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In the world of boats, there are little boats and bigger boats.
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And then there are the really big boats.
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This is a cruise ship, the MSC Maravilia, built in Saint -Nazaire, France, in service since 2017, and christened by Sophie Lorraine.
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It is the—sorry, she is the biggest cruise ship to have ever docked in New York City.
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There's a water park, a rope course, a spa, a mall, an arcade, a bowling alley, a casino, a gym, two theaters, five pools,
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nine restaurants, 23 bars, 19 floors, and enough room for 5 ,655 passengers and 1 ,536 crew members.
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Cruise ships are the biggest passenger vessels that humans have ever built.
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They can fit a small town's worth of people into a single vehicle.
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But they have a certain look to them, far from the look of the big transatlantic ships of a hundred years ago.
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So how did the biggest ships we build wind up looking like this?
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Before cruise ships, the biggest ships on Earth were ocean liners.
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Built for one purpose — to take you somewhere.
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In the golden days of ocean travel, before the airplane, people had no choice.
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They had to use ships.
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That's Peter Canigo.
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He's a cruise journalist and ocean liner historian.
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Advertisements from this golden era of ocean liners boasted their speed across the Atlantic and their luxurious comfort, which given the conditions on the open ocean,
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wasn't always easy to achieve.
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If it's February and you're crossing the Atlantic, you're going to be absolutely miserable.
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And the last thing you want to do is realize that you're on a ship.
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What they used to do at the turn of the 20th
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century is they would design at least the first -class part of ships to look like great palatial hotels
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or even palaces themselves.
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Ocean liners like this one, the RMS Aquitania, tried to replicate all the amenities of life on land.
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There were restaurants, smoking rooms, gardens, and a massive lounge with painted ceilings.
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For the first -class passengers, at least all of the comforts of a city but at sea.
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There was a picture of the Aquitania lined up against what was then the world's tallest building, the Woolworth building.
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And the Aquitania was longer and taller than the Woolworth building.
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And that was their way of saying, this is like literally a floating city at sea, just to inspire the confidence of passengers.
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But the rise of air travel meant that ships stopped being the only way to cross oceans.
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And by the 1960s, ocean liners were slowly becoming obsolete.
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As ocean liner companies struggled to sell tickets, they tried something different.
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No longer do liners even attempt to compete with airspeed.
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Now the word is luxury.
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A vacation at sea.
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They continued transatlantic service in the northern hemisphere's summer months.
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But in the winter months, more companies started offering leisure trips to warmer regions.
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And they started advertising ocean travel differently, from selling transportation to selling a vacation.
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The cruise ship was born.
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But they got off to a slow start.
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They didn't really take off until the TV show
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The Love Boat, which exploded the idea of cruising.
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It wasn't just something that your rich grandmother did and made cruising something for the mainstream.
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But as cruises started to become mainstream, ocean liners had a problem.
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They were designed to go fast and consumed a lot of fuel.
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They sat low in the water, which kept them stable in rough seas, but meant they could only access ports with deep harbors.
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They had separate sections for first, second, and third class, but that left a lot of passengers without access to amenities
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and limited everyone's freedom of movement throughout the ship.
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And compared to the full -time cruise ships of the time,
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ocean liners were huge, so they'd have to attract a lot of vacationers to be profitable.
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Everything
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that had made ocean liners optimally designed for commuting quickly through
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rough waters made them poorly fit for vacationing slowly through calm ones.
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As sea travel continued to dwindle even the largest ocean liner in the world.
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The SS France couldn't generate enough revenue to operate, and it's that idle for years.
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Until 1979, when Norwegian Caribbean lines purchased it and made an announcement that shocked the industry.
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They were going to convert the France into a full -time cruise ship.
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Since speed was no longer a concern, they shut down one engine room and removed two of the four propellers.
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To get passengers to islands without deep ports, they installed tenders.
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These are smaller ships that ferried passengers to shore.
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To open up amenities to all passengers, they took out the barriers between class sections.
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And to attract enough vacationers, they loaded the ship with a massive roster of entertainment options.
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There are sporting facilities and shopping centers, the cinema, a multi -confession church, saunas, kindergarten, party games, educational courses, a library, charades.
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The ship began service in 1980, renamed the SS Norway.
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Where other ships made three to four stops in a week -long cruise, the Norway only made two.
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They weren't advertising a cruise to a destination.
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The ship was the destination itself.
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The Norway proved that size worked for cruise ships,
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and it kicked off a race to build bigger and bigger ships that changed the look of cruise ships forever.
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To fit more cabins and amenities, those superstructures — that's all of this that rises above the deck — became taller,
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which hid the once -prominent smokestacks.
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The smokestacks, because the ships are so tall, the funnels are these tiny little afterthoughts.
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To fit even more cabins and amenities, superstructures became wider, which shortened the bow.
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That's this forward part of the ship.
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There is no space where there's just an open deck where
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Jack and Rose can go stand and say they're king of the world or whatever.
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That's all gone.
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The bow didn't need to be long and pointed to cut through intense waves like on transatlantic liners.
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So builders rounded them out, giving even more square footage for amenities.
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When the Norway began service in 1980, it was the biggest operating passenger ship in the world,
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with an internal volume of over 70 ,000 gross tons.
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But the ships built over the following decades make the Norway look tiny, and even make once legendary ocean liners look small.
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The ship that held the record for so many years was Queen Elizabeth of 1940.
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She was 83 ,000 tons.
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People said they will never build a ship that big again.
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Well, now the new
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Royal Caribbean ships are literally three times the size.
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When this ship, the Icon of the Seas,
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launches in 2024, it'll be all the way up here with a volume of over 250 ,000 gross tons.
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That elegance of design is missing, I think, on a lot of the big new ships.
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It's just the way things go and, you know, we all miss what came before and pine on.
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And I'm sure people in 50
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or 100 years from now will pine on about how great -looking the ships were back in the 2020s.
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There are over 320 cruise ships sailing around the world right now.
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But there's only one ocean liner left — the Queen Mary II, also built in St. Nazaire, France, in service since 2004,
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and christened by Elizabeth II, still in regular service from Southampton to New York City.

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Bu konuşma dersi “How cruise ships got so big” videosuna dayanıyor. En çok tekrarlanan kelimeler: ship, ocean, liner, cruise, passenger. Bu videoda gölgeleme çalışması için 105 cümle ve 1220 kelime var. Konuşma bölümü 7:14 sürüyor. Konuşmacı dakikada yaklaşık 169 kelimeyle, günlük konuşmaya yakın doğal bir hızda konuşuyor. Kelimelerin yalnızca %78’i İngilizcede en sık kullanılan 3.000 kelime arasında, bu yüzden kelime dağarcığı zorlayıcı.

Bu videodaki önemli kelimeler

Videodan öğrenmeye değer 15 kelime, telaffuzu ve anlamıyla:

KelimeTelaffuzAnlam
cruise isim/kɹuz/gemi gezisi, gemi seyahati
passenger isim/ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/yolcu
vacation isim/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/tatil
ton isim/tʌn/ton
gross sıfat/ɡɹoʊs/gayrisafi
comfort isim/ˈkʌm.fət/konfor
deck isim/ˈdɛk/güverte
cabin isim/ˈkæbɪn/kulübe
pine isim/paɪn/çam
stable isim/ˈsteɪ.bəl/ahır
shock isim/ʃɔk/şok
compare fiil/kəmˈpɛɚ/karşılaştırmak, kıyaslamak
palace isim/ˈpælɪs/saray, palas
compete fiil/kəmˈpiːt/boy ölçüşmek, yarışmak
journalist isim/ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/gazeteci

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Dikkat edilecek telaffuzlar

Konuşmacı you're, didn't, wasn't gibi kısaltılmış biçimleri 13 kez kullanıyor. Bunları duyduğunuz gibi kısa söyleyin.

  • “th” sesleri: theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/, afterthought /ˈæft.ɚ.θɔt/
  • “sh” ve “zh” sesleri: vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, shock /ʃɔk/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, shore /ʃɔɹ/
  • Uzun kelimeler — vurguyu doğru yere koyun: amenities /əˈmɛn.ə.tiːz/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/

Türkçe konuşanların zorlandığı sesler:

  • Kelime başındaki ünsüz kümesi — araya ünlü eklemeyin: cruise /kɹuz/, gross /ɡɹoʊs/, stable /ˈsteɪ.bəl/, prominent /ˈpɹɑmɪnənt/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/
  • /æ/ — “e”den daha açık: passenger /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/, attract /əˈtɹækt/, cabin /ˈkæbɪn/, palace /ˈpælɪs/, barrier /ˈbæɹi.ə/

Bu videoyla nasıl çalışılır

  1. Videonun tamamını konuşmadan bir kez dinleyin ve bilmediğiniz kelimeleri not edin.
  2. 0,75× hızla başlayın, cümle cümle tekrar edin ve kolaylaşınca normal hıza dönün.
  3. Kendinizi kaydedin ve orijinaliyle karşılaştırın; cruise, passenger, vacation gibi kelimelere özellikle dikkat edin.

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