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we are launching a whole new channel there have been video ideas

that i've pitched

that don't fully belong on veritasium i've been in those pitch meetings i've seen those i've seen

that happen but that doesn't mean that the videos shouldn't exist and

that they they aren't saying something very interesting we need another

way to tell these stories we have veritasium we have a lot of exciting stories

that we want to tell same veritasium rigor but this time it's about social science.

It's about how our complex and constantly changing world works.

So that's what we're doing.

We're launching a whole new channel called InGenius.

You can watch the first few minutes here and

if you like it come to our channel InGenius and you can watch the rest.

This $40 hunk of metal rewired the modern world it started a revolution

that transformed China from being one of the poorest countries in

the world to a global superpower controlling 30 % of all

manufacturing it's a story that's never been told before how it

inspires former spy Yuan Gong to create an island of capitalism in his home council with an invention

that changes the face of communist China spreading its influence across the world and upending the entire global economy.

But the story didn't start in China.

It starts with a frustrated American trucker from North Carolina. In 1937,

24 -year -old Malcolm McClain is driving his truck full of cotton bales from North Carolina up to Hoboken, New Jersey.

At port, he waits for his truck to be unloaded

and waits and waits it's painstakingly slow almost a whole day and that's just his one truck

he figures what if you took the entire back of the truck

and just put it directly on the ship the whole thing

would be over in a matter of minutes instead of hours

so why don't we put

that whole body on the truck that's my first thought you

know the problem is truck drivers can't control how ships are loaded

so while mclean builds a highly successful trucking empire over the next 20 years he can only stand by

and watch as the cargo issue gets worse this is the

log from a 1954 cargo ship the ss warrior 194 582 total things on the ship

that would all have to be loaded and unloaded by hand by gangs of longshoremen.

It takes so long.

It means if you're shipping something, you're paying twice as much for your cargo to be stuck at port than actually traveling on a ship.

And it makes your cargo vulnerable to another problem.

The New York and New Jersey waterfronts in the 50s are dominated by the Genovese and Gambino Mafia families.

Corruption, racketeering, and theft are endemic.

More than $13 million of cargo is estimated to have been stolen just from those ports over a three -year period.

That's more than $180 million in today's money.

The upshot is, the process is so expensive that in most cases, selling internationally just isn't worth it.

So, most consumer products stay local.

Make locally, sell locally.

So in 1955, McLean decides to act.

He's convinced his old idea of detachable truck trailers is the solution.

So McClain does something drastic.

He sells his 20 -year -old trucking empire and gambles everything on an ocean shipping company,

despite the fact that he has zero experience in the field.

But to turn his idea into reality, he needs someone who can actually build the container of his dreams.

He hears about 35 -year -old engineer Keith Tantlinger.

Tantlinger, based out in Spokane, Washington, who has built a transportable metal box and even been tinkering with trying to stack it.

Tantlinger's reasoning is similar to McLean.

Rather than waste precious ship space with the truck or the wheels,

just transport the cargo in the box from the truck to the ship in one seamless move.

McLean flies Tantlinger down to his headquarters in Alabama

and immediately gets him working on containers that will fit onto a converted World War II oil tanker that he just bought.

McLean renames the ship the SS Ideal X, ideal for the ideal form of transportation and X for experimentation.

It was the SpaceX of the 1950s.

And in many ways, Malcolm McLean is the Elon Musk of his day.

Thank you.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節口語課以影片“We're trying something new..”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：truck, ship, Mclean, cargo, Veritasium。這段影片共有 47 個句子、720 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 4:58。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 145 個詞，很適合跟讀。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 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
cargo 名詞	/ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/	貨物 /貨物, 貨 /貨
ideal 形容詞	/aɪˈdi(ə)l/	理想的
container 名詞	/kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/	容器
steal 動詞	/stiːl/	偷, 盜 /盜
belong 動詞	/bɪˈlɒŋ/	屬於 /屬於
headquarters 名詞	/ˈhɛdˌk(w)ɔɹ.tɚz/	大本營 /大本營, 指揮部 /指揮部
corruption 名詞	/kəˈɹʌpʃən/	腐敗 /腐敗
cotton 名詞	/ˈkɑt.n̩/	棉花, 棉
communist 名詞	/ˈkɑ.mjə.nɪst/	共產主義者 /共產主義者
trailer 名詞	/ˈtɹeɪlɚ/	拖車 /拖車
estimate 名詞	/ˈɛs.tɪ.mət/	估計 /估計
convince 動詞	/kənˈvɪns/	說服 /說服
vulnerable 形容詞	/ˈvʌln(ə)ɹəbl̩/	脆弱的, 敏感的
theft 名詞	/θɛft/	盜竊 /盜竊
stack 名詞	/stæk/	堆

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	been told · be unloaded · are loaded
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	have been · i've pitched · i've been

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 16 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I've, don't, we're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: corruption /kəˈɹʌpʃən/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/, experimentation /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/, upshot /ˈʌpʃɑt/
長單詞——注意重音位置: capitalism /ˈkæp.ə.təlˌɪzm̩/, experimentation /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/, painstakingly /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋli/, transportable /tɹænsˈpɔɹtəbəl/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: convince /kənˈvɪns/, vulnerable /ˈvʌln(ə)ɹəbl̩/, convert /kənˈvɝt/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: pitch /pɪt͡ʃ/, headquarters /ˈhɛdˌk(w)ɔɹ.tɚz/, communist /ˈkɑ.mjə.nɪst/, estimate /ˈɛs.tɪ.mət/, convince /kənˈvɪns/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: trailer /ˈtɹeɪlɚ/, vulnerable /ˈvʌln(ə)ɹəbl̩/, transportable /tɹænsˈpɔɹtəbəl/

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 cargo, ideal, container 這類單詞。

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