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In late 1937, the Japanese escalate their military campaign in China.
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They already occupy Manchuria.
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After three months of fighting,
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they take Shanghai and move to the ancient Chinese capital and move to the ancient Chinese capital of Nanking.
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The Japanese brutality that follows will shock the world.
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They enter the city, and instead of just occupying it, they let the Japanese troops off the leash.
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They raped, they pillaged, they burned, they steal.
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The Japanese commanders ordered their soldiers not to take any prisoners, which meant executions.
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The Japanese invasion does identify the Japanese as an aggressive power in the Pacific, that they are brutal in the way that they've treated the population.
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And this starts to change people's perceptions with regards to the Japanese.
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To counter continued Japanese aggression in China, Roosevelt orders the U.S fleet to move from San Diego to Pearl Harbor,
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a naval base on Hawaii, 2,000 miles closer to the Japanese mainland.
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This is a land that is an extension of the United States is the United States.
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Roosevelt is sending a clear signal he hopes will deter Japan.
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The Pacific is America's sphere of influence.
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He wants the fleet to be positioned far enough forward that the Japanese will take it seriously,
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but at the same time not to be overtly provocative by moving it to a place like the Philippines or maybe Singapore.
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Pearl Harbor is now the front line of American naval power in the Pacific.
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The Pearl Harbor Naval Base is perfect
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because it's got a narrow channel into a wide harbor with an island right in the middle.
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So it looks like a fortress.
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In the summer of 1941, The United States takes its strongest stand yet against Japan's territorial ambitions.
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The United States has been concerned about Japanese expansion and aggression in Asia for some time.
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Roosevelt has stopped short of a military response, but there's been a series of embargoes.
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Embargo on weapons, an embargo on scrap iron.
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Japan is almost entirely dependent on oil imported from the U.S.
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So FDR imposes an embargo on the Japanese.
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In the summer of 1941, America essentially turns off the tap.
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The embargo becomes a disaster for the Japanese economy and military.
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By installing an oil embargo, we have basically said, we are going to control your future.
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Although meant to deter Japan,
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FDR's order to move the Pacific fleet base from California to Pearl Harbor means it's now within striking distance.
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Roosevelt doesn't really understand that by moving the fleet this far forward, it now becomes a potential target for the Japanese because the Americans in general don't understand
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the sophistication and level of capability that the Japanese now have.
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December 7th, 1941.
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183 Japanese planes descend on Pearl Harbor in the first wave of the attack.
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Their target, the airfields.
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The result is going to be this concentrated bombing attack to
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try to put as many American planes out of business at the outset of the attack.
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At 7.55 AM, the first bombs hit.
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When you hear the airplanes overhead, you're like, oh, boy, they sure are doing training early today.
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And then when all of a sudden things start to explode, you're like, oh, man, somebody's really gonna get in trouble, because this training event's way out of hand.
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Another formation of Japanese aircraft dive on the ships anchored along Battleship Row.
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Torpedo planes at low level and overhead bombers.
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It's not until ships actually start exploding, bullets start ripping through the decks that they realize, oh my god, this is really real.
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The Oklahoma and the West Virginia are very heavily hit.
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Oklahoma ends up capsizing, trapping hundreds of men in this overturned ship.
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After two waves of attack, The Japanese withdraw.
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188 U.S aircraft are destroyed.
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1,178 servicemen and civilians are wounded.
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2,403 are dead.
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The America that wakes up on December 8, 1941, is a different country.
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The country's being tested.
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Are we up to this?
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Can we meet this challenge?
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We are being put in the balance, and would we be found wanting or not?
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At 12.30 p.m., Congress assembles.
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Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.
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A state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
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Look very carefully at what Franklin Roosevelt said on the 8th of December.
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We are declaring war against the Empire of Japan.
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He does not mention Germany.
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The 8th goes by, the 9th goes by, the 10th goes by.
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And not until the 11th, when Hitler decides to declare war on the United States,
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did the United States then in turn declare war on Germany.
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America now faces a global war on two fronts.
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We were dragged into this.
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Let's be very clear.
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The United States of America did not wake up in the middle of the 20th century
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and decided it was going to defeat tyranny.
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Tyranny had to force us into a struggle that we now recognize to be the great existential struggle, arguably of the last millennium.
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But it was not a quick or easy date with destiny.
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We are now in this war.
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We're all in it, all the way.
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Every single man, woman, and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American history.
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It will not only be a long war, it will be a hard war.
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We are going to win the war, And we are going to win the peace that follows.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“The Attack on Pearl Harbor Changed Everything”為素材。 影片中反覆出現的詞有:Japanese, harbor, embargo, Roosevelt, Pearl。 這段影片共有 77 個句子、905 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 9:35。 說話人語速較慢,每分鐘約 94 個詞,你有足夠的時間模仿每一個音。 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

影片中最難的 15 個單詞,附發音和釋義:

單詞發音釋義
embargo 名詞/ɪmˈbɑɹɡoʊ/封港令
harbor 名詞/ˈhɑːbə/海港, 港
declare 動詞/dɪˈklɛɚ/宣佈
deter 動詞/dɪˈtɝ/防止, 阻止
tyranny 名詞/ˈtɪəɹəni/僭主政治, 獨裁 /獨裁
explode 動詞/ɪkˈsploʊd/爆炸, 爆發 /爆發
aggression 名詞/əˈɡɹɛʃən/侵略
overhead 名詞/ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/間接費用 /間接費用
occupy 動詞/ˈɑkjəpaɪ/花費 /花費, 佔 /佔
airfield 名詞飛機場 /飛機場, 機場 /機場
capsize 動詞/ˈkæpsaɪz/傾覆 /傾覆, 翻
escalate 動詞/ˈɛs.kə.leɪt/升級 /升級, 升高
existential 形容詞/ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃl̩/存在性, 有關存在的 /有關存在的
infamy 名詞/ˈɪnfəmi/罵名 /罵名, 汙名
outset 名詞/ˈaʊtsɛt/開始 /開始

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞釋義
end up 動詞到達
turn off 動詞關 /關, 關掉 /關掉

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子,可以直接用在日常對話裡:

  • Are we up to this?
  • Can we meet this challenge?
  • We're all in it, all the way.

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 positioned · are destroyed · are wounded
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they've treated · has been · has stopped

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 7 次縮略和弱讀形式,例如 you're, doesn't, don't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: aggression /əˈɡɹɛʃən/, existential /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃl̩/, sophistication /səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/
  • 長單詞——注意重音位置: provocative /pɹəˈvɒk.ə.tɪv/, sophistication /səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, brutality /ˌbɹuːˈtælɪti/, undertaking /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkɪŋ/, territorial /ˌtɛɹ.əˈtɔɹ.i.əl/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音:

  • /v/ — 不要讀成 /w/,上齒輕觸下唇: overhead /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/, overturn /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtɜː(ɹ)n/, provocative /pɹəˈvɒk.ə.tɪv/, civilians /sɪˈvɪl.jənz/, dive /daɪv/
  • 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚,後面不要加母音: explode /ɪkˈsploʊd/, overhead /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/, capsize /ˈkæpsaɪz/, escalate /ˈɛs.kə.leɪt/, outset /ˈaʊtsɛt/
  • /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: brutality /ˌbɹuːˈtælɪti/, arguably /ˈɑɹɡjuəbli/, territorial /ˌtɛɹ.əˈtɔɹ.i.əl/, airplane /ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/, brutal /ˈbɹuːtəl/

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. 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。
  3. 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比,特別注意 embargo, harbor, declare 這類單詞。

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