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Here we go.

Reliant robin.

Oh, no. I've crashed it.

I've crashed it almost immediately.

I mean, literally, 20 feet.

I can't get out, obviously.

I'm completely stuck.

Luckily, people in the north of England are friendly and keen to help out.

Excuse me.

Boop, boop, boop.

Excuse me.

Oh, heavens, look who it is.

It's Phil Oakey.

Do you think you could push me back on my wheels?

Yeah, certainly.

Thanks very much.

No way back, sir.

You're.. thank you so much.

Thank you very much, Phil Oakey, out of the human league.

Pleasure.

I suppose, as a Sheffield boy, Phil Oakey spent a lot of his youth putting Robin Reliance back on their wheels,

when he wasn't rescuing waitresses from cocktails.

Help!

Again, help!

Where's Martin Frye?

Out of ABC when you need him.

That's a useful feature.

In the early days, the Robin had a 750cc engine.

With 32 brake horsepower on tap, 0 -50 took 22 seconds.

0 -60 wasn't really possible.

In 1975, though, Reliant fitted an 850cc engine.

This improved the acceleration enormously, but the consequences were catastrophic.

The big engine increased the top speed, too.

It would now do 85, and that was catastrophic as well.

Oh, not again!

Oh, no. I'm 50 years old.

I'm on the side on a street in Sheffield.

Oh, is that the sound of somebody?

Hello?

Hello.

Peter Stringfellow.

Were you just walking by, or...?

Oh, nearly.

Yes.

Thank you so much, Peter Stringfellow, out of lap dancing clubs.

My pleasure.

Really, I can't thank you enough.

To try and understand why the robin was so popular up north, I pulled over to chat to some enthusiasts.

How do you drive a Reliant?

Straight lanes.

You don't go round roundabouts.

You get to it and you see where you're coming off and you go straight across.

Right.

Try to avoid the middle.

Right.

Sack of cement on passenger seat helps.

Cement?

Sack of cement on passenger seat helps balance.

Why do you think Reliant owners have big toolboxes? To weigh it down.

I was going to say, your teeth.

Did you lose these in a Reliant accident?

You did, didn't you?

Why do you think, everybody, Reliance was so popular at North?

A lot of miners used them.

Yeah, but why?

Because they were more expensive than minis.

No, because a lot of miners originally started with motorbikes, and they didn't have a full driving licence.

So to get out of weather in winter, when it were absolutely siling it down, they bought a Reliant.

So, it was just because miners didn't have a driving licence?

Some of them, but other ones, also in winter, with them being light, you'll get your normal car stuck in snow or whatever.

These just simply glide over the top of it.

Until you get to a corner.

Well, as long as you live somewhere with a straight line to a pit.

Soon, I was back on my perilous journey.

In this, it feels like I'm driving through South Yorkshire in the 1970s again.

Because I grew up not far from here, so did James May for that matter.

But now we're a lad round here.

Whole rich people, them's as good a food.

It's all wheels on the car.

They all had larders, lardy -dars, we called them.

You didn't want to hit one of them, I'd tell you that for no. They were built like tanks.

One of the best ways to protect your robin was to lavish it with an exotic paint job, such as this Starsky and Hutch homage.

The idea was that having spent many hours with the spray cans and the masking tape, you'd drive more carefully.

But this didn't always work.

It really is a wonder how anyone in the north survived the 1970s.

Of course, a lot didn't.

In 1971, the population of Sheffield was 573 ,000.

Since then, it's dropped to just 513 ,000.

Some of the lost 60 ,000 moved down south, of course, but many, many,

many more were wiped out by their three -wheelers.

Today, of course, most of the Robins are gone and people up here drive Kias and Hyundai's instead.

And this means the local TV news channel has to think of things other than reliant crashes to put in its bulletins.

OK, to Braithwell in South Yorkshire now and a blooming mystery that's baffling its green -fingered residents.

Harry is there for us.

Harry, what's going on?

Welcome here to beautiful Braithwell.

You can see the sun exploding on a kaleidoscope of colour.

And I have to say, there's been a real area of controversy here because...

Oh, well, that's been big.

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My God!

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Are you all right, sir?

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Are you all right?

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Yeah, I'm getting used to it now, thanks.

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Oh, all right.

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Thanks very much.

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If you could just plop me back on the wheels.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you, Harry Grayson, out of Luke North.

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Pleasure.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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這段影片共有 111 個句子、823 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 7:29。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 110 個詞，很適合跟讀。只有 80% 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
robin 名詞	/ˈɹɑ.bɪn/	知更鳥 /知更鳥, 歐亞鴝 /歐亞鴝
cement 名詞	/səˈmɛnt/	水泥, 洋灰
miner 名詞	/ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/	礦工 /礦工, 礦夫 /礦夫
passenger 名詞	/ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/	乘客, 旅客
sack 名詞	/sæk/	袋, 囊
catastrophic 形容詞	/ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/	災難的 /災難的, 災難性的 /災難性的
finger 名詞	/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/	手指, 指頭 /指頭
rescue 動詞	/ˈɹɛs.kjuː/	拯救, 救援
carefully 副詞	/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/	小心地
mystery 名詞	/ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/	謎 /謎, 謎團 /謎團
resident 名詞	/ˈɹɛzɪdənt/	居民, 居住者
mask 名詞	/mæsk/	面具, 面罩
controversy 名詞	/kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/	爭論 /爭論, 爭議 /爭議
spray 名詞	/spɹeɪ/	噴霧器 /噴霧器
keen 形容詞	/kin/	熱衷於 /熱衷於, 樂意 /樂意

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
grow up 動詞	長大 /長大

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
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	I've crashed · there's been · that's been
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	were built · were wiped

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 24 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 didn't, I'm, can't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, homage /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/, lavish /ˈlævɪʃ/
長單詞——注意重音位置: catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, controversy /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/, acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, enthusiast /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/, kaleidoscope /kəˈlaɪ.dəˌskoʊp/

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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 robin, cement, miner 這類單詞。

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