Michael Douglas | SmartLess

🎯 聽之前

A long career walks into a room where the hosts do not know who is coming. The lesson is how English talks about being in work, being out of work, and the story people repeat when you are not there.

• How do they talk about working and not working without making either one a verdict?
• Which jokes are about the guest, and which are the hosts entertaining each other?
• Listen for reputation: what people say when the person has left the room.
• Where does a story about a job become a story about a life?

💬 重點句 6

先讀英文，想一下意思，再點「翻譯」。按 🔊 聽一次，然後跟著唸。

1. A long career is a series of being in work and being between jobs.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   長的職業生涯，是一段一段的「有工作」和「工作之間」。

   a series of + 動名詞。between jobs 是委婉的「目前沒接案」。
2. Not working is a season. It is not a confession.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   沒在工作是一個季節，不是一種坦白。

   not working 用動名詞當主詞。confession 把普通狀態講得太重。
3. Reputation is the sentence people repeat after you leave the room.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   名聲是你離開房間之後，別人重複的那一句。

   after you leave 用現在式，因為這是習慣，不是某一次。
4. The hosts are funny before the guest arrives. The guest has to survive the warm-up.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   來賓進門之前主持人就已經在好笑了。來賓得活過那段暖場。

   before + 現在式。survive 在這裡是「撐過」，不是生還。
5. Working is a verb. "A legend" is what other people do with the verb later.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   工作是動詞。「傳奇」是別人後來拿這個動詞去做的事。

   引號標出別人貼的標籤。later 放句尾。
6. If the story only works when he is not in the room, it is gossip, not a portrait.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   如果這個故事只有在他不在場時才成立，那是八卦，不是肖像。

   only works when。gossip 對 portrait，一個好傳、一個要本人在。

📚 單字 10

點卡片翻面。先猜意思再翻。

🗣️ 俚語與成語 6

🧩 句型練習 3

讀完範例，用自己的事造一句。寫在筆記本或手機備忘錄裡，隔天回頭唸一次。

✅ 理解題 4

看完影片再作答。選一個答案會立刻顯示解釋。

1. What does "between jobs" politely mean?
   A promotionNot currently workingWorking two jobsRetired forever
   It is the gentle way to say there is a gap, without making it a confession.
2. In this lesson, reputation is…
   Your salaryThe sentence people repeat after you leaveThe joke the hosts tell firstA contract
   Reputation is what travels when you are not there to edit it.
3. If a story only works when the person is absent, the lesson calls it…
   A portraitGossipA warm-upA craft
   A portrait can survive the person walking back in. Gossip cannot.
4. What is a warm-up here?
   The years before a careerThe hosts getting the room ready before the guest is the pointA type of contractThe final story
   They are already joking. The guest walks into that.

💭 用英文想一想

挑一題，用英文寫 3 到 5 句，或對著手機錄一分鐘。不用完美，說出來最重要。

• Describe your work as a series of being in it and being between things. Do not turn the gap into a verdict.
• What sentence do people repeat after you leave a room? Do you want to edit it?
• Write three sentences using between jobs, a household name, and show up. One of them should be about someone ordinary.