跟讀練習: $1 vs $100,000 Egg! I Hatched The Craziest Pets! - 通過影片學習英語口語
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$1.
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$20.
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$70.
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$10,000.
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$100,000.
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The eggs keep getting bigger, the animals keep getting weirder, but we're going to hatch it.
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Or at least, we're going to try.
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I started with the cheapest egg I could find.
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Quail eggs.
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$1.20 for the whole pack at the supermarket.
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I brought them home, set them on the lab bench, and opened the pack.
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And I remember thinking, this is either going to be the easiest thing I've ever done, or I'm going to feel very stupid very soon.
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Into the incubator, 37.5 degrees, which apparently is the exact temperature a quail egg needs to not die.
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I turn them by hand three times a day, every day, for 14 days.
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Which sounds relaxing, it is not relaxing.
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Day 14, nothing.
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Day 15, nothing.
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Day 16, I started googling whether I'd done something wrong.
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And then, day 17, there it is!
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Within about 20 minutes, three of them were already out and moving around like they'd been doing it their whole lives.
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Which technically they had by the way.
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17 days old and already running.
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No one taught them that, they just knew.
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They can't regulate their own body temperature yet, so the first thing I built was a heat lamp enclosure.
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Got them in, put the food dish down, and before my hand was even out, one of them was already eating.
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Then suddenly, all of them gathered around the food.
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I counted before I left for the night.
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One, two, three, four, four.
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One was missing, so I started looking.
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Checked the enclosure, checked the corners, nothing.
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Then I heard it, chirping, coming from across the room.
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I followed it all the way to the feed bag I'd left on the floor.
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The bag was moving, and guess what?
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I found that small criminal hiding inside.
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No fear, no confusion, just free food.
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After that, things moved fast.
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By day four, feathers started replacing the fluff.
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By day eight, they needed more space.
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By day 12, they were sprinting around the enclosure like tiny dinosaurs.
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And by day 17, they barely looked like the same animals that had hatched from those eggs.
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Once they were fully grown, it was time to move them outside.
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Quail spend most of their lives hiding in tall grass, and within seconds, they were gone.
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I tried catching one, missed.
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So I tried again and missed again.
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So I switched to the one thing stronger than survival instincts, free food.
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Since I successfully hatched this egg, it was time I moved on to a bigger challenge.
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Buying quail eggs took one trip to the grocery store.
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Buying an ostrich egg was a completely different story.
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A few minutes of searching turned into a deep dive through some very strange corners of the internet.
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Finally, I found what I was looking for.
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One click, $49.99, and a surprisingly large shipping fee later, and the order was placed.
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A few days later, a box marked Fragile showed up at my door, and inside was my next challenge.
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$49.
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Shipped.
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I just bought the largest egg of any living bird on the planet.
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15 centimeters long, 13 wide.
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The shell alone is so thick, it can support the weight of a full-grown adult standing on it.
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I put it next to the quail egg just to see.
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The quail egg looked like a marble.
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1.4 kilograms.
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Into the incubator at 36.4 degrees.
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Turned 3 to 5 times a day.
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42 to 46 days.
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For context, a chicken egg takes 21 days.
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A quail egg takes 17.
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This one takes 46.
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That is a long time to babysit an egg.
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Every single day, turning it by hand, checking the temperature, writing it down, and nothing.
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Just a giant egg sitting completely still.
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Day 40, the last day on the chart.
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I circled it, and I stood there looking at it thinking, either something happens today, or I've been turning a $49 rock for six weeks.
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Nothing, no movement, no sound, just the shell.
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And then, right at the top, a crack.
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Tiny.
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One crack.
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I watched it for three hours.
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The shell on an ostrich egg is two millimeters thick.
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The chicken has to break through that with nothing but its beak and whatever energy it has left.
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You can't help.
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If you help too early, the chick dies.
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It still needs the exertion to absorb the remaining yolk sac and build up its muscles.
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Another crack, then the egg starts moving.
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And then, finally, a beak.
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Eventually, the whole section gives way, And there it is.
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Exhausted, soaking wet, eyes barely open.
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Looks nothing like an ostrich yet.
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Heat lamp on, into the brooder, and within an hour it was trying to walk.
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I say trying, its legs are about four times longer than the rest of its body.
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Every few steps it just goes down, gets up, goes down again.
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I put the food dish in front of it, and it missed it twice.
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Third peck, got it.
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Didn't stop after that.
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It grew fast.
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Faster than I was ready for.
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One foot per month.
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Within weeks it was hitting the walls, knocking everything over.
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Its head clearing the Bruder rim, just standing still.
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We moved outside.
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Open ground, space to move exactly where it belongs.
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I brought the camera out to get some footage.
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It saw the camera, walked straight toward it.
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I thought that was fine, but...
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Well, it was not fine at all.
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The AC unit outside had been making a weird noise for three days.
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I opened the cover panel and something moved, gone under the unit before I could see what it was.
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I crouched down and reached into the gap and pulled out an egg?
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Oblong, dirty, still warm from the motor heat.
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I have no idea how long it had been there.
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The alligator was gone, so I took the egg inside.
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I looked it up.
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65 to 70 days, 30 degrees, high humidity, do not rotate it.
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Standard enough.
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Then I scrolled a bit further and found that fertilized alligator eggs sell for $200 each.
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I got mine for free.
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Nice catch.
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Days went past...
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Nothing.
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Day 60.
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I candled it.
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Held a light behind the shell in a dark room.
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It passed straight through.
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No shadow, no movement, no embryo.
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Nothing in there.
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I cracked it open just to be completely sure.
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Empty.
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Completely empty.
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But I was determined.
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If I was going to fail, I will fail at something bigger and more dangerous.
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Quail, ostrich, each one bigger and more expensive than the last.
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The next logical step was a reticulated python.
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Longest snake in the world, 7 meters long.
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And I could tell from the first YouTube result that whoever was handling one needed both arms and a prayer.
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I went on Facebook Marketplace, found one egg listing, already sold for $5,000.
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I started calling breeders.
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Third call, and someone finally picked up and gave me an address, so I grabbed my keys without hesitation.
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45 minutes, and I was at the address the breeder gave me.
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Man, this dude had some of the most impressive snakes I've ever seen.
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I tapped on one enclosure just to see.
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I think I shouldn't have done that.
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He came back from the back room with one egg.
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White, slightly soft when you pressed it, fit in one hand.
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I counted out the cash on his table.
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$1,000.
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He counted it again, and the deal was done.
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I drove home very carefully, ready to begin my experiment.
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31 degrees, humidity at 90%.
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And one rule, do not rotate it.
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The embryo attaches to one side within the first few hours.
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You rotate it, it dies.
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I taped a sign to the lid just so I wouldn't forget it to in the morning.
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Then I left it completely alone for 70 days.
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Day 70 the shell started sweating and dimpled.
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A head came through with the tongue already going.
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60 centimeters of fully patterned snake out in under a minute.
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It looked directly at the camera.
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I had the feeling it was deciding something.
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Next morning its eyes had gone completely white.
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Which looks alarming but apparently means it's about to shed its entire skin the first thing it does before eating, before anything else.
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I watched the whole thing.
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It took about 40 minutes and came off in one clean piece.
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Underneath, the colors were completely different, like someone had turned up the contrast.
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Then it flicked its tongue at me.
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I felt assessed.
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I put a small mirror in the enclosure.
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Snakes have no capacity for self-recognition.
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The mirror test, the ability to understand that a reflection is yourself, is something only a handful of species on Earth can pass.
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Snakes are not one of them.
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It grew fast.
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The kind of fast that makes you question your decisions.
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Reticulated pythons gain roughly half a meter every few months in their first two years,
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which sounds manageable until you're loading an enclosure into a back seat with your shoulder against the door.
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I drove it out to the habitat, heard something shift behind me around the 10 minute mark, told myself it was the road.
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Arrived, opened the back door, enclosure empty.
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Seat had a gap in it.
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I looked back down the road, nothing.
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I guess everything is fine.
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Quail, ostrich, alligator, python.
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Each one bigger, each one more expensive, each one considerably more difficult to explain to my neighbors.
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But I kept thinking, if I'm doing this, why stop at animals that are still alive?
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Researchers have successfully sequenced genetic material from fossilized bone.
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Triceratops lived 68 million years ago.
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Hmm...
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The fossils exist.
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The technology exists.
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I can bring him back!
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I started with what does exist.
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A fossilized bone fragment.
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Ground it down, ran it through a chemical extraction process, and ended up with a vial of ancient genetic material
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that took 11 weeks and several conversations I'd rather not get into to produce.
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Then I fed it into a DNA synthesizer, which is essentially a very expensive printer that builds biological sequences from scratch.
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And I told it to print me a Triceratops egg.
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Four days later, this.
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Dark, veiny, roughly the size of a rugby ball.
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No confirmed Triceratops egg has ever been found, so no one knows exactly what it looked like.
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anyone has ever gotten.
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I felt like I am doing everything right.
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Eggshell printed, biological form injected, but then...
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Then I hit the first problem.
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I looked up the incubation temperature.
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Nothing for Triceratops, obviously.
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Found one paper on Ceratopsid species.
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The estimated range was significantly higher than anything my incubator could physically reach.
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So I had to get creative.
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The next logical step was to set it on fire.
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I put it in a metal container in the backyard, poured lighter fluid around the base, and lit it.
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The egg sat in the flames for 20 minutes completely still.
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Then a crack!
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Something pushed through.
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Snout first, then it looked at me with his not fully opened eye.
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It was amazing!
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Suddenly its head pops out.
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Something I'd never seen before.
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Onto concrete, shaking ash off its frill like it had just come in from the rain.
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It tried to get up and keep balance, but its legs were too weak and it felt on the ground again.
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No horns yet, just two small soft nubs pointing backward.
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It looked at me.
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68 million years, and now it's back.
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I took it inside.
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That was my first mistake.
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Calm, curious, followed the camera everywhere.
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Which sounds endearing, until you realize the Triceratops navigates the world by walking through things.
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Not aggressively, it just didn't register that walls were supposed to stop it.
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The enclosure panel came off on day four.
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I nailed it back further out.
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It walked into the new wall immediately.
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The horns were coming in slowly.
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Fossil evidence shows they curved backward at birth and only rotated forward as the animal matured.
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By week three, the tips were angling forward.
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I was going through ferns at a rate I won't specify.
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The enclosure eventually took up most of the living room.
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Suddenly the alarm went off.
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I ran from my workshop, and when I've reached the living room, I've noticed the wall facing the street was gone.
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Car-sized hole, straight through from the inside.
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I climbed through and crossed the street.
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Every tree in the park stripped bare.
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Flower beds gone, bench on its side.
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It was at the far end, working through the last tree.
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It raised its head, looked at the camera, and turned back to the tree.
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The park did not stand a chance.
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I probably should have thought this through.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 233 個句子、2090 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 12:52。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 162 個詞，接近日常對話。 只有 79% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| enclosure 名詞 | /ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/ | 附件 |
| egg 名詞 | /ɛɡ/ | 卵, 卵子 |
| crack 名詞 | /kɹæk/ | 裂縫 /裂縫, 裂紋 /裂紋 |
| shell 名詞 | /ʃɛl/ | 貝 /貝, 貝殼 /貝殼 |
| snake 名詞 | /sneɪk/ | шә, чончун |
| rotate 動詞 | /ˈɹoʊ.teɪt/ | 旋轉, 轉動 |
| hatch 動詞 | /hæt͡ʃ/ | 孵化, 孵出 |
| bone 名詞 | /boʊn/ | гўдў, гўдўзы |
| mirror 名詞 | /ˈmiɹɚ/ | җинзы, 鏡 /鏡 |
| thick 形容詞 | /θɪk/ | ху, 厚 |
| bench 名詞 | /ˈbɛnt͡ʃ/ | 長椅 /長椅 |
| sequence 名詞 | /ˈsiː.kwəns/ | 序列, 順序 /順序 |
| biological 形容詞 | /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/ | 生物 |
| relax 動詞 | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | 鬆開 /鬆開, 放鬆 /放鬆 |
| alarm 名詞 | /əˈlɑɹm/ | 警報 /警報 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| get up 動詞 | 起床 | |
| go down 動詞 | 下降, 下去 | |
| go past 動詞 | 經過 /經過, 路過 /路過 | |
| go through 動詞 | 通過 /通過 | |
| look back 動詞 | 回顧 /回顧 | |
| look up 動詞 | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | 仰, 上看 |
| pick up 動詞 | 拾取, 撿 /撿 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | I've ever done · has left · I've ever seen |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | was placed · been found |
| 過去進行時 was/were + -ing — 過去某一時刻正在進行的動作 | was already eating · was missing · was moving |
| 動詞 + -ing enjoy、keep、stop… + -ing — 後接 -ing 形式的動詞 | keep getting · started googling · started looking |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 22 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I've, I'd, can't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: thick /θɪk/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, feather /ˈfɛðə/, synthesizer /ˈsɪn.θəˌsaɪ.zɚ/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: enclosure /ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/, shell /ʃɛl/, dish /dɪʃ/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/, biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, humidity /hjuːˈmɪd.ə.ti/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
如何用這段影片練習
- 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 enclosure, egg, crack 這類單詞。
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。