쉐도잉 연습: "Great Inventors: Benjamin Franklin" by Adventure Academy - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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Good day, Benjamin!
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Why do you swim with pieces of wood attached to your wrists?
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I had hoped I might swim faster with them.
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Did you make them yourself?
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I did, yes.
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How interesting!
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And do they work?
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Yes, but they tire my wrists, so I shall work to improve their design.
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Live and learn, I say.
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You're awfully clever, Benjamin Franklin.
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Benjamin Franklin, one of America's founding fathers, co -writer of the United States Constitution,
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one of the most celebrated Americans the country has ever seen, and a master inventor as well.
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Besides the wooden swim fins he invented when he was just 11 years old, Benjamin Franklin also invented a wood -burning stove,
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a glass instrument, the lightning rod, and a new type of eyeglasses called bifocals.
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Franklin's inventions improved the lives of people around the world.
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One invention in particular saved countless lives.
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How did he do it?
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How did one person come up with the ideas for so many useful inventions?
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To find out, let's go back to the 18th century, when Benjamin Franklin was 40 years old.
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1746. The 13 American colonies are in the iron grip of King George II of England.
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It will be years before people hear about the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's midnight ride, or a Revolutionary War general by the name of George Washington.
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But they have heard of Benjamin Franklin.
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Born into the family of a soap and candle maker, Franklin didn't have much as a child,
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but he became one of America's most famous and successful citizens with his passion, knowledge, and unstoppable drive.
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One might say that Benjamin Franklin never met a problem he didn't want to solve, and in 1746, that problem was lightning.
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He observed that when lightning struck, it not only caused fires,
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but it could surge through buildings causing great injury and even death to the people inside.
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Franklin became fascinated by experiments that other scientists were doing with lightning and electricity.
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He decided to conduct experiments of his own, including one of the most famous experiments in all of history.
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He attached a metal wire and a key to a kite and flew it into a thunderstorm,
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proving once and for all that lightning is actually a form of electricity.
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Franklin then came up with the idea for an invention called a lightning rod.
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This pointed metal rod was attached to the top of a
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building with a wire running down the outside of the building to another pointed rod buried in the ground.
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When a building was struck by lightning, the wire would safely carry the electricity from the lightning into the ground,
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thus protecting the building and the people inside it.
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As Franklin himself wrote, May not this be of use to mankind in preserving houses,
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churches, ships, etc., from the stroke of lightning?
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Franklin never stopped inventing, even 40 years later at the age of 78.
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As he got older, his eyesight had gotten worse, and so he discovered another problem to solve.
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He found that he needed to keep switching back
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and forth between eyeglasses that helped him see far away and eyeglasses that helped him see close enough to read.
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Oh, I can take it no longer.
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This infernal switching shall drive me mad.
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So what did he do?
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He improved upon the work of inventors before him by sawing the lenses of both eyeglasses in half
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and attaching one to the top of the other.
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To see distant objects, he would look up through the top half of the lens.
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To see things close up, he would look down through the bottom half.
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Referring to his bifocals as double spectacles, Franklin wrote to his friend that he was, Happy in the invention of double spectacles,
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which serving for distant objects as well as near ones, make my eyes as useful to me as ever they were.
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Such was Franklin's ingenuity, his ability to create solutions to real everyday problems,
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that modern forms of swim fins and bifocals are widely in use today.
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and lightning rods continue to save lives all around the world.
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Did Franklin ever profit from any of his inventions?
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Not at all.
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He gave the plans for his inventions away, or free.
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As Franklin wrote, We should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours,
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and this we should do freely and generously.
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This was Benjamin Franklin and why he is still considered to be one of America's greatest inventors.
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자연스러운 표현 분석
- "I had hoped I might swim faster with them." 과거 희망을 표현하는 "had hoped"는 후회나 미완료된 의도를 담을 때 자주 사용됩니다. "might"는 가능성을 부드럽게 나타내어, 일상 대화에서 자연스러운 어조를 만듭니다.
- "Live and learn, I say." 이 구절은 경험을 통해 배운다는 뜻으로, 구어체에서 자주 쓰이는 관용구입니다. "I say"는 말하는 사람의 강조나 주장을 나타내어, 대화에 생동감을 더합니다.
- "May not this be of use to mankind..." "May not this be..."는 부정적인 의문형으로, 제안이나 의문을 부드럽게 표현합니다. "be of use"는 "유용하다"는 뜻으로, "useful"보다 더 문어적이지만 자연스러운 표현입니다.
쉐도잉 연습 루틴
영어 발음 교정과 말하기 속도를 연습하려면 다음 단계를 따라해 보세요. 1. 비디오를 5초씩 재생하고 멈춥니다. 2. 화자의 발음, 억양, 강세를 따라 shadowspeak 방식으로 반복합니다. 3. 녹음기를 켜서 자신의 목소리를 녹음한 후, 원본과 비교해 차이점을 찾습니다. 4. 어색한 부분은 5번 이상 반복해서 연습합니다. 이 루틴을 매일 10분씩 하면, 자연스러운 영어 발음과 흐름을 익힐 수 있습니다. 특히 "infernal switching"과 같은 강조 표현은 억양을 살려 말하는 것이 중요하니, 주의깊게 연습해 보세요.
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| 문형 | 영상 속 표현 |
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| 수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점 | was attached · was struck · is still considered |
| 현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때 | has ever seen · have heard |
| 과거진행 was/were + -ing — 과거의 어느 시점에 진행 중이던 동작 | was lightning · were doing |
| “should” 조언 should + 동사 — 하는 것이 좋은 일을 말할 때 | should be · should do |
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