每日口說挑戰如何畫下句點，重新開始？心靈雞湯 (Wellcast - How to Move On and Find Closure)

[Transcript]
Intro:
We all have times in our lives when we feel things aren't working out smoothly. It could be because of personal relationships, work issues, or financial problems. What do you do when you experience setbacks like that? Different people have different ways of dealing with problems and negative feelings. The modern world offers many ways to deal with hardships. With the help of technology and science, we can sometimes search for solutions using the internet, we can also use social media to contact people in faraway places and comparatively speaking, our lives are a lot easier than the lives of those decades ago. But one thing that technology cannot help with is our own emotions. Although sometimes we look fine on the outside, things may not be going so well on the inside. So it is very important that we maintain our emotional well-being. Some of us tend to ignore it when a negative feeling arises. If we always leave these feelings unresolved, over time they may build up and one day become harmful to our emotional health.
We need to be responsible for our feelings and face them in a mature way. May it be anger, sadness, frustration, or other similar feelings, we should never ignore them. The only way of dealing with them is through acceptance and resolve. 
The most important thing to remember is that you’re not alone. Everyone experiences these similar setbacks. You’ll feel better if you can find someone to talk to. Some people choose to seek professional help. Talking to a trained professional like a psychologist may definitely help, especially with emotions that have accumulated over a long period of time.
Let’s stop for a moment and go over our pronunciation challenge sentence. Here it is: 

[2'40'']Sentence:
We guarantee that this cathartic exercise will provide you with at least a little sense of relief, and it’ll help you get perspective.

我們保證這種情感宣洩能多少減輕痛苦，並讓你更加客觀地看待事情。

Pronunciation Tips:
guarantee
cathartic
perspective

Try to link these words when you read the sentence:
with at least
it’ll

Vocab:

1. guarantee KK[͵gærənˋti] IPA/ˌɡer.ənˈtiː/
v. 保證 to promise that something will happen or exist
n. 保證書 a promise that something will be done or will happen, especially a written promise by a company to repair or change a product that develops a fault within a particular period of time

Example:
This new refrigerator comes with a 10-year guarantee.
這台新冰箱有十年的保固。

2. cathartic KK[kəˋθɑrtɪk] IPA/kəˈθɑːr.sɪs/
n. 情感宣洩 the process of releasing strong emotions through a particular activity or experience, such as writing or theatre, in a way that helps you to understand those emotions
Example:
Keeping a diary has been a cathartic experience for Eliza.
Eliza 覺得寫日記是一個可以讓情感宣洩的方式。

3. perspective KK[pɚˋspɛktɪv] IPA/pɚˈspek.tɪv/
n. （思考問題的）角度，觀點，想法 a particular way of considering something
adj. 有透視效果的 an object or person that is in perspective has the correct size and position in comparison with other things in the picture.
Example:
In your perspective, is there anything I can do to improve my English pronunciation?
以你的看法 ，我還能夠如何讓我的英文發音更進步呢?

Outro:
We live in a world that creates a lot of challenges and hardships. In some ways — physical and technological — it is better to be alive today than hundreds of years ago. But in other ways — mental and emotional — there are new burdens that we need to deal with, including building stress in our daily lives. One of the main reasons for this is that although life around us changed and developed so much in the last few centuries, the human brain in fact stayed very much the same. Our mental capabilities and the way we perceive the world around us haven't changed that much since the time we were cavemen. So no wonder many people cannot cope well with stress and emotional challenges. Experts estimate that this trend will not go away, and might even get worse as we rely more and more on machines and AI to work for us and solve our problems. But we’ve established the fact that no one can solve our emotional problems for us, so we should learn to find creative ways to let our feelings out, to share with others, to let go, and not to bottle them inside. Remember hardships are only temporary, but a strong spirit (and perhaps a good friend) will always get you through tough times.

And that’s it for this week’s episode. Hope you’ll stick around and record your sentence challenge! See you later, guys!

#《After Life 終極後人生 S01E05》
"Even though I'm in pain, it's worth sticking around to maybe make my little corner of the world a slightly better place."
"Happiness is amazing. It's so amazing, it doesn't matter if it's yours or not."

We guarantee that this cathartic exercise will provide you with at least a little sense of relief, and it’ll help you get perspective.

It’s Monday again, cheer!

We guarantee(/ˌɡær.ənˈtiː/保證v.) that this cathartic(/kəˈθɑːr.tɪk/宣洩的) exercise will provide you with at least a little sense of relief(/rɪˈliːf/放鬆n.), and it’ll help you get perspective(/pɚˈspek.tɪv/觀點;洞察力n.).
我們保證這樣的情感宣洩方式或多或少能讓你放鬆一些，且能讓你有不同的觀點。

◆ cathartic /kəˈθɑːr.tɪk/ adj. 導瀉的；宣洩的；有淨化作用的
According to Aristotle(/ˈær.ə.stɑː.t̬əl/, tragedies are cathartic because they can arouse pity and fear in the audience.
根據亞里斯多德的說法，悲劇因為可以喚起觀眾的哀憐與恐懼，所以有淨化心靈的作用。

(n.) 瀉藥；清腸劑
Magnesium were employed as cathartics as early as the 16th century .
早在16世紀鎂鹽被用作瀉藥。

◆ perspective /pɚˈspek.tɪv/ (n.) 看法，觀點[U][C][（+on）]
view an issue from a historical perspective 用歷史的觀點看待問題

洞察力，眼力[U]
keep one's perspective 明察事理

遠景；展望，前途[C]
You have the wrong perspective on that situation. 對於那個情勢的未來發展，你的看法是不正確的。

透視圖法，遠近畫法[U]
Children often draw without perspective. 小孩子畫畫常常不管透視法。

透視圖[C]

(adj.) 透視的，透視畫的
perspective drawing 透視畫法

顯然，每個人都會在特定的時期過得很艱難。我們保證這種情感宣洩能多少減輕痛苦，並讓你更加客觀地看待事情。