쉐도잉 연습: The Baobab Tree: Africa’s Miracle Secret. - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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This is a baobab tree.
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However, it's not a loaf of bread.
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Africans love to open a skylight at the top, where they store their most valuable wealth.
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Besides being used as a bank, it can house people, store precious fresh water to sell to others, and serve as a resource that truly saves lives.
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This tree, known as the baobab, can live up to 5,000 years.
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Despite being hollowed out, it not only survives but thrives, passing down through generations.
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In the local culture, it's common to have no car, no house, and no savings.
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But not having your own baobab tree could mean you can't even get a bride.
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This autumn, in our search for answers, we head to the arid highlands of Madagascar in Africa to
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hear from the villagers on why this water is more precious than gold.
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In early autumn, as seen in previous videos, you might know that the job of collecting leaves in Madagascar is among the hardest in the world.
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The muddy dirt roads are actually state-built highways, which indicates how difficult life is for locals.
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When our filming crew arrived, they coincidentally encountered the first of the two annual heavy rains, a time that's also peak season for weddings and births.
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The villagers are busy collecting rainwater from puddles, as there's no tap water, no groundwater and no government water trucks here.
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To survive, they rely entirely on rainwater.
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They must fill their baobab trees before the water in the mud puddles dries up, storing enough to meet their needs for the entire year.
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Those planning to marry or add to their families have to store extra water, otherwise no one will want to marry into the family.
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The more water a household has, the more attractive it is for marriage prospects.
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Today the village chief called a meeting, concluding that everyone must start storing water at all costs.
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Their storage tanks are these towering baobab trees.
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Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, lightning struck a baobab tree and hollowed it out.
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When the skies cleared, people were surprised to find that the water inside was clean and the roots weren't rotting.
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This water storage technique helped the tribal community survive.
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Soon the clean rainwater on the ground was completely collected.
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To make the most of all available rainwater, the women and children started gathering dirty water.
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This water has been sitting for days and contains high sediment levels, fly and mosquito larvae, and various bacteria.
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Drinking it without medical facilities and medicines truly tests one's survival.
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Some of this muddy water is used for livestock, while most is used for washing and cooking.
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If they can't find any other water source, people will resort to the baobab water,
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though able-bodied young men may prefer to find wild water sources in rocky caves several kilometers away to conserve precious baobab reserves.
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The locals, from birth until death, learn how to find water and save it as a legacy for future generations.
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Baobabs, these natural water reservoirs, have an odd appearance, with roots that seem to reach skyward.
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There's a legend that the gods, seeing how hard life was for the Africans, threw the baobabs down from the heavens to serve as homes, water storage and food sources.
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After the rainy season comes the long dry season, during which the village chief gathers everyone to prepare for the next rainy season.
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Men look for unclaimed baobabs, often falling in love at first sight with a tree they find suitable for water storage.
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Before starting the work, they perform a ritual, sacrificing a black rooster as an offering to the tree spirit.
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Once the bark is peeled back, the men can even drink the sap.
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The key is to choose a centuries-old tree with sturdy bark, ensuring they leave enough bark intact during the process, as damaging the bark will cause the tree to rot.
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The locals are skilled at estimating the correct depth for the water cavity to avoid harming the tree.
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A properly sized baobab can hold about a ton of water,
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enough to meet the needs of a family of four for a season.
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After filling it, they cover the opening to prevent theft by people or animals,
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though it's not a foolproof method.
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Over the years, the worsening climate and diminishing rainfall have increased the villagers' reliance on baobabs.
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As crops fail and the rains become scarcer, some families resort to buying water.
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For some, the journey to the nearest water pit takes 20 hours by ox cart.
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Only to bring back a single bucket to last the household half a week.
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For local children, bathing is a rare luxury.
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Many villages have been abandoned, with families forced to either die or leave the land of their ancestors.
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In 2010, about 520,000 people decided to stay.
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baobab excavation efforts to store as much water as possible.
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However, with exposure to modern society and access to well water, future generations might decide not to inherit the responsibility of maintaining baobabs,
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which could ultimately allow these trees a chance to recover.
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- water is more precious than gold: 물은 금보다 더 소중하다
- marriage prospects: 결혼 가능성
- survive: 생존하다
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| 수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점 | being used · being hollowed · was completely collected |
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