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Hi there. Welcome back to engvid with me, Benjamin.
大家好，欢迎回来，我是Benjamin。
Today we are looking at the art of storytelling. Who is this useful to?
今天我们要来说说讲故事的艺术。这对谁有用呢？
Well, you may find that in an interview situation, being able to tell a good story could help you, as long as it's appropriate to the interview;
在面试时，你可能会发现，如果可以，能够讲一个好故事可能帮助到你，
also, IELTS speaking, being able to sort of go beyond yourself and say more than you normally would
还有在考雅思口语的时候，能够多讲一些
is going to benefit you in terms of sounding fluent; and also, conversational, social skills, it's good to be able to tell a story.
能够让你的口语听起来更加流利，还有在会话技巧、社交技巧方面，讲故事是很好的。
Now, what I'm going to be sharing with you today has taken me a lot of time, a lot of experience to figure out the truth of this,
我今天要和你们分享的东西花了我很多时间，很多经验来弄清楚其中精髓，
and I've basically worked out that this is right. Okay? So, two parts in today's lesson:
并且基本上证明了这是对的。今天的课程分为两个部分：
We've got basic storytelling; and then if you want to be clever clogs, you can add in the extra elements.
我们要有一个大概的情节；要想故事精彩，可以加上一些额外的元素。
So, a basic story has what Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, came up with 2,000 years ago.
两千年前，希腊哲学家亚里士多德提出，一个基本故事
It has three consistent things: It talks about place,okay? it happens in a place;
需要三个元素：地点；
it happens at a time, a certain time; and there are characters involved. And these should be smooth.
时间和人物。这些需要是连贯的。
He talked about how we should have a clear story idea, it happens in time order.
他谈论到了我们应该如何清晰的故事想法，以及事情发生的时间顺序。
So this relates to us today telling a good story. Okay? It should happen at a certain point. We need to know where, okay?
这和我们今天讲一个好故事有关。故事应该发生在某个点，我们还需要知道故事发生的地点。
Place, setting, similar idea. Which characters do you have in the story?
地点、背景等等。故事中需要哪些人物？
A plot, there's got to be a reason for telling it: Is it an unusual story? Is it funny? Is it interesting? What's the ending?
一个情节，讲这个故事的原因：这是一个不寻常的故事吗？很有趣？有意思？结尾有惊喜？
You don't want to leave your audience, going: 'Oh', at the end of the story.
你也不想你的观众在故事结束后觉得这个故事很无聊吧。
You've got to think: 'This story has got to have a good ending.' Okay? Otherwise you leave them with not a very good feeling. Okay.
你要想着：这个故事一定要有个精彩的结尾。否则会让听众觉得无趣。
So, if I'm going to demonstrate this, I will tell you a story. So, the time that this took place. So this was last summer, and the place:
如果我展开讲，我会讲一个故事。所以这个故事发生的时间，就在去年夏天，地点
I was trying to get to the airport. I was trying to get to Gatwick Airport, just outside of London.
是我要去机场，伦敦郊外的盖特威克机场。
To set the scene a bit, we've got a friend's wedding happening in Italy. Taking my son and wife on a flight out to Italy.
为这个故事设定一个背景，我们的朋友要在意大利办婚礼。我带着我的儿子和妻子飞去意大利。
Very important that we get there, lots of friends there, and traffic starts piling up and it starts getting quite tight - the time.
重要的是我们要去那里，有很多朋友在那里，交通开始拥挤，时间也变得紧迫。
Are we going to get on the plane or not? Okay, so now we need to include some more plot elements.
不知道我们能不能赶上飞机。所以我们需要给这个故事加入更多情节元素。
So, what was unusual is that I told my wife: 'Look, if we carry on like this, we're not going to catch the plane.'
所以不同寻常的点在于我告诉我的妻子：‘瞧，如果这样下去，我们就赶不到机场了。’
So we swapped over, and she started driving down the hard shoulder. It's not about your shoulder;
所以我们调换了位置，她开始沿着硬路肩开车，这个和肩膀无关；
it means the side bit of the road that you're not really meant to drive on.
它指的是你不应该开车的那一小段路。
And kind of the funny bit is that we got through this horrendous traffic on the nastiest road in the U.K.,
有趣的是，我们在英国最糟糕的道路上穿过了这段可怕的交通路段，
which is the M25, which is more sort of sitting around than actually driving anywhere.
也就是M25高速公路，这一段路更像是休息而不是开车的地方。
We got through this nasty traffic. It looked like we were going to catch the flight, and then we ran out of petrol 10 miles from the airport.
我们穿过了拥挤的交通路段。我们似乎要赶上飞机了，然后我们在离机场10英里的地方汽油用完了。
Fortunately, we did manage to get onto the flight eventually, after a few more mishaps. Okay?
幸运的是，在经历了几次不幸之后，我们最终还是成功地登上了飞机。
So we've got a rough story there, which I can now make quite a lot better by adding in these elements.
所以我们有了一个故事梗概，现在我可以通过添加这些元素来完善这个故事。
First of all, if you're sat around with a group of people, you don't just suddenly start telling a story,
首先，如果你和一群人坐在一起，你不会突然开始讲故事，
and you shouldn't really plan what stories you're going to tell. A story should come out of what has been spoken, what people are talking about,
也不应该计划自己要将什么故事。一个故事应该是接着别人的话来讲的，
otherwise it's like: 'Well, what are you talking about?' Okay? So there's got to be a link.
否则就会像：“你在讲什么啊？”所以一定要有关联。
So, if I was telling this story, maybe I would be talking to friends about holidays, about getting to planes,
如果我要讲这个故事，可能我会跟朋友谈论假期和坐飞机，
and I would say something like: 'Yeah, I've had a bad experience before of trying to get to the airport.
我会这么说：“在坐上飞机之前，还发生了糟糕的事情。
I'll tell you about this time last summer.' Okay? So, linking it to the conversation.
发生在去年夏天的这个时候。’把故事和对话联系起来。
Beginning well. 'I'll tell you a little tale', okay? It's quite sort of soft and polite, but rather than being: it invites people to listen in.
要有一个好的开始。‘我给你们讲个小故事。’这么说温和又礼貌，而不是僵硬地邀请别人来听你的故事。
It kind of quietens things down, and people start listening. There need to be things in the story that grab people's attention.
有点像是进行安抚，然后人们开始倾听。故事里有好的情节才能抓住别人的注意力。
And this kind of links to this next point of embellishment and exaggeration.
这与下一点要讲的修饰和夸张有关。
