跟讀練習: The Puzzling Platypus - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Imagine if someone asked you to draw the world's silliest animal.
想像一下,如果有人讓你畫出世界上最滑稽的動物。
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You might give it a duck's bill, a beaver's tail, webbed feet, and maybe cover it in fur.
你可能會給它加上鴨嘴、海狸尾巴、蹼足,或許再讓它渾身覆蓋著毛皮。
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Then you'd probably think, "Nah, that's too ridiculous.
那你可能會想,“不會吧,這也太離譜了。”
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No animal could actually look like that." Well, surprise!
根本沒有動物會長成那個樣子。哼,那可未必!
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Nature said, "Hold my juice box," and created the platypus.
大自然彷彿在說:“看好我的果汁盒”,然後就創造出了鴨嘴獸。
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The animal that looks like it was designed by a kid, who couldn't decide what their favorite animal was.
這種動物看起來就像是被一個還沒確定自己最喜歡什麼動物的小孩設計出來的。
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So they just mashed them all together.
所以他們就直接把它們全部混在一起了。
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Bye.
再見。
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Introducing the platypus, perhaps nature's weirdest invention.
來認識一下鴨嘴獸,它或許是大自然最奇特的創造。
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When scientists first saw a platypus, they literally spent hours looking for glue or stitches.
當科學家第一次看到鴨嘴獸時,他們真的花了好幾個小時尋找膠水或者縫線。
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They were convinced someone had stuck a duck's bill onto a beaver.
他們確信有人把鴨嘴粘到了海狸身上。
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Can you imagine being so weird that scientists think you're a fake toy?
你能想像自己奇怪到連科學家都以為你是個假玩具嗎?
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The platypus lives in Australia.
鴨嘴獸生活在澳大利亞。
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They spend most of their time in rivers and streams, diving for insects, worms, and small fish.
它們大部分時間都待在河流和溪流中,潛入水中捕食昆蟲、蠕蟲和小魚。
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When they're not busy being the world's most ridiculous -looking predator, Thank you you They're probably sleeping in their underground burrows,
在它們不忙著當世界上長相最滑稽的捕食者的時候,謝謝,它們很可能正待在自己的地下洞穴裡睡覺。
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or just floating around being absolutely adorable.
或者只是飄來飄去,萌得不行。
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Okay, here's the first mind -blowing fact about these weirdos.
好,接下來是關於這些奇特生物的第一個令人震驚的事實。
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Platypuses are mammals that lay eggs.
鴨嘴獸是會下蛋的哺乳動物。
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They're like, "You know what?
他們就像是在說:“你知道嗎?
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I'm going to be a mammal, but I'm also going to lay eggs like a chicken." Deal with it.
我要當哺乳動物,但我也要像雞一樣下蛋。接受現實吧。
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you And get this, When baby platypuses hatch, they don't look like little platypuses at all.
你知道嗎,當鴨嘴獸寶寶孵化出來時,它們看起來一點也不像小鴨子嘴獸。
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They're tiny, pink, squishy blobs about the size of a grape.
它們是小小的、粉紅色、軟乎乎的團狀物,大小和葡萄差不多。
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No fur, no open eyes, just soft little beaks and wiggly bodies.
沒有絨毛,眼睛還沒睜開,只有軟軟的小喙和扭動的小身子。
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you For the first 10 days, The newborns, called Puggles, Stay snuggled up completely blind and helpless.
在最初的10天裡,這些被稱為Puggles的新生幼崽會緊緊依偎在一起,它們完全看不見東西,也沒有自理能力。
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But soon, they start to grow fuzzy, waterproof fur.
但很快,它們就開始長出毛茸茸的防水皮毛。
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Their beaks get stronger and they slowly turn into the amazing little platypuses we all know.
它們的喙會變得更加強壯,慢慢長成我們都熟悉的那些神奇小鴨嘴獸。
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Now, here's where it gets really wild.
接下來,事情就變得非常離譜了。
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You know how most cute, fuzzy animals are totally harmless?
你知道大多數可愛毛茸茸的動物其實完全無害吧?
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Well, not the platypus.
嗯,鴨嘴獸可不是這樣。
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Male platypuses have sharp, venomous spurs on their back legs that can inject a nasty sting.
雄性鴨嘴獸的後腿上長有鋒利的毒刺,能夠造成劇烈的蜇傷。
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That's right, this soft, silly -looking duck beaver actually has a secret weapon.
沒錯,這隻看起來軟乎乎、傻乎乎的鴨嘴獸其實有一個秘密武器。
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It's like if your teddy bear suddenly revealed it knew karate.
這就好比你的泰迪熊突然告訴你它會空手道。
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But maybe the coolest thing of all about platypuses: they're amazing hunters underwater.
但鴨嘴獸最酷的一點或許是:它們是出色的水下獵手。
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They can hold their breath for up to two minutes.
它們的憋氣時間最長可達兩分鐘。
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And while they're swimming, they shut their eyes, ears, and even their noses.
而且它們在游泳的時候,會閉上眼睛、耳朵,甚至鼻子。
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So how do they find their food?
那它們是如何找到食物的呢?
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With their super -powered bills.
憑藉他們那些擁有超強能力的鈔票。
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Their bills can sense tiny electric signals from wriggling insects, worms, and shrimp hiding in the riverbed.
它們的喙能夠感知藏在河床裡蠕動的昆蟲、蠕蟲和小蝦發出的微弱電訊號。
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It's like having a sixth sense just for snacks.
這就像擁有一個專為零食而生的第六感。
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And we're still not done.
而且我們還沒結束呢。
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As if laying eggs and having venom wasn't enough, the platypus decided that stomachs were just unnecessary.
彷彿產卵和擁有毒液還不夠似的,鴨嘴獸又覺得胃根本就沒必要存在。
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Yup.
是的。
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No stomach.
沒有胃。
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And despite being a mammal that produces milk,
儘管它是一種會分泌乳汁的哺乳動物,
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Platypuses said, "Nipples are so mainstream." and instead just sweat milk through their skin for their babies to lap up.
鴨嘴獸曾說:“乳頭太普通了。” 它們反而會通過皮膚分泌乳汁,讓幼崽舔食。
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So, no stomach and no nipples.
所以,沒有胃也沒有乳頭。
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Are you kidding?
你在開玩笑嗎?
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It's like someone took a duck, a beaver, and a snake, threw them in a blender with a handful of What if we just ignored all the rules,
這就好比有人把一隻鴨子、一隻海狸和一條蛇扔進攪拌機,再加上一大把“乾脆無視所有規則好了”的瘋狂念頭。
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and somehow created the most wonderfully ridiculous animal on Earth?
卻莫名其妙地創造出了地球上最奇妙又滑稽的動物?
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the platypus, proving that evolution has an absolutely wild sense of humor.
鴨嘴獸,簡直就是在證明進化論的幽默感有多離譜。
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Thank you.
謝謝。
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關鍵詞彙與短語
- 鴨嘴獸 (platypus):一種獨特的哺乳動物,具有鴨子的喙和海狸的尾巴。
- 哺乳動物 (mammal):一種能夠哺乳其幼崽的動物。
- 下蛋 (lay eggs):某些動物繁殖的方式,尤其是鳥類和爬行動物。
- 毒刺 (venomous spurs):雄性鴨嘴獸後腿上的一種能夠注射毒素的尖刺。
- 水下狩獵 (underwater hunting):鴨嘴獸能夠在水中尋找食物的能力。
- 電訊號 (electric signals):鴨嘴獸通過其喙感知的訊號,幫助其找到藏匿在水底的食物。
- 奶水 (milk):鴨嘴獸通過皮膚分泌的營養物質,供其幼崽餵養。
- 陰影講話 (shadow speech):通過模仿他說話者的語調和節奏來提高發音的練習方式。
練習技巧
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- 模仿語調: 注意講解者的語調和情感表達,儘量去模仿他們的音調變化,以此提高您的英語發音。
- 重複練習: 對於某些您覺得特別困難的句子,反覆跟讀幾次,直到您覺得能夠順暢發音。
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- 運用關鍵詞: 利用文本中提到的新詞彙,適時將它們運用到您的表述中,從而豐富您的語言表達能力。
通過這樣的英語影子跟讀,您將不僅能夠提高自己的發音,還能在潛移默化中掌握更豐富的詞彙,進而提升您的英語口語和理解能力。
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 |
|---|---|
| 最高階 the -est / the most … — 一組中最高或最低的 | the coolest · the most wonderfully |
| 現在進行時 am/is/are + -ing — 此刻或近期正在發生的事 | They're probably sleeping · they're swimming · Are you kidding |
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