シャドーイング練習: Advanced Shadowing for British English Fluency C1–C2. - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Just listen to this passage carefully.
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If it had not rained on a certain May morning, Valancy Stirling's whole life would have been entirely different.
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She would have gone with the rest of her clan to Aunt Wellington's engagement picnic
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and Dr Trent would have gone to Montreal.
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But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.
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Valancy wakened early in the lifeless, hopeless hour just preceding dawn.
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She had not slept very well.
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One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is 29 on the morrow,
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and unmarried, in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man.
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Dearwood and the Stirlings had long since relegated Valancy to hopeless old maidenhood,
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but Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed little hope that romance would come her way,
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yet never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man.
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Aye, there lay the sting Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid After all,
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she thought, being an old maid couldn't possibly be as dreadful As being married to an Uncle Wellington
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or an Uncle Benjamin Or even an Uncle Herbert
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What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid
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No man had ever desired her The tears came into her eyes as she lay there alone in the faintly greying darkness.
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She dared not let herself cry as hard as she wanted to, for two reasons.
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She was afraid that crying might bring on another attack of that pain around the heart.
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She had had a spell of it after she had got into bed, rather worse than any she had had yet, and she was afraid her mother would notice her red eyes at breakfast
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and keep at her with minute persistent mosquito-like questions regarding the cause thereof.
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Suppose, thought Valancy with a ghastly grin, I answered with the plain truth, I am crying because I cannot get married.
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How horrified mother would be, though she is ashamed every day of her life of her old maid daughter.
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But of course, appearances should be kept up.
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It is not, Valancy could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, it is not maidenly to think about men.
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The thought of her mother's expression made Valancy laugh, for she had a sense of humour nobody in her clan suspected.
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For that matter, there were a good many things about Valancy that nobody suspected.
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But her laughter was very superficial and presently she lay there,
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a huddled, futile little figure listening to the rain pouring down outside and watching, with a sick distaste, the chill,
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merciless light creeping into her ugly, sordid room.
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Welcome to advanced shadowing practice.
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Today you'll be working on the first part of the Blue castle, rich, expressive prose that will push your fluency,
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natural rhythm and feel for the English language to the next level.
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We'll follow our four-step method with a small twist.
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My partner Blandy will walk you through the key vocabulary first, so by the time we start shadowing,
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every word makes sense and nothing slows you down.
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Let's get into it.
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Hey everyone, good to have you here.
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Before we start, PDF is in the pinned comment, go grab it.
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We've got 15 words from the passage today and I'll break each one down for you nice and easy.
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Clan means a large family or social group bound by loyalty.
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You can use it today when talking about a family gathering, a tight-knit community or even a group of close friends.
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Relegated means pushed down to a lower or less important position.
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You can use it in sports when a team drops to a lower league
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or at work when someone gets moved to a less important role.
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Maidenhood means the period of a woman's life when she is young and unmarried.
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This word is no longer used today.
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Instead say girlhood, youth or simply her single years.
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Relinquished means giving something up willingly, even if it's difficult.
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You can use it today when someone gives up power, a right or a responsibility.
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Pitiful means so sad or weak it makes you feel sorry, or so bad it's almost embarrassing.
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You can use it today in everyday conversation to describe anything from a failed attempt to a sad situation.
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Unsought means something that came without being asked for or looked for.
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This word is rarely used today.
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Instead say unsolicited, uninvited or unexpected.
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Sting means a sharp, sudden pain, physical or emotional.
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You can use it today for anything from a bee sting to hurtful words.
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That comment really stung.
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Faintly means barely or slightly, almost not there.
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You can use it today to describe a sound, a smell, a smile, or a feeling that is very weak or subtle.
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Ghastly means horrifying, shockingly bad, or terribly pale.
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You can use it today, though it sounds more British.
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In American English, people tend to say horrible, awful, or disgusting instead.
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Grin means a wide-open smile, often showing teeth.
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You can use it today freely.
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It is one of the most natural words in English.
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Prim means overly neat, formal and easily offended by anything casual or improper.
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You can use it today to describe a person or behaviour.
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Prim and proper is a very common phrase.
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Huddled means crowded or pressed closely together, often for warmth or out of fear.
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You can use it today for people, animals, or even objects squeezed into a tight space.
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Futile means completely pointless with no chance of success.
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You can use it today in writing and speech.
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It was a futile effort.
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Or further arguments seemed futile.
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Merciless means showing no pity or kindness whatsoever.
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You can use it today for people, weather, criticism, competition, anything brutal and unrelenting.
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Sordid means shameful, morally disgusting, and often involving scandal.
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You can use it today especially when describing scandals, dirty dealings, or shameful stories.
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That's all the words covered for today, friends.
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Now I'll hand it over to Dave for your shadowing practice.
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Make sure you understand everything we just went through before you start repeating.
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Good luck.
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Welcome back everyone.
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Now it's time to start our shadowing practice.
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During today's lesson, we'll have four fun icebreakers to wake up our brains and make things more exciting.
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You'll have five seconds to answer each one, so be ready.
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If it had not rained on a certain May morning,
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If it had not rained on a certain May morning,
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Valancy, Sterling's whole life would have been entirely different.
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Valancy, Sterling's whole life would have been entirely different.
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She would have gone with the rest of her clan.
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to Aunt Wellington's engagement picnic to Aunt Wellington's engagement picnic to Aunt Wellington's engagement picnic
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and Dr Trent would have gone to Montreal And Dr Trent would have gone to Montreal.
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But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.
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But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.
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But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.
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Valancy wakened early in the lifeless hopeless hour.
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Valancy wakened early in the lifeless hopeless hour.
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Just preceding dawn, she had not slept very well.
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One does not sleep well sometimes.
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when one is 29 on the morrow
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And unmarried in the community and connection.
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And unmarried in the community and connection.
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And unmarried in the community and connection.
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Where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man.
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Where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man.
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Where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man.
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What has keys but can't open a door?
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A piano.
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Deerwood and the Stirlings had long since relegated Valancy.
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Deerwood and the Stirlings had long since relegated Valancy.
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Dearwood and the Stirlings had long since relegated Valancy to hopeless old maidenhood to hopeless old maidenhood
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But Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a But Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a
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But Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a Certain pitiful,
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shamed little hope
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Certain pitiful shamed little hope
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Certain pitiful shamed little hope
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That romance would come her way yet never
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That romance would come her way yet never.
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Until this wet, horrible morning.
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When she wakened to the fact that she was 29
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When she wakened to the fact that she was 29
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When she wakened to the fact that she was 29 And unsought by any man
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and unsought by any man.
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Aye, there lay the sting.
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Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid.
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After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn't possibly be as dreadful.
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Being an old maid couldn't possibly be as dreadful
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as being married to an Uncle Wellington as being married to an Uncle Wellington
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as being married to an Uncle Wellington or an Uncle Benjamin or even an Uncle Herbert
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or an Uncle Benjamin or even an Uncle Herbert.
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What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything. But an old maid.
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No man had ever desired her.
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If you drop me, I'm sure to crack.
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But give me a smile and I'll smile back.
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What am I?
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A mirror.
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The tears came into her eyes.
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The tears came into her eyes.
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As she lay there alone in the faintly greying darkness.
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She dared not let herself cry.
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She dared not let herself cry.
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She dared not let herself cry.
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As hard as she wanted to, for two reasons.
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She was afraid
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that crying might bring on another attack of that pain
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around the heart.
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of that pain around the heart.
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She had had a spell of it after she had got into bed.
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She had had a spell of it after she had got into bed.
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She had had a spell of it after she had got into bed.
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Rather worse than any she had had yet.
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And she was afraid her mother would notice her red eyes at breakfast.
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And she was afraid her mother would notice her red eyes at breakfast.
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And she was afraid her mother would notice her red eyes at breakfast.
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And keep at her with minute persistent mosquito-like questions.
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And keep at her with minute persistent mosquito-like questions.
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And keep at her with minute persistent mosquito-like questions.
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Regarding the cause thereof.
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Regarding the cause thereof.
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I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old.
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What am I?
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A candle.
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Suppose, thought Valancy with a ghastly grin.
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Suppose, thought Valancy with a ghastly grin.
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Suppose, thought Valancy with a ghastly grin.
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I answered with the plain truth.
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I answered with the plain truth.
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I am crying because I cannot get married.
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I am crying because I cannot get married.
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I am crying because I cannot get married.
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How horrified mother would be.
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How horrified mother would be.
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How horrified mother would be Though she is ashamed every day of her life of her old maid daughter.
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Though she is ashamed every day of her life of her old maid daughter.
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Though she is ashamed every day of her life of her old maid daughter.
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But of course, appearances should be kept up.
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But of course, appearances should be kept up.
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But of course, appearances should be kept up.
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It is not.
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Valancy could hear her mother's prim It is not.
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Valancy could hear her mother's prim It is not.
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Valancy could hear her mother's prim It is not,
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Valancy could hear her mother's prim,
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dictatorial voice asserting, it is not maidenly to think about men.
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It is not, it is not maidenly to think about men.
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and dictatorial voice asserting it is not maidenly to think about men
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The thought of her mother's expression made Valancy laugh.
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For she had a sense of humour nobody in her clan suspected.
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For that matter, there were a good many things about Valancy that nobody suspected.
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For that matter, there were a good many things about Valancy that nobody suspected.
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For that matter, there were a good many things about Valancy that nobody suspected.
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What is always in front of you but can't be seen?
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The future, but her laughter was very superficial.
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And presently she lay there, a huddled, futile little figure.
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And presently she lay there, a huddled, futile little figure.
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Presently she lay there, a huddled,
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futile little figure, listening to the rain pouring down outside and watching,
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Listening to the rain pouring down outside and watching.
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Listening to the rain pouring down outside and watching.
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With a sick distaste, the chill, merciless light creeping into her ugly, sordid room.
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With a sick distaste, the chill, merciless light creeping into her ugly, sordid room.
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With a sick distaste, the chill, merciless light creeping into her ugly, sordid room.
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You're all doing an amazing job and I'm really proud of your progress, my friends.
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Now we've reached our final stage, reading together.
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So pause the video for a moment, drink some water and let's begin.
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If it had not rained on a certain May morning, Valancy's whole life would have been entirely different.
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She would have gone with the rest of her clan to Aunt Wellington's engagement picnic
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and Dr Trent would have gone to Montreal.
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But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.
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Valancy wakened early in the lifeless, hopeless hour just preceding dawn.
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She had not slept very well.
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One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow and unmarried,
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in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man.
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Dearwood and the Stirlings had long since relegated Valancy to hopeless old maidenhood,
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but Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed little hope that romance would come her way,
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yet never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man.
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Aye, there lay the sting.
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Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid.
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After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn't possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellington,
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or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert.
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What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid.
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No man had ever desired her.
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The tears came into her eyes as she lay there alone in the faintly greying darkness.
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She dared not let herself cry as hard as she wanted to for two reasons.
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She was afraid that crying might bring on another attack of that pain around the heart.
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She had had a spell of it after she had got into bed, rather worse than any she had had yet, and she was afraid her mother would notice her red eyes at breakfast
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and keep at her with minute persistent mosquito-like questions regarding the cause thereof.
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Suppose, thought Valancy with a ghastly grin, I answered with the plain truth, I am crying because I cannot get married.
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How horrified Mother would be, though she is ashamed every day of her life of her old maid daughter.
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But of course, appearances should be kept up.
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It is not, Valancy could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, it is not maidenly to think about men.
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The thought of her mother's expression made Valancy laugh, for she had a sense of humour nobody in her clan suspected.
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For that matter, there were a good many things about Valancy that nobody suspected.
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But her laughter was very superficial, and presently she lay there, a huddled, futile little figure,
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listening to the rain pouring down outside and watching, with a sick distaste, the chill,
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merciless light creeping into her ugly, sordid room.
このレッスンについて
「Advanced Shadowing for British English Fluency C1–C2.」を使って、シャドーイングで英語を練習しましょう。
毎日15〜30分の練習で、IELTSスピーキングへの自信と実践的な英会話力が身につきます。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。