每日英语口语练习 2026-08-30（周日）

题材：综合 · 名人演讲名篇（毕业季规劝文） 主题：Mary Schmich《Wear Sunscreen》（涂防晒霜吧 / 致年轻人的生活建议） 来源：Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune 专栏（1997-06）；经 Baz Luhrmann 改编为歌曲 Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)（1998/1999） 今日时长：约 6 分钟 去重依据：已查记录表，主题「Wear Sunscreen / Mary Schmich / 防晒霜」未出现过

📖 原文/对话（来源：Mary Schmich「Wear Sunscreen」· 全文收录）

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘97: Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future, or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end it’s only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They’re your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.

Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you’ll have a wealthy spouse, but you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you’re 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

🎬 视频/音频资源

• Baz Luhrmann — Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) 原版 MV
• American Rhetoric：全文转写文本（含音频）
• Chicago Tribune：Mary Schmich 原专栏《Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young》

听歌跟读建议：先听 Baz Luhrmann 的 spoken-word 版本（语速舒缓、断句清晰），再对照原文逐句模仿。

📝 重点词汇（8-10 个）

• sunscreen n. 防晒霜 — Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘97: Wear sunscreen.
• meandering adj. 漫无目的的；离题的 — The rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
• dispense v. 分发；给出（建议等） — I will dispense this advice now.
• blindside v. 冷不防打击；让…措手不及 — The kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
• reckless adj. 鲁莽的，不计后果的 — Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts.
• berate v. 严厉指责，斥责 — Don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either.
• inalienable adj. 不可剥夺的，固有的 — Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise.
• philander v. 玩弄感情；拈花惹草 — Politicians will philander.
• nostalgia n. 怀旧，念旧 — Advice is a form of nostalgia.
• floss v. 用牙线清洁（牙齿） — Floss.

💬 跟读练习建议

1. 逐句精听跟读（Sentence Shadowing）：播放 Baz Luhrmann 原版 MV，每听一句暂停一次，原速跟读 1 遍，再慢速跟读 1 遍，重点模仿停顿与重音。
2. 短句爆发练习：文中反复出现极短祈使句（Sing. / Floss. / Stretch. / Dance.）。用「短促有力 + 句尾上扬」的方式朗读，体会英语演讲的节奏感。
3. 长难句拆解跟读：挑出 2 句长句（“Don’t worry about the future…” 与 “Be careful whose advice you buy…”），先按意群切块，再连成整句，注意连读与弱读。
4. 录音对比：用手机录下自己朗读的第 4 段（“…blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.”），与原文对比，纠正元音 /aɪ/ 与 /æ/ 的口型。

🔄 即兴口语练习

Q1：If you could give only one tip to your younger self, what would it be? Why?

• 参考要点：可借鉴原文 “If I could offer you only one tip…” 句式；用 “I’d tell myself to…” 开头；说明原因（勇气 / 自律 / 善待他人）。

Q2：The author says “the race is long, and in the end it’s only with yourself.” Do you agree? Share a personal example.

• 参考要点：表达赞同或保留；用 “I agree because…” 或 “I’m not sure…”；给出一个与自己/朋友比较的经历。

Q3：What’s one “small thing” you do every day that scares you or makes you grow?（呼应 “Do one thing every day that scares you.”）

• 参考要点：用现在完成时描述习惯（“I’ve started…”）；解释它如何让你成长；结尾用 “It’s uncomfortable but worth it.”

📋 发音技巧提示

1. 连读 / 弱读（Wear sunscreen）：口语中 “wear sunscreen” 常连读为 /werˈsʌnskriːn/，注意词尾 /r/ 与下一词开头 /s/ 之间不要插入元音；“of your” 弱读为 /əv jə/。
2. 双元音 /aɪ/ 的饱满度：time / mind / life / blindside / five 中的 /aɪ/ 要从 /ɑ/ 滑向 /ɪ/，避免发成单元音；尤其 “blindside” 重音在第一个音节 BLIND-side。
3. 短祈使句的语调：Sing. / Floss. / Stretch. / Dance. 用「中高平调 + 句尾轻微上扬」制造轻快节奏；避免全程降调显得生硬。

🗣 今日金句

“The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.” （人生这场长跑很长，到头来，你真正的对手只有自己。）

备选金句：“Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.”（享受你青春的力气与美好——趁还拥有时。）