久違的更新哈哈哈,今天來看影片學單字吧!
都有附上影片中的句子,好好利用我單字講座的方法把他們記起來吧XDD
簡單來講,就是非洲需要的並不是魚,而是釣魚杆,在幫助別人的同時,記得思考一下人家需要的是什麼喔!
1. business model (n.)商業模式
Their buy-one-get-one business model has made them massively successful.
他們的買一送一商業模式已經讓他們獲得巨大成功。
2. What the heck!? 搞什麼!?
3. misguided (a.) 誤導的
The buy-one-get-one model is incredibly misguided.
買一送一的商業模式是非常誤導人的。
4. Common knowledge (n.) 常識 Reality show (n.) 實境節目
It's not common knowledge, but before Blake funded Tom Shoes, he was a reality star.
這不是大家都知道的,但在Blake創辦Tom Shoes前,他是一位實境秀明星。
5. Devastating (a.) 毀滅性的,極大的 Poverty (n.) 貧窮
While on the trip to Argentina, Blake saw the devastating effects of poverty with his own piercing blue eyes.
在去阿根廷的路上,Blake用他深邃的藍眼看到了貧窮的嚴重影響。
6. Surprisingly (adv.) 令人驚訝地 Cobbler (n.) 修鞋匠
Surprisingly...yes, we do have shoes, we also have shoes stores, and we also have cobblers.
7. Poverty porn (n.) 貧窮A片,又稱為 stereotype porn 刻板印象A片,媒體常常找最極端的貧窮場景,來讓大家認為這是"常態現象"
That's what we call "poverty porn",they find the most extreme situation, and make it look like the most common situation on the continent.
我們稱為貧窮A片,他們找最極端的場景,然後把他呈現的像是這個大陸上最常見的情況。
8. Ramification (n.) 延伸後果
The kid doesn't understand the ramification of receiving these free shoes from some body in America.
小孩子不知道他們從美國那邊拿免費鞋子造成的延伸後果。
9. Employment (n.) 就業 Garment industry (n.) 服裝工業
One study shows that free clothes in your nation to Africa reduce the employment in the garment industry by half.
研究顯示,把你國家免費衣服送到非洲,造成當地的服裝產業就業率減少一半。
10. Kicker (n.) [俚語] 未料到的困難 Give away 送出、發送
And here is the kicker, the shoes TOMS give away cost them only 4 dollars to make.
重點來了,TOMS送出去的鞋子製作成本只要四美元。
補充: Dead giveaway (n.) 露出馬腳、洩漏
His text message is a dead giveaway that he has a girlfriend.
他的簡訊根本洩漏了他有女朋友。
補充: 亞當的影片後面有附上研究報告:
Frazer, Garth. “Used-Clothing Donations and Apparel Production in Africa.” The Economic Journal, Vol. 118, No. 532 (Oct., 2008), pp. 1764-178。
結論裡面有一句話:
Using this instrument, the paper established that used-clothing imports had a significant negative impact on the textile and apparel production sectors in sub-Saharan African countries, being responsible for roughly 39% of the annual decline in apparel production, and roughly half of the annual decline in apparel employment.
大家加油黑XDDD
因為句子是我自己聽打出來的,有錯誤直接告訴我黑!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtHx4nnr1ko