シャドーイング練習: The Goofiest Space Experiment In History - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Did you know that this is the biggest object humans have ever sent into space?
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It may not look like it, but this is actually a 20 kilometer long piece of wire.
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That's as tall as the Empire State Building.
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Well, 45 of them.
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But what's he doing there?
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It must be the universe's longest string telephone!
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Hello?
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Hello?
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Prepare for invasion of Earth- Oh, that's not good.
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To actually understand what it's for, we need to look at Faraday's Law of Induction.
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If I move this loop of wire through this magnetic field, a small current is produced.
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You can increase the power generated by using more wire and moving it faster.
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In fact, stick a propeller on the end and now you have yourself a wind turbine.
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This concept made the big brains at NASA go...
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You know how, like, the Earth is like, basically a giant magnet?
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Yeah, bro, totally.
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What if we use like.. a super long wire, bro?
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Huh?
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So 400 million dollars later, this is the plan they came up with.
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Earth has big magnetic field, so we send spaceship with big wire.
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But Earth magnetic field very weak, so we send even bigger wire.
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Then we move spaceships super fast to generate power.
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Then we rule the galaxy.
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The system was called the TSS-1, or Tethered Satellite System.
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1. It had a base satellite, a sub-satellite, and a 20 kilometer long conductive tether connecting them both acting as the wire.
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Now you may have noticed something wrong here.
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In our original example we used a loop of wire because electricity needs a closed loop to flow, and this tether is not a loop.
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But electricity is really just the flow of electrons, and turns out there's a layer of the Earth's atmosphere called the ionosphere, which has a bunch of free electrons just floating around.
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So using a fancy electron collector and emitter, NASA designed a system to create electron flow using the ionosphere, completing the loop.
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In 1992, TSS-1 was launched aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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It successfully reached the ionosphere, and it was finally time to unfurl the 20 kilometer long tether.
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Uh, Houston, we have a problem.
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This screw isn't gonna cut it.
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Okay, swap them out then.
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Hey, we should test everything again to make sure it works, right?
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Nah, it should be good.
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It was not good.
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That beefy screw caused the tether reel to jam up but a whopping 260 meters.
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Pretty much 1% of its maximum length.
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Moral of the story, always test and retest after making any design changes.
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Quite the expensive lesson to learn, but surely they'll get it next time, right?
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Right!
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Ooh, we made it past 260 meters this time! and the tether successfully deployed to its full length of 20 kilom- Um,
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Houston, we have a pro- It was so close, but when the tether reached 19.7 kilometers,
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a small defect in the insulation near the bottom led to a large arc that melted it.
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And that's how we ended up here.
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A giant space noodle floating in the sky.
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It was sighted all over the world, like in Australia, in Hawaii, in Southern USA...
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And a few weeks later, it re-entered the atmosphere, cooking the space noodle once and for all.
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But the big question is, did the experiment work though?
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Well, NASA managed to collect some data, and the tether generated almost 3.5 kilowatts of electrical power.
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Enough to run three toasters at once!
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Okay, that doesn't seem like much, but for context, most small satellites only need one toaster amount of power.
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But despite this, the tethered satellite system missions were abandoned.
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And the results weren't publicized.
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Well, apart from being roasted by the media.
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I guess it is kind of embarrassing to have your mistake plastered in the sky for the whole world to see, but I really hope they try again.
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Because I imagine a night sky in the future where space noodles hang from every spaceship and satellite.
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Hashtag, bring back space noodles.
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Please, I haven't seen the sun in years.
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See you next time!
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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が61文、単語が678語あります。 音声の長さは4:33です。 話す速さは1分あたり約149語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は76%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
wire 名詞/ˈwaɪɚ/針金, 線
satellite 名詞/ˈsætəlaɪ̯t/衛星
loop 名詞/luːp/ループ
generate 動詞/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/生む, 生み出す
magnetic 形容詞/mæɡˈnɛtɪk/磁気の
atmosphere 名詞/ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/大気, 大気圏
meter 名詞/ˈmitəɹ/メーター, 計量器
float 動詞/fləʊt/浮かぶ, 浮く
electron 名詞/ɪˈlɛk.tɹɑn/電子
lesson 名詞/ˈlɛs.ən/授業, 学科
moral 形容詞/ˈmoɹəl/倫理的な
telephone 名詞/ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/電話
layer 名詞/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/層, 膜
string 名詞/stɹɪŋ/紐
connect 動詞/kəˈnɛkt/繋げる

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるis produced · was called · was launched
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係しているhave ever sent · haven't seen

注意したい発音

話し手はdoesn't, gonna, haven'tなど、短縮形や弱形を6回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: invasion /ɪnˈveɪʒən/, hashtag /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/, insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/
  • 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/, electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, electrical /ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/

この動画での練習方法

  1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
  2. 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。wire, satellite, loopなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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