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Chicken heads dropping from the sky.
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What's that about?
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Since the 1930s, a rabies epidemic had been sweeping across wildlife populations in Europe.
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This was bad news, since rabies can spread to pets and then to humans.
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It attacks the brain and leads to symptoms like confusion, aggression and paralysis.
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Once you got it back then, the infection was 100 % deadly.
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The epidemic had to be stopped.
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The main carriers of the virus were red foxes, which were now hunted excessively either with rifles or by releasing poisonous gas into their burrows.
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But it soon became clear that this was counterproductive.
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Hunting caused the fox populations to migrate, spreading the virus even further.
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Catching foxes alive and vaccinating them one by one proved too slow and expensive.
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Finally, in 1978, a somewhat bonkers idea was tested.
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Blisters filled with the vaccine were put into thousands of chicken heads that were left over from slaughterhouses.
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They were then tossed onto pathways and roadsides and dropped from helicopters in areas that were more difficult to access.
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The method worked.
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Up until 1991, vaccinated chicken heads were distributed in Europe over a total area larger than 330 ,000 football fields.
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And as chicken heads dropped, so did the numbers for rabies cases in Europe.
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Since the early 90s, several countries have even been declared rabies -free.
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The method is still use today.
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In 2021, rabies vaccine baits intended for raccoons were dropped from helicopters over Cape Cod,
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although nowadays, industrially manufactured baits are used instead of chicken heads, which works but is way less interesting than foxes munching on

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節口語課以影片“How Chicken Heads Stopped Rabies”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有：rabies, chicken, heads, foxes, dropped。 這段影片共有 21 個句子、260 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 1:35。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 164 個詞，接近日常對話。 只有 75% 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
virus 名詞/ˈvaɪ.ɹəs/病毒
helicopter 名詞/ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/直升機 /直昇機 /直升機
vaccine 名詞/vækˈsin/疫苗
bait 名詞/beɪt/誘餌 /誘餌, 魚餌 /魚餌
epidemic 名詞/ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/流行病, 瘟疫
pet 名詞/pɛt/寵物 /寵物
infection 名詞/ɪnˈfɛkʃən/傳染 /傳染
wildlife 名詞/ˈwaɪldlaɪf/野生動物 /野生動物, 野生生物
carrier 名詞/ˈkæɹi.ɚ/攜帶者 /攜帶者
confusion 名詞/kənˈfjuːʒən/混亂 /混亂
rifle 名詞/ˈɹaɪfəl/步槍 /步槍, 來福槍 /來福槍
nowadays 副詞/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/現在 /現在, 現今 /現今
intend 動詞/ɪnˈtɛnd/打算, 想要
declare 動詞/dɪˈklɛɚ/宣佈
sweep 動詞/swiːp/打掃 /打掃, 掃 /掃

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be stopped · were now hunted · was tested
比較級 -er than / more … than — 比較兩個事物larger than · less interesting than

需要注意的發音

  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, confusion /kənˈfjuːʒən/, aggression /əˈɡɹɛʃən/
  • 長單詞——注意重音位置: helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, epidemic /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/, counterproductive /ˌkaʊntəpɹəˈdʌktɪv/, excessively /ɪkˈsɛsɪvli/, industrially /ɪnˈdʌs.tɹɪ.ə.li/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

  • /v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: virus /ˈvaɪ.ɹəs/, vaccine /vækˈsin/, vaccinate /ˈvæksɪneɪt/, counterproductive /ˌkaʊntəpɹəˈdʌktɪv/, excessively /ɪkˈsɛsɪvli/
  • 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: virus /ˈvaɪ.ɹəs/, bait /beɪt/, epidemic /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/, pet /pɛt/, wildlife /ˈwaɪldlaɪf/
  • /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, rifle /ˈɹaɪfəl/, industrially /ɪnˈdʌs.tɹɪ.ə.li/, paralysis /pəˈɹæləsəs/, slaughterhouse /ˈsloː.tə(ɹ).haʊs/

如何用這段影片練習

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

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