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你人生中第一場讓你熬夜守著螢幕的國際賽事是哪一場？是世界盃、WBC，還是奧運？本週的《英語咖啡館》John 老師和 Patrick 老師要來聊聊那些讓人熱血沸騰追不停的比賽啦！
如果你也有過「看不懂規則但還是看完了」的經驗，我們在這集分享了一套看比賽的心得，也許你會很有感喔。另外John老師也分享了當年南非世界盃足球賽的往事，雖然當時用來看球的軟體已經消失了，但那屆追比賽時留下的小習慣，卻一直延續到現在還沒停，你知道是什麼習慣嗎？
What was the first international sporting event in your life that kept you up glued to the screen? Was it the World Cup, WBC, or the Olympics? This week on English Cafe, John and Patrick discuss those matches that get your blood pumping and keep you coming back for more!
If you've also had the experience of "not understanding the rules but still watching anyway," we share some insights about watching sports in this episode that you might really relate to. Additionally, Teacher John also shares memories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa—although the software used to watch the games back then has disappeared, a small habit formed from following the matches then has continued all the way to now without stopping. Do you know what that habit is?

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國際時事跟讀 Ep. L257: Indonesia Quake: 53 Dead, Nearly 1,000 Aftershocks
Highlights 主題摘要
A magnitude 7.7 quake off Indonesia's Flores island killed at least 53 people and displaced 5,000.
Memories of the deadly 1992 Flores tsunami sent villagers running uphill the moment the sea drew back.
Landslides cut off the worst-hit districts; thousands still sleep outdoors after nearly 1,000 aftershocks.
The shaking began just before six on Saturday morning, while much of Flores was still asleep. The magnitude 7.7 earthquake, only ten kilometres deep, ruptured the seabed off the island's north coast. In Ruteng, hospital ceilings caved in and patients were moved outside into tents. At a Catholic seminary in Sikka, an assembly hall roof collapsed during morning Mass, sending students and nuns scrambling into the open. By Sunday, Indonesian authorities had put the death toll at 53, with more than a hundred injured and some 5,000 people displaced.
週六清晨將近六點，佛羅雷斯島上多數居民仍在熟睡，強震突然來襲。這起規模7.7的地震震源深度僅10公里，震央位於島嶼北岸外海。魯滕的醫院天花板震塌，病患被緊急移往戶外帳篷治療。席卡縣一所天主教神學院的禮堂屋頂在晨間彌撒時倒塌，學生與修女倉皇逃出。截至週日，印尼當局統計已有53人罹難、逾百人受傷，約5000人流離失所。
What sent villagers running uphill was not the shaking so much as what lives on in local memory. In 1992, a quake of the same magnitude struck the same water and triggered a tsunami that killed about 2,500 islanders. So when the sea visibly drew back on Saturday, residents near the epicentre did not wait to be told. The tsunami warning was lifted three hours later, once monitors detected no dangerous rise in sea level. Indonesia sits astride the Pacific Ring of Fire, among the most seismically exposed countries on earth.
讓村民拔腿往山上跑的，其實不是搖晃本身，而是留在當地人記憶裡的創傷。1992年，同樣規模的強震襲擊同一片海域並引發海嘯，島上約2500人喪生。因此週六一早海水明顯退去時，震央附近的居民不等通知就往高處逃。三小時後，監測站未測得危險的海平面變化，海嘯警報隨即解除。印尼位處太平洋火環帶，是全球地震風險最高的國家之一。
The rescue effort has been shaped less by the quake than by the terrain. Landslides severed sections of the Trans-Flores Highway, a 700-kilometre artery through mountainous country, leaving three of the worst-hit regencies cut off for more than a day. Search teams reached them only on Sunday, some arriving by ferry. "We have cleared most landslides and reopened roads to previously isolated villages," said Fathur Rahman, who heads the search-and-rescue office in Maumere, though communication blackouts and power cuts continued to hamper the work.
救援的最大阻礙不是地震本身，而是地形。山崩切斷橫貫佛羅雷斯公路的多個路段，這條長約700公里的幹道穿過山區，災情最重的三個縣因此對外中斷超過一天。搜救隊直到週日才抵達，部分人員改搭渡輪前往。毛梅雷搜救辦公室主任拉曼（Fathur Rahman）表示：「我們已經清除大部分土石，通往先前孤立的村落的道路也重新開放。」但通訊中斷和停電仍在拖慢搜救進度。
Relief has begun to trickle in: 50,000 aid packages weighing 275 tonnes, at least five helicopters, a naval vessel and a fourteen-day emergency response across the province. Even so, monitors logged close to a thousand aftershocks by Sunday afternoon, and thousands spent a second night under tarpaulins rather than return to houses left standing but no longer trusted. "The shaking was terrifying, so intense that my house nearly collapsed," one farmer told the Associated Press. Officials cite the same mix behind the full shelters: aftershocks, damaged homes and the memory of 1992.
援助陸續抵達：5萬份物資共重275公噸，至少5架直升機和1艘海軍艦艇馳援，全省進入為期14天的緊急應變期。不過截至週日下午，監測單位已記錄將近1000次餘震，數千人寧願在帆布棚下再睡一晚，也不敢回到那些沒倒、卻已讓人不放心的房子。一名農婦在受損住家旁的帳篷裡告訴美聯社：「搖得太可怕了，我家差點垮掉。」官員指出，讓收容所滿載的就是這幾件事：餘震、受損的房屋，還有1992年的記憶。

Keyword Drills 關鍵字
Cave in [verb phrase, to collapse inwards under weight or pressure]: The old roof caved in after heavy snow.
Draw back [verb phrase, to move backwards or retreat]: The sea drew back before the wave came.
Astride [preposition, positioned across or on both sides of something]: The town sits astride a major fault line.
Hamper [verb, to slow down or obstruct an effort]: Heavy rain hampered the search for survivors.
Trickle in [verb phrase, to arrive slowly and in small amounts]: Donations trickled in after the first report.

Reference article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/14/asia/indonesia-earthquake-intl-latam
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v00w5ylw9o
https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/indonesia-earthquake-death-toll-rises-flores-20260816.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/15/at-least-two-killed-as-magnitude-7-7-quake-hits-indonesia
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2026/08/16/indonesia039s-flores-quake-nearly-1000-aftershocks-recorded-thousands-remain-evacuated
https://www.cna.com.tw/news/aopl/202608160084.aspx

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「我今天聽懂30%,昨天好像有60%,那今天心情不好是不是又掉回40%了?」如果你也曾經這樣自我懷疑,那你不是特例。這集是「聽到說」七封信的第二封,John老師和阿鍵老師要幫你把這種飄忽不定的百分比,換成三個清楚看得見的階段,讓你知道自己到底卡在哪裡,又該怎麼往前走。
為什麼「聽懂幾趴」這種算法根本不準
你有沒有想過,「聽懂60%」到底是什麼意思?是漏掉幾個單字,還是完全抓不到句子的重點?兩位老師這集要先打破一個迷思:用百分比自我評估聽力,其實一點也不科學。真正該問的問題不是「我聽懂多少」,而是「我現在的英文聽力,是屬於初期、中期,還是進階」。
聽力這件事,牽涉到咬字、發音、連音,還有你大腦處理句子的速度。台灣人特別怕連音,這也是為什麼你聽外國人講中文的四聲會覺得他們像機器人——因為外國人根本聽不出四聲的差別,對他們來說每個音都長一樣。同樣的道理,英文母語者對你來說,也常常是一整串黏在一起的音,分不出哪裡斷句。這集把聽力拆成三個階段,幫通勤學英文的你找到自己現在的座標。
初期:一聽到英文就想逃,其實不是你聽力差
初期的特徵很明顯:一聽到英文,尤其是全英文對話,整個人就緊張起來,甚至想往後退。John老師形容這是一種「壓聽雷」的感覺——耳朵有聽到聲音,但完全變成外星語,腦筋一片空白。這種反應很常跟被老師點名要開口說英文的課堂經驗有關,聽久了就變成PTSD式的抗拒感。
阿鍵老師提醒,這階段不是聽力不夠好,而是你根本沒有「習慣」聽這個語言。解法很單純:大量做casual listening就好,美劇、日劇、podcast放著聽,不用逼自己每句都聽懂。等到耳朵對英文的音調不再那麼陌生、不再那麼緊張,你就等於過了初期這關。
中期:大概聽得懂,但總覺得漏掉了什麼
中期是大多數人卡住的地方。你聽得懂大意,可是總覺得漏了幾個字,然後開始擔心這幾個字會不會影響整段話的理解。阿鍵老師點出關鍵:這階段最常遇到的是連音、縮寫,還有課本裡學不到的口語表達。像go into會變成gonna,did you會黏在一起念,課本教的都是Reading跟Writing的正式英文,沒人教你Speaking這種活生生的口語版本。
這也是為什麼John老師會說,自己在這個階段常常懷疑自己英文不好——不是講不出來,而是對方一句話裡藏了兩三個問題,只抓得到一個。想突破中期,重點不是聽更多,而是聽得更細:搭配English Cafe這類節目,把連音、縮寫、慣用語一個一個抓出來,細節補齊了,自我懷疑自然會少一點。
進階:換個腔調,又會被打回原形
進階聽力的人,平常聽得很順,通勤、開車、走路聽英文早就是日常。但一遇到不熟悉的腔調——印度腔、蘇格蘭腔、荷蘭腔——瞬間又覺得自己回到中期,好像換了一個語言一樣。John老師舉了在台灣走紅的韓籍啦啦隊李多慧當例子:她中文已經講得很好,但中文的四聲對她來說始終是個關卡,因為韓語裡沒有對應的音調概念,發音方式跟認字是分開學的兩件事。腔調這種東西,真的沒有從小浸泡,後天就是要花更多力氣去磨。
有趣的是,兩位老師也聊到,詞彙量不見得跟話題廣度成正比。像講到大家熟悉的川普,他用字其實不難,但涉獵的領域從國防、貿易到流行文化,樣樣都能聊上幾句——這反而是一種學習策略的啟發:先抓住核心詞彙,再慢慢往外延伸。就像節目裡提到,一個原本在竹科做工程相關工作的朋友,因為公司需要處理法規文件,從工程英文一路學到法律相關的英文用語,靠的就是先站穩自己熟悉的領域,再一步步擴大聽力的守備範圍。

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In this dual article episode, we find that Microsoft has opened a permanent work from home policy for employees in response to the struggles of getting to office amidst the pandemic. Once the pandemic subsides, Microsoft employees can choose to work from home permanently with their manager’s approval. Next piece of news is about the Korean government moved kindergarten and elementary school students back online in response of the surge in the number of COVID19 infections.
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Provisions n. action of supplying or providing something / financial or other arrangements In response to COVID19, Microsoft expanded their work-from-home provisions. Financial provisions have to be made to avoid the impact from a market crash.
Drag on ph. V – process or situation that continue at unnecessary length If the COVID19 situation drags on, the market may react badly. You should not let your health condition drag on.
Surge n. - powerful upward or forward movement The number of Porsches surged in the streets of Taipei. Share prices of Tesla surged after the positive outlook on their production schedule.

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你有沒有為了省錢或是賺錢，做過一些想起來會想笑的傻事？本週的《英語咖啡館》John 老師和 Angel 老師要來聊一個平常不太容易開口的話題：財務後悔。
這集充滿我們兩位老師的血淚，有省過頭的糗事，也有代價不小的投資教訓。筆記裡除了實用的英文慣用語外，也整理了一些安慰人的簡單短語，畢竟誰沒做錯過事呢？學起來下次聽到令人遺憾的故事，就能派上用場囉。
Have you ever done something ridiculous for the sake of saving or making money that makes you laugh thinking about it now? This week on English Cafe, John and Angel discuss a topic that's not usually easy to bring up: financial regrets.
This episode is full of the blood, sweat, and tears of the two teachers—there are embarrassing stories about being overly frugal, and costly investment lessons learned. Beyond practical English idioms, we've also compiled some simple reassuring phrases, because after all, who hasn't made mistakes? Learn them and you'll be ready the next time you hear a regrettable story.