쉐도잉 연습: Why Are Things Cute? - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And The Pet Collective offers 24-hour coverage of puppies and kittens. It's really cute.
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But what is cute, scientifically? I mean, why do we like soft, cuddly things and why do cute things have a unique effect on us?
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Well, the word cute is a shortening of acute, which originally meant "keen," "shrewd," "perceptive." About 180 years ago, the word cute began to be used as slang for a girl, who was pretty.
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And after that, it accrued a new meaning and was used to describe cuddly, delicate, quaint, precious, youthful traits. Konrad Lorenz studies cuteness in living things and put together a great specific list of what we consider cute.
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Small body size with a disproportionately large head, large eyes and round and soft body features. But why exactly did these characteristics elicit an "ooooohhh" response from us humans? Well, Lorenz pointed that you could find all of those characteristics in the human baby, which makes sense.
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If merely looking at our offspring makes us instinctively feel protective and nurturing, well, that's great for all of us. A fun consequence of this is that our experience of cuteness can be triggered by things that aren't human babies.
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For instance, shells, bunnies, owls and even a hammer.
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A hammer, how can that be? Take a look at this interactive tool from the Exploratorium. A hammer is boring.
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But if we apply Lorenz's traits and make it really round and really squat, it goes from a utilitarian tool to a cute little tiny hammer. Oh, he's just a little hammer, don't hurt him.
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It is a hammer that has become cute, because we gave it qualities that we see in our own offspring.
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As Daniel Dennett puts it, "if human babies looked like this, instead of that, we would find this cute." And whenever we saw something that looked like it, we would wanna cuddle and snuggle with it.
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Alright, so we have a pretty good idea about the how and what of cute.
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But where is cute? Well, researchers have shown cute baby pictures to subjects while using functional MRI to track activity in the brain.
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And sure enough, the cuter the baby in the picture, the more activation found right here - the nucleus accumbens. A pleasure centre.
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When activated, the nucleus accumbens releases dopamine.
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It's all part of our internal reward system. It's the same part of the brain targeted by cocaine and meth. Cuteness is such a powerful force on the brain in fact that it can affect our behaviours - what we like, what we buy.
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And so it's no coincidence that the creators of cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse or Pikachu, have drawn them more and more cute over time.
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The Japanese concept of Kawaii is a great example of this and it's one that's fun to quantify.
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If you're an adult, how many of your own heads, stacked on top of each other, do you think it would take to equal your height?
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The answer for most of us is around 7.5. But illustrations of people that are meant to make them look heroic or noble tend to make the person around 8 to 8.5 heads high.
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Cute goes the other way. Manga characters tend to only be about 5.5 to 6.5 heads tall.
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Back to babies.
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There are many other psychological factors at work that cause us to want to instinctively take care of our young. And to be sure, some of them are decidedly not cute. For instance, poopy diapers.
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Researchers have found that mothers, when exposed to soiled diapers, tend to consider the smell coming from their own child's diaper to be the least terrible, despite not knowing which diaper belonged to which kid. When something retains juvenile traits all the way through adulthood, it is called neoteny. And we love it, especially in animals that we keep as pets. Of course, us humans have selectively bred all kinds of animals to make each generation more and more useful to us.
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But the dog may be the animal that've spent the most time designing, making each generation better at hunting or better at staying cuter for longer.
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Dogs like this have been designed by us to look, grow and behave in ways that we want.
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Not that dissimilar from how we would design, say, a DVD player and its features.
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So whether it's staying cute forever or just being a really great hunting companion, the modern dog, more than any other animal, could be considered not so much a consequence of nature as much as it is a piece of human technology. As Science Friday puts it, "the dog is man's best friend because it may be man's best invention." So go pet a cute dog today.
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And as always, thanks for watching.
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이 비디오에서는 몇 가지 유용한 문법 구조와 표현이 사용되었습니다. 다음은 그 중 일부입니다:
- “well, the word cute is a shortening of acute” - 'cute'의 유래에 대한 설명입니다. 여기서 'is'와 'a'의 사용은 간단하면서도 명확한 정의를 제공합니다.
- “that makes sense” - 문장에서 이해되고 받아들여지는 감정을 표현하는 구문입니다. 친구들과 자연스럽게 대화할 때 사용할 수 있습니다.
- “we could find all of those characteristics” - 가능성을 제시하는 조건문으로, 다른 사람들과 의견을 나누는 데 유용합니다.
이러한 구조를 shadow speech 연습에 활용하여 실제 대화에서 더 자연스럽고 정확하게 표현할 수 있습니다.
일반적인 발음 함정
발음에서 주의해야 할 단어들과 억양이 여기 있습니다:
- cute - /kjuːt/로 발음합니다. '큐트'라고 발음할 때의 억양에 주의하세요.
- enough - /ɪˈnʌf/로 발음됩니다. 이 단어는 특히 빠르게 말할 때 올바른 발음을 취하기 어려울 수 있습니다.
- characteristics - /ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪks/와 같이 발음합니다. 생략되기 쉬운 음절에 유의하세요.
이 발음 연습을 통해 shadowspeaks와 같은 기술을 활용하여 자연스럽고 유창하게 대화할 수 있게 될 것입니다. 귀여움이라는 재미있는 주제로 연습하며 자신감을 높여보세요!
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화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 문형 | 영상 속 표현 |
|---|---|
| 현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때 | has become · have shown · have drawn |
| 수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점 | can be triggered · are meant · is called |
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