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hey check this out you know what eric asked me when i got into work this morning

i have no idea what do you ask you he asked me if i felt the earthquake last night

earthquake you've got to be kidding i didn't feel an earthquake

i know that's what i said he told me it actually

woke him up last night you know what yeah it was like it went it happened at like, uh, four 42 in the morning.

So we must've been sleeping, but I mean, it's possible that, you know, even if we had been awake, we might not have felt it because, you know, maybe it, uh,

wasn't felt, you know, this far North, but, uh, I mean, I thought he was pulling my leg when he first talked about it.

Well, I guess that's not so far fetched considering we live on a major fault line here.

Yeah.

But actually I think this earthquake was, uh, on a different fault line um

because you know eric lives uh just uh south of san jose yeah

and uh the earthquake he said was due east of san jose

so he was obviously a lot closer to the epicenter than we were

so i don't i'm not even sure it was felt here yeah

that makes sense well you know i've experienced quite a few earthquakes in the past several years

but i've been living here now a little over two years I think I've only experienced one here.

It was really strange, too.

I should say each earthquake has been a completely different experience.

But the one I felt here, I was standing outside a restaurant talking to AJ and another friend, and all of a sudden,

it just felt like this shift.

It's really hard to explain, but it made me think of like a cartoon, like how in the cartoon, like buildings might just shift to the right and then shift right back.

Yeah, without falling.

And I had no idea what was going on for a few minutes afterwards.

And then I realized, oh, that must have been an earthquake.

Yeah, you know what I usually notice? the times

that i've been at home here and uh there's been an earthquake it's almost as

if there's this really big train or like a gigantic mac truck going by

and uh suddenly i start to hear the heater shaking

and um it's like the noise is like uh is loud for like a second and then it's gone. So it's really weird.

You know, it's almost like the first couple of times I felt it, I wasn't even aware it was an earthquake while it was happening.

Well, that's so funny you say that because one that I experienced in Bangkok, it actually was after the tsunami.

And so later I found out that it was, it was aftershock from the tsunami.

But anyway, I was in a building up on the ninth floor and suddenly there was all this rattling.

And I'm thinking to myself, it just, it was so irrational.

I'm thinking to myself, God, there's like a train going by and I can't believe that this building is shaking so much from the train.

And of course a train wouldn't have made a building

or at least me up on the ninth floor feel something to that effect.

And I think it happened about two times.

And that one wasn't until several days later when I was talking to people and they were like, oh, did you feel the earthquake?

Then it dawned on me, oh, that was an earthquake.

Yeah, I know.

It's crazy how when you're not used to feeling them, you could think it's something else.

Yeah.

Yeah, totally.

I've been living here for a while now and I've definitely felt my share of earthquakes.

I mean, when you live here, it's a given that you're going to experience earthquakes.

You just hope that you're not going to be here for the big one.

Right.

When I first moved here, it was five years after the Loma Prieta earthquake, which was a very big earthquake here.

And there are a lot of people who lived here who

I met who had actually been living in the area when the earthquake hit.

So it was interesting to get their perspective.

And it also like made me remember where I was when I heard about the Loma Prieta earthquake.

I was watching the World Series on TV and, you know, it was taking place in San Francisco go.

So as I'm watching it, suddenly the announcer starts saying, wow, I think we're feeling an earthquake here.

And the cameras started shaking.

And all of a sudden, the TV coverage cut out.

So, you know, I wanted to get a rundown of what happened.

So I turned to the news station and within a few minutes, they were discussing this gigantic earthquake.

That had hit San Francisco, and they started showing pictures,

maybe 30 minutes later, of these people who were trying to weed through the rubble of these buildings that had been, like, coming down.

So, I mean, it was pretty scary, I'll tell you what.

Yeah, well, you know, the three months I was living in Japan, I experienced two.

Both of those were very different, very different from the one I'd experienced here and also very different from the one in Bangkok.

But one of them, I was actually up in my apartment, which was on the fifth floor of a building, and I was woken up at about five o 'clock in the morning to the building swaying.

And because earthquakes are like a dime a dozen in Japan, they've built a lot of their buildings to absorb the shock.

So that's why it was swaying.

It was really, it's a very surreal feel.

Hi, this is Kristen Dodds, and this is Joe Weiss,

and we just wanted to let you know that this material is copyrighted in the year 2008 by Learn Real English,

LLC, www .learnrealenglish .com.

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這節 B1 級別的口語課以影片“01.a Earthquakes Conversation - Effortless Real English”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：earthquake, felt, experienced, train, san。這段影片共有 72 個句子、1024 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 6:03。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 169 個詞，接近日常對話。 82% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
earthquake 名詞	/ˈɝθkweɪk/	地震, 地動 /地動
shake 動詞	/ˈʃeɪk/	搖 /搖
tsunami 名詞	/(t)suːˈnɑːmi/	海嘯 /海嘯
gigantic 形容詞	/d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/	巨大的
sway 動詞	/ˈsweɪ̯/	搖晃 /搖晃, 搖擺 /搖擺
ninth 形容詞	/naɪnθ/	第九
cartoon 名詞	/kɑɹˈtun/	卡通, 諷刺畫 /諷刺畫
aftershock 名詞	/ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/	餘震 /餘震
epicentre 名詞	/ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/	震央, 震中
rattle 名詞	/ˈɹæ.təl/	手搖鈴 /手搖鈴
rubble 名詞	/ˈɹʌb.əl/	瓦礫 /瓦礫, 碎石
heater 名詞	/ˈhitɚ/	加熱器 /加熱器, 暖氣 /暖氣
irrational 形容詞	/ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/	不合理
announcer 名詞	/əˈnaʊnsɚ/	播音員 /播音員, 廣播員 /廣播員
surreal 形容詞	/səˈɹiː(.ə)l/	玄妙, 超現實的 /超現實的

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
come down 動詞	下來 /下來, 降
find out 動詞	找出, 查明

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	i've been living
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	i've experienced · I've only experienced · has been
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	wasn't felt · was felt · was woken
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	earthquake, which was · people who lived · people who were

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 26 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I've, I'm, wasn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/, ninth /naɪnθ/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/
長單詞——注意重音位置: epicentre /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, gigantic /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/, ninth /naɪnθ/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: rattle /ˈɹæ.təl/, rubble /ˈɹʌb.əl/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/, surreal /səˈɹiː(.ə)l/
/æ/ — 嘴張大，不要讀成 /e/: gigantic /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/, rattle /ˈɹæ.təl/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/

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先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 earthquake, shake, tsunami 這類單詞。

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