B2 English Listening Practice - Living Abroad · Listening Time
本视频围绕B2英语听力练习展开，主题为海外生活。适合练习听力和理解能力，内容涵盖海外生活的利与弊，包括文化体验、语言学习和思乡之情等。
Hey everybody, welcome to this B2 English listening practice video.
大家好，欢迎观看这个关于 B2 级英语听力练习的视频。
You can use this video to train your listening and comprehension as I speak.
你可以利用这个视频，在我讲话的过程中训练自己的听力与理解能力。
You ready?
你准备好了吗？
So today, I'm going to talk to you about living abroad.
那么今天，我想和大家谈谈在国外生活的话题。
I was an expat for a few years, so I can offer a pretty good amount of insight into this topic.
我有几年时间生活在国外（作为外籍人士），因此我对这个话题有着相当深入的了解和见解。
Let's start first with the good things.
我们先从好事说起吧。
Living abroad opens up a whole world of new experiences, ideas, and cultures that you never would have dreamed of if you hadn't moved abroad.
在国外生活会让你接触到无数全新的体验、想法和文化；如果当初没有出国，这些可能永远都不会出现在你的生活中。
The second you step off the plane and realize that you're not just on vacation,
你刚走下飞机的那一刻，就意识到自己这次来的目的不仅仅是度假……
you're in your new home, it can hit you like a truck.
你刚搬进新家，这种陌生感可能会像卡车一样突然袭来，让你措手不及。
Regardless of how much planning you've done, and regardless of how much desire you have to live in that new country,
无论你做了多少准备，也无论你有多么渴望在那个新的国家生活，
the reality of it all will strike fear in you.
这一切的现实将会让你感到恐惧。
But this fear is actually a good fear.
但这种恐惧其实是一种“好事”（即一种有益的恐惧）。
It's like an exciting fear.
这种感觉就像是一种令人兴奋却又充满恐惧的情绪。
You've probably heard the expression to have butterflies in your stomach.
你可能听说过“心里像有蝴蝶在飞”这样的表达。
Well, the experience of arriving in your
嗯，到达你所在地的那种体验……
new country and knowing that you're going to set up your life there will definitely give you a serious case of the butterflies.
来到一个全新的国家，知道自己将在那里建立自己的生活，肯定会让你感到非常紧张（甚至有点“心慌意乱”）。
It's more like giant moths.
它们更像巨大的蛾子。
But like I said, I consider that a positive.
但正如我所说，我认为这是一个积极的方面。
Another good thing is that hopefully you'll get to learn a new language.
另一件好事是，希望你能学会一门新语言。
Ideally, you'd already have a decent level in the country's language,
理想情况下，你应该已经掌握了该国语言的相当好的水平了。
and so being in that country and surrounded by native speakers would be a great way to improve.
因此，身处那个国家并周围都是母语使用者，将是提高语言水平的好方法。
But as you can probably imagine, not everyone gets the same pleasure out of speaking a foreign language as I do or other language learners do.
但你可以想象，并不是每个人都能像我或其他语言学习者那样，从说外语中获得同样的乐趣。
So this might be a negative for some people, and I personally know people that have been living in a foreign country for four,
这对某些人来说可能是个不利因素；我个人也认识一些已经在国外生活了四年的人……
five, six years, and they can barely put a sentence together.
过了五六年，他们仍然几乎无法连贯地说出一句话来。
So my advice to those moving abroad would be to study the language as much as possible before you go.
因此，我对那些打算出国的人的建议是：在出发前尽可能多地学习当地的语言。
Because if you arrive in your new country without knowing any of the language, you're not just going to pick it up.
因为如果你在完全不懂当地语言的情况下来到一个新的国家，你是无法通过日常交流学会这种语言的。
It doesn't work like that.
事情并不是那样的。
All the talking you hear around you is just going to be like static noise in the background.
你周围听到的一切谈话，都只不过像背景中的杂音一样，根本不会被你真正注意到。
It won't make any sense to you and it won't help you learn.
这对你来说毫无意义，也无法帮助你学习。
You need to study and get to the level where you can actually understand the message of what people are saying,
你需要通过学习来达到能够真正理解他人所说内容的能力。
and then you can go out into the real world and pick it up.
然后你就可以走进现实世界，将其应用到实际中去。
And then you can have fun speaking that language in your new country.
然后你就可以在新国家里愉快地使用那种语言了。
Alright, so the biggest negative about living abroad is obviously being far away from your loved ones.
好吧，生活在国外最大的负面影响显然就是与亲人之间的距离太远了。
This one's a no -brainer.
这个选择显而易见，根本不需要犹豫。
It's not easy to live far from your family and friends.
远离家人和朋友生活并不容易。
It's one thing to move across the country, but moving to a completely different country is a whole nother level of difficulty,
在全国范围内搬家是一回事，而搬到另一个完全不同的国家，则是另一个完全不同级别的挑战了。
mainly because it's harder to visit each other.
主要是因为彼此之间见面变得更加困难了。
I know it's not the same as being with them in person,
我知道这和亲自与他们在一起的感觉是不一样的。
but it does help to video chat or even just call your family.
不过，通过视频聊天或简单地给家人打电话确实能带来帮助。
When you think about it, it's not that different than talking to them face to face, except for the fact that you can't touch them.
仔细想想，这其实和与他们面对面交谈并没有太大区别，唯一的区别就是你无法触碰到他们。