IELTS Listening
雅思听力
常有烤鸭问，除了刷题外训练听力的方法。想来大家也都有听说TED的short talks,3min-5min的演讲内容不论是题材还是结构都可作为听力学习不可多得的素材。本期为你送上TED short talks听力学习小窍门。
Why I"m a weekday vegerarian？
为何我选择工作日吃素？
窍门一：
选择一个感兴趣的话题。或者，颜值耐看的speaker。
00:14
About a year ago,I asked myself a question:"Knowing what I know,why am I not a vegetarian?"After all, I"m one of the green guys:I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin.I started a site called TreeHugger --I care about this stuff.I knew that eating a mere hamburger a daycan increase my risk of dying by a third.Cruelty:I knew that the 10 billionanimals we raise each year for meatare raised in factory farm conditionsthat we,hypocritically,wouldn"t even considerfor our own cats, dogs and other pets.Environmentally,meat, amazingly,causes more emissionsthan all of transportation combined:cars, trains, planes, buses, boats, all of it.And beef production uses 100 times the waterthat most vegetables do.
译文：一年前左右，我问自己：“像我这样的人，怎么还在吃肉？” 毕竟我支持环保：和嬉皮士父母在小木屋里长大，我建了一个叫 Treehugger 的网站 － “抱树网”。我很关心环保，我知道光是每天吃一个汉堡，就能增加三分之一的死亡几率；我知道每年我们养殖100亿动物，就为了他们身上的肉，而这些动物生活的那种工厂环境，是我们根本无法想象自己的猫，或是宠物可以居住的。就环境来说，肉品排放的二氧化碳比所有交通工具的排放量还大。汽车、火车、制造肉所使用的水是蔬菜的一百倍。
Language point:adv. 好似路标，每一个引出与转折都是抓取主旨信息的关键。
窍门二：
调整语速以适用于不同的听力目的。通常情况下，若训练抓取主旨大意，调快语速1.5x；反之，重点部分精听则调慢语速0.75x。
I also knew that I"m not alone.We as a societyare eatingtwice as muchmeataswe did in the 50s.So what was once the special little side treatnow is the main, much more regular.So really, any of these anglesshould have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian.Yet, there I was -- chk, chk, chk --tucking into a big old steak.
译文：放眼整个社会，人类所消耗的肉足足比50年代多了两倍。曾经我们当作额外调节的肉，现在却成了日常主食。说真的，以任何角度来说，都足以说服我成为素食者。但我还是，嗯，嗯，嗯，静静地又切开了一块牛排。
So why was I stalling?I realized that what I was being pitchedwasa binary solution.It was eitheryou"re a meat eater or you"re a vegetarian,and I guess I just wasn"t quite ready.Imagine your last hamburger.(Laughter)So my common sense,my good intentions,were in conflict with my taste buds.And I"d commit to doing it later,and not surprisingly, later never came.Sound familiar?
译文：我到底在迟疑什么？我发觉自己身处一个二元对立的境地：吃肉和吃素之间作出抉择。我实在没做好准备，内心向善与味蕾满足，鱼和熊掌，不可兼得。我总是想着明天再做。但明日复明日，明日何其多？
Language point:对数字保持灵敏，不放过每一个特意提出的概念。
窍门三：
听力文本跟读。不得不提，每一个TED short talk 下方的transcript不仅可以切换语言选项，语句还会随视频一并出现标红。跟读不仅更加深入文本体会语言用法，还能纠正语音，提高口语。
So I wondered,might there bea third solution?And I thought about it, and I came up with one.I"ve been doing it for the last year, and it"s great.It"s calledweekday veg.The name says it all:Nothing with a face Monday through Friday.On the weekend, your choice.Simple.If you want to take it to the next level,remember, the major culpritsin terms of environmental damage and healthare red and processed meats.So you want to swap those outwith some good, sustainably harvested fish.It"s structured,so it ends up being simple to remember,and it"s okay to break it here and there.After all, cutting five days a weekis cutting 70 percent of your meat intake.
译文：于是我想着，或许应该有第三种选择？去年我便开始实行周间素食。事如其名，礼拜一到五不吃任何有肉的东西，周末自由选择。红肉和加工过的肉类是破坏环境和健康的罪魁祸首。如果你想要和它们说不，你也可以改食用一些以不破坏环境平衡养殖的鱼类。在这样的规矩下，即使偶尔犯戒也没关系。毕竟五天不吃肉，已经减少了七成的肉量摄入。
Language point:与主题相关的词至关重要，理解意义的同时也要听懂紧跟其后的解释。
后记
听力学习与其说是能力培养，不如说是习惯的养成。不论是刷题还是日常听力，如若对材料没有基本的好奇，缺乏自发的主动积极，听力成绩都不能上去。TED short talks这个素材库内容比较丰富，题材众多，等着好奇的你们去慢慢挖掘哦～
暑期备考难，玛粒在身边～
