ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature?

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There are no blue tigers.
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No blue bats, no blue squirrels, or blue dogs.
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Even blue whales aren’t that blue.
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Animals come in pretty much every color, but blue seems to be the rarest.
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What’s cool, though, is when we do find a blue animal, they’re awesome looking.
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Nature doesn’t do halfway with blue.
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To understand why this is, we’re gonna journey through evolution, chemistry, and some very cool physics.
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But, first we’re gonna need to understand why animals are any color at all, and to do that, we need to go look at some butterflies… because butterflies are awesome… and if you don’t think so, you’re wrong This is Bob Robbins.
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He’s curator of Lepidoptera at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.
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Butterflies ARE awesome.
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Make no mistake about it.
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They’re a group of moths that evolved to be active during the day, and if you’re active during the day, you have an advantage: You can use light to communicate.
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You probably realize this, but out of all insects, butterflies display the brightest and most detailed patterns.
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And there’s a good reason for that: The colors in butterfly wings deliver messages, like “I’m toxic”, or “I’m a male and this is my territory”, but not all butterfly colors are created equal.
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If we zoom way in on a butterfly wing, we see the colors come from tiny scales.
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It’s actually how moths and butterflies get their scientific name.
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Oranges, reds, yellows browns…those scales all contain pigments, organic molecules that absorb every color except what we see.
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Black scales absorb all colors.
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Animals, from butterflies to birds to you and me, don’t make these pigments from scratch, they’re made from ingredients in our diet.
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You might know this thanks to flamingos: They’re born gray, but turn pink thanks to pigments called carotenoids in crustaceans they eat.
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So when it comes to these colors: You are what you eat.
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But not so for blue.
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Blue is If you move the camera, you can see that the color changes as you move the camera.
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It does. It’s like a hologram thing.
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This is because there’s no blue pigment in these butterflies Wait… so they’re blue, but they’re not really blue?
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That’s correct!
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Yes. You’re lying to me butterflies!
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These are Blue Morpho butterflies, maybe the prettiest butterflies of all.
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I mean… they did make it the butterfly emoji.
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The blue color isn’t from a pigment.
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The blue comes from the shape of the wing scale itself, and when I learned how this works, it kinda blew my mind.
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If we zoom way in on a blue wing scale, we see these little ridges.
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If we slice across the scale, and look closer, we see those ridges are shaped like tiny Christmas trees.
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The arrangement of the branches is what gives Morpho wings their blue color.
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When light comes in, some bounces off the top surface.
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But some light passes into the layer and reflects off the bottom surface.
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For most colors of light, waves reflecting from the top and bottom will be out of phase, they’ll be canceled out, and that light is removed.
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But blue light has just the right wavelength: the reflected light waves are in sync, and that color makes it to our eye.
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This hall of mirrors only lets blue light escape.
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There’s even a pigment at the base that absorbs stray red and green light to make the blue even more pure.
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That’s how we get this awesome iridescent blue.
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The microscopic structure of the wing itself.
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All of this happens because of the way light bends when it moves from air into another material.
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So if we fill all those tiny gaps with something other than air, like alcohol, the blue disappears.
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Technically, this “changes the index of refraction”, but in plain English that means blue light is no longer bent the right way.
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The microscopic light filter is broken.
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Until the alcohol evaporates.
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And the color returns.
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But these butterflies live in the rainforest.
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You think they’d lose their color any time they got wet, right?
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Well watch this.
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These wing scales are made of a material that’s naturally water-resistant.
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What about this blue jay feather?
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If we look through it, the color completely disappears.
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No blue pigment.
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Each feather bristle contains light-scattering microscopic beads, spaced so everything but blue light is canceled out.
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Unlike the highly-ordered structures we find in butterfly wings, these feather structures are more messy, like a foam, so instead of changing as we move, the color’s more even from every direction.
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Peacock tail feathers?
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Again it’s the shape of the feather, not pigment.
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But the light reflecting structures here are more ordered, like a crystal, so it’s brighter from certain angles.
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There’s even a monkey–WHOA let’s keep this PG!!–even that color is made by the adding and subtracting of light waves thanks to structures in the skin… not pigment.
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And yes, even your blue eyes, are colored by structures, not pigments.
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Outside of the ocean, almost exclusively, the bluest living things make their colors with microscopic structures, and each one’s a little different.
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No vertebrate, not a single bird or mammal or reptile that we know of, makes a blue pigment on its body.
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In fact, there’s only one known butterfly that has cracked the code for making a true blue pigment.
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Blue as a pigment in nature is incredibly rare.
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But there’s one exception so far that we know about, and these are over here called the olivewings.
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They have evolved a blue pigment.
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They’re not very common and we don’t know much about them, and I don’t know of any other blue pigment.
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That’s a really special butterfly.
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Why is almost all of nature’s blue made from structures and not pigments like everything else?
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I’ve asked this question to several scientists that study color, and here’s their best theory so far: At some point way back in time, birds and butterflies evolved the ability to see blue light.
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But they hadn’t yet evolved a way to paint their bodies that color.
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But if they could, it’d be like going from early Beatles to Sgt.
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Pepper’s Beatles.
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it meant new opportunities for communicating and survival.
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Creating some blue pigment–out of the blue–would have required inventing new chemistry, and there was no way to just add that recipe to their genes.
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It was much easier for evolution to change the shape of their bodies, ever so slightly, at the most microscopic level, and create blue using physics instead.
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They solved a biology problem with engineering.
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What I love about this is these colors have fascinated curious people for hundreds of years.
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After looking at peacock feathers through one of the first microscopes back in the 1600’s Robert Hooke wrote: “these colours are onely fantastical ones” Even Isaac Newton noticed there was something unusual about these blues, and scientists have been studying it ever since.
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Not only because the science is interesting, but because it’s beautiful.
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Thanks for watching, and stay curious.

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วิดีโอนี้มี 83 ประโยค และ 1184 คำ สำหรับฝึกพูดตาม ช่วงที่มีเสียงพูดยาว 7:31 ผู้พูดพูดด้วยความเร็วเป็นธรรมชาติ ประมาณ 158 คำต่อนาที ใกล้เคียงกับบทสนทนาในชีวิตประจำวัน มีเพียง 80% ของคำที่อยู่ใน 3,000 คำที่ใช้บ่อยที่สุดในภาษาอังกฤษ คำศัพท์จึงค่อนข้างยาก

คำศัพท์สำคัญในวิดีโอนี้

คำที่พบไม่บ่อย 15 คำจากวิดีโอ พร้อมคำอ่านและความหมาย:

  • butterfly /ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/ (คำนาม) — ผีเสื้อ. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
  • feather /ˈfɛðə/ (คำนาม) — ขนนก, ขน. A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
  • reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/ (คำกริยา) — สะท้อน. To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
  • absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/ (คำกริยา) — ดูดซับ. To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in…
  • evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/ (คำนาม) — วิวัฒนาการ. A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
  • physics /ˈfɪz.ɪks/ (คำนาม) — ฟิสิกส์. The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
  • chemistry /ˈkɛm.ɪ.stɹi/ (คำนาม) — เคมี. The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations…
  • scientist /ˈsaɪəntəst/ (คำนาม) — นักวิทยาศาสตร์. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research…
  • cancel /ˈkæn.sl̩/ (คำกริยา) — ขีดฆ่า. To cross out something with lines etc.
  • bend /bɛnd/ (คำกริยา) — งอ. To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
  • disappear /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ (คำกริยา) — หาย, สูญ. To vanish.
  • gap /ɡæp/ (คำนาม) — ช่อง. An opening in anything, made by breaking or parting.
  • mirror /ˈmiɹɚ/ (คำนาม) — กระจก, กระจกเงา. A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
  • gray /ɡɹeɪ/ (คำคุณศัพท์) — เทา. Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
  • plain /pleɪn/ (คำนาม) — ที่ราบ. An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.

การออกเสียงที่ควรระวัง

ผู้พูดใช้รูปย่อและรูปลดเสียง 29 ครั้ง เช่น they're, don't, you're ให้พูดแบบสั้นตามที่ได้ยิน

  • เสียง “th”: feather /ˈfɛðə/, moth /mɔθ/, wavelength /ˈweɪvˌlɛŋ(k)θ/
  • เสียง “sh” และ “zh”: evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/, crustacean /kɹʌsˈteɪʃən/, refraction /ɹəˈfɹækʃən/
  • คำยาว — ลงเสียงหนักให้ถูกพยางค์: evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/

วิธีฝึกกับวิดีโอนี้

  1. ฟังวิดีโอให้จบหนึ่งรอบโดยยังไม่ต้องพูด แล้วจดคำที่ยังไม่รู้จัก
  2. เริ่มที่ความเร็ว 0.75× พูดตามทีละประโยค แล้วกลับไปใช้ความเร็วปกติเมื่อเริ่มคล่อง
  3. อัดเสียงตัวเองแล้วเทียบกับต้นฉบับ โดยสังเกตคำอย่าง butterfly, feather, reflect เป็นพิเศษ

ไวยากรณ์ในวิดีโอนี้

โครงสร้างที่ผู้พูดใช้บ่อยที่สุด พร้อมคำพูดจริงจากวิดีโอ:

โครงสร้างในวิดีโอ
Passive voice be + กริยาช่อง 3 — เน้นสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้น ไม่ใช่ผู้กระทำare created · are shaped · be canceled
Present perfect have/has + กริยาช่อง 3 — เหตุการณ์ในอดีตที่ยังเกี่ยวข้องกับปัจจุบันhas cracked · have evolved · I've asked

เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?

Shadowing เป็นเทคนิคการเรียนรู้ภาษาที่ได้รับการรับรองทางวิทยาศาสตร์ พัฒนาขึ้นสำหรับการฝึกนักแปลมืออาชีพ วิธีการนี้เรียบง่ายแต่ทรงพลัง: คุณฟังเสียงภาษาอังกฤษจากเจ้าของภาษาและพูดตามทันที — เหมือนเงาที่ตามผู้พูดด้วยช่วงเวลาห่าง 1-2 วินาที การวิจัยแสดงว่าเทคนิคนี้ปรับปรุงความแม่นยำในการออกเสียง ทำนองเสียง จังหวะ การเชื่อมเสียง การฟังเข้าใจ และความคล่องแคล่วในการพูดได้อย่างมีนัยสำคัญ

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