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[5:00] Learn English Through 'Inception' Dialogues: Dream Construction and Reality Perception Analysis

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Learn English through classic dialogues from 'Inception', analyzing dream construction and perception of reality, helping you master natural English expressions in real-life contexts.

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Learning English is not just about mastering grammar and vocabulary; more importantly, it is about being able to use it naturally in real-life situations. However, textbook sentences are often too formal and differ significantly from actual everyday expressions. To speak authentic and natural English, you need to engage with dialogues in real contexts. Here, we have selected high-frequency English expressions for daily use, covering social, work, travel, and other scenarios, helping you move beyond 'textbook English' and learn expressions actually used by native speakers. Below is the content of this session 'Learn English Through Movies - Inception CD2 09'. Consistent accumulation will make your English closer to real life!

We built this. This is incredible. We built for years. And we started in on the memories. This was our neighborhood. Places from our past. It was their first apartment. And we'll be that building right there. After Maul became pregnant, that became our home. You reconstructed all of this from memory? Like I told you, we had lots of time.

What is that? It's the house Maul grew up in. Who was she being there? Come on. We both wanted to live in a house where we loved this type of building. In the real world, we'd have to choose, but not here. How are we going to bring food to your back? We're going to have to come up with some kind of a cake. What? And then it provides.

There's something you should know about me. About Inception. An idea is like a virus: resilient, highly contagious, and the smallest seed of an idea I can grow. You can grow to define or destroy. The smallest idea, such as your world, is not real. A simple little thought that changes everything. So certain of your world. Of what's real.

Do you think he is? What do you think? He's as lost as I was? I know what's real, Maul. No creeping doubts. Not feeling persecuted, Don. Chased around the globe by anonymous corporations and police forces. The way the projections persecute the dreamer. Admit it. You don't believe in one reality anymore. So choose. Choose to be here. Choose me.

Oh! Oh! You know what I have to do? I have to get back to our shelter because you left them. Because you left us. You're wrong. You're confused. Our children are here. And you'd like to see their faces again, wouldn't you? Yes. I don't want to see them up above all. Oh! Yes! Yes! I'm above.

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  • persecute

    verb

    1. cause to suffer

    e.g. Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union

    Synonym: oppress

  • incredible

    adj

    1. beyond belief or understanding

    e.g. at incredible speed
    the book's plot is simply incredible

    Synonym: unbelievable

  • contagious

    adj

    1. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

    Synonym: catchingcommunicablecontractabletransmissibletransmittable

    2. easily diffused or spread as from one person to another

    e.g. a contagious grin

  • confused

    adj

    1. mentally confused
    unable to think with clarity or act intelligently

    e.g. the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused

    2. lacking orderly continuity

    e.g. a confused set of instructions
    a confused dream about the end of the world
    disconnected fragments of a story
    scattered thoughts

    Synonym: disconnecteddisjointeddisorderedgarbledillogicalscatteredunconnected

    3. thrown into a state of disarray or confusion

    e.g. troops fleeing in broken ranks
    a confused mass of papers on the desk
    the small disordered room
    with everything so upset

    Synonym: brokendisorderedupset

    4. having lost your bearings
    confused as to time or place or personal identity

    e.g. I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway
    the anesthetic left her completely disoriented

    Synonym: disorientedlost

    5. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements
    filled with bewilderment

    e.g. obviously bemused by his questions
    bewildered and confused
    a cloudy and confounded philosopher
    just a mixed-up kid
    she felt lost on the first day of school

    Synonym: baffledbefuddledbemusedbewilderedconfoundedlostmazedmixed-upat sea

  • reconstructed

    adj

    1. adapted to social or economic change

    e.g. a reconstructed feminist