊的是,一个水管工开始开飞机了。 I am more astounded that a plumber started flying the plane. 这确实很极端。水管工开了飞机。 That is certainly extreme. The plumber flew the plane. 我敢肯定,那天早上他离开酒店时,没想到自己会去驾驶飞机,用一只脚踩住一个恐怖分子——那个人一只手还在挥舞斧头——旁边还有一位流着血的机长。 And I'm sure that morning, he didn't leave his hotel thinking he'd be controlling a plane, holding a terrorist down with his foot, who was waving an axe around in one hand, with a bleeding captain next to him. 你能想象那个人得有多自负,才会说:"别担心,伙计们。我玩过很多,比如,飞行模拟器。我知道怎么开飞机。别担心,大家让开。" Could you imagine the amount of ego that man must have had to say, "Don't worry, guys. I have played lots of, like, aeroplane simulator. I know how to fly the plane. Don't worry, step aside, guys." 他们大喊:"有人会开飞机吗?"幸运的是,有两名乘客是飞行员,就是,不当班的。 They shouted, "Does anyone know how to fly a plane?" And luckily, two of the passengers were pilots, like, off duty. 好的。是的。 OK. Yeah. 是的,所以他们抓住了那个疯子,把他按倒。其他人设法止血。然后客舱里的那两个人,那两名不当班的飞行员,接管了飞机,降落在沙特阿拉伯的一个军事基地。警察逮捕了那个人。机上全部174人,都活了下来。 Yeah, so they grabbed the crazy man, pinned him down. Others tried to stop the bleeding. And then the two people in the cabin, the two pilots off duty, they took control of the plane, and they landed at a military base in Saudi Arabia. And the police arrested the man. And all 174 people on board, they lived. 这是个很精彩的故事。我觉得某种程度上很聪明,因为他用了一件武器——他用了一件不需要通过机场安检的武器,你知道吗? It's a pretty good story. I guess smart in some way, because he used a weapon — he used a weapon that he didn't need to get past airport security, you know? 他大概事先就想好了,你知道的:"我就用那把斧头。它本来就在那里。" He had probably thought this in advance, you know: "I'll use the axe. That's already there." 所以这些人当然都是英雄。嗯,我对印度文化,比如说,算是相当了解吧。很明显,比如,那边的人都很喜欢这件事。到处都是他的照片,比如在驾驶舱里,竖着大拇指。如今能看到一些英雄事迹真好,你知道的,比如人们在颂扬正能量。 So these guys were, of course, heroes. And well, I know Indian culture, like, fairly well, I would say. And obviously, like, they're loving it over there. And there's pictures of him everywhere, like in the cockpit, with his thumb up. It's good to see some heroics nowadays, you know, like people celebrating positivity. 但说句公道话,就是,是的,他确实救了所有人,但他也必须救自己,对吧? But to be fair, it's just like, yeah, he did save everyone, but he also had to save himself, right? 嗯,是的,我是说,这里面有,比如,自我保护。是的。 Well, yeah, I mean, there is, like, self-preservation. Yeah. 我敢肯定他和那个人搏斗的时候,他并没有,我不知道,在想着全体机组人员。但也许他想了,我不知道。我是说,确实有英雄般的人,比如,在军队里,你会遇到这种人,不是吗?你会遇到,你知道的,那种愿意牺牲自己或者让自己死去来拯救别人的指挥官。所以,我是说,我不知道。 I'm sure when he was battling the other guy, he wasn't, I don't know, thinking about the whole crew. But maybe he was, I don't know. I mean, you do get heroic people, like, in the military, you'll get that, won't you? You'll get, you know, commanders who will kill themselves or let themselves die to save other people. So, I mean, I don't know. 有那么多故事,你知道的,经典的"男人扑向手榴弹",你知道的,因为他意识到他的…… So many stories of, you know, the classic "man jumps on grenade", you know, because he realises that his… 如果他这么做,他能救,比如说,四个人。这种事其实发生过好几次。 He can save, like, four people if he does that. And that's actually happened quite a few times. � 我想讲讲2010年的Filair航空。 I would like to speak about Filair in 2010. 那是一场发生在8月25日的空难,当时一架国内商业航班在接近刚果民主共和国班顿杜机场时坠毁,造成20人死亡——18名乘客,两名机组人员——只有一名幸存者。我得补充一句,是一名人类幸存者。如果你相信那些传闻的话,还有一名鳄鱼幸存者。 It was a crash which occurred on the 25th of August, when a domestic commercial flight approaching Bandundu Airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo crashed, resulting in 20 deaths — 18 passengers, two crew members — and only one survivor. One human survivor, I should add. And if you believe the stories, a crocodile survivor. 嗯,那天开始时和平常没什么两样。这架小飞机实际上服务于刚果的一个地区,从一个小镇飞到另一个小镇,再飞到下一个小镇——有点像,我不

  2. 10月13日

    英语听力B2|巴黎抗议:7000人被捕

    760名警察受伤。为什么?�含双语逐字稿。 给我每天10分钟,我帮你快速练出流利口语。到微信体验我的英语口语 App:coffeechatenglish 英国母语外教|中级英语听力|B2|磨耳朵|可理解性输入|慢速英语 � 本节目内容基于公开新闻报道,据我所知真实准确。本节目为英语学习材料。听之前,先快速看一眼下面的双语逐字稿,了解大意。听得更懂,学得更快。  � 三个星期以来,法国各地的高中生一直在抗议,走上街头游行,与警察发生冲突。 For three weeks, high school students all across France have been protesting, marching through the streets, fighting with police. 主流媒体说,这是因为学生们——他们说自己的学校没有足够的老师,也没有足够的钱,教室很旧。这些都是合理的抱怨。 The mainstream media say it's because the students — they say their schools don't have enough teachers or enough money, and the classrooms are old. Which are fair complaints. 所以为了改善情况,他们袭击了89名教师和学校工作人员——89名——并且他们损坏或烧毁了一百多所学校。 So to help the situation, they attacked 89 teachers and school staff — 89 — and they damaged or burned over a hundred schools. 所以这是一个很奇怪的解决办法,对吧?抱怨某样东西不够,然后再把现有的那些毁掉。 So that's a strange solution to the problem, right? Complain there's not enough of something, and then destroy what there is of it. � 在今天的B2英语听力中,我们将了解当前的法国骚乱。我的网站上有50种语言的免费文稿。 In today's B2 English listening, we'll learn about the current French riots. The transcript is free in 50 languages on my website. 那么事实是这样的。超过7,000人——7,000人——已经被逮捕,而且他们大多数不满18岁。 So here's the facts. Over 7,000 people — 7,000 — have been arrested, and most of them are under 18 years old. 超过800名警察受伤,215名学生也受了伤。 Over 800 police officers have been injured, and 215 students have been injured too. 那么真相是什么?谁在背后操纵?仅凭学生就能造成这种程度的破坏吗?还是说——这件事还有更多内情? So what's the truth? Who's behind it? Can students alone cause this kind of destruction? Or are there — is there more to the story? � 抗议开始于九月,在巴黎郊外的一所高中。学生、家长和老师,他们站在校门外,要求为学校提供更多的资金。 The protests began in September at a high school just outside of Paris. Students and parents and teachers, they stood outside the school gates and they demanded more money for schools. 而他们的抱怨是合理的。那些问题是真实存在的。 And their complaints were fair. They were real. 老师经常缺勤,而且没有人来代课。我的意思是,有时候老师会缺勤好几个星期。好几个星期都没有代课老师。 Teachers were often absent and they were not replaced. I mean, sometimes the teachers would be absent for weeks. Weeks with no replacement. 有些班级现在有35个学生,而以前要少一些。 Some classes, they now have 35 students, and it was less before. 在有些教学楼里,水从天花板渗下来,而且学校的上课时间非常长。 In some buildings, water comes through the ceilings, and also the school days are very long. 这一点我同意,因为你们可能不知道,我在法国生活过。我11岁的时候住在法国,我记得学校五点才放学。五点! And I can agree with that, because you guys might not know this, but I lived in France. I lived in France when I was 11 years old, and I remember the school finishing at 5 o'clock. 5! 我还记得我盯着钟看。滴答,滴答。那一天好像永远过不完。我记得那种感觉。 And I remember looking at the clock. Tick, tick. And the day lasting forever. I remember that. 一开始,只有少数几所学校被抗议封锁。封锁的意思是人们无法进出学校。 At first, only a few schools were blocked by protests. Blocked means when people can't go in and out of the school. 但接着,几所学校变成了更多的学校。到九月底,警察开始抓人。而在短短一天之内,就有440人被警察逮捕。 But then a few schools grew into more schools. And by the end of September, the police were arresting people. And in one single day, 440 people were arrested by the police. 到10月1日,有一千多所高中受到影响。 By October 1st, more than a thousand high schools were affected. 大学也加入了抗议。到这个时候,已经有将近3,000人被逮捕。被警察逮捕并带走。 Universities joined in the protests too. And nearly 3,000 people were arrested at this point. Arrested and taken by the police. 10月6日,抗议人数增加到256,000人。 On October 6th, the protests grew to 256,000 people. � 但在这个时候,这场运动正在改变形态。它正在呈现出一种新的形式。 But at this point, the movement was changing shape. It was taking on a new form. 而很多国际媒体,比如法国24台、BBC、半岛电视台——他们把焦点放在了暴力的警察身上。暴力的警察殴打那些比较无辜的、只想要更好教育的学生。 And much of the international media, such as France 24, the BBC, Al Jazeera — so they focused on the violent police. The violent police beating the more innocent students that just want a better education. 他们说警察太过残暴了。也许吧。 And they said the police were being too brutal. And maybe. 一名15岁的男学生捡起了一枚警用手雷,手雷在他手中爆炸了。这个男孩,因为一枚警用手雷失去了他的左手。 One 15-year-old boy student, he picked up a police grenade, which exploded in his hand. And this boy, he lost his left hand from a police grenade. 还有另一名16岁的学生,他被一颗橡皮子弹击中。一颗橡皮子弹打进了眼睛。他的一只眼睛已经失明。他现在一只眼睛瞎了。永远地瞎了。 And another 16-year-old student, he was hit with a rubber bullet. A rubber bullet in the eye. And he has lost his vision in one eye. He's blind in one eye now. Forever. 然后,人权组织国际特赦组织——国际特赦组织对法国说:"停止警察暴力。" Then the human rights organisation Amnesty International — Amnesty International told France, "Stop the police brutality." 但警察真的像他们说的那样太过残暴吗?那么,如果真是这样,为什么有761名警察受伤?难道是他们自己把自己弄伤的吗? But were they being too brutal, as they say? Well, if they were, then why have 761 police officers been injured? Did they just injure themselves? 还是说这些数据是谎言?还是怎样?这意味着每有一名学生受伤,就有三名警察受伤。 Or are these statistics lies? Or what? That means three police officers were injured for every one student injured. 而在主流媒体上——这部分可能是你没有听说过的——在BBC上,在法国24台上,我看过的报道里,完全没有提到受伤的警察,也很少提到被毁的学校,相比之下他们大谈特谈警察暴力。嗯。 And on the mainstream media — and this is the part maybe you have not heard about — on the BBC, on France 24, the coverage that I watched, there was no mention of the injured police officers, little mention of the destroyed schools, compared to their talk about the police brutality. Hmm. � 所以,当BBC的镜头对准警察暴力和那些绝望可怜的学生时,学校、老师和校长正在遭到袭击。 And so while the BBC's cameras were focused on this police brutality and the desperate poor students, schools and teachers and principals were being attacked. 九月底,一名老师和一名学校工作人员被推倒在地。他们遭到殴打和踢踹。 So in late September, a teacher and a school worker, they were pushed to the ground. They were beaten and kicked. 还有一名老师被人泼了汽油。当时他正试图扑灭一场火——他试图扑灭一场火。 And another teacher had gasoline thrown at him. So while he tried to stop a fire — he tried to stop a fire. 想象一下,你正想扑灭一场火,然后一个学生往你身上倒汽油。这太疯狂了。 And imagine trying to stop a fire, and then a student pours petrol on you. It's crazy. 老师们的车也被纵火烧毁。 And teachers' cars were set on fire. 总的来说——总的来说,到目前为止有89名学校工作人员受伤。这其中包括几十名校长——校长,学校的负责人。 And overall — overall, 89 school staff have been injured so far. And this includes dozens of head teachers — head teachers, principals. 还有100多所高中,现在可能更多,遭到严重破坏或被纵火。 And more than 100 high schools, probably more now, have been seriously damaged or set on fire. 这其中包括一所学校,纳尔逊·曼德拉高中。纳尔逊·曼德拉高中被彻底烧毁了。造成两百万美元的损失。 And this includes one school, the Nelson Mandela High School. The Nelson Mandela High School was just burned out. Two million dollars of damage. 到了这个时候,抗议者开始发射——向警察发射烟花,还泼硫酸。向警察泼硫酸。 And at this point, the protesters were firing — shooting fireworks at the police, and throwing acid. Throwing acid at the police. 嗯。现在,想一想这件事。 Hmm. Now, think about that. � 你为什么要毁掉学校,造成超过四千万欧元的损失,然后再抱怨说没有钱给你刚刚毁掉的学校? Why would you destroy the schools, causing over 40 million euros of damage, and then complain that there's no money for your schoo

  3. 9月29日

    英语故事B1|七名学童被困缆车 | 河面上方900英尺

    距离钢索断裂还有10小时!�含双语逐字稿。给我每天10分钟,我帮你快速练出流利口语。到微信体验我的英语口语 App:coffeechatenglish 英国母语外教|中级英语听力|B1|磨耳朵|可理解性输入|慢速英语 听之前,先快速看一眼下面的双语逐字稿,了解大意。听得更懂,学得更快。 --� 你好,今天这个真实的B1故事,是关于缆车的最疯狂的故事。 Hello, today's true B1 story is the craziest story ever about a cable car. 八个人整整一天悬挂在河面上方900英尺的高空,只剩下一根钢索,就只有一根钢索,而全世界都在看着。 Eight people are hanging 900 feet above a river all day, and only one wire, just one wire remains, and the whole world is watching. � 清晨的第一缕阳光越过苏凯萨尔的山峰。阳光照亮了巴基斯坦这片高山地区山谷里的一切。 The morning's first light comes over the mountain peak at Sukai Sar. The sun lights up everything in the valley of this high mountainous area of Pakistan. 在远处悬崖的边缘,有七个学童,他们都在排队等缆车。在他们头顶上,钢索,钢索在晨风中吱吱作响。 And on the edge of a far cliff there are seven schoolboys, and they're all waiting in a line for the cable car. And above their heads, the wires, the wires creak in the morning wind. 每天这些男孩都坐缆车去上学。不然他们要走两个小时才能到学校。 Every day the boys take the cable car to school. Otherwise it takes them two hours to walk to school. 这个缆车就是一个金属箱子,挂在两根粗粗的金属钢索上,里面大约能坐十个人。而这个地区的当地人,是当地人自己造的,所以其实没有什么安全规定。 So the cable car is a metal box that hangs on two thick metal wires, and about ten people fit inside. And the locals of that area, the locals made it, so there are no safety rules really. 所以每天学童们排着队,坐缆车去上学。那一定很好玩吧,是不是? So every day the schoolboys queue and they take the cable car to school. That must be fun, eh? � 沙里夫15岁,今天对沙里夫来说不是普通的上学日。今天他去学校是要拿期末考试的成绩,而他已经告诉了妈妈:“我通过了。”现在他只需要去看看自己说得对不对。 Sharif is 15 years old, and today is not a normal school day for Sharif. Today he is going to school to collect the results of his final exams, and he has already told his mother, "I passed." Now he just has to go and find out if he was right. 沙里夫爬进缆车,数了数人头。他是个细心的男孩。一、二、三——好,好,大家都在。他一个一个地拍了拍同学的肩膀。 Sharif climbs into the cable car and he counts the heads. He's a caring boy. One, two, three — yes, yes, everyone's here. He touches his schoolmates on the shoulder, one at a time. 还有一个20岁的男人,古尔法拉兹,也和他们在一起。他有一部手机,正在和他妈妈聊天。 And a 20-year-old man, Gulfaraz, is there with them too. He has a phone and he's chatting to his mother. 还有一个男孩,16岁,他今天不是去上学。哦不。他的心脏不好,有心脏病,他是要去医院。 And one of the boys, who's 16, he's not going to school today. Oh no. So he has a weak heart, a heart condition, and he's on his way to the hospital instead. 古尔法拉兹让他坐在缆车靠栏杆的那一边,那里风能自由流动,有空气。坐这儿吧,你的脸色发灰。 Gulfaraz gives him a place on the side of the cable car by the rail, where the wind is moving freely and the air is there. Sit there, your face looks grey. ⭐ 如果你喜欢用简单英语讲的真实故事,你来对地方了。留一个五星好评,我就用你的名字给我第一个孩子起名。 If you like true stories in easy English, you're in the right place. Leave a five star review and I'll name my first child after you. 为了帮助你学习,这里有一份免费的60种语言的文字稿,不需要留邮箱。而如果你订阅,它不能把你从缆车里弄出来,但它能把你从B1级别的英语里弄出来。 To help your learning there's a free 60 language transcript, no email is needed. And if you subscribe, it will not get you out of the cable car, but it will get you out of B1 level English. 回到故事。 Back to the story. � 缆车出发了,它升了起来,他们上去了,升到了空中。好极了。好极了。 The cable car leaves, it lifts off, and they're up, up in the air. Great. Great. 缆车走着它平常的路线横跨山谷,而在他们下面很远很远的地方,是一条灰色的河,还有成千上万的石头和树。 The car takes its usual route across the valley, and far, far below them is a grey river and many thousands of rocks and trees. 直到——啪。 Until — snap. 缆车向上、向下、再向上,然后它翻倒在一侧。男孩们大叫,他们摔在彼此身上。 The car goes up, down, up, and it swings down onto its side. The boys shout and they fall on top of each other. 地板现在成了墙,墙现在成了地板。这是怎么回事? The floor is now the wall and the wall is now the floor. What's going on? 缆车现在静静地悬着,轻轻地左、右、左地晃着,挂在那一根缆索上,剩下的那一根钢索上。 And the cable car now hangs in silence, quietly swinging a little, left to right to left, hanging from the one cable, the one wire left. 沙里夫用尽双手的力气抓紧车架。 Sharif holds the frame as tightly as his hands can hold. 他往下看了一秒,然后很快又抬起头。他下面什么都没有,只有900英尺的空荡。 He looks down for one second and then up again quickly. Below him is nothing but 900 feet of just space. 谁都别动。 Nobody move. 他们一个一个拿出手机,想给父母打电话。 They take their phones out one by one, trying to phone their parents. “妈妈,爸爸,快看看缆车。我觉得出问题了。我害怕。” "Mom, dad, please see the cable car. I think there's a problem. I'm scared." � 母亲们、父亲们、亲戚们、人群,他们全都开始聚到山坡上,每个人都望着那辆小小的缆车,它高高地挂在天上,倾斜成45度。 Mothers and fathers and relatives and crowds, they all start gathering on the hill, and everybody is looking at the small cable car that's hanging high in the sky on its side at 45 degrees. 就在一个小时前,沙里夫的妈妈还在他出门上学时亲了他的额头,而现在她站在山坡上看着自己的儿子在缆车里,沙里夫也不确定自己能不能看见她。 Only an hour ago Sharif's mother kissed his forehead as he left for school, and now she was on the hillside seeing her son in the cable car, and Sharif wasn't sure if he could see her. “我妈妈说,”沙里夫说,“救援来了。她说救援来了。” "My mother says," Sharif says, "help is coming. She says help is coming." 两个小时后,山坡上挤满了全镇的人,全都来了。而沙里夫,他试着想点别的事情让脑子忙起来。所以他一边侧挂着一边数山坡上的人——90、95、100——但有将近8000人正在看着他们。 Two hours later the hillside is filled with the whole town, all there. And Sharif, he tries to think of something else to keep his mind busy. So while hanging sideways he counts the people on the hillside — 90, 95, 100 — but nearly 8,000 people are watching them. 下面很多人现在正用手机拍摄,这些影像正传向全世界,人们在电视上、在商店里、在办公室里、在医院里,在全国各地看着那辆悬着的缆车。 And many below are now recording on their phones, and the recordings are going out to the world, and people watch the hanging cable car on TVs and in shops and offices and hospitals all across the country. 不过他们身处荒无人烟的地方,最近的路要走四个小时。四个小时。所以任何救援都只能靠直升机,救援必须从空中来。但同时,太阳一落山、天一黑,就不能用直升机了。 They are in the middle of nowhere though, and the closest road is four hours away. Four hours away. So any help has to be from a helicopter, so the help must come from the air. But at the same time, you can't use a helicopter once the sun has gone down and it's dark. �️ 在最近的镇上,他们写了一封信请求直升机。但这要花多久? In the nearest town they write a letter asking for a helicopter. But how long will this take? 现在山坡上年纪大的人们,他们在谈论1994年。而在1994年,13名妇女和儿童从这些山里的一辆缆车上摔了下去,只有一个人活了下来——一个婴儿。 Now older men on the hillside, they're talking about 1994. And in 1994, 13 women and children fell from a cable car in these mountains, and only one person survived — a baby. 而现在造这辆缆车的人们,他们抬头看着剩下的那根钢索,他们说这根钢索还能撑10个小时,如果神愿意的话。再有10个小时它就会断。 And now the men who built this cable car, they're looking up at the remaining wire, and they say the wire should last another 10 hours, god willing. Another 10 hours before it breaks. ️ 在钢索上挂了四个小时之后,巴基斯坦的太阳滚烫地高悬在天上,没有任何地方可以躲太阳。 After four hours on the wire, the sun is boiling and high in the sky in Pakistan, and there's nowhere to hide from the sun. 太热了,汗水流进沙里夫的眼睛里。没有水,没有食物。一个男孩吐到车外,而那个有心脏病的男孩,他直接失去了意识,他晕过去了。醒醒啊兄弟,醒醒。沙里夫摇他,但他的眼睛一直闭着。 It's so hot, swe

  4. 9月22日

    英语对话B2|智能眼镜:他偷拍了329名女性

    他知道你的名字 �含双语逐字稿。 给我每天10分钟,我帮你快速练出流利口语。到微信体验我的英语口语 App:coffeechatenglish 英国母语外教|中级英语听力|B1|磨耳朵|可理解性输入|慢速英语 听之前,先快速看一眼下面的双语逐字稿,了解大意。听得更懂,学得更快。 � 你好,James。 Hello James. 你好,Tristan。 Hello Tristan. 我们是两位以英式英语为母语的英语老师,今天要讲的是关于Meta新款智能眼镜的故事。带有隐藏摄像头的眼镜——摄像头就在眼镜里面。 We are two native English English teachers, and today are stories of Meta's new smart glasses. Glasses with a hidden camera — a camera inside the glasses. 给你讲个故事。你准备好听这个了吗? Here's a story for you. Are you ready for this one? 当然准备好了。随时都准备好。 I am, of course. Always ready. � 2025年5月。西班牙巴塞罗那的警察逮捕了一名男子,他们看到他头上戴着Meta眼镜。他们把眼镜拿走,然后发现他偷偷拍摄了329段街上女性的视频。这些视频是为了他的——他是一个网红。 May 2025. Police in Barcelona in Spain arrest a man, and they see Meta glasses on his head. They take them, and they realise he's secretly filmed 329 videos of women in the street. So these videos are for his — he's an influencer. 他把这些视频发到网上,用来卖他的课程,他的"搭讪高手"课程。教你怎么操控女性,怎么骗她们跟你上床。这基本上就是所谓的"搭讪高手"。 He was posting these videos online to sell his course, his pickup artist course. How to manipulate women, how to trick them to sleep with you. That's essentially what a pickup artist is. 我看过一部在美国迈阿密拍的纪录片,里面有好几个做这种搭讪的网红。你知道,他们戴着Meta眼镜去和女孩搭讪。然后女孩们都很震惊,因为突然之间,你知道,她们本来以为他是个好人。然后她们上网一看,视频已经火了,网上有整整一个小时的约会全过程。而她们从头到尾都在被偷偷拍摄。 And I saw this documentary based in Miami, in America, and there's multiple influencers of the style that do pickup. You know, they chat to girls with the Meta glasses on. And then the girls are like shocked, because suddenly, you know, they thought he was a nice guy. And then they go online and they've gone viral, and there's like a whole hour-long date of them online. And they were just secretly being filmed all along. 你觉得这件事怎么样? So what do you think of that? 我觉得很恶心。我觉得相当恶心。 I think it's disgusting. I think it's pretty disgusting. � 但还有比这更糟糕的一层。Meta眼镜上有一个小灯,它会亮起来,表示正在录制,对吧?就是那种经典的闪烁灯光——"我正在录像"。但是这些偷偷录像的人,有一种特殊的贴纸可以买,贴在灯的上面,或者也可以把眼镜改装一下。然后它看起来就跟普通眼镜一模一样。 But it's one level worse than that. So there's a small light on the Meta glasses that flicks on enough to symbolise recording, right? The classic kind of flickering light — 'I'm recording now'. But these people who secretly record, there's a special sticker you can buy that you put over the top of it, or you can have them adjusted. And then it just looks like normal glasses. 所以这不只是没有征得同意的问题。他们甚至完全没有机会发现自己正在被拍摄。 So it's not just no consent. They're not even given the chance to see that they're being filmed in any way. 完全正确。所以他们把灯遮住,让对方以为这就是一副普通眼镜。 Absolutely. So they're covering the light so that the person believes the glasses are just normal glasses. 没错。 That's right. 所以它真的是完全秘密的。 So it is literally secret. 它是彻头彻尾秘密的。因为如果有一部手机对着你的脸,你多少会知道自己在被拍。但如果你不知道,那么你就有选择权,对吧?你有选择权去相应地调整自己的行为。 It's completely secret. Because if there's a phone in your face, you kind of know you're being filmed. But if you don't, then you have the choice, right? You have the choice to modify your behaviour accordingly. � 但是被偷偷拍摄——这会影响人与人之间的相处方式。比如说,我和别人一样喜欢开玩笑。 But secretly being filmed — it's going to affect how people interact with each other. For example, I enjoy a joke like the next man. 而且可以说我的幽默感比较大胆。我会很害怕自由地说话。我在一个家庭派对上,或者在酒吧里,只是和一群人聊天。而到了明年或者两年之后,人们会自然而然地变得更加乏味、更加平淡。更加害怕自由地表达自己。 And you could say I have a more adventurous sense of humour. I'd be terrified of speaking freely. I'm at a house party, or at the pub, just chatting to a group. And by next year or two years, people are going to just start naturally becoming more vanilla and more plain. A bit more afraid to express themselves freely. 不只是玩笑,还有观点,政治观点,或者你知道,尤其是那些政治上敏感的话题,比如以色列、加沙什么的。干脆什么都不说更省事,免得自己正在被拍。 It's not just jokes, but it's opinions, political opinions, or you know, like, especially politically charged things like whatever — Israel, Gaza. Easier just to not say anything in case I'm being filmed. 问题在于,如果你和朋友在私下开玩笑,但突然之间那个私下的玩笑变成了公开的玩笑,那就是一个很大的问题。 Well, the thing is, if you're with friends and you're joking in a private way, but then suddenly that private joke becomes a public joke, then that is a large problem. 到目前为止,这种设备在美国已经卖出了七百万台。在那部纪录片里,我看到一个人——有一个类似Meta眼镜追踪的应用程序。所以你可以看到其他使用Meta眼镜的人。于是他就在纽约曼哈顿一带找到这些人,然后问他们关于Meta眼镜的事,还有,你知道,他们戴着它有什么感受。 Seven million of these devices have been sold in America so far. On this documentary, I saw this guy — there's like a Meta glasses tracker app. So you can see other people that use the Meta glasses. And so he finds people just around Manhattan in New York, and he asks them about the Meta glasses and, you know, how they feel about wearing them. 而令人毛骨悚然的是,他采访的人里大概有一半都说,是啊,没问题啊,老兄。就像,人们本来就会拿手机对着别人。这和那个没什么两样。但他们完全看不出这是对隐私的侵犯。我觉得这有点令人不安。 And the creepy thing is, like half of the people he interviews are just like, yeah, no problem, man. Like, people point phones at people. This is just the same as that. But they don't see how it's an invasion of privacy, like at all. I found that a bit disturbing. 完全同意。 Absolutely. �️ 目前,很多雇主在面试中使用智能眼镜。你可以想象它将来会被怎么使用。他们用智能眼镜来录制面试,但同时也把它当作一种人脸识别系统。他们能做的就是识别出这个人的身份,对这个人进行背景调查,看他的社交媒体上说了什么,或者他在网上发过什么。然后他们就能在那个场合里,在那场面试里,在那次会面里,一边和这个人说话,一边对他做出评估。这真是不可思议。 So at the moment, many employers are using smart glasses in interviews. You can see how it will be used in the future. They're using the smart glasses to record the interview, but they're also using it as a kind of facial recognition system. And so what they're able to do is to identify the individual, run the background checks on that individual in terms of what their social media says or what they've posted online. And then they're able, within that session, within that interview, within that meeting, to evaluate the person as they are speaking to that person. Which is just incredible. 这项技术的另一个用途,同样是利用这套人脸识别系统——有一种软件可以让你看到一个人的微表情。微表情就是你脸上细小的变化,能显示你是开心还是难过。然而,还有更细微的变化。因此他们能够判断你是不是在说谎。 Another use of this technology, using this facial recognition system — there is a software which enables you to see the micro expressions of an individual. Micro expressions are small little variations in your face which show if you are happy, if you are sad. However, there are more subtle variations. And so they are able to identify if you are lying. 但你也可以想象搭讪高手会怎么利用这一点。基本上,他们会戴着眼镜去搭讪女性,对吧?他们戴着眼镜,然后眼镜就能准确看出这个女人的感受。眼镜还会在镜片里给他们一个小小的脚本,告诉他们接下来该说什么,还有,你知道,怎么去模仿她、迎合她的情绪。然后就会变得非常诡异,就像,你知道,心理分析师那样,像催眠一样的东西。 But imagine as well how pickup artists will use that. So basically, they'll have the glasses on and they're trying to chat up women, right? They'll have the glasses on, and then the glasses will see exactly how the woman is feeling. And it will give them a little script in the glasses of like exactly what to say next, and exactly, you know, to mirror her and to reflect how she feels. And then it'll be all weird, like, you know, psychoa

  5. 9月15日

    英语故事B1|马克·扎克伯格 Vs 9岁女孩|律师为她的心智而战

    她一天刷了16个小时! �含双语逐字稿。 给我每天10分钟,我帮你快速练出流利口语。 体验我的英语口语 App: https://studio.com/apps/tristan/coffeechat 有任何问题?加我微信:coffeechatenglish 英国母语外教|中级英语听力|B1|磨耳朵|可理解性输入|慢速英语 听之前,先快速看一眼下面的双语逐字稿,了解大意。听得更懂,学得更快。 ️ 今天用B1级别英语讲述的真实故事,是关于一位律师走进法庭,对抗最强大的公司,为孩子们抵御社交媒体的故事。 Today's true story in B1 English is of a lawyer going into court against the most powerful companies to defend children against social media. 这是大卫对抗歌利亚。 This is David versus Goliath. Mark Lanier的女儿带着一个新案子来找他。 Mark Lanier's daughter came to him with a new case. “爸爸,加州有一个女孩需要你。” "Daddy, there's a girl who needs you in California." Mark是一名律师,而且Mark已经打败过一些最大的公司。他是一个65岁的男人,有12个孙辈。 Mark was a lawyer, and Mark had already beaten some of the biggest companies. He was a 65-year-old man with 12 grandkids. 如今他的女儿Rachel,也是一名律师,已经为一个新案子准备了好几个月。她有证据,她有证人。 Now his daughter Rachel, also a lawyer, was building a new case for many months. She had evidence, she had witnesses. 现在她的父亲可以把这个案子带上法庭了。 Now her father could take it into the courtroom. � 这个案子是关于一个9岁的女孩,Kaylee。 This case was about a 9-year-old girl, Kaylee. Kaylee在6岁的时候就迷上了YouTube。她9岁的时候就在用Instagram了。 Now, Kaylee got hooked on YouTube when she was 6 years old. She was on Instagram when she was 9. 到了10岁,Kaylee就不出自己的卧室了。Kaylee在学校里成绩不及格,她甚至开始割伤自己、伤害自己。 By 10 years old, Kaylee wasn't leaving her bedroom. Kaylee was failing at school, and she was even cutting and hurting herself. 每一次她妈妈把手机拿走,这个女孩都会控制不住地发抖和哭泣。 Every time her mother took the phone away, the girl shook and cried uncontrollably. 有一天,Kaylee在Instagram上花了超过16个小时。一天之内16个小时。 One day, Kaylee spent more than 16 hours on Instagram. 16 hours in one day. 在洛杉矶法庭的一边,是Mark Lanier和他的女儿们。 On one side of the Los Angeles courtroom is Mark Lanier and his daughters. 在法庭的另一边,是世界上最强大的两家公司,Meta和YouTube,还有几十位世界上最顶尖的律师,以及Mark Zuckerberg本人——Meta的首席执行官,他拥有Facebook和Instagram。 On the other side of the courtroom is two of the world's most powerful companies, Meta and YouTube, and dozens of the world's best lawyers, and Mark Zuckerberg himself, the CEO of Meta, who owns Facebook and Instagram. 对Mark Lanier来说,这是一场圣战——一场争夺我们孩子心灵的战争。 For Mark Lanier, this is a holy war — the war for the minds of our children. 在这场审判中,Mark Zuckerberg和他的团队走进了法庭,而他们全都戴着内置隐藏摄像头的Meta眼镜。 In this trial, Mark Zuckerberg walked into the courtroom with his team, and they were all wearing Meta glasses with hidden cameras inside. 如果你喜欢由一位英语老师讲述的中级英语故事,那你就来对地方了。链接里有50种语言的免费文字稿。请订阅,这样你就不会错过新的一集,也能帮助我实现用简单英语分享世界上最好故事的使命。给我们点个赞,拿你姐姐的手机,给我们点个赞,再拿你奶奶的手机,也给我们点个赞。 If you like intermediate stories told by an English teacher, you're in the right place. A transcript in 50 languages is free in the link. Subscribe to not miss new episodes and to help my mission of sharing the world's best stories in simple English. Give us a like, take your sister's phone, give us a like, and take your grandma's phone, and give us a like too. 回到故事。 Back to the story. �‍️ Mark Lanier在德克萨斯州长大,童年很普通。他的父亲是一名销售员,母亲是一名家庭主妇。 Mark Lanier grew up in Texas, an ordinary childhood. His father was a salesman and his mother a housewife. Mark上的是美国最便宜的法学院之一。学费每小时只要4美元。 Mark went to one of the cheapest law schools in America. It cost only $4 per hour. Mark是一个很有天赋的演讲者。当他说话的时候,他说得很有力量,人们都会听他说。在他做律师的头五年里,他赢下了每一个案子。 Mark was a talented speaker. When he spoke, he spoke with power, and people listened to him. In his first five years as a lawyer, he won every case. 然而,他还是输了一次。而且他本来就应该输,他活该输。 Still, he lost. And he should have lost, and he deserved to lose. 他为一家他明知有罪的公司辩护。 He fought for a company who he knew was guilty. “我到底在做什么?” "What am I doing?" Mark在开车回家的路上这样问自己。他输掉的这个案子——嗯,它改变了他的人生。 Mark asked himself as he drove home. This case he'd lost — well, it changed his life. 于是Mark开办了自己的律师事务所。这样他就可以选择接哪些案子,他就可以只选择那些他自己相信的案子。Mark说:“你可以用这种力量做可怕的事,但你也可以用它做伟大的事。” So Mark started his own law firm. This way he could choose which cases to take, and he could choose only cases that he believed in. Mark says, "You can do horrible things with this power, but you can also do great things." Mark为普通人,为我,为你,从制药公司、从化工公司那里赢得了将近200亿美元。 Mark won nearly $20 billion for ordinary people, for me, for you, from drug companies, from chemical companies. 但Meta和YouTube,它们是完全不同的猛兽。它们是歌利亚,而Mark是大卫。 But Meta and YouTube, they were a different beast. They were Goliath, and Mark was David. � 距离开庭还有四个月。 Four months until the trial. Mark的主要任务是用证据证明,这些应用造成伤害不是出于意外,而是出于设计。 Mark's main task is to prove with evidence that these apps cause harm not by accident, but by design. 是故意造成伤害。 Cause harm on purpose. Mark Lanier本来可以向法庭索要一大笔钱,但他反而什么都没有要。 Mark Lanier, he could ask the court for a huge sum of money, but instead he asks them for nothing. Mark是一个有宗教信仰的人。每个星期天他都在当地的教堂教授耶稣的教义,而且Mark还痴迷于人工智能。 Mark is a religious man. Every Sunday he teaches the lessons of Jesus at his local church, and Mark is also obsessed with AI. 所以在法庭上有陪审团。陪审团就是那12个人,12位普通公民,就像你妈妈,就像你爸爸。陪审团的工作就是决定一个人是无罪还是有罪。 So in the court there is the jury. The jury is the 12 people, 12 ordinary citizens, like your mum, like your dad. The jury's job is to decide if someone is innocent or guilty. 于是Mark制作了全部12位陪审员的AI版本。 So Mark made AI versions of all 12 of the jury members. 他知道陪审员的年龄、他们的工作、他们的家庭状况,而且他还知道每一位陪审员最敬佩的三个人和最不敬佩的三个人。 So he knew the jury's age, their job, their family situation, and he knew the three people each jury member admired the most and admired the least. 然后Mark为每一位陪审员的头脑做了一个AI复制品。 And Mark made an AI copy of each of the jury's mind. Mark每天晚上都在这12个AI版本的陪审员身上练习他的论证。他问他们对这个证人、那个证人怎么看。他问他们那天有什么可能让他们感到困惑。 Mark practiced his arguments on the 12 AI versions of the jury every night. He asked them what they thought of this witness, that witness. He asked what might have confused them that day. 他说,他平均每晚只睡四个小时。“睡眠是一种额外的好处,”他说,“但不是必需品。” He slept, he says, on average just four hours a night. "Sleep's a bonus," he said, "but not one that's necessary." �️ 开庭审判。 The trial. 审判一开始,Meta就说:“这个女孩的问题来自她艰难的童年。她的问题不是来自Instagram。” As the trial starts, Meta says, "The girl's problems come from her difficult childhood. Her problems don't come from Instagram." Mark说:“法庭上的各位。 Mark says, "People of the court. “仅仅因为一个人本来就头痛,”他说,“这并不给你用石头砸他的权利。”然后再说:“他们本来就头痛。不是我的错。” Just because someone already has a headache," he said, "that doesn't give you the right to hit them with a rock." And then say, "They already had a headache. Not my fault." Mark和他的女儿们日夜工作,收集了数百万页的证据,而他们找到了黄金。 Mark and his daughters worked day and night collecting millions of pages of evidence, and they found gold. YouTube在2012年的一条内部消息说,它的目标不是获得更多的观众。哦不,它的目标是让观众上瘾。 A YouTube message from 2012 said that its goal was not to get more viewers. Oh no, its goal was to make viewers addicted. 另一份文件说:“这些平台是注意力赌场。而庄家永远是赢家。” Another document said, "These platforms are attention casinos. And the house always wins." Meta在2018年的一份文件说:“为

  6. 9月8日

    英语对话B1|我们亲身经历的5个真实灵异故事!一本书飞过卧室

    书不断翻到同一页�含双语逐字稿。给我每天10分钟,我帮你快速练出流利口语。 体验我的英语口语 App: https://studio.com/apps/tristan/coffeechat有任何问题?加我微信:coffeechatenglish英国母语外教|中级英语听力|B1|磨耳朵|可理解性输入|慢速英语听之前,先快速看一眼下面的双语逐字稿,了解大意。听得更懂,学得更快。 那时候,我们住在英国的一栋老房子里。那栋房子大约有300年的历史。 So, we lived in an old house in England. The house was about 300 years old. “我的房子可能比美国的任何东西都要老。” "My house was probably older than anything in America." “是啊,比大多数东西都老。” "Yeah, most things." “是啊。” "Yeah." 邻居过来说,我家新搬进去的那栋房子里有一个鬼魂。我当时大概15岁,所以我确实记得这件事。那个鬼魂是一个老人的——邻居是这么说的。 The neighbour came and she said that there was a spirit in the new house that my family moved into. I was about 15, so I do remember it. The spirit was of an old man — so the neighbour said. 有一次所有人都出去了,家里只有我一个人。我的卧室在顶楼,我能听见脚步声慢慢地上楼梯,但还有一种听起来像拐杖的声音。拐杖是老人用的棍子,就是老人用来帮助自己走路的那种。 One time when everyone was out, I was the only one in the house. My bedroom was on the top floor, and I could hear footsteps slowly coming up the stairs, but also the sound of what sounded like a cane. A cane is an old man's stick, like an old man uses to help them walk. 所以我能听见那个老人的拐杖轻轻地敲在地板上,上楼梯的脚步声是这样的……但接着就会有第三个声音,是拐杖的声音,对吧?那就像是——那是一种缓慢的走路声,然后拐杖又…… So I could hear the old man's cane, which was tapping lightly on the floor, and the stepping up the stairs was like… but then there would be a third sound of the cane, right? It was like a — it's a slow walking, and then the cane kind of… 而且它离我的卧室门越来越近。我心里想:“我的天,我的天,我的天。”然后我躲进了被子里。脚步声越来越近的时候,我一直躲在被子下面。 And it was getting closer and closer to my bedroom door. And I was thinking, "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god." And I hid under my bed sheets. I was hiding under the bed sheets as the footsteps got closer and closer. 到这个时候,脚步声走到了我的门口,我已经浑身是汗,全身湿透,那是紧张出的汗。我心里想:“我的天,就是现在了。我完蛋了。” By this time I was fully covered in sweat, completely wet, a nervous sweat, as the footsteps got to my door. And I was thinking, "Oh my god, this is it. I'm finished." 人对超自然经历的反应就是恐惧,因为那是未知的。你知道的,那是一种全新的东西,你只有在电影里才听说过,而电影里发生的都是最糟糕的事。 How you respond to paranormal experiences is with fear, because it's the unknown. You know, it's something completely new that you only hear about in movies where the worst things happen. “你一开始就知道那是超自然的吗,还是以为有人在房子里?” "Did you know it was paranormal at first, or did you think somebody was in the house?" 嗯,我当时一个人在家大概两三天,其他人都不在。而且我很清楚这一点。但正是那个脚步的节奏——咚、咚、咚、咚——还有拐杖那种轻轻的滴答声,让我确定那不是我家里的任何人。而且,那也不是入侵者。所有的门都是关着的,没有任何入侵者的迹象。 Well, I was alone in the house for like two or three days and everyone else was gone. And I knew that. But it was the rhythm of the footsteps — that boom, boom, boom, boom — and the kind of little ticking sound of the cane that confirmed to me that was no one in my family. But also, it's not an intruder. All the doors were closed and there was no sign of the intruder. 它越来越近,我浑身是汗,然后它到了我的门口。接着,就在我以为它要进来的时候——过了两分钟,什么也没有。过了五分钟,什么也没有。过了十分钟,什么也没有。然后我就下楼,四处看了看。之后大概有三天,我都没在那个房间睡觉。 As it got closer and closer, I was fully covered in sweat, and it got to my door. And then, just as I thought it was going to enter — after two minutes, nothing. After five minutes, nothing. After ten minutes, nothing. And I just went downstairs and kind of looked around. And I didn't sleep in that room for like three days after. “不是吧,那——你是过了多少分钟才开门的?” "No, that's — how many minutes later do you open the door?" 是啊,对我来说大概是十分钟。我记得我开门的时候有点像是“我不怕,我要抓住它”——就是那种肾上腺素上头的感觉,你懂吧?就像是,不管是谁在房子里,你……我当时手里可能还拿着个棒球棍之类的东西。我当时就想,好吧,我必须去查清楚这件事。是在十分钟之后。但我什么也没看见。我谁也没看见。 Yeah, for me it was about ten minutes. And I remember opening the door like, kind of, "I'm not afraid, I'm going to get it" — like kind of adrenaline, you know? It's just like, whoever's in the house, like, you… I might have even been holding like a baseball bat or something. I was kind of like, right, I have to investigate this. After ten minutes. But I didn't see anything. I didn't see anyone. 接下来说我爸——我父亲是意大利人,他在那边有一栋房子。而我知道,我在意大利的一个朋友告诉过我,他的祖母就是在那栋房子里去世的。 Next, my dad — my father is from Italy and he has a house over there. And I knew that one of my friends in Italy, he told me that his grandmother died in that house. 但是有一天晚上我在睡觉,在那个——我们楼上有一间很大的卧室,里面有三张床。夜里的某个时候,在我睡着之前,大概是晚上11点或者午夜,突然床的下半部分就沉了下去,床上所有的弹簧都被压了下去,就像有人用全身的力量和重量坐在了床上。我的腿也跟着沉了下去。有什么东西和我一起坐在床上。 But I was sleeping one night in the — we have a big bedroom upstairs and there's three beds in it. And sometime during the night, before I went to sleep, maybe about 11p.m., midnight, suddenly the bottom half of the bed just went down, and all the springs of the bed just went down, like with the full force and weight of someone sitting on the bed. Like my legs went down with it. There was something sitting on the bed with me. 是啊。所以我又一次下了楼,实际上我在客厅睡了两个星期,开着灯听播客。这大概是九年前的事,所以我当时大概29、30岁。 Yeah. And so again, I went downstairs and I slept in the living room for two weeks actually, like listening to a podcast with the light on. And this was about maybe nine years ago, so I was like 29, 30 years old. 有意思的是,我的一个好朋友来做客,他说:“那么,兄弟,我住哪个卧室?”我就说:“哦,你可以住楼上那间卧室。”我一个字都没提鬼的事。 Interestingly enough, a good friend of mine came to visit and he was like, "Well, man, what bedroom am I staying in?" And I was like, "Oh, you can have the upstairs bedroom." I didn't say anything about a ghost. 但第二天早上,他走下楼梯来到我朋友Nikki那里,用他那种单调的声音说:“你的房间闹鬼。”他下楼来吃早餐的时候就说:“你的房间闹鬼。”而我之前完全没有跟他提过我在那个房间的鬼故事经历。我就说:“为什么这么说?”他说:“有什么东西碰了我的脚。” But the next morning, as he walked down the stairs to my friend Nikki, he says in his monotonous voice, he's like, "Your room is haunted." And as he came down the stairs for breakfast, he says, "Your room is haunted." And I didn't say anything to him about my ghost experience in that room. And I was like, "Why is that?" And he said, "Something touched my foot." “那是能发生的最糟糕的事了。” "That's the worst thing that can happen." 是啊,当你躺在床上的时候,那是能发生的最可怕的事。所以,有东西摸了他的脚,就在那个曾经有东西坐在我床上的同一个房间里。而且在那之前,我在那个房间里有过好几次感觉,好像房间里还有别的什么东西和我在一起。但后来当有东西坐在我床上时,那就确认了那个房间里确实有某种实体。 Yeah, that's the most scary thing that can happen when you're lying in a bed. So something stroked his foot in the same room that something sat on my bed. And there's been a couple of times in that room previously where I felt like there was some kind of something else in the room with me. But then when something sat on my bed, that confirmed that there was some kind of entity in that room. The rest is at SimpleEnglishBooks.com/b8

  7. 8月19日

    英语故事B1|牙买加冬奥雪车队:140公里时速惊险翻车!

    他们挑战了看似不可能的梦想!从热带岛国到冬奥冰道,这是体育史上最精彩的真实故事之一!�含双语逐字稿。给我每天10分钟,我帮你快速练出流利口语。到微信体验我的英语口语 App:coffeechatenglish 英国母语外教|中级英语听力|B1|磨耳朵|可理解性输入|慢速英语 听之前,先快速看一眼下面的双语逐字稿,了解大意。听得更懂,学得更快。 --� 今天要讲的,是我最喜欢的故事之一,而且这是根据真实事件改编的。 Today is one of my favourite stories ever, and it's based on true events. 在炎热的加勒比岛国牙买加,有一位年轻人,名叫杰森。 On the hot Caribbean island of Jamaica, there was a young man called Jason. 杰森是一位跑得很快的短跑运动员。 Now Jason was a fast runner. 杰森站在跑道边缘,双臂交叉抱在胸前,看着其他短跑运动员跑过。 Jason stood at the edge of a running track, arms folded, watching the other sprinters run past. 他有了一个想法。一个奇怪的想法。一个很棒的想法。 He had an idea. A strange one. A good one. "雪橇!"他说道。 "Bobsled!" he said. 他的朋友安德烈笑容满面地慢跑了过来。"雪什么?那是一种渔船吧,兄弟。" His friend Andre jogged over with a big smile. "Bob what? That's a fishing boat, mon." "是雪橇,"杰森说道,"在冰上滑行的那种。他们在冬奥会上比这个项目。" "It's a sled," Jason said, "On ice. They race them at the Winter Olympics." 安德烈放声大笑,拍打着自己的膝盖。 Andre laughed loudly, slapping his knee. "冰!我们哪有冰啊,兄弟。这里是牙买加。我们有沙滩,我们有朗姆酒,我们有欢乐。" "Ice! We don't have ice, mon. This is Jamaica. We have beach, we have rum, we have fun." "而且我们还有速度,"杰森说道。"我们的腿上都是肌肉。看看他的腿,兄弟。"杰森指着一位飞驰而过的短跑运动员说道。"他的腿才是关键所在,伙计!" "And we have speed," said Jason. "We have muscles in our legs. Look at his legs, bro." Jason pointed as a sprinter flew past. "His legs are what matter, boy!" � 回到家后,杰森把自己的想法告诉了妻子。 At home, Jason told his wife about his idea. 她一口把嘴里的茶都喷了出来。 She spat out her tea. "你是个连奥运代表队都没进过的短跑运动员,"她说道。"现在你却想去试试雪橇——你是这么叫的吧。所有人都会笑话你的,亲爱的。" "You're a sprinter who never made the Olympic team," she said. "Now you want to try the bobsled, you call it. Everyone will laugh, darling." 但杰森已经下定了决心。"老婆,你正看着的,是牙买加历史上第一位冬奥会运动员。"他的妻子咯咯地笑了起来。 But Jason's mind was made up. "Wife, you are looking at Jamaica's first Winter Olympian." His wife giggled. "现在让我告诉你,雪橇到底是什么。雪橇是一项冬季运动。四个人合力推动一个大型金属雪橇,在冰面上滑行。他们要以最快的速度,把雪橇沿着一条坡道冲下去——速度比一辆全速行驶的汽车还要快。" "Now let me tell you what a bobsled is. The bobsled is a winter sport. Four men push a big metal sled on ice. They race the bobsled down a hill as fast as they can — faster than a car at top speed." 这段文字稿有50种语言版本,都放在我的网站上。让我们回到故事中,回到杰森想要组建一支雪橇队的那一刻。 The transcript in 50 languages is on my site. Let's go back to the story where Jason wants to make a bobsled team. �️ 杰森来到公共跑道,邀请短跑运动员们加入他的队伍。他观察着那些最优秀的选手。有些短跑运动员觉得他脑子有问题,但也有几个人愿意听他说。 Jason went to the public running track and asked sprinters to join his team. He watched the best ones. Some sprinters thought he was being crazy, but a few listened. 牙买加在全球以短跑运动员速度快而闻名。杰森和安德烈又找到了两名短跑运动员加入他们的队伍——他们的腿脚异常敏捷,却完全不知道该怎么滑雪橇。 Jamaica had a global reputation for fast sprinters. Jason and Andre found two more sprinters to join their team — who had terrifically fast legs, but had no idea how to bobsled. 在这个小小的加勒比岛国牙买加,没有雪橇。没有冰。甚至连雪都没有。 On the small Caribbean island of Jamaica, there was no bobsled. There was no ice. There was not even any snow. 为了训练,这四个小伙子做了一辆带轮子的木制推车。 To practice, the four boys made a wooden cart with wheels. 他们把它推下山坡。他们驾驶着它冲下山坡,当地人在一旁围观,笑得前仰后合。孩子们则在旁边跑着,为他们欢呼加油。但通常到了坡底,这几个小伙子都会失去控制,摔得东倒西歪。 And they pushed it down a hill. They drove it down a hill as the locals watched and had a good laugh. And the children ran alongside them, cheering. But usually the boys lost control of the cart by the bottom and all fell out everywhere. 他们看起来滑稽可笑,但他们确实在不断学习。 They looked ridiculous, but they were learning. ️ 1988年的冬季奥运会,将在加拿大的卡尔加里举行。 So the 1988 Winter Olympics were in Calgary, which is in Canada. 而这几个小伙子需要一笔钱才能飞过去。于是他们敲遍了金斯顿的每一户人家的门。他们在街头卖起了食物。安德烈还向他姐姐借了钱,那笔钱本是她攒下来准备办婚礼用的。最后,他们终于凑够了机票钱。 And the boys needed money to fly there. So they knocked on every door in Kingston. They sold food on the street. And Andre borrowed money from his sister that she was saving for her wedding. And finally, they had enough money to fly. 当他们走出加拿大机场的那一刻,寒冷像一堵砖墙一样,狠狠地砸在了他们脸上。室外气温是零下23摄氏度。大雪纷飞,寒风凛冽。 As they stepped out of the Canadian airport, the cold hit them like a brick wall in the face. The outside temperature was minus 23 Celsius. Snowy, windy. "伙计们,"安德烈说道,"我们已经不在牙买加了。" "Boys," Andre said, "we are not in Jamaica anymore." 四个人盯着这片冰天雪地,震惊不已。 The four men stared at the frozen landscape, shocked. 他们低头看着自己的手指,几秒钟之内就冻得失去了知觉。这也是他们第一次,能看见自己呼出的白气。 They looked down at their fingers that had gone numb in seconds. And for the first time, they could see their own breath. �️ 他们到达了雪橇赛道。 They arrived at the bobsled track. 它像一条冰冻的蛇,蜿蜒着从山上盘旋而下。它比他们在电视上看到的要高得多,也大得多。 It curved down the mountain like a frozen snake. It was so high and so much bigger than they had seen on TV. 在附近,他们看到其他参赛队伍正穿着光滑贴身的战袍热身,用着昂贵的雪橇,带着从容自信的神情。参赛的国家有德国、瑞士、俄罗斯。 Nearby, they saw the other teams warming up in sleek suits, expensive sleds, quiet confidence. You had Germany, Switzerland, Russia. 他们小声议论着,指着这几个肤色黝黑、看起来一脸迷茫、不知该往哪里走的牙买加小伙子。 They whispered and pointed at the dark-skinned Jamaican boys who seemed confused and didn't know where to go. 牙买加人借来了一架没有喷漆的雪橇。它只是一堆丑陋的、灰色的钢铁,坑坑洼洼,破旧不堪。 The Jamaicans borrowed a sled that had no paint on it. It was just ugly, grey steel, dented, old. 于是他们开始训练。他们的第一次练习滑行,简直是一场彻头彻尾的灾难。 So they practiced. And their first practice run was just a disaster. 他们一起步就摇摇晃晃,雪橇在赛道两侧不断地撞来撞去。雪橇冲下去的速度,比他们任何人想象的都要快得多。他们几乎撞遍了赛道上的每一面墙,但他们还是滑到了终点。 They wobbled from the start and their sled banged from one side to the other. Their sled went way faster than any of them had imagined. And they hit nearly every wall in the track, but they made it to the bottom. 其他队伍的反应就是,"什么鬼?"一脸难以置信地看着他们。 The other teams were just like, "What?" Just looking in disbelief. 没有人愿意帮助他们。接着,瑞士队的教练走了过来。他说:"牙买加人,回家去吧,牙买加人,趁着还没有人——趁着你们还没有把自己伤到之前。" Nobody helped them. Then the Swiss coach approached them. He said, "Jamaica, go home, Jamaica, before somebody — before you hurt yourself." 要知道,雪橇是一项危险的运动,过去曾有参赛选手因此丧生。 You see, bobsledding is a dangerous sport and competitors have died in the past. 但杰森从雪橇里爬了出来,肋骨疼痛不已。 But Jason pulled himself out of the sled and his ribs ached. 他看向自己的队友们,队友们也看着他——眼中满是恐惧,仿佛在说:"我们到底在做什么啊,兄弟?" He looked at his teammates and they looked at him — eyes wide with fear, like, "What are we doing, mon?" "再来一次!"他说道。 "Again!" he said. � 他们再次尝试。他们又像新手一样撞上了赛道的墙壁。但每一次训练,他们都能学到一些新的东西。他们学会了如何一起倾斜身体,如何一起调整重心,如何彼此信任。 They tried again. They banged into the walls again, like amateurs. But every time they practiced, they learned something new. They learned

  8. 8月17日

    英语对话B1|农民对抗国王:美国独立战争

    一万个志愿者,是如何击败一个帝国的?�含双语逐字稿。给我每天10分钟,我帮你快速练出流利口语。体验我的英语口语 App: https://studio.com/apps/tristan/coffeechat有任何问题?加我微信:coffeechatenglish英国母语外教|中级英语听力|B1|磨耳朵|可理解性输入听之前,先快速看一眼下面的双语逐字稿,了解大意。听得更懂,学得更快。--- � 你好,你准备好今天来提升你的英语了吗?这是一个关于农民和志愿者们,如何击败了世界上最强大帝国的故事。由我本人和詹姆斯共同为大家呈现,我们两位都是剑桥认证的英语教师。 Hello, are you ready to improve your English today? This is the story of when farmers and volunteers beat the most powerful empire in the world. Presented by myself and James, two Cambridge certified English teachers. 你好,詹姆斯。 Hello James. 你好。 Hello. � 时间是1763年。美国当时还是大英帝国的一部分。 The year is 1763. America was part of Great Britain. 英国刚刚打赢了一场旷日持久、代价高昂的战争,对手是他们的老对手法国。 Britain had just won a long and expensive war against the old enemy France. 这场疯狂的战争之后,英国急需资金。那么,该由谁来为这场战争买单呢?也许是美国人。 After this insane war, Britain needed money. Well, who should pay for the war? Maybe the Americans. 于是,新的税收出台了。有茶叶税。他们还有纸张税、玻璃税。一个税种接着一个税种。但问题是,美国人在英国议会里没有代表席位。没有人征询过他们的意见。没有人聆听过他们的诉求。他们在纳税这件事上没有任何发言权。他们心想,好吧,英国远在三千英里之外。我们为什么要向一个三千英里之外的地方交税呢? So new taxes came in. A tea tax. They had a paper tax, a glass tax. Tax after tax. But the problem is the Americans were not represented in the British parliament. Nobody asked their opinion. Nobody listened to their concerns. They had no choice in the tax. And they thought, well, Britain is 3,000 miles away. Why should we be paying tax to a place 3,000 miles away? 我认为美国人对这种情况感到愤怒是完全有道理的。 I think the Americans were right to be angry about that situation. 而且,这两个民族当时可能在文化上也渐行渐远。当时他们其实属于不同的文化,因为有太多美国人——他们是德国人,是爱尔兰人,是天主教徒,是原住民,是荷兰人,是西班牙人。他们并不一定是英国人,对吧? And the two peoples were maybe culturally growing apart. They were of different cultures at that point, really, because so many Americans were—they were Germans, they were Irish, Catholics, natives, Dutch, Spanish. They weren't necessarily British, right? 嗯,这也是事实。而且,你还要记住,很多人离开英国,是因为他们不喜欢住在那里。 Well, that's true as well. Also, you have to bear in mind that many people left England because they didn't like living there. 嗯,没错,他们去那里是为了开始新的生活,摆脱他们之前生活中所有的烂摊子,对吧? Well, yeah, they went there to start a new life and to escape all of the bullshit from their previous life, right? 紧张局势不断升级。我猜想,大概是在酒馆和印刷所里,也许是在费城和纽约,形成了一种"我们不想再生活在王权统治之下了"的地下运动。 And tensions grew. Probably, I imagine, in inns and printing houses, maybe in Philadelphia and New York, a kind of underground movement of "we don't want to live under the crown anymore." 紧张局势不断加剧。 The tensions grew. ️ 然后,在1770年一个寒冷刺骨的夜晚,波士顿的一群美国人围住了一队英国士兵。 And then on a freezing night in Boston in 1770, a crowd of Americans gathered around a group of British soldiers. 空气中弥漫着愤怒的气息。他们开始向英国士兵投掷东西。据说是雪球和冰块。他们还大声辱骂着。 And there was anger in the air. They started throwing things at the British soldiers. They say snowballs and chunks of ice. They shouted insults. 是的,他们确实这么做了。他们算是一种威胁吗? Yeah, they did. Were they a threat? 是的。 Yeah. 真的吗? Really, though? 是的。我是说,如果一群人朝你走过来,开始向你投掷冰块或冰片——比如说先是雪球,接着是石头,然后——是的,我是说,这确实是一种威胁。石头是可以致命的。我觉得这已经足以构成威胁了。 Yeah. I mean, if a group of guys come up to you and start throwing blocks of ice or pieces of ice—let's say snowballs and then rocks and then—yeah, I mean, it's a threat. Stones can kill you. I think it's a threat enough. 而且那时候他们还没有橡皮子弹。 And they did not have rubber bullets back then. 没有,没有。他们只有真正的子弹。 No, no. They only had real bullets. 而那些"红衫军",也就是英国人,开枪了。五名美国人因此丧命。 And the redcoats, the Brits, shots rang out. Five Americans were dead. � 三年后,发生了一件更大的事情。事实上,这是一个相当著名的历史事件。 Three years later, something bigger happened. In fact, quite a famous event. 美国人打扮成印第安原住民的样子。他们乘船靠近英国的船只。他们登上了那些船,打开了装满茶叶的箱子。 Americans dressed like Native Americans. They rode up to the British boats. They went on board the boats and they opened the chests of tea. 我猜,茶叶当时应该是最大宗的出口商品之一。 So tea would have been one of the biggest exports, I'm sure. 我是说,茶叶在当时的经济中占据了非常重要的地位。所以,茶叶被征收了极其高昂的税,我认为这正是他们专门针对茶叶下手的原因之一。 I mean, tea was a huge part of the economy. So there's a huge, huge tax levy on tea, which I believe is one of the reasons why they focused on destroying that tea. 但他们把所有的茶叶都倒进了大海。整整342箱茶叶。他们花了好几个小时。他们把所有茶叶都倒进了海里。他们周围的海水几乎真的都被染成了茶水的颜色。 But they threw it all into the sea. 342 chests of tea. It took them hours. They threw it all into the sea. The ocean around them would have literally turned into tea. 英国对此有做出回应吗?是不是就是在那时候,他们派出了军舰? Did Britain have a response to that? Is that when they sent the ships? 他们的态度就是,够了。不能再任由局势这样发展下去了。 And they were like, no more. No more playing around. 没错,不能再任由局势发展下去,这是真的。他们开始派遣更多的士兵,打算尽快镇压这场叛乱。 No, no more playing around is true. They started sending more soldiers with the idea of squashing the rebellion as quickly as possible. � 于是美国人已经开始——你懂的,反抗的念头已经在他们脑海中扎根了。他们也开始收集枪支,对吧?秘密地进行着。 So the Americans had started—you know, the idea of fighting had got into their mind. And they had started collecting guns, right? Secretly. 因为发起抗议、向士兵扔雪球是一回事。而当这些抗议者开始武装自己,那就是另外一回事了。 Because there's one thing, having a protest and throwing snowballs at soldiers. It's another thing when those protesters start arming themselves. 我以为法国人在这个时候就已经开始给他们运送枪支了。 I think the French were sending guns to them at this point. 不,不完全是这样。当时法国政客们其实还有些犹豫,不确定要不要参与进来,因为他们无法保证美国叛军一定能获胜。 No, not quite. So the French politicians were still a bit unsure about becoming involved if they could not guarantee a victory for the American rebels. 所以美国需要先赢得法国的信任,才能获得他们的帮助。但在这个阶段,他们还没能获得法国的信任。 So America needed France's confidence in them to get their help. But they did not have France's confidence at this point. 所以他们开始武装自己。武装的意思是,他们在收集自己的枪支。 So they were arming themselves. Arming means they were collecting their own guns. 于是英国人听说了这件事,就向康科德进军,打算收缴这些枪支,也很可能是想惩罚那些收集枪支的人。 So the British heard of this, and they marched towards Concord to take away these guns and probably to punish those people who had collected the guns. 但保罗·里维尔,一位著名的美国人,他连夜骑马穿梭于这些村庄和农场之间,向所有人喊道:"英国人来了!英国人来了!"好让大家提前做好准备。 But Paul Revere, a famous American, he rode through the night around these villages and farms, telling everyone, "The British are coming! The British are coming!" so they could prepare. 果然,英国人真的来了。这个人骑在英国士兵前面,警告人们英国人正要来收缴他们的武器。 And sure enough, the British did come. This guy rode in front of the British soldiers, warning the people that the British were coming to take away their weapons. 于是,到了4月19日这一天。美国人拿起了自己的枪,排好了队列,他们不愿意归还,也不愿意上交自己的枪支。 And so it was April 19th. The Americans got their guns and they lined up and they did not want to return or give back or give away their guns. � 而他们面对的,是训练有素的正规军。这大概正是那个帝

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我是来自英国的剑桥认证英语老师 Tristan Palumbo(英国外教),有 12 年教学经验,曾在英国、日本、韩国、意大利和越南任教。 用真人发音的清晰慢速英语,带你磨耳朵、听来自世界各地的真实故事,适合中级学习者。 每集简介都附完整的中英文双语文字稿。 给我每天10分钟,我帮你快速练出流利口语。 体验我的 App: https://studio.com/apps/tristan/coffeechat 有任何问题?加我微信:coffeechatenglish 这些故事提供丰富的「可理解输入」(Comprehensible Input)。通过听和读这些故事,你会自然地学到新的词汇和表达,同时巩固已经熟悉的语言点。40 多年来,这种「可理解输入」学习法一直被公认为最有效的自然语言习得方法之一。

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