摘要：Hello, it's Keith from the Keith Speaking Academy and the YouTube channel English Speaking Success, where you become a more confid

If you want to improve your English listening skills, don't try to understand each and every word.

如果你想提高你的英语听力技巧，不要试图理解每一个单词。

Let's find out what to do instead.

让我们来看看该怎么做。

Hello, it's Keith from the Keith Speaking Academy and the YouTube channel English Speaking Success, where you become a more confident speaker of English.

你好，我是来自 Keith Speaking Academy 和 YouTube 频道 English Speaking Success 的基斯，在这里你将成为更自信的英语演讲者。

You know, I think the biggest mistake that students make when listening to English is sometimes they try to understand every single word.

你知道，我认为学生在听英语时犯的最大错误就是有时他们试图理解每一个单词。

And you can't. Even I can't.

而你是做不到的。连我也做不到。

If you do that, you get lost quickly. You can't keep up.

如果你这样做，你会很快迷失方向，无法跟上。

And then you give up… and you give up… my white towel.

然后你就放弃了，放弃了……我的白毛巾。

You must go beyond individual words. Right.

你必须超越单个单词。对吧。

The secret. The secret. The one thing you should do is always focus on the gist first.

秘诀。你应该做的唯一一件事是始终先关注大意。

The gist is the overall idea. Right.

大意就是整体思想。对吧。

Just try to understand the overall general idea.

只需尝试理解整体的一般思想。

How can you do that? Focus on the Stressed words in a text or in a sentence.

你如何做到这一点呢？关注文本或句子中的重读词。

These are the key ones that you really need in order to understand what someone is saying.

这些是你真正需要的关键字，以理解某人在说什么。

Teachers, we call this sentence stress. Right.

我们老师们称之为句子重音。对吧。

And in this video, I'm going to show you how sentence stress works and how knowing sentence stress will help you understand much more when you listen to real English.

在这个视频中，我将向你展示句子重音是怎么一回事，以及了解句子重音将如何帮助你在听真实英语时理解得更多。

Let's do it.

让我们开始吧。

So sentence stress refers to the words we stress in a sentence.

所以句子重音指的是我们在句子中强调的词。

Surprise!

惊喜！

We stress the most important words, usually the nouns, the verbs, the adjectives, adverbs, not usually prepositions or pronouns or question words. Right.

我们强调最重要的词，通常是名词、动词、形容词、副词，而不通常是介词、代词或疑问词。对吧。

For example, I live in a town near London.

例如，我住在伦敦附近的一个小镇上。

Live, the verb, town, the noun, London, a noun, proper noun, a real noun.

“住”，动词；“小镇”，名词；“伦敦”，名词，专有名词，真实名词。

So why is this important? Because not all languages do this.

那么这为什么重要？因为并不是所有语言都是这样。

So in that sentence, right, I live in a town near London, you can hear the rhythm.

所以在那个句子中，对吧，“我住在伦敦附近的一个小镇上”，你可以听到节奏。

I live in a town near London.

我住在伦敦附近的一个小镇上。

Now, we don't go around speaking like this all the time.

我们并不是一直这样说话。

Where are you from? Hello, my name is Keith.

你来自哪里？你好，我叫 Keith。

Hello, my name is Keith. We don't go around speaking like that.

你好，我叫 Keith。我们并不是这样说话的。

But to show you the stress, I live in a town near London.

但为了向你展示重音——我住在伦敦附近的一个小镇上。

We stress these words. Some languages don't.

我们强调这些词。有些语言则没有。

Some languages stress each syllable almost with equal stress or weight. Right.

有些语言几乎对每个音节都施加相等的重音。对吧。

For example, Mandarin Chinese.

例如，普通话：我住在伦敦附近。

Or Spanish, similarly, tend to stress every syllable.

或者西班牙语，类似地，往往会强调每个音节。

... I live in a city near London...

我住在伦敦附近的一座城市。

It's different. English tends to be, it's more of a stress timed language, by and large.

这很不同。英语往往是一个以重音计时语言，通常来说。

So we stress the words at the same time interval.

所以我们在相同的时间间隔内强调这些词。

Let me show you with two sentences, right, and listen for the stress.

让我用两个句子给你演示，对吧，听听重音。

我住在伦敦附近的一个小镇上。

I've been living in this town just near London for years.

我在这个靠近伦敦的小镇上住了多年。

Can you see or hear the stress is in the same place, even though the second sentence has many more syllables?

你能看到或听到，即使第二个句子有更多的音节，重音也都在同一个地方吗？

And that's what makes English a stress timed language, more or less, generally speaking.

这就是使英语成为一个以重音计时语言的原因，通常来说是这样。

And I personally think that's why English works very well with music, because it has that beat, regular beat.

我个人认为这就是为什么英语与音乐非常契合，因为它有那种节拍，规律的节拍。

And so you can fit the lyrics into that beat.

所以你可以把歌词放入那个节拍中。

Now, if you try and understand every word, you will fail.

现在，如果你试图理解每个单词，你会失败。

Even British people don't do that.

即使是英国人也不会这样做。

We hear living town London years.

我们听到的是住、小镇、伦敦和多年。

That's what we focus on.

这就是我们关注的内容。

So that brings me to my second point, why this is important.

这让我想到了第二个要点，这为什么重要。

Because listening for sentence stress is a strategy native speakers use as well, right?

因为听句子的重音也是母语者使用的一种策略，对吧？

We only focus on those key words, right?

我们只关注那些关键字，对吧？

We are so used to the grammar that we will recognize the tense immediately, right?

我们对语法如此熟悉，以至于能立即识别时态，对吧？

But, and this is interesting, imagine I'm in a disco or speaking to someone over the phone or on a noisy street.

但是，这很有趣，想象一下我在迪斯科舞厅，或者在电话中与某人交谈，或者在嘈杂的街道上。

I will have strategies to help me understand what I cannot hear.

我会有一些策略来帮助我理解我听不到的内容。

I can't hear everything.

我听不到所有的内容。

So I use the strategies like, one of them, focus on the key stressed words.

所以我会使用一些策略，比如，专注于关键的重音词。

Also, I will use the context to help me confirm the tense and to get the overall meaning.

此外，我还会利用上下文来帮助我确认时态和理解整体意思。

Sometimes I will guess.

有时我会猜测。

And all of these are listening strategies that you should develop as well.

这些都是你也应该培养的听力策略。

Listening for stress words, use the context and guess.

注意重音词，利用上下文和猜测。

Now there's a third reason that sentence stress is really important.

现在还有第三个原因，句子重音真的很重要。

And it's because sentence stress can change the meaning of a sentence too, right?

因为句子重音也可以改变句子的意思，对吧？

Let's go back to our example.

让我们回到我们的例子。

我住在伦敦附近的一个城镇。

Stress words provide the new and important information.

重音词提供了新的和重要的信息。

But I could, or you might hear, I live in a town near London.

但我可能会听到，我住在伦敦“附近”的一个城镇。

We've changed, right?

我们改变了，对吧？

And maybe the person is saying this because they want to make it clear that I don't live far away.

也许这个人这么说是因为他们想要明确我离得不远。

So, I live in a town near London, right?

所以——我住在伦敦“附近”的一个城镇，对吧？

You probably still stress the word town, but less because it's less important.

你可能仍然强调“城镇”这个词，但强调得少，因为它不那么重要。

Near is the key information.

“附近”是关键信息。

Imagine somebody said to me, okay, so you live far away from London.

想象一下，有人对我说，好吧，你离伦敦很远。

I would probably say, no, I live in a town near London.

我可能会说，不，我住在伦敦“附近”的一个城镇。

Can you see the stress has changed again?

你能看到重音又变了吗？

No is the key information to say, no, you're wrong.

“不”是关键信息，表示不，你错了。

我住在伦敦附近的一个城镇。

I stress near.

我强调“附近”。

The other words are not stressed so much and they almost disappear because we're repeating them.

其他词没有那么强调，几乎消失，因为我们在重复它们。

They're not important. Got it?

它们不重要，明白了吗？

Of course, do remember, right? Context and intonation play a very important role in deciding what the person means, what they're trying to say.

当然，请记住。上下文和语调在决定一个人想表达的意思时起着非常重要的作用。

But knowing sentence stress, it's essential.

但是了解句子重音是必不可少的。

And it will really help you understand native English speakers or proficient English speakers.

这将真正帮助你理解母语英语者或流利的英语者。

So, to summarise, whatever your level of English, there will always be things you don't understand.

所以，总结一下，无论你的英语水平如何，总会有你不理解的东西。

Okay, accept it.

好吧，接受这一点。

Don't try to understand everything.

不要试图理解所有内容。

Focus on the stressed words.

专注于重音词。

Focus on understanding the overall meaning.

专注于理解整体意思。

Focus on gist.

专注于大意。

Now, your next question is, great, Keith, how do I do this?

现在，你的下一个问题是，好的，凯斯，我该怎么做？

How do I develop and practise this skill?

我该如何发展和练习这个技能？

Great question.

好问题。

Let me give you five tips to help you do this in the next part of the video.

让我给你五个建议，帮助你在视频的下一部分做到这一点。

Oh, by the way, if you're enjoying this and finding it useful, do remember to subscribe.

哦，顺便说一下，如果你喜欢这个视频并觉得它有用，请记得订阅。

Give me a like as well.

也给我点个赞。

Okay, tips for practise.

好的，关于练习的建议。

Number one, do dictations.

第一，做听写。

A dictation is where you listen and you write down or type what you hear.

听写是指你听到的内容，然后写下来或打出来。

So, do dictations with very, very short audio texts, just two to three sentences.

所以，可以进行非常短的听写，只需两到三句话。

Okay, listen and write the key words, the stressed words.

听并写下关键词和重音词。

Listen again and add any extra words if you can.

如果可以的话，再听一遍，添加额外的词。

Listen a third time and just try to write everything you can.

第三次听，尽量写下你能听到的所有内容。

Then go back and check with the tape script if you can get a tape script.

然后回去检查录音稿，如果你能找到录音稿的话。

Nowadays, on YouTube videos, you can get the tape scripts very easily.

如今，在 YouTube 视频上，你可以很容易地找到录音稿。

Dictations, it's great.

听写是很棒的练习。

We do this a lot in the gold live lessons, in the gold course.

我们在金牌课程的直播课中经常这样做。

Students enjoy it and find it very, very useful.

学生们喜欢这种方式，并且觉得非常有用。

I think, I hope so.

我想是的，我希望如此。

Number two, do plenty of longer listening, news stories, podcasts, things like that, where you don't look up any words.

第二，进行大量的长时间听力练习，比如新闻故事、播客等，在这个过程中你不用查任何单词。

You don't take notes.

你不用做笔记。

You just listen.

你只是听。

So, it doesn't feel like studying, right?

所以，这感觉不像是在学习，对吧？

It feels that you're more like a native speaker rather than a student.

你会感觉更像是一个母语者，而不是一个学生。

Number three, change your expectations.

第三，改变你的期望。

Don't expect to understand everything.

不要期待理解所有内容。

Number four, listen to English at least one hour a day.

第四，每天至少听英语一个小时。

Yes, as students, we don't listen enough.

是的，作为学生，我们听得不够。

One hour a day.

每天一个小时。

Now, that can be fitting it into your daily routine, 20 minutes in the morning when everybody's getting up, before everybody wakes up, maybe on your commute for 10 minutes, maybe on your daily walk for 20 minutes, in the gym for 10 minutes, or just before you go to bed, another 20 minutes.

现在，这可以融入你的日常生活中，早上大家起床时 20 分钟，大家还没醒时，通勤时 10 分钟，日常散步时 20 分钟，健身时 10 分钟，或者就在睡觉前再 20 分钟。

Try and get in one hour a day.

尽量每天听一个小时。

If you can do 10,000 steps, you can do an hour of English.

如果你能走 1 万步，你就能听一个小时的英语。

The thing is, if you do, you will notice a huge improvement in weeks.

关键是，如果你这样做，你会在几周内注意到巨大的进步。

Number five, stop using subtitles.

第五，停止使用字幕。

I know, I'm sorry.

我知道，很抱歉。

And I know on Netflix, it's like, what did he say?

我知道在 Netflix 上，常常会问：他刚才说了什么？

What did he say?

他说了什么？

Because the noise is louder than the voice.

因为噪音比声音更大。

But try and get into the habit, sometimes not using subtitles.

但要试着养成有时不使用字幕的习惯。

Why?

为什么？

Because subtitles encourage you to focus on every single word.

因为字幕会让你专注于每一个单词。

As you're reading, right, doesn't help you focus on the stressed words.

当你在阅读时，这并不能帮助你关注重音词。

That's it.

就是这样。

Five easy tips.

五个简单的建议。

So there you go.

所以你看，就是这些。

Now you know what sentence stress is.

现在你知道什么是句子重音了。

You know why it's important and how to practice it.

你知道了它的重要性以及如何练习。

So what are you going to do now?

那么你现在打算怎么做？

Let me know in the comments below.

在下面的评论中告诉我。

Let me know what you think of this video.

告诉我你对这个视频的看法。

Oh, by the way, if you want to know more about the gold course I mentioned, there's also a link down below.

哦，顺便说一下，如果你想了解我提到的金牌课程，下面也有一个链接。

But for now, thank you so much for watching.

但现在，非常感谢你的观看。

And I will see you in the next video.

我们下个视频再见。

Take care now. Bye bye.

保重。再见。

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