跟讀練習: This Fly Torpedoes a Bindweed Bee’s Nest | Deep Look - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Life for bindweed turret bees is violent and unfair.
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It's spring in California and these male bees are in an all-out brawl, desperate to mate with the female trapped at the bottom of this pile.
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Sometimes the fight is so intense that the female they're going after gets crushed to death.
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But if she survives, she and the winner steal away and mate.
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Until another male wants in.
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Buzzkill.
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Now she starts an epic dig, prepping a place to lay her eggs underground.
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She tirelessly scoops earth with her mandibles, dousing it with nectar she collected earlier to soften it.
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The majority of the world's bee species, 70%, nest in the ground.
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These ones chose a dirt parking lot.
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Some nice folks cordoned it off to protect the bees.
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Females work side by side.
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Each is queen of her own funky little castle.
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They build turrets, but only some of them are vertical.
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Many are tunnel-like with a sideways entrance.
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Others curve down.
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You'll see why that's important in a bit.
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Once the bees are done digging, they head off on another mission.
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They gather pollen from one plant only, morning glories, also known as bindweeds.
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She rubs her shaggy legs all over that pollen.
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And down she goes with her haul.
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Pollen pants.
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Inside her nest, she packs the pollen into neat balls, each one in its own chamber, and lays an egg on top.
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When the egg hatches into a larva, it will live off the pollen.
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she toils.
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Freeloaders show up.
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They look like a bee, but their huge eyes give them away.
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They're called, wait for it, bee flies.
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The fly doesn't dig or gather pollen for her young.
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She just hovers over a bee's nest and...
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Yep, she's dropping her own eggs in there.
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She'll drop 200 eggs over her lifetime.
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This is where those tunnels and curved turrets are useful.
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They make it harder for the flies to drop their eggs in from the air.
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But when the fly does succeed, the fly's egg hatches into a larva that digs tiny hooks into the bee larva.
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As the bee eats the pollen and grows, the fly larva sucks it dry.
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Sometimes the flies are so successful they can nearly wipe out a population of bees.
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These bees don't give up.
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Two or three months of mating, foraging, and warding off parasites come to an end when they seal up their nests with dirt.
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Below ground, babies will grow.
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The following spring, if the bees are lucky, a new tiny city will burst to life,
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full of bees persevering, just as their mothers did before them.
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Let's talk about yellow jackets.
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It's true, these ladies have a special taste for flesh.
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But they don't eat it themselves.
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They bring it to their young.
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How?
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By crashing your cookout and carving your burgers and dogs into teeny tiny meatballs.
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Enjoy.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 49 個句子、484 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 4:46。 說話人語速較慢，每分鐘約 102 個詞，你有足夠的時間模仿每一個音。 只有 73% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| bee 名詞 | /ˈbiː/ | мифыр, фыр |
| egg 名詞 | /ɛɡ/ | 卵, 卵子 |
| nest 名詞 | /nɛst/ | вә, 岫 |
| dirt 名詞 | /dɝt/ | 泥土, 汙垢 |
| tunnel 名詞 | /ˈtʌn(ə)l/ | 隧道, 地下道 |
| dig 動詞 | /dɪɡ/ | 挖, 挖掘 |
| curve 名詞 | /kɚv/ | 彎子 /彎子 |
| hatch 動詞 | /hæt͡ʃ/ | 孵化, 孵出 |
| pants 名詞 | /pænts/ | 褲子 /褲子, 長褲 /長褲 |
| chamber 名詞 | /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/ | 臥室 /臥室, 寢室 /寢室 |
| violent 形容詞 | /ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/ | 暴力, 強烈 /強烈 |
| castle 名詞 | /ˈkɑːsəl/ | 城堡 |
| suck 動詞 | /sʌk/ | 吸吮, 咂 |
| steal 動詞 | /stiːl/ | 偷, 盜 /盜 |
| entrance 名詞 | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | 入口, 門口 /門口 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 釋義 |
|---|---|
| give up 動詞 | 投案, 自首 |
| show up 動詞 | 露面 |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 7 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, they're, doesn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: flesh /flɛʃ/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, shaggy /ˈʃæɡi/
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。
- 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 bee, egg, nest 這類單詞。
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