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Hang on, before you go.
等等,你先別走。
2
What?
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I genuinely don't like heights.
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It's my biggest failing, among many, I accept.
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You know that you drive into the back of my car and it's a very funny joke?
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You don't want it to happen to you.
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You want me to drive into it?
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No. I'll cut your head off.
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You will need a beep there, BBC Two.
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Yeah.
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I can understand.
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Seriously.
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Let's see.
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My car is perfect in every way, apart from it not starting.
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So could you, if you wouldn't mind, push me a little bit?
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So you want me to push your car with my car now on this road here?
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Yes, there's no alternative.
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OK, well, here I come.
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Careful, careful, careful.
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Oh, it wasn't as careful as it could have been.
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Sorry.
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Pretty soon, we saw why the road had earned its name.
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God almighty, that is high.
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That is a massive, massive drop.
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The dust didn't help either.
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This is insane.
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Whoa.
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Look at the grasses stick up, and you don't necessarily see what a long way down it is, and then you get one of those little gaps, and then you just see down, and it is a long way.
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There's one there.
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The dust didn't help either.
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Oh, gee.
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Mm, look at that.
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That's narrowed.
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I just don't know what I'm doing.
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I don't understand the rules on this road.
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You seem to drive one minute on the left, one minute on the right.
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Sometimes the lorries stop going the other way to let you go through.
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Sometimes they don't.
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Some lorries pull over, others come barrelling up behind you doing three
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and a half times the speed of sound and it's completely baffling.
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Thank you.
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Well, I'm coming up against the truck.
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I've got to go past him, and that means going on that side.
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Looking straight ahead.
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Breathe.
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Please.
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Moments later, James slowed down to let a mad local get past.
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Does that mean there's one of those maniacal taxis right now?
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And I didn't.
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Oh, God.
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Sorry, I was...
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I was watching the taxi...
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You're now going to get macheted to death.
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I was watching the taxi.
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I don't care.
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I did warn you.
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Did I or did I not warn you?
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James is killing Jeremy.
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Things are going well.
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I was watching the taxi.
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You weren't.
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I was watching the taxi.
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Did your co -presenter on your television programme just attack you with a machete?
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Yes, you did.
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He came to the window.
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It was quite gross cos I ran into him.
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That doesn't happen on, like, clothes programmes or gardening shows.
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As we climbed higher, life in the already battered Toyota became truly terrifying.
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That's my steering.
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I'm inches from death.
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There.
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The steering wheel doesn't do anything.
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My brakes stick on when I'm going uphill and cause the clutch to slip.
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I can't breathe because the dust gets in.
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Oh, God!
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That's real fear now.
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When I'm going downhill, the same brakes that stick on going uphill don't stop me.
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The Suzuki II was showing the strain.
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What is the matter?
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It's got dirt in the fuel system from the river.
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So it's broken?
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It's not broken.
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Occasionally, a bit of it goes through.
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Your simple, cheap car is broken.
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Sticking to the code of the Top Gear Brotherhood, I left James and Richard behind.
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This goes to show they're badly made, these Japanese cars.
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They're badly made.
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James and I decided to stick together.
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He's never going to go round us.
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My God, he is.
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That's insane.
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Right.
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I'm in a ditch.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Didn't see this.
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Whoa -ho!
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What a thing to miss.
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Right.
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No biggie, though, because my colleague would winch me out in a jiffy.
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Hold on.
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What?
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The winch isn't working.
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I'm now all on my own on Death Road.
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I have no idea where Ray Mears and Ted Nugent are.
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They've just disappeared.
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We have no phones, they're not on the radio.
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Up there could be dead.
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We would, in fact, be dead quite soon, judging by the mood of the angry stuck locals.
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Good luck.
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Thank you.
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Handbrake off, et cetera.
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Ditch is going to level out, so it'll be fine.
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There you go.
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What a nice man.
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Soon, though, I wished I'd stayed in the ditch because the Toyota had developed yet another fault.
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Something's broken on that back corner.
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This is pretty close to undriveable now.
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Right!
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Meanwhile, very far ahead...
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I'm now at 5 ,500 feet above sea level and still climbing.
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Oh, God, crosses.
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There's a lot of crosses there.
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And then, underneath a waterfall, I learned why there were so many crosses up here.
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Oh, my God.
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No. Oh, my...
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Stop there!
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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That is going.
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That is going.
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Bloody hell.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 135 個句子、812 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 7:23。 說話人語速平穩,每分鐘約 110 個詞,很適合跟讀。 只有 81% 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 個不太常見的單詞,附發音和釋義:
- taxi /ˈtæksi/ (名詞) — 出租汽車 /出租汽車, 出租車 /計程車. A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.
- dust /dʌst/ (名詞) — чынтў, хуэйтў. Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, fiber…
- ditch /dɪt͡ʃ/ (名詞) — 水溝 /水溝, 溝渠 /溝渠. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
- insane /ɪnˈseɪn/ (形容詞) — 精神失常, 精神錯亂 /精神錯亂. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
- breathe /bɹiːð/ (動詞) — 呼吸, 吸. To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
- climb /ˈklaɪ̯m/ (動詞) — 登. To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
- warn /woɹn/ (動詞) — 警告, 提醒. To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.
- brake /bɹeɪk/ (名詞) — 剎車 /剎車, 制動器 /制動器. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or…
- whoa /woʊ/ — 籲. Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
- steer /stɪɹ/ (動詞) — 掌舵, 駕駛. To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
- earn /ɝn/ (動詞) — 掙 /掙, 賺 /賺. To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
- meanwhile /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ (副詞) — 同時 /同時. During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place.
- necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ (副詞) — 必然地, 必定地. Inevitably; of necessity.
- gap /ɡæp/ (名詞) — 間隙 /間隙. An opening in anything, made by breaking or parting.
- gross /ɡɹoʊs/ (形容詞) — 粗, 總. remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
影片中出現的短語動詞
- go through (動詞) — 通過 /通過. To travel from one end of something to the other.
- look at (動詞) — 觀察 /觀察, 看. To observe or watch.
- go past (動詞) — 經過 /經過, 路過 /路過. To elapse. (said of time)
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 36 次縮略和弱讀形式,例如 don't, I'm, didn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: breathe /bɹiːð/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, cloth /klɒθ/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, machete /məˈʃɛ.ti/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/
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。
- 用正常速度逐句跟讀,每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比,特別注意 taxi, dust, ditch 這類單詞。
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