今日主題:What's your superpower? 你的超能力是什麼?
凱妃老師&派老師共同推薦:雅思聽力最好的課外教材:BBC
康康精選雅思會考的主題,堅持每天精聽一定會進步的哦!!
建議方法:
1. 先聽兩三遍 (不看文稿)
2. 再一句一句聽寫 (每句都要聽寫數遍,直到寫出85%以上的字)
3. 最後check文稿,看哪聽不出來,單字沒背過,還是發音不熟。
4. 堅持天天聽,就能每天進步哦。
#BBC 六分鐘英語
MP3音檔 (按右鍵可下載聽):喜歡的同學,幫忙推或按讚哦~~
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只有音檔怎夠,聽不懂地方,不用怕,
康康幫你準備好中英文稿了:
中英文稿:
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I’m Neil…
大家好,歡迎收聽六分鐘英語,我是尼爾。
And I’m Alice. So Neil, the subject of today’s show is superheroes! Who’s your favourite?
我是愛麗絲。今天我們節目的主題是超級英雄。你最愛的超級英雄是誰?
Spiderman. He’s cool and funny – and he can spin webs and jump off skyscrapers!
蜘蛛俠。他很酷,也很有意思,他可以吐絲,在高樓大廈之間跳躍。
Well, my favourite superhero is Ms Marvel.
我最愛的超級英雄是驚奇女士。
I‘ve never heard of her – and I‘m a bit of an expert on comic book superheroes.
我沒聽說過,要知道我可算是超級英雄漫畫的專家。
Well, a growing number of people from ethnic backgrounds are getting bored of all these white male superheroes they can’t relate to. And they’re hungry for characters a little closer to home – or relevant to their own lives.
越來越多來自不同種族背景的人,厭倦了超級英雄都是白人男性,和他們少有關聯。他們渴望一些和他們的生活更接近的人物。
So what’s Ms Marvel’s super power?
那麼驚奇女士的超能力是什麼?
She’s a shape shifter – which means she can change shape and become anything she wants.But she’s also just Kamala Khan, an average teenager from New Jersey, who happens to be Asian and a Muslim.
她會變形,意味著她可以改變形態,成為任何想成為的事物。同時她也是卡瑪拉•克汗,來自新澤西的普通青少年,恰巧還是亞洲人,穆斯林。
It sounds good. But I think it must be time for today’s quiz question, Alice!
聽起來不錯。但我覺得是時候說今天的問題了,愛麗絲。
OK, here it is. What is the name of the new character that replaces Tony Stark as Iron Man? Is it…a) Miles Morales? b) Riri Williams? Or c) Jane Foster?
好的。問題是,哪一個新角色代替了托尼•斯塔克成為了鋼鐵俠?a) Miles Morales(邁爾斯•莫拉萊斯)?b) Riri Williams (瑞•威廉姆斯)?還是 c) Jane Foster (簡•福斯特)?
I’m going to say a) Miles Morales because he sounds like a man.
我選邁爾斯•莫拉萊斯,聽起來像是一個男人的名字。
Well, we’ll find out later on the show whether you got the answer right or not.Now, I have another question.What are the rules for achieving superhero status?Superman is an alien, Ms Marvel has alien genes, and Spiderman and the Hulk are both contaminated – or poisoned – by radioactive substances that change their DNA.
之後我們再看你回答得是否正確。現在我有另一個問題。什麼規則成就了超級英雄的身份?超級英雄是變異人,驚奇女士具有變異的基因,蜘蛛俠和綠巨人都是被放射性物質感染,改變了DNA。
What about Batman and Iron Man?They’re just ordinary guys with a lot of money who use technology to create superpowers for themselves.
那麼蝙蝠俠和鋼鐵俠呢?他們都是擁有巨額財富的普通人,利用科技賦予了自己超能力。
Good point. There don’t seem to be any hard-and-fast – or clear – rules.But these special powers – whether it’s being able to fly, or change shape, or spin webs– they allow the characters to do good in the world. And that’s a big theme across all comic books.
沒錯。似乎不存在什麼固定的或明顯的規律。但這些特殊能力,不管是能飛,能改變形態,還是會吐絲結網,讓這些人為世界做了好事。這是貫穿所有漫畫書的主題。
That’s true. But times have changed, and comic books these days often blur the line between right and wrong – making things unclear. Superheroes don’t always do the right thing and struggle with everyday problems like you and me.
沒錯。但隨著時間改變,如今的漫畫書中是非的界限經常是模糊的,也就是孰是孰非並不明朗。超級英雄做的事並不總是對的,他們也會像你我一樣糾結於每日的瑣事。
Let’s hear more about imperfect superheroes from Jason Ditmer, professor of political geography at University College London.
我們聽聽Jason Ditmer,英國倫敦大學學院政治地理學教授講述不完美的超級英雄。
They imbued these characters with real human problems. So Peter Parker had just, was sort of… one problem after another. The Fantastic Four was a family and they bickered and fought and Reed and Sue were a couple, and then they got married, and that had, like, never happened in superhero comics. So these people had lives that others could relate to.
漫威的漫畫將真實生活中人類遇到的問題賦予了這些角色。所以彼得•派克才會接二連三的遇到一些麻煩。神奇四俠是一個大家庭,他們會鬥嘴,會吵架,裡德和蘇是情侶,之後他們結婚了,像這種在超級英雄漫畫中從未出現過。所以這些人和普通人的生活離的很近。
So publishers – like Marvel Comics – imbued – or filled – their characters with human problems.I can’t imagine a character like Captain America worrying about small things – or bickering with his wife!
所以像漫威這樣的出版商,將人類會遇到的問題都賦予了角色。我不敢想像美國隊長這樣的角色會擔心一些小事,或和他的妻子鬥嘴。
And bickering means arguing about things that aren’t important. Well, like you said earlier, times change, Neil. These days, the publishing houses want to attract a more diverse – or varied – readership: teenagers, women, ethnic minorities– who want superheroes they can relate to, facing issues from racial discrimination to bickering at home.
bickering是指在一些不重要的事情上爭論。就像你之前說的,時代在改變。如今,出版商想要吸引更多元的讀者群體,如年輕人、女性或少數族裔群體。他們想要超級英雄和他們的生活有關聯,會面臨大到種族歧視,小到在家鬥嘴的問題。
I know that women are indeed interested in superheroes because they’ve been appearing in movies and on TV, but the world of comic books has always been a bit of a guy thing.
我知道女性對超級英雄確實很感興趣,因為他們經常出現在電影和電視上,但漫畫書基本上還是男性看得多。
Well, it isn’t. Women read them and in some places women work in them. In Japan for example, we have the manga – these are Japanese comic books for adults and children. And, guess what – there is a strong tradition of female illustrators there.
並不是。女性也會看漫畫,在一些地方,女性還會繪製漫畫。例如在日本,有日本漫畫,目標群體為成年人和兒童。猜猜看,那的傳統是漫畫插畫師大多是女性。
Really?
真的嗎?
Yes. Let’s move on now and listen to Dr Casey Brienza, Sociologist at City University in London, talking about manga.
沒錯。現在我們聽聽倫敦城市大學社會學家Casey Brienza講述日本漫畫。
One of the really interesting things about producing comics in Japan is that it’s one of the few, kind of, autonomous careers that women can have.And so Japan has many, many female comic-book artists who write both for men, women, boys, and girls. And in the United States and in Britain female comic-book artists are far and away a minority.
日本漫畫生產最有意思的一點是,那是女性很少能自主選擇的職業之一。日本有很多女性漫畫家,為男性、女性、男生和女生創作漫畫。在美國和英國,女性漫畫家顯然還是少數。
Dr Casey Brienza there.So she says female comic-book artists are common in Japan but are a minority in the US and the UK.
上述是 Casey Brienza的看法。她說女性漫畫家在日本很常見,但在美國和英國很少見。
It’s particularly interesting that being an artist is an autonomous career– meaning you have the freedom to make your own decisions - and apparently this is not common for women in Japan.
很有意思的是,成為漫畫家是一種自主選擇的職業,也就是你有權利自己做決定,顯然,自主選擇在日本女性群體當中並不多見。
And do you know who draws Ms Marvel? Is it a woman?
你知道是誰塑造的驚奇女士的形象嗎?也是一名女性嗎?
No. Ms Marvel is drawn by a man – the Canadian comic book artist Adrian Alphona.But we are running out of time so let’s go to today’s quiz question.I asked you: what’s the name of the new character that replaces Tony Stark as Iron Man?Is it…a) Miles Morales? b) Riri Williams? Or c) Jane Foster?
不,驚奇女士是由男性創造的,加拿大漫畫家Adrian Alphona。我們的時間快到了,我們回到今天的問題上吧。我問你:哪個新角色代替托尼•斯塔克成為了鋼鐵俠?a) Miles Morales? b) Riri Williams?還是 c) Jane Foster?
And I said Miles Morales.
我選的是Miles Morales。
And you were… wrong, Neil. I’m sorry.The answer is Riri Williams.Marvel Comics has recently diversified its characters to look more like the world we know today, including the addition of female African-American college student Riri Williams as Iron Man.Marvel has also given Thor’s hammer to a woman, introduced a black, Hispanic Spider-Man called Miles Moralesand created Kamala Khan, a Muslim superhero otherwise known as Ms Marvel.
你回答錯了。很抱歉。正確答案是 Riri Williams。漫威漫畫如今將角色多元化,使之更像我們今天看到的世界。包括非裔美國女性,大學生 Riri Williams作為鋼鐵俠。漫威也將雷神之錘給予了一名女性,黑人西班牙裔女性Miles Morales成為了新的蜘蛛俠,漫威還創造了穆斯林超級英雄, Kamala Khan,也就是驚奇女士。
Very interesting. Now, let’s remind ourselves of the words we learned today:
很有意思。現在我們一同回憶一下今天學到的單詞。
closer to home 接近生活
shape shifter 變形人
contaminated 被污染的;被感染的
hard and fast 固定不變的
blur 模糊的
imbued 灌輸;滲透
bicker 吵嘴
diverse 多種多樣的;不同的
manga 日本漫畫
autonomous 自主的
And that’s the end of today’s 6 Minute English.Don’t forget to join us again soon!
今天的六分鐘英語就到這裡。我們下期再會!
Bye!
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