跟讀練習: Tattoo Removal Is Insane - 通過影片學習英語口語

選擇練習模式

每種模式都會開啟全屏練習室。

107 句

如果句子過短或過長，請點選 Edit 進行調整。

Very tasteful art!

Oh, you hate it?

You are not alone!

One in four people with a tattoo regret it, 25 million people in the US.

Getting ink carved into your body permanently has exploded in popularity in the last few decades, especially among Millennials.

Often their tattoos were about a current cultural thing, a moment in their life, following a trend, expressing individuality or about feeling like being part of something greater.

This is all fine and good but as people age they often stop identifying with what their younger versions wanted on their skin forever.

Or sometimes their tattoos simply just look ugly or have aged badly.

And so today laser tattoo removal is booming, being as normalized as dentist appointments.

Which is wild since lasering a tattoo away is one of the most metal things you can do to your body.

A high tech procedure that is extremely painful and makes your skin explode from the inside.

How does it work?

We explained what a tattoo is in detail before, but in a nutshell: From the perspective of your cells your tattoo is a mountain range of colourful boulders, from small to building-sized.

Injected deep into your dermis by violently ripping huge wounds with gigantic needles.

Your body is trying hard to destroy the tattoo, but the ink particles are way too large to be transported away and your immune cells can’t eat them.

So they do the next best thing: Keeping the ink trapped in a prison of flesh.

This is why tattoos remain forever, millions of your cells give their lives to keep the ink in place – when they die new ones take their place.

In principle removing a tattoo is very easy: Just destroy the ink particles.

The hard part is to do that without destroying you.

Amazingly the best way is still to blast you with a deadly laser.

Lasers, UV light, wifi or x-rays are all the same thing: Electromagnetic radiation, photons that travel through space at the speed of light in the form of a wave.

The more energetic they are, the higher their frequency and the more punch they carry.

Imagine your skin as jelly and your tattoo as crumbs of toast.

If you shine a flashlight against it, most light passes right through the jelly – but the darker toast crumbs absorb more light and are clearly visible.

Likewise, certain laser frequencies mostly pass through your skin without doing damage, while dark ink particles soak them up.

Depending on the colour of your tattoo, we need different lasers.

Red ink reflects red light but absorbs green light – so you need a green laser.

Black ink easily absorbs all types of light and is the easiest to remove.

But even with the right colour, tattoo removal lasers are still pretty powerful and can still leave horrible injuries, scars, or change your skin colour permanently.

So instead of shooting your skin with a continuous ray of death, modern tattoo removal lasers shoot an extremely brief pulse – a packet of electromagnetic energy that lasts about a few trillionoth of a second.

So short that the beam ends before the first photon even hits the skin!

Ok, enough theory.

Let’s laser your mistake away and experience the fun of tattoo removal together!

But laser removal is expensive, so let’s start by taking care of your finances.

With Rocket Money – the sponsor of this video – you can begin saving money today.

Rocket Money is an app that helps you stay on top of your financial life.

Build a budget, track your spending, and set saving goals – all with just a few taps.

And because everything is in one place, managing your money instantly becomes much simpler.

One feature we especially like is their subscription manager.

It’s easy to lose track of what you signed up for, but Rocket Money puts all your subscriptions in a single list and helps you keep track of payments.

They can even cancel unwanted subscriptions for you.

Rocket Money is free to download, and you can get a free premium trial when you sign up using our link.

Go to RocketMoney.com/kurzgesagt, scan the QR code, or click the link in the description.

And now … Let’s Laser A Mistake Away Take a deep breath, this is going to hurt.

Let us slow down time… zapp The pulse of high energy photons hits your arm nearly at the speed of light, shooting through the dead layers of the skin, passing into the dermis.

Most cells are like jelly to the laser and don’t absorb much energy, escaping its deadly power unharmed.

The flood of photons moves on and reaches the mountain range of ink embedded deep in the prison of your flesh and cells.

Only a nanosecond, a billionth of a second, has passed but now things escalate rapidly.

As the photons hit the black ink on a molecular level, they smash into electrons and are absorbed and annihilated – transferring all of their energy into them.

This sudden influx of energy almost instantly turns into a massive amount of heat that has nowhere to go.

The ink particles burn up to a seething hot 600 degrees, hot enough to make iron glow red hot.

Overwhelmed by the sudden heat the ink particles expand rapidly and are mechanically stressed to the max, violently ripping and fracturing, almost exploding.

The mountain range cracks into millions of seething hot pieces and a bit of hot ink dust.

Which would not be that bad if this was not going on inside your skin.

Water in your tissue and inside your cells instantly vaporizes and expands quickly.

Ripping cells apart and growing into gigantic caves of hot steam bubbles inside your skin.

This sudden expansion creates a shockwave that hits tissue nearby, causing more mayhem and damage.

Your cells that were keeping the tattoo in place a moment ago are having a really bad time.

If they had kept tattoo particles safely stowed inside of them they are cooked or ripped apart.

The cells that surrounded the ink mountains are gravely wounded or burned alive by the sudden heat or steam.

A few tiny blood vessels in the area are ripped apart violently.

Thousands of your cells are dead or hurt.

And then the next laser pulse hits again, and again, moving over the tattoo like an orbital bombardment.

From your perspective all of this is happening so fast that you only notice one thing: A sharp pain like being electrocuted, a smell like burnt hair and most disturbingly, a loud crack.

Where the laser hits your tattoo instantly turns white – which is called frosting and is the bubbles of hot gas expanding under your skin.

To ease the pain the area is often cooled with a stream of cold air for a moment, before the laser moves on again.

Inside your skin the tattoo is now a crushed mountain range of carnage and death.

The cooked and ripped remains of cells float in a mix of hot ink and water vapor that are cooling down.

Many more cells are injured and are chemically screaming for help.

It's like an internal burn wound.

The Brutal Aftermath Hundreds of thousands of immune cells like Macrophages, stream into the wound to clean up the mess.

They order inflammation so your blood vessels open up and water rushes in.

Your wounded skin starts to swell up and turn red.

As your cells begin cleaning up casualties and helping with wound healing they also meet loads of hot ink particles.

It‘s now that your tattoo is actually being removed – the same immune system that kept it in place is now helping to clean it up.

Many of the smallest particles are simply rinsed away by the flood, while Macrophages devour some of them and transport them to your lymph nodes.

If possible they will be broken down further and ejected from your body via your urine – if not then they will just collect inside your lymph nodes and stay there, probably for the rest of your life.

So hopefully you got the tattoo from a pro and the ink is not toxic.

But the majority of ink particles are either still too large or there are just too many of them.

So your immune and skin cells – in a brave effort to protect you – once again swallow and bind them in place.

This is why a laser tattoo removal usually takes between 5 and 12 sessions – each time a part of the tattoo is transported away and an even larger one is cemented in place again.

You get to enjoy watching this process happening in real time.

Within the first few hours the frosting under your skin fades and the skin around the tattoo feels like a bad sunburn.

Red, swollen and stingy.

Often it rises with fluid filled burn blisters that you should leave alone.

As the pain calms down it is replaced by soreness.

Over the next few days the wound will remain red, swollen and tender and begin to itch – the itching is a direct consequence of your immune cells actively healing you, so maybe that gives you some comfort.

After about a week the wound may crust over as new healthy and pink skin replaces injured skin.

Things slowly get back to normal.

Your tattoo will usually be noticeably lighter, although not that much if this was your first session.

Over the next few weeks it will get a bit lighter still as your immune system keeps transporting parts of it away.

Modern laser tattoo removal has gotten very good, so if you chose an experienced professional you should be completely healed after two months – but if you did not or if you had the procedure done with older tech, sometimes there might be a slight scar or the colour of your skin may change slightly in places.

Although this is pretty rare nowadays, please do your research when deciding who you’re going to allow to shoot lasers at you.

In the best case, after a number of sessions, your tattoo is no longer visible, or only very, very faintly.

Whetherit will disappear completely depends on the size of your tattoo, the colours that were used, how deep the ink was injected and to a degree – how good of a job your body does cleaning up the mess.

New year, new you?

We created a Health Journal to set you up for success.

It’s a science-based and easy to follow framework that helps you find out what actually works for your life – without pressure or guilt.

Want to focus on your diet?

100

Start with the Food & Nutrition chapter.

101

Or dive into Physical Fitness or Mental Health.

102

Each chapter is packed with real science, lots of examples and inspiration to get you started – but you can make it completely your own to fit your individual needs.

103

We also made it as beautiful and fun as possible (as taking care of your health should always be).

104

After the Gratitude Journal and the Habit Journal this is the third part in our bestselling journal series.

105

Set yourself up for success in the new year.

106

Just give yourself one month.

107

Try it. See where it takes you.

下載應用

流利口語所需的一切

AI 發音評分逐句打分

音標練習掌握每個音

詞彙學習建立你的詞庫

詞彙遊戲邊玩邊學

掃碼

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

同頻道

FOR YOU

本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“Tattoo Removal Is Insane”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：tattoo, ink, skin, laser, cells。這段影片共有 107 個句子、1878 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 11:21。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 165 個詞，接近日常對話。只有 77% 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 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
tattoo 名詞	/tæˈtuː/	紋身 /紋身, 文身
laser 名詞	/ˈleɪzɚ/	雷射, 雷射
particle 名詞	/ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/	粒子
absorb 動詞	/æbˈsɔɹb/	吸收
photon 名詞	/ˈfəʊtɒn/	光子
swell 動詞	/swɛl/	膨脹 /膨脹, 擴大 /擴大
jelly 名詞	/ˈd͡ʒɛli/	果凍 /果凍, 果子凍 /果子凍
explode 動詞	/ɪkˈsploʊd/	爆炸, 爆發 /爆發
subscription 名詞	/səbˈskɹɪpʃən/	訂閱 /訂閱, 預訂 /預訂
pulse 名詞	/pʌls/	脈 /脈, 脈搏 /脈搏
heal 動詞	/ˈhiːl/	醫治 /醫治
crumb 名詞	/kɹʌm/	渣, 渣兒 /渣兒
dermis 名詞	/ˈdɝ.mɪs/	真皮
inject 動詞	/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛkt/	注射
lymph 名詞	/lɪmf/	淋巴

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
break down 動詞		壞了 /壞了, 出故障
calm down 動詞		冷靜下來 /冷靜下來, 平靜下來 /平靜下來
cool down 動詞	/kuːl ˈdaʊn/	冷卻 /冷卻
find out 動詞		找出, 查明
sign up 動詞		報名 /報名, 註冊 /註冊
slow down 動詞		減速 /減速, 放慢

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 transported · are absorbed · are cooked
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	has exploded · has passed · has gotten

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 3 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 can't, don't, you're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: seethe /sið/, billionth /ˈbɪl.i.ənθ/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/, flesh /flɛʃ/, flashlight /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/, nutshell /ˈnʌt.ʃɛl/, casualty /ˈkæʒu.əlti/
長單詞——注意重音位置: violently /ˈvaɪ(ə)ləntli/, electromagnetic /ɪˌlɛk.tɹoʊ.mæɡˈnɛ.tɪk/, permanently /ˈpɜː.mə.nənt.li/, annihilate /əˈnaɪ.ə.leɪt/, electrocute /ɪˈlɛktɹəkjuːt/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: violently /ˈvaɪ(ə)ləntli/, devour /dɪˈvaʊɚ/, gravelly /ˈɡɹævəli/, individuality /ˌɪndɪvɪd͡ʒuˈælɪti/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/, explode /ɪkˈsploʊd/, pulse /pʌls/, dermis /ˈdɝ.mɪs/, inject /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛkt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: particle /ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/, electromagnetic /ɪˌlɛk.tɹoʊ.mæɡˈnɛ.tɪk/, electrocute /ɪˈlɛktɹəkjuːt/, gravelly /ˈɡɹævəli/, orbital /ɔɹ.bət.l̩/

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 tattoo, laser, particle 這類單詞。

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。

影子跟讀法: 閱讀完整分步指南 →

跟讀練習: Tattoo Removal Is Insane - 通過影片學習英語口語

選擇練習模式

下載應用

Queen Ant Clones Another Species

How Caffeine Works

Your Skeleton Is Electric

Your Brain Peaked at Birth

The Beginning of Everything -- The Big Bang

Could Humans Evolve Flight?

Would You Upload Your Mind?

Your Brain on Magic Mushrooms

You Will Only Like Half of This Video

Why Ebola Keeps Coming Back

What If You Never Slept?

Let’s Steal a New Moon

What Happens AFTER Nuclear War?

3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Awesome! 3/3

Nuclear Energy Explained: How does it work? 1/3

What Falling in Love Does to You

YOU Own the Moon. And Mars. And Venus.

What Is Life? Is Death Real?

How Antidepressants Work

We Won’t Explore the Galaxy...

You Are Alive to Watch the Space Station Fall From the Sky

CO2 Fractional Laser Explained - Acne Scar removal, Skin Rejuvenation｜London

Stop Rehearsing The Life You Don’t Want | Dr Joe Dispenza Motivation

Bài 4 - Trang Phục Đi Làm

This Woman Cured Her Cancer with an Insane Method

What’s Wrong With Eating Humans?

Mastering the Art of Hair Removal

Why Is Gen Z Aging So Fast? A Dermatologist Explains

Human Immortality 4K | Can Science Defeat Aging?

What If a Needle Hit The Earth At The Speed Of Light?

it really was the damn phone: i stopped scrolling and remembered who i was