跟讀練習: pre-internet game piracy - 通過影片學習英語口語
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In this day and age, it's very easy to pirate video games.
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You can just download them on the internet.
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But it wasn't quite so easy in the late 70s and early 80s.
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If you wanted to pirate video games for your Atari 2600, you had to be a little bit more creative.
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An Atari cartridge consists of a ROM chip that stores all the game data, and that's it.
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It is just a ROM chip and nothing else.
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So if you were to clone the data to another ROM chip, you'd effectively be duplicating the cartridge entirely.
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So let's say you were to clone it to a new ROM.
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Now what?
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You need a way to play the cloned ROM on your Atari.
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So what people would do is they would homebrew one of these.
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This is an EEPROM reader cartridge, and these were super, super commonly made back in the day.
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You build one of these by removing the ROM from an official Atari cartridge and putting a socket in its place.
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So all you gotta do is you drop your copied ROM into the socket, pull the lever, stick it in your Atari, and away you go to play all your pirated 2600 games.
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Although if you're interested in pirating Atari 2600 games nowadays, you can just get one of these.
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It's way more practical.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這節 B1 級別的口語課以影片“pre-internet game piracy”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有：Rom, Atari, cartridge, chip。 這段影片共有 16 個句子、225 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 0:54。 說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 250 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 只有 78% 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
影片中最難的 12 個單詞，附發音和釋義：
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| pirate 名詞 | /ˈpaɪɹət/ | 海盜 /海盜, 海賊 /海賊 |
| cartridge 名詞 | /ˈkɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/ | 槍彈 /槍彈, 彈藥筒 /彈藥筒 |
| chip 名詞 | /t͡ʃɪp/ | 籌碼 |
| clone 名詞 | /kloʊn/ | 克隆, 複製 /複製 |
| socket 名詞 | /ˈsɑkɪt/ | 插座, 插口 |
| practical 形容詞 | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | 使用的, 實用 /實用 |
| commonly 副詞 | /ˈkɑmənli/ | 通常 |
| reader 名詞 | /ˈɹi.dɚ/ | 讀者 /讀者 |
| nowadays 副詞 | /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/ | 現在 /現在, 現今 /現今 |
| consist 名詞 | /kənˈsɪst/ | 編組 /編組 |
| lever 名詞 | /ˈliː.və/ | 槓桿 /槓桿 |
| duplicate 動詞 | /ˈd(j)uː.plɪˌkeɪt/ | 複製 /複製 |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 4 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 gotta, wasn't, you'd。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
中文母語者容易讀錯的音：
- 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: pirate /ˈpaɪɹət/, cartridge /ˈkɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/, chip /t͡ʃɪp/, socket /ˈsɑkɪt/, nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/
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。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 pirate, cartridge, chip 這類單詞。
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