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This is Earth.
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This is where you live.
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And this is where you live in your neighborhood.
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The solar system.
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Here's the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
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Doesn't look too far, does it?
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Think again.
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At their farthest point, the Earth and the Moon are 252,088 miles away.
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Inside that distance, you can fit every planet in our entire solar system.
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But let's talk about planets.
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The great red spot on Jupiter, that's about two times as big as Earth.
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And Saturn is about nine times wider than Earth.
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Saturn's rings are so large that a few of the fragments within them are as large as mountains.
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But that's nothing compared to our sun.
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Just remember, this is Earth.
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And this is Earth from the Moon.
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This is Earth from Mars.
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Here's Earth from just behind Saturn's rings.
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And here's Earth from just beyond Neptune, four billion miles away.
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But a billion's a big number, so let's put that in perspective.
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One million seconds equals about 11 and a half days, whereas one billion seconds equals over 31 years.
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Let's step back a bit.
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Here's the size of Earth compared with the size of our sun.
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Terrifying, right?
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And here's that exact same sun from the surface of Mars.
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As Carl Sagan once mused, The total number of stars in the universe is larger than
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all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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And there are some stars out there that are much, much bigger than our little wimpy sun.
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The biggest star we know of, V.Y.
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Canis Majoris, is about 2,000 times the diameter of our sun.
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But none of those compares to the size of a galaxy.
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In fact, if you shrink the size of our solar system down to the size of a quarter, and shrink the Milky Way galaxy down using the same scale,
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the diameter of the Milky Way will be roughly the size of the United States.
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That's because the Milky Way galaxy is huge.
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Its diameter is about 100,000 light years wide, which, when converted to miles, is about 621 quadrillion, 371 trillion,
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192 billion, 237 million, 333,890 miles.
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Inside of all of that is you.
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You live in this tiny, tiny portion of the Milky Way.
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But even still, our galaxy is a little runt compared with some others.
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NGC 6744, a spiral galaxy similar to our own, is twice as wide as the Milky Way,
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stretching over 200,000 light years across.
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It is massive. But let's think bigger.
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In this picture alone, taken by the Hubble telescope, there are thousands and thousands of galaxies,
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each containing millions or billions of stars with their own planets.
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Some of the objects seen here may have formed as many as 11 billion years ago, just 3 billion years after the Big Bang.
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This period of time is considered one of the busiest star-forming periods.
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And just keep this in mind, that's a picture of a very small, small part of the universe.
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So if you're ever feeling upset about your favorite show being cancelled, or the fact that they play Christmas music way too early, just remember, this is your home.
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Earth.
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有趣的宇宙視角：一段引發思考的影片場景
想像一下，你正在觀看一段關於宇宙的科普影片，畫面從地球逐漸拉遠，展示月球、太陽系、銀河系乃至更遙遠的星系。影片用生動的對比和資料，讓你瞬間感受到人類在宇宙中的渺小。這樣的場景不僅能開闊視野，也是練習英語口語的好素材——語速適中、用詞生動，非常適合用來做“英語影子跟讀”練習。
實用表達與搭配，輕鬆積累詞彙
- put...in perspective：換個角度看。比如影片中用“把十億秒換算成31年”來解釋大數，就可以說“put a billion in perspective”。
- step back：退一步想。當影片從地球尺寸轉向太陽時，用到“step back a bit”，很自然的過渡表達。
- compared with：與……相比。描述星系大小時，“our galaxy is a little runt compared with some others”這樣的句子很實用。
- muse：沉思、思索。卡爾·薩根“mused”關於恆星數量的名言，這個詞比“think”更有文學感。
- fit...inside：容納。“地球和月球的距離能fit下所有行星”，簡單又形象。
現在就來挑戰影子跟讀，提升英語口語！
想要練好“英語口語練習”，不妨試試這個“英語影子跟讀”任務：找到影片中“從地球到 Neptune 這段描述”（大約從“Here's Earth from just behind Saturn's rings”開始），先聽3遍，注意語音語調；然後跟著錄音逐句跟讀，儘量模仿語速和重音；最後不看字幕，直接跟讀，看看能否跟上節奏。這個方法能有效提高英語發音和流暢度，堅持一週，你會發現自己的口語進步明顯！
看影片學英語就是這麼有趣，既能瞭解宇宙奧秘，又能提升英語能力。快開啟影片，開始你的“shadowspeaks”之旅吧！
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。