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Next: speak up, speak up means make sure you speak loudly enough to be heard and also recorded.
下一点：讲话大声一些，意思是请确保你讲话的声音足够大到对方能听清楚，而且能被清楚地录下来。
Because during the IELTS, for example, you are judged by that examiner,
因为在雅思考试中，给你评分的不仅是当场的考官，
and also you are recorded so that another examiner is going to listen to what you said during your English test.
他们还会把你的回答录下来，这样另一位考官就能听到你在英语考试期间说了什么。
So speak clearly enough that the recording will allow you to be heard properly. Okay?
所以讲话要足够清晰，这样别人才能好好听到你录音里的声音。
Next: keep a steady pace.
下一点：保持语速稳定。
That means don't speak too fast, and don't speak too slowly.
也就是不要讲得太快，也不要讲得太慢。
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?
如果你不确定自己的语速应该有多快，那就讲得比你认为合适的更慢一些，因为这样别人更可能听懂你说的话。
Next: explain any foreign words that you use as part of your answer.
下一点：解释你在作答时用到的所有外语词。
What do I mean by that, and why should you be using foreign words?
我说的是什么意思？还有为什么你要使用外语词？
Well, foreign words can also be the names of cities, for example, so if they ask you where you're from, right?
因为外语词也可能是城市的名字，比如，如果他们问你来自哪里。
And you need to use the name of a city or a town, which is not common knowledge like London or Paris,
你需要回答一个城市或城镇的名字，而这可能不如伦敦或巴黎那么为人熟知，
it may be not as common and it may not be so easy to understand.
可能没那么常见，可能不太容易听懂。
So, instead of saying...for example, suppose you came...suppose you're from India and you come from a city called Hyderabad.
所以与其说......比如，假设你来自印度一个叫做Hyderabad的城市。
Now, Hyderabad is a bit of a mouthful, it's an unfamiliar word,
Hyderabad挺绕口的，不是个很常见的单词，
so, what you could do to make it easier and to get higher marks is instead of just saying: "I come from Hyderabad",
所以要使它更容易听懂，让你得到更高的分数，你可以......与其直接说“我来自Hyderabad”，
and the examiner might think: "What did he say? What does that mean? I don't understand."
然后考官可能会想“他说了什么？那是什么意思？我听不懂。”
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."
解决这种情况的一个方法就是说“我来自印度南部一个叫做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,
按照这种方法，你所做的是解释了你要说的内容，这样听的人就知道有个单词要出现，
and even if I don't know it, I know what it means or what it refers to.
甚至即使我不认识这个单词，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?
实际上这听起来就像你的英语说得很好一样，因为你考虑到了听的人。
