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906. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 🖤😱 (Learn English with a Short Story)

2024/10/29
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Luke在本期播客中朗读并详细讲解了爱伦·坡的经典哥特式恐怖小说《泄密的心》，旨在帮助英语学习者提升英语水平。他首先完整地朗读了故事，然后对故事情节进行了总结，并对故事的主题和含义进行了深入的解读。之后，Luke逐行讲解了故事中的词汇和语法，并对一些过时的表达方式进行了现代化的解释。他还特别关注了故事中一些关键词的含义和用法，例如'nervous', 'angry', 'stressed'等易混淆词语，以及'fancy', 'vexed', 'concealment'等具有多种含义或较为正式的词汇。此外，Luke还分析了故事中'telltale', 'sufficient', 'cautious', 'stealthily', 'profound', 'extent', 'sagacity', 'triumph', 'pitch black', 'muffled', 'singularly', 'distinct', 'vehemently', 'gesticulations', 'hypocritical', 'agony', 'derision', 'dissemble'等词汇的含义和用法，并结合上下文对这些词汇进行了细致的解释。Luke还对故事中的一些表达方式，例如'by degrees', 'made up my mind', 'to take the life of', 'looked in upon', 'at length', 'to make an end of', 'bade welcome', 'earlong', 'to move a muscle', 'death watches', 'to well up', 'in vain', 'stalked', 'unperceived', 'over-acuteness', 'hellish tattoo', 'amid', 'gaily', 'stone dead', 'wary', 'scantlings', 'suavity', 'foul play', 'premises', 'deputed', 'singularly at ease', 'distinctness', 'heightened', 'vehemently', 'gesticulations', 'hypocritical', 'agony', 'derision', 'dissemble'等进行了深入的讲解，并提供了现代英语的等价表达。总而言之，Luke通过对《泄密的心》的讲解，不仅帮助学习者学习英语，更重要的是引导学习者思考故事中所蕴含的深刻主题，例如疯狂、罪恶感、现实与幻觉的界限等。

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This Halloween-themed episode delves into Edgar Allan Poe's classic horror story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." Luke introduces the story, its author, and sets the stage for a line-by-line analysis, reminding listeners of the story's potentially disturbing content.
  • Introduction to "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Discussion of the story's context and themes
  • Warning about potentially disturbing content

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In this episode for Halloween I read out a classic work of gothic horror fiction by Edgar Allan Poe, then go through each line and explain vocabulary and discuss the themes and meanings of the story.

📄 Get the story PDF https://teacherluke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/906.-The-Tell-Tale-Heart-by-Edgar-Allan-Poe-Learn-English-with-a-Short-Story.pdf)

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