“靈性英語”首期素材，選的是薩古魯2009年在TED上近17分鐘的演講。這個演講，不管是視頻還是中英文字幕，兩年前我都在這個公眾號上分享過。由于太過經(jīng)典，所以又被選中。很開心可以跟大家一起來深入習(xí)練這一篇。近十七分鐘的內(nèi)容，其實(shí)量很多，2500多字，23個段落。很想借助這個演講，讓大家了解薩古魯從一個古怪少年到酷愛摩托的青年再到開悟瑜伽士的傳奇歷程，所以任性不作節(jié)選，全篇分成6期，每期精講4段左右的內(nèi)容。
大家可以先看一下這個演講視頻。兩年多前，樂樂遞給我一本《午夜心靈密談》，那是我第一次聽說薩古魯?？赐陼?，被其深深吸引，但書中形象畢竟平面，看完這個視頻后，才是真正被點(diǎn)燃。
只不過這個視頻的中文字幕，有幾處小問題。到時候我們會在講解音頻中一一提到（詳細(xì)的文本講解音頻同樣會分享在群里）。
第一期文本：
On a certain day, two cows were grazing on the English meadow. English cows. One cow asked the other, ‘what is your opinion about the mad-cow disease?’ The other cow said, ‘I don’t care a hoot. I am anyway a helicopter.” Being a mystic, being a realized being, is just like this: a cow realizing that it’s a cow, and it becomes a celebrated cow. Holy cow, isn’t it? Is it that simplistic? So let me tell you my story.
So as a child, one thing that I realized was, that I was utterly, absolutely ignorant. And everybody around me seemed to know just about everything. I did not know anything at all. So because I did not know anything, I had to pay enormous attention towards everything. My sense of attention become, became like this: if I see a leaf, I could just sit there looking at this leaf just staring at it for hours. If I sat up in my bed, just staring at the darkness, I could just do this for the whole night.
So this attention brought a completely different level of involvement and interaction with just about anything and everything around me, animate and inanimate. But everybody else seemed to know everything and they were just going about their life busy and happy. But I was just staring at every little thing.
Then I saw that, I realized that even they did not know anything, it is just they had their assumptions and belief systems that they were happy with. Either their own or what was handed down to them by someone else. And they not only knew about what is here, they also knew about other worlds, about Gods, about heavens and everything. And here I was struggling to figure out what is what.
日常高頻詞
graze : [ɡreiz] vi 吃草; vt 放牧
meadow：[‘med?u] n 草地；牧場
disease：[di’zi:z] n 疾病
helicopter：[‘helik?pt?] n.直升機(jī)
involvement：[in’v?lvm?nt] n. 投入
interaction：[,int?r’?k??n] n. 互動
celebrated：[‘selibreitid] adj. 著名的
simplistic：[sim’plistik] adj. 太過于簡單的
struggle：vi 努力；使勁
靈性高頻詞
mystic：[‘mistik] n. 隱修士；神秘家
a realized being：n. 覺悟的人；開悟的人
being: n. 存在；生命；人
ignorant: /??ɡn?r?nt/ adj. 無知的
animate：[‘?nimeit] adj. 有生命的
inanimate: [in’?nim?t] adj. 無生命的
assumption: [?’s?mp??n] n. 假設(shè)
belief system：n.信念系統(tǒng)
日常表達(dá)與句型
Holy cow! 天哪！哇塞，不會吧！表達(dá)不可思議的感嘆。
What’s your opinion about…… 你對… 有什么看法？
I don’t care a hoot. 我一點(diǎn)也不在乎／關(guān)我屁事
Either…or : 不是…就是…; 要么…要么…
常用動詞詞組
1. go about : 從事；處理；忙活 （后面跟名詞或動名詞短語）
They were just going about their life busy and happy.
2. hand down: 傳遞下來；流傳下來
3. figure out : 搞清楚；弄明白；理解
習(xí)練建議
1、把高頻單詞，大聲讀五遍，紙上寫十遍，遮住中文猜意思。
2、一字不落的精讀（最好把文本手抄到一個大開本的筆記本上），搞懂每句話的準(zhǔn)確意思，搞懂整段話的準(zhǔn)確意思。（提醒：查閱語法書，查閱網(wǎng)上資料，到群里提問。）
3、聽朗讀音頻三遍，然后自己把這四段話大聲朗讀十遍，碰到讀不順的句子就反復(fù)朗讀至順暢再往下讀。最后一遍錄音，自己聽音糾正。有余力者嘗試背誦全部，或其中一段。
4、造句練習(xí)。選句型或詞組進(jìn)行替換練習(xí)或造句。把自造的句子分享到群里。
5、加入“靈性英語習(xí)練群”，提問交流，發(fā)布朗讀錄音，互相激發(fā)促進(jìn)。
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