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Next: speak up, speak up means make sure you speak loudly enough to be heard and also recorded.
下一點：講話大聲一些，意思是請確保你講話的聲音足夠大到對方能聽清楚，而且能被清楚地錄下來。
Because during the IELTS, for example, you are judged by that examiner,
因為在雅思考試中，給你評分的不僅是當場的考官，
and also you are recorded so that another examiner is going to listen to what you said during your English test.
他們還會把你的回答錄下來，這樣另一位考官就能聽到你在英語考試期間說了什么。
So speak clearly enough that the recording will allow you to be heard properly. Okay?
所以講話要足夠清晰，這樣別人才能好好聽到你錄音里的聲音。
Next: keep a steady pace.
下一點：保持語速穩定。
That means don't speak too fast, and don't speak too slowly.
也就是不要講得太快，也不要講得太慢。
If you're not sure how fast you should speak, speak slower than you think is necessary because that way it's much more likely that you will be understood. Okay?
如果你不確定自己的語速應該有多快，那就講得比你認為合適的更慢一些，因為這樣別人更可能聽懂你說的話。
Next: explain any foreign words that you use as part of your answer.
下一點：解釋你在作答時用到的所有外語詞。
What do I mean by that, and why should you be using foreign words?
我說的是什么意思？還有為什么你要使用外語詞？
Well, foreign words can also be the names of cities, for example, so if they ask you where you're from, right?
因為外語詞也可能是城市的名字，比如，如果他們問你來自哪里。
And you need to use the name of a city or a town, which is not common knowledge like London or Paris,
你需要回答一個城市或城鎮的名字，而這可能不如倫敦或巴黎那么為人熟知，
it may be not as common and it may not be so easy to understand.
可能沒那么常見，可能不太容易聽懂。
So, instead of saying...for example, suppose you came...suppose you're from India and you come from a city called Hyderabad.
所以與其說......比如，假設你來自印度一個叫做Hyderabad的城市。
Now, Hyderabad is a bit of a mouthful, it's an unfamiliar word,
Hyderabad挺繞口的，不是個很常見的單詞，
so, what you could do to make it easier and to get higher marks is instead of just saying: "I come from Hyderabad",
所以要使它更容易聽懂，讓你得到更高的分數，你可以......與其直接說“我來自Hyderabad”，
and the examiner might think: "What did he say? What does that mean? I don't understand."
然后考官可能會想“他說了什么？那是什么意思？我聽不懂。”
So, they...another...a way to get around that is to say: "I come from a city in the southern part of India called Hyderabad."
解決這種情況的一個方法就是說“我來自印度南部一個叫做Hyderabad的城市。”
Now, what you've done is you've given an explanation of what you're going to say so the listener knows that there is a word coming,
按照這種方法，你所做的是解釋了你要說的內容，這樣聽的人就知道有個單詞要出現，
and even if I don't know it, I know what it means or what it refers to.
甚至即使我不認識這個單詞，我也知道它是什么意思，或者它指的是什么。
So it will sound, in fact, like you speak better English, because you have taken the listener into account. Okay?
實際上這聽起來就像你的英語說得很好一樣，因為你考慮到了聽的人。
