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六月十五日

六月十五日

Jun 15 ·
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2026/ep-260604

The Power of Poetry (诗歌的力量)

一、 核心疑难句型与逐词/逐句解析

1. 表达“不理解、不明白”

原句： I would love to read more poetry, but I just don’t get it, really. I find it difficult to understand. 核心用法：

2. 描述“开放麦之夜”的定语从句

原句： A good place to hear poetry is an open mic night, a live event where anyone is allowed to stand up on stage to sing or recite poems. 核心用法：

3. 表达“触动灵魂”

原句： Sometimes if you go to an open mic night, people can really touch your soul with what they’re saying. 核心用法：

4. 表达“派上用场”

原句： Finally, my English degree might come in handy! 核心用法：

5. 诗歌中的“人类失败”与“介词短语修饰”

原句： A big blue murder mystery, where the killer is not the whale / But an epic humanity fail / Of overfishing and polluting at unimaginable scale. 核心用法：

6. “make + 宾语 + 宾补”结构

原句： Jargon can make scientific papers impenetrable, and worse, it makes science a turn-off. 核心用法：

7. 表达“起鸡皮疙瘩”与“用语言表达”

原句： It still gives me goosebumps when I hear it now. I think it’s everything that I wish I could say and put into words myself. 核心用法：

8. 表达“患上（疾病）”

原句： …a friend who suffered a stroke. 核心用法：

二、 节目重点词汇与文学修辞总结

1. 官方重点词汇 (Vocabulary)

2. 诗歌修辞手法 (Literary Devices)

节目中 Neil 提出了一个关于诗歌修辞的测验题（重复相同的首字母发音，如 “the positive power of poetry”），涉及以下专业词汇：

Transcript

🎙️ Part 1: 开场白 (Introduction)

Neil: Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Neil.

Pippa: And I’m Pippa. In this episode we’re discussing poetry.

Pippa: For some, poetry is what you study at school, then forget, while for others it becomes an important part of their life.

Pippa: Have you ever read or written any poetry, Neil?

Neil: Well, I haven’t written any poetry since I was at school.

Neil: I would love to read more poetry, but I just don’t get it, really.

Neil: I find it difficult to understand.

🎙️ Part 2: 开放麦与 Maria 的诗 (Open Mic & Maria’s Poem)

Pippa: A good place to hear poetry is an open mic night, a live event where anyone is allowed to stand up on stage to sing or recite poems.

Pippa: Here, BBC reporter Maria recites her open mic poem about a friend who suffered a stroke, for BBC World Service programme People Fixing the World.

🎤 Maria 的诗歌节选 (Poem Excerpt) Maria: This first poem, I wrote it about a friend who I love dearly. It’s called Stroke.

  • 【翻译】 这第一首诗，是我写给我非常挚爱的一位朋友的。它叫《中风》。
  • 【解析】 dearly /ˈdɪəli/ (adv. 深深地，极其)。

Maria: You’re awake / And trying to grasp who it is.

  • 【翻译】 你醒着 / 正努力弄清楚我是谁。
  • 【解析】 grasp /ɡrɑːsp/ 本意是“抓住”，此处引申为“理解、领会”。who it is 是宾语从句。

Maria: I pull my mask past my lips and you study my face, / Eyes wide.

  • 【翻译】 我把口罩拉过嘴唇，你仔细端详着我的脸，/ 睁大了眼睛。
  • 【解析】 study 此处不是“学习”，而是动词“仔细看、端详”。Eyes wide 是独立主格结构（或伴随状语），表示状态。

Maria: I’ve enough stuff to tell you, I say, / Sinking into a chair. / I stare.

  • 【翻译】 我有足够多的事要告诉你，我说着，/ 陷进椅子里。/ 我凝视着。
  • 【解析】 stuff /stʌf/ (n. 事情/东西，口语)。Sinking into a chair 是现在分词作伴随状语。stare /steə(r)/ (v. 凝视，盯着看)。

Pippa: Sometimes if you go to an open mic night, people can really touch your soul with what they’re saying.

Pippa: And even if you’re having a bad day, life can feel so much better after going to an open mic night.

Neil: For Maria, poetry has the power to heal emotions and touch your soul, meaning to affect you deeply on an emotional or spiritual level.

🎙️ Part 3: 问答环节 (Quiz Time)

Pippa: In this episode, we’ll hear more about the positive power of poetry and, as usual, we’ll learn some useful new words and phrases.

Pippa: And remember, you’ll find all the vocabulary, plus a quiz and worksheet on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.

Neil: But first, I have a question for you, Pippa. Just now you used the phrase the positive power of poetry, repeating the same initial ‘p’ sound across a string of words.

Neil: Doing this is a common feature of poetry, but what’s it called? Is it: a) assonance, b) alliteration, or c) simile?

Pippa: Hmm. Finally, my English degree might come in handy! And I’m going to say b) alliteration.

Neil: Well, we’ll find out at the end, and I hope you don’t get embarrassed, Pippa!

Neil: Now, poetry helped Maria overcome sadness, but could its power to heal work in other areas too?

🎙️ Part 4: Hot Poets 与科学诗歌 (Hot Poets & Science)

Neil: Hot Poets is a group helping people understand the science behind global issues like climate change.

Neil: They go to meetings like the UN Climate Conference and listen to scientific papers being presented.

Neil: Then they write a poem about it all and perform that back to the audience.

🎤 Liv 的诗歌节选 (Poem Excerpt) Liv: It starts with an adventure at sea, / A big blue murder mystery, where the killer is not the whale / But an epic humanity fail / Of overfishing and polluting at unimaginable scale.

  • 【翻译】 它从一场海上冒险开始，/ 一个巨大的蓝色谋杀谜团，凶手不是鲸鱼 / 而是一场史诗级的人类失败 / 以难以想象的规模进行过度捕捞和污染。
  • 【核心词汇】 epic /ˈepɪk/ (adj. 史诗般的/极其严重的)；humanity fail /hjuːˈmænəti feɪl/ (网络衍生语：人类的拉胯/失败行为)；overfishing /ˌəʊvəˈfɪʃɪŋ/ (n. 过度捕捞)；unimaginable scale /ˌɪmæˈdʒɪnəbl skeɪl/ (难以想象的规模)。
  • 【逐句解析】 where 引导定语从句修饰 mystery。not... but... (不是……而是……) 连接两个表语。Of overfishing... 是介词短语作后置定语，解释 fail 的具体内容。

Neil: Liv’s poem is based on a study into biodiversity.

Neil: It’s a complex research project that many find hard to understand.

Myra Anubi: And Liv, I mean, so what you’ve identified is that there is an issue around the communication of science.

Liv Torc: Yes, a lot of this jargon is really hard to understand, or a lot of the science is quite impenetrable to normal people, so it’s instantly a turn-off.

Neil: Science uses lots of jargon – specialist or technical vocabulary which is quite different from everyday language.

Neil: For example, a scientist might use the word precipitation, while in everyday English we would say rain.

Pippa: Jargon can make scientific papers impenetrable, an adjective meaning impossible to understand.

Pippa: And worse, it makes science a turn-off – something that people dislike or find uninteresting.

Neil: Hot Poets try to change all of that by making complex environmental ideas easy to understand through poetry.

Neil: And it works, says Kat Bruce, the environmental scientist whose study Liv based her poem on, talking here with Myra Anubi for BBC World Service’s People Fixing the World.

Myra Anubi: What did it mean for you, Kat, hearing the poem, having actually experienced everything she’s saying?

Kat Bruce: It still gives me goosebumps when I hear it now.

Kat Bruce: I think it’s everything that I wish I could say and put into words myself.

Kat Bruce: I feel like Liv just, you know, has done that.

🎙️ Part 5: 公布答案与词汇复习 (Quiz Answer & Vocab Recap)

Neil: Well, you seemed very clear, Pippa, that when you use a string of words beginning with the same sound, it’s called alliteration… and you’re absolutely right.

Pippa: Phew! /fjuː/

Neil: OK. Let’s recap the vocabulary we’ve learned, starting with open mic night, a live event where anyone is allowed to perform poems or music on stage.

Pippa: If something touches your soul, it affects you deeply on an emotional or spiritual level.

Neil: Jargon means special words and phrases that are used in a particular profession or subject.

Pippa: The adjective impenetrable means impossible to understand.

Neil: A turn-off is something that people dislike or find uninteresting.

Pippa: And finally, if you get goosebumps, the hairs on your skin stand up because you’re cold, emotionally affected, or afraid.

Pippa: Once again, our six minutes are up, but remember, you’ll find lots more episodes as well as a quiz and worksheet for this one on our website, bbclearningenglish.com. See you again soon. But for now, it’s goodbye.

Neil: Goodbye!

學習總結

詩歌最大的力量並不在於解釋世界，而在於讓人感受世界。

Last edited Jun 30