跟讀練習: 5 "Impossible" Things That Can Happen On Other Planets - 通過影片學習英語口語

選擇練習模式

每種模式都會開啟全屏練習室。

66 句

如果句子過短或過長，請點選 Edit 進行調整。

There are some things that are just not possible on our planet.

It would certainly be understandable that you would think that if it's impossible here on Earth, then it would be impossible everywhere else in the universe.

But that's simply not the case, and the universe is far stranger than any of us can actually believe.

Let's begin with shadows.

Your shadow on Earth is always alone

and you're always used to seeing it this way as it follows you around during the day.

You're also used to seeing everybody else with just one shadow, but this isn't a universal thing that would be experienced elsewhere.

You have one shadow because our primary light source on Earth is our sun.

But what would happen if there were two suns?

A planet that orbits two stars would look much like Tatooine from Star Wars, with two brilliant sunsets each day and two shadows instead of one for each person.

It used to only be science fiction until the planet Kepler -16b was discovered, which is a place that orbits two different stars.

If you were suddenly teleported to the surface of the planet, you would likely die from the extreme temperatures and lack of air to breathe, but assuming that you were teleported in a suit that could help you survive,

then you would experience having two different shadows, a friend for your always lonely shadow that you experience on Earth.

Our next extremely bizarre place is a planet that is likely completely covered in water, an ocean planet named GJ 1214 b.

The planet is several times larger than the Earth, which makes the Pacific Ocean on our planet seem like a puddle in comparison.

Even though water covers over 70 % of the Earth's surface, water only accounts for 0 .05 % of the Earth's total mass.

On GJ 1214 b, however, water may account for up to 10 % of the planet's total mass,

planet would be covered in an ocean hundreds of kilometers deep.

Our own ocean goes down only a mere 11 kilometers,

and we already have terrifying monsters like this and this or huge whales like this So,

one's imagination can run absolutely wild with what fantastical monsters could

exist in an ocean that's over ten times deeper than our own.

Who knows what could be lurking there if you crash -landed your ship on the surface, but what is known is that at the very bottom of this massive ocean, hundreds of kilometers beneath the surface,

The pressure would be so intense

that the water at the bottom would be transformed into an exotic form of ice known as ice Seven.

This ice wouldn't be like ice that you know on Earth it wouldn't be cold at all, but would remain in a solid form.

This doesn't happen naturally on Earth, but neither does our next bizarre example.

Weather on Earth is often violent and unpredictable, but it's extremely tame compared to other places in the universe.

Take the planet C -O -R -O -T -7 -B for example, where instead of raining water, it rains down rocks.

This is because half of the planet is scorching hot at 2 ,600 degrees Celsius, while the other half is far cooler at 177 degrees Celsius.

so too will rocks condense into rock clouds on this planet.

These strange rock clouds will then rain liquid rock or magma back onto the surface.

But since the atmosphere is cooler the further up it goes and the temperature on the cool side is far lower, the magma rain will often harden into rocks before striking the ground.

This planet seems like the closest place to hell that a place in the universe could get, but another planet has perhaps even more bizarre weather.

This planet, known as HD 189773 b, is located 63 light years away from us, is a little larger than Jupiter,

and looks stunningly beautiful from space, but that beauty is hiding a terrifying secret.

It looks this way because the planet's atmosphere is made up primarily of silicate particles.

Winds on the planet can scream at 5 ,400 miles per hour, equal to 2 kilometers every second, or seven times the speed of sound.

Temperatures can soar up to 930 degrees Celsius,

but most terrifying of all is that the planet rains glass, sideways in its extremely violent 2km /s winds.

This is so fast and scary that if a storm like that happened to appear on Earth,

it would travel across the entire planet at the equator in just 5 hours and 33 minutes, and leave behind a shredded trail of glass.

But even this storm pales in comparison to the mightiest wind so far known in our entire universe, the wind on the planet HD 189733 b.

degrees Celsius, but the temperature on the dark side is still very hot at 688 degrees Celsius.

So, how does the dark side remain so hot still?

The answer is extremely, wickedly fast wind, possibly up to 22 ,000 miles per hour, equal to 10 kilometers per second,

or nearly 29 times the speed of sound.

For reference, the fastest ever recorded wind on the earth happened during a tornado in Oklahoma back in 1999,

and that was only 301 miles per hour

or 73 times less than the nightmare storm on this giant that's raging right now as you are watching this video.

If you made yourself a kite and flew through the wind, then you could zip around the entire Earth in a mere one hour and eight minutes.

But perhaps the most interesting place is somewhere that's much closer to home, specifically this place called Titan, which is a moon of Saturn.

It has such a thick atmosphere that we didn't even know what its surface looked like until 2005, which if you're curious it looks like this.

But Titan is a very bizarre place.

It has an atmosphere, rivers, and lakes, and it even rains like on Earth.

But the temperature is a bone -shattering negative 179 degrees Celsius,

which is so cold that water is as hard as rocks and the chemical methane exists in a liquid state.

The clouds, rivers, and lakes on the moon are made of methane, which is the primary component of natural gas.

Only 20 % of Titan's surface has ever been mapped, but it is estimated that in that region alone,

there is hundreds of times more natural gas and oil than is located on all of Earth.

There is so much gas on Titan that it literally rains it.

It's an oil tycoon's dream, and maybe the best way to encourage space travel is to let a few countries know about Titan.

But even more strange, you could actually theoretically fly on Titan.

The atmosphere is thick enough and the gravity is weak enough

that if you attached a pair of wings to your arms and made a running jump, then you could actually flap around the moon like a bird, taking in all the alien sights of rivers and lakes.

Of course you would need a suit to protect yourself, but still, you could fly just like in your dreams and achieve something that's impossible here on Earth.

下載應用

流利口語所需的一切

AI 發音評分逐句打分

音標練習掌握每個音

詞彙學習建立你的詞庫

詞彙遊戲邊玩邊學

掃碼

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

FOR YOU

上下文與背景

在這段影片中，講述者探討了在其他星球上可能發生的一些不可思議現象。通過對宇宙中不同環境的描述，觀眾可以更深入地理解宇宙的神秘性和複雜性。儘管這些現象與我們的地球相去甚遠，但它們為學習英語提供了豐富的素材。對話的內容不僅引人入勝，而且包羅永珍，適合用來提高英語發音和整體語言能力。

日常溝通的五個關鍵短語

你的影子總是獨自一人。 - 這個短語有助於你描述常見的觀察和體驗。
如果有兩個太陽，會怎樣？ - 利用這個短語可以激發想像力和討論。
整顆星球可能被水覆蓋。 - 這是一個極具洞察力的話題，可用於擴充套件詞彙。
那裡的天氣到底有多奇怪？ - 幫助你在對話中詢問並引入新資訊。
這顆行星的風速非常快。 - 一種描述極端氣候現象的方式，可以提升表達能力和描述能力。

逐步影子練習指南

為了有效地提高英語發音，建議採用影子練習法。在觀看影片時，遵循以下幾個步驟：

首先，全神貫注地聽影片內容，瞭解整體意思，尤其是影子（shadow）相關的表述。
接著，暫停並重復每個短語，儘量模仿講話者的語調和節奏，特別是涉及“shadow speak”的部分。
如果有困難，可以慢慢回放，幫助自己適應不熟悉的發音和詞彙。
進行幾次練習後，嘗試 不看字幕，用“shadowspeaks”練習在聽到短語後立即反應。
最後，記錄自己的模仿，比較與原聲，尋找進步的地方，並不斷改進。

通過參考影片中的科學現象和超現實場景，不僅能提高英語能力，還能激發對外星世界的興趣，為日常交流增添更多樂趣。持續運用以上影子練習技巧，定能提升你的影子語言（shadow speech）能力，進而實現更優質的英語溝通。

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
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	was discovered · were teleported · would be covered
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	discovered, which is · Earth, which makes · Titan, which is

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。

影子跟讀法: 閱讀完整分步指南 →

跟讀練習: 5 "Impossible" Things That Can Happen On Other Planets - 通過影片學習英語口語

選擇練習模式

下載應用

推薦影片

27 Facts That Will Make You Question Your Existence

What If Jurassic Park Was Real? THEY ESCAPED

Why Does the OCEAN Get Creepier the Deeper You Go?

Where Did Earth's Water Come From?

What NASA Found on Io

Spending a Day on Earth 200 Million Years Ago

You Are Alive to Watch the Space Station Fall From the Sky

What If you Could See the 4th Dimension?

The Planets In Our Solar System

Let’s Steal a New Moon

We Found Galaxies Too Old for the Universe

Places So Dangerous The Government Banned Them

上下文與背景

日常溝通的五個關鍵短語

逐步影子練習指南

影片中的語法

什麼是跟讀法？