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This is a peach.

Soft, fuzzy, sweet, and oh -so -delicious.

When you get a really good peach, it's a tremendous kind of sensory experience.

The U .S produces 600 ,000 tons of this stone fruit each year, and it's synonymous with one place, Georgia.

That's one of those Georgia peaches.

Georgia peaches.

Those are considered the best.

In your outfit, you look like a little Georgia peach.

It's on license plates and road signs and at the end of almost every film you've ever watched.

There's even an entire county named after it.

But here's the thing.

Despite its nickname, Georgia doesn't even produce the most peaches in the U .S.

So there's an act of myth -making it's really not a southern fruit in particular.

So how did Georgia become the peach state?

A peach is what's called a stone fruit, meaning there's a hard pit at the center.

There are clingstones, which cling tightly to the pit, and freestones, which pull away cleanly.

They could be yellow or white, fuzzy or smooth.

Those are nectarines, same fruit, just no fuzz.

And like most crops grown in the U .S., peaches came from somewhere else.

The earliest evidence we have for peach usage dates back to China around 7 ,000 years ago.

They came to Europe via the Silk Road, and so they acquired the scientific name Prunus persica because it was assumed they originally came from Persia.

From there, Spanish explorers carried peach bits across the Atlantic in the 1500s and planted them across Florida, where Native Americans used them for food and medicine and spread them up the coast.

So by the time English colonists arrived in Virginia in the early 1600s, peaches were abundant.

But they weren't glamorous.

Most peach usage seems to have been for foraging hogs and making cider and brandy.

It tastes like peach brandy to me.

No one was calling it a state symbol.

It would take a war, a broken economy, and a new generation of horticulturalists to turn

that idea into an industry when the civil war ended george's economy was shattered

because cotton had built the old south there's a really strong push among a lot of newspaper men

and sort of upper class folks in the south to develop

a new reputation like a new face for the south there was also in georgia really active horticultural society

so there's a lot of language like queen peach is dethroning king cotton to sort of say georgia is doing something different.

We're making a new kind of agricultural civilization.

Peaches were already growing in Georgia, but getting them to market was the issue.

They bruise easily and spoil fast, so if Georgia was going to build a new identity around this fruit, it needed a peach that could travel.

Enter Samuel Rumpf.

In Georgia, the most important commercial peach variety was developed.

It was called the Alberta by Samuel Henry Rumpf, done in Marshallville.

Rumpf likely crossed Chinese cling with a yellow freestone known as early Crawford.

However, he was never able to provide a clear genealogy for the Alberta.

He named it after his wife.

That was also kind of an important move for, you know, a Southern gentleman.

And at the same time Rumpf was experimenting in his orchards, something else was changing.

The development of refrigerated transport, that was a key part of getting the commercial industry going in the South.

Georgia really is kind of the first peach growing region that's

shipping at a considerable distance to some of the big marketplaces of the north.

There were at one time more Alberta peaches grown than any other fruit variety.

By the early 1900s, Georgia was known for its peaches.

Labels on crates shipped north featured the word Georgia front and center.

Macon, Georgia hosts a big peach carnival in the 1890s.

That culminates in the 1920s in Peach County.

Peaches were becoming something people in Georgia rallied around.

There were pies and cobblers and crisps.

Even during During World War I, peach pits were burnt down and packed into the filters of gas masks.

But despite their many uses, peaches never really did overtake cotton.

Peaches were never more important than cotton economically, as far as I can tell.

Peaches fit kind of hand in glove with the cotton economy, especially with regard to labor.

But the story stuck.

More than a century after the Alberta peach was introduced, Georgia made it official.

In 1995, the peach became the state fruit.

But today, George's reputation is bigger than its harvest.

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now back to peaches south carolina and california have both overtaken peaches

and and today california produces by far the most peaches in the country

but even they're dwarfed by china china produces way more in

peaches than anybody else in the world by the 1920s nearly

150 000 acres of peaches were planted across the state

but by 2017 georgia just had nearly 12 000 acres of peaches left in georgia peaches

and the people growing them look different today the mostly black labor forest

that powered these early orchards declined during the great migration

and modern orchards rely heavily on immigrant labor mainly through h2a guest worker programs

and labor isn't the only challenge peaches needed a certain amount

of chill hours every winter time below 45 degrees to reset

and bloom properly in the spring too much cold and there's risk

if peach trees start to bloom

and then there's a late freeze you can lose most of

your crop in 2023 some georgia growers reported losing more than 90 % of their peaches.

The season was described as disastrous.

But despite all this, Georgia is still the peach state.

At that moment when the South was really looking for this sort of new reputation, a new face, peaches were there.

They were emerging as a major crop.

I think there's been a continuation of a maintenance of the myth.

Because it turned peaches into a story.

And that lasts longer than any crop ever could.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節口語課以影片“The biggest peach myth in America”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：peaches, georgia, peach, fruit, cotton。這段影片共有 91 個句子、1149 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 6:47。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 169 個詞，接近日常對話。只有 76% 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
peach 名詞	/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/	桃, 桃子
cotton 名詞	/ˈkɑt.n̩/	棉花, 棉
crop 名詞	/kɹɑp/	作物
reputation 名詞	/ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/	名譽 /名譽, 聲譽 /聲譽
orchard 名詞	/ˈɔɹ.t͡ʃɚd/	果園 /果園
usage 名詞	/ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/	用法
myth 名詞	/mɪθ/	迷思
acre 名詞	/ˈeɪ.kɚ/	英畝 /英畝
brandy 名詞	/ˈbɹændi/	白蘭地 /白蘭地
membership 名詞		會籍 /會籍, 會員身份 /會員身份
label 名詞	/ˈleɪ.bəl/	標籤 /標籤, 簽條 /籤條
worker 名詞	/ˈwɝ.kɚ/	工人, 工作者
decline 動詞	/dɪˈklaɪn/	惡化 /惡化
smooth 形容詞	/smuːð/	平穩 /平穩, 順利 /順利
arrive 動詞	/əˈɹaɪv/	到達 /到達, 到

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
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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	are considered · was assumed · was shattered
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 ever watched · there's been

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 10 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 doesn't, we're, didn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: myth /mɪθ/, smooth /smuːð/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, migration /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, continuation /kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
長單詞——注意重音位置: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, considerable /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, economically /ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪ.kli/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, harvest /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, carnival /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/, glove /ɡlʌv/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: peach /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/, crop /kɹɑp/, orchard /ˈɔɹ.t͡ʃɚd/, usage /ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/, myth /mɪθ/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: rally /ˈɹæli/, rely /ɹɪˈlaɪ/, considerable /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/, carnival /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/, explorer /ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/

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 peach, cotton, crop 這類單詞。

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