跟讀練習: Philomena Cunk vs Prof. Brian Cox - 通過影片學習英語口語
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To find out, I spoke to expert science man and former DREAM keyboardist, Dr Brian Cox.
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How will the world end?
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Well, the sun will run out of fuel in about 4 billion years or so, and actually before that, it will begin to swell up,
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expand, and so we think the Earth will get incinerated.
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Do you think we might be able to do something about it?
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Stop it being incinerated?
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Yeah, stop it being incinerated.
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Oh, the sun burning the Earth can't we put it out with a big hose or something?
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It's an inevitable consequence of the laws of nature.
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You're pleased with that, are you?
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You're happy with that.
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You can live with that.
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Well, there's nothing I can do.
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So this is the actual large hadron colander.
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So am I right in thinking that this might prove the existence of chakras within the human body?
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No. You're not interested in chakras?
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No. In the same way, I'm not interested in ghosts.
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But my Aunt Carol, she can sense chakras in someone's body.
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And she doesn't need any machines.
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Also, the Andromeda galaxy is going to hit us.
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The Andromeda galaxy?
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A whole galaxy is going to hit us.
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Yeah.
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On about the same time scale, actually.
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So as the sun runs out of fuel and expands and incinerates the Earth, a galaxy of 400 billion stars is going to collide with us.
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You're much gloomier than I expected, cos you're quite smiley.
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Well, yeah, well, it's quite a long time in the future.
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This could explode at any minute, couldn't it?
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No. How fast do the protons in this thing go?
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99.999999% the speed of light.
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Your sense of smell is faster, isn't it?
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No. Well, how come that when someone's frying bacon and you walk in the kitchen, you can smell it straight away before you've even seen it?
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Have you ever tried putting bacon in here?
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No. Yeah, you should try it.
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You might make quantum bacon.
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Would that make it more interesting?
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A little bit.
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Why would it be more interesting?
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Because what it's trying to do...
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I'm desperately...
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I'm trying to help you out here.
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I'm trying to, like, make it even slightly more interesting than it is.
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But what it did was it detected...
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a thing called a Higgs particle.
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Without the Higgs particle, you, me and everything else that we know of in the universe, none of those things would exist.
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Can the Higgs boson rewind time?
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No. Can it tell when an earthquake's going to go off?
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No. Can it make food spicier?
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It's just a particle.
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It's like saying, can an electron tell when an earthquake's going to go off? Can it?
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No. You said things can only get better.
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So why can we trust anything you ever say now?
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Yeah, it's a gross misunderstanding of the laws of nature.
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It's one of the most misleading and scientifically inaccurate pop songs that's ever been written.
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Catchy, though.
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Yeah, but it's just inaccurate.
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Scientifically inaccurate.
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Things get worse.
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So after the universe ends, there'll be nothing?
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Depends what you mean by after the universe ends.
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When it's exploded.
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Well, it's not going to explode.
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It's going to, we think...
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Melch.
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..carry on expanding.
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Right. And then...
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Forever.
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Well, that'll be fine, won't it?
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We need the space.
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What is quantum physics?
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Quantum physics is...
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So quantum mechanics is our best theory of how the world works.
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It describes everything that we've observed other than gravity.
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Do mirrors run on quantum physics?
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Run?
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Yeah. As in...?
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Well, according to quantum physics, mirrors shouldn't work, they're a miracle.
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That's not correct.
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You get to the point that it carries on doing that, then galaxies get ripped apart, and then solar systems get ripped apart, and then even planets get ripped apart,
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and even atoms get ripped apart.
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But so what?
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All the stars will die.
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Even all the black holes that are left, the final sort of end points of the most massive stars will evaporate away.
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Quantum theorionics proves there's infinite multiverses, like in Marvel films, doesn't it?
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That's one interpretation of the theory.
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How many infinite multiverses are there?
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If there were an infinite number of multiverses, then the number of multiverses would be infinite.
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See, I think there's two.
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Ours and the one in mirrors.
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So can we...could we fall down a black hole?
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Yeah, you could fall into one.
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Is that the same?
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Because I heard that you could be...
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If, you know, this is one way that the world could end, is that we're all just sucked off through a hole.
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It's, er...
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I mean, that must be terrible.
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Can you imagine what it would feel like to be sucked off through a hole?
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Yeah.
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Mirrors are windows into other universes, aren't they?
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No. My mate Paul says they run on quantum power,
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and that's why you can see into an alternative dimension in which everything's the same as our realm but backwards.
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What does Paul do?
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Well, he worked in a tennis ball factory where he had to catch the tennis balls, but he was fired from that, and now he's unemployed.
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Sorry, am I wasting your time?
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Any time?
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Yeah.
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為什麼要通過這個影片練習口語？
通過與“Philomena Cunk vs Prof. Brian Cox”的對話練習口語，可以幫助學習者在輕鬆幽默的環境中提升英語口語能力。影片中的問答形式互動使得學習者能夠模仿自然的對話，增強對英語發音的掌握。此外，這段對話涉及科學主題和生活趣事，促進了對實用表達的理解。習慣使用這些真實場景下的語言，能有效提高英語口語練習的效果，特別是在掌握複雜概念時，強化理解和表達情感。通過這種方式練習，學習者不僅能提高英語發音，還可以獲得更加地道的表達技巧，從而自信地參與各種對話。
語法和表達的使用情境
在這段對話中，有幾個關鍵語法結構和表達方式值得注意：
- 將來時結構: “the sun will run out of fuel”展示了將來發生的事件，強化了學習者對未來時態的理解。
- 條件句: “Do you think we might be able to do something about it?”使用了條件句來表達對可能性的思考，幫助學習者理解如何表達假設。
- 反問句: “Can the Higgs boson rewind time?” 這個問題通過反問的方式使對話更加生動，學習者可以通過模仿這種表達方式來增強自己的對話技巧。
常見發音陷阱
在影片中，有些單詞和短語可能會給學習者帶來發音上的挑戰：
- “incinerated”: 這個詞較長，並且包含多個音節，發音時需注意重音和語調。
- “universe”: 這個詞的發音可能因口音不同而變化，學習者可以通過反覆練習來提高準確度。
- “particle”: 由於其特殊的拼寫，學習者易於混淆發音，建議進行單獨練習。
將這段對話作為英語口語練習的材料，通過shadow speak的方式練習，可以幫助學習者克服這些發音陷阱，提升英語發音及溝通能力。
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 | being incinerated · been written · are left |
| 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 | you've even seen · Have you ever tried · that's ever been written |
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。