跟讀練習: What if We Nuke a City? - 通過影片學習英語口語
選擇練習模式
每種模式都會開啟全屏練習室。
86 句
如果句子過短或過長，請點選 Edit 進行調整。
1
Playing around with nuclear weapons in videos is fun.
2
There's a visceral joy in blowing things up, and a horrifying fascination with things like fireballs, shockwaves, and radiation.
3
And while it does help put our destructive power in perspective, it's not the best way of understanding the real impact of a nuclear explosion.
4
This isn't about silly stacks of TNT, or about how bright an explosion is. Nuclear weapons are about you.
5
So we've partnered with the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement to explore what would really happen if a nuclear weapon were detonated in a major city today.
6
Not nuclear war, just one explosion.
7
We begin our story in the middle of downtown in a major city.
8
People are going to work, studying for exams, are lost in their thoughts and daily lives.
9
Right here a nuclear weapon is detonated and time freezes.
10
The first phase of the explosion happens within less than a second.
11
In a millisecond, a ball of plasma hotter than the Sun appears and grows in a fireball to more than 2 kilometres across.
12
Within this ball, everyone is just gone.
13
Think of water dripped on to a very hot pan.
14
A sizzle, and then there's nothing.
15
Most buildings, cars, trees, tacky sculptures and people...
16
... all evaporated.
17
First, the flash: an intense tsunami of light washes over the city in an instant.
18
If you happen to have your head pointed in the direction of the explosion, it renders you blind for a few hours.
19
The heat of this light produces a thermal pulse, so energetic and hot that it just burns everything as far as 13 kilometres from the detonation site.
20
What this means is that everything in an area of 500 square kilometres that is able to burn, starts burning.
21
Plastic, wood, fabric, hair, and skin.
22
If you happen to be in reach of the thermal pulse, one moment, you're on your way to work, the next moment, you're on fire.
23
Now the second phase begins.
24
It happens in a few seconds.
25
Most people will now first notice that something is wrong, but it's already too late for hundreds of thousands.
26
The flash is followed by the shockwave.
27
The heat and radiation of the fireball create a bubble of superheated and super-compressed air around it that's now expanding explosively.
28
Faster than the speed of sound, creating winds stronger than hurricanes and tornadoes.
29
Human infrastructure is no match for its power.
30
Most major buildings within a kilometre of the fireball are just ground up down to their base.
31
Only steel reinforced concrete is able to partially resist the pressure.
32
In the surrounding parks where retirees feed the ducks, trees blackened and smoldering from the heat a second before snap like toothpicks.
33
If you're outside, you get tossed away like a grain of dust in a tornado.
34
The shockwave weakens as it travels outwards but still, about 175 square kilometres of houses collapse like they're made of cards, trapping tens of thousands of people who didn't have any time to react.
35
Gas stations explode and fire spread throughout the rubble.
36
A mushroom cloud made from the remains of the fireball, dust and ash rises kilometres into the sky in the next few minutes and casts a dark shadow over the ruined city.
37
This violently pulls in fresh air surrounding the city, destroying more buildings and providing an abundance of oxygen.
38
It depends on the city what happens next.
39
If there's enough fuel, fires may turn into a firestorm that burns the rubble, everybody trapped in it and people trying to flee the devastation.
40
Up to 21 kilometres from the explosion, people just like you rush to their windows to take pictures of the mushroom cloud, unaware that the shockwave is still coming at them, about to shatter their windows and create a blizzard of sharp glass.
41
The third phase begins in the coming hours and days.
42
We're used to the idea that help will come, no matter the disaster.
43
This time is different: a nuclear explosion is like every natural disaster at once.
44
There are hundreds of thousands or millions of people with serious injuries: lacerations, broken bones, serious burns.
45
In the next few minutes and hours, thousands more will die because of these injuries.
46
Countless people are trapped in collapsed buildings like in earthquakes or blinded by the flash, deaf from the blast wave and unable to flee through streets impassable with rubble and debris.
47
They're terrified, confused, and don't know what's happened to them or why.
48
Most likely, many hospitals have been leveled along with all the other buildings and most medical professionals are either dead or injured, along with everyone else.
49
The survivors lucky enough to have been in metro tunnels or standing in the right place to be unburned and unhurt won't have truly escaped harm yet.
50
Depending on the type of weapon, where it explodes and even the weather, an awful black rain can begin, with radioactive ash and dust descending on the city, covering everything and everyone.
51
The invisible, malicious, silent horror of radiation takes its turn.
52
Every breath carries poison to the lungs of the survivors.
53
Over the coming days, the people who receive the highest doses of radiation exposure will die.
54
There will be no help, not for hours or maybe even days.
55
Civilisation doesn't operate when there is a total breakdown of infrastructure.
56
Roads are blocked, train tracks warped, runways cluttered with rubble.
57
No water, no electricity, no communication, no stores to replenish supplies from.
58
Help from surrounding cities will have a hard time entering the disaster zone and even if they can, the radioactive contamination will make it risky to get too close.
59
After a nuclear attack, you're on your own.
60
So, bit by bit, people emerge from the rubble on foot, contaminated with radioactive fallout, carrying what little they may have left.
61
They are slow, in pain, traumatized, and they all need food, water and medical treatment fast.
62
And the damage done by a nuclear weapon doesn't end when the fires burn out and the smoke clears.
63
The hospitals in the neighboring cities are under-equipped for a disaster of this scale and overwhelmed with tens or hundreds of thousands of patients with serious injuries.
64
In the weeks, months and years to come, many of those who survived will succumb to cancers like leukemia.
65
The reason no government wants you to think about all this is because there is no serious humanitarian response possible to a nuclear explosion.
66
There's no way to really help the immediate victims of a nuclear attack.
67
This is not a hurricane, wildfire or earthquake or nuclear accident.
68
It is all of these things at once, but worse.
69
No nation on earth is prepared to deal with it.
70
The world has changed in the past few years, with world leaders again explicitly and publicly threatening each other with nuclear weapons.
71
Many experts think the danger of a nuclear strike is higher than it has been in decades.
72
Governments tell their citizens that it's good that we have nuclear weapons, but it's bad when anyone else gets them.
73
That it's somehow necessary to threaten others with mass destruction to keep us safe.
74
But does this make you feel safe?
75
It only takes a small group of people with power to go crazy or rogue, a small misstep or a simple misunderstanding to unleash a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.
76
Exploding stuff in videos is fun.
77
Exploding things in real life, not so much.
78
There is a solution though!
79
Eliminating all nuclear weapons and vowing never to build them again.
80
In 2017, almost 2/3 of all the world's countries, supported by hundreds of civil society organizations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement agreed to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
81
It's not about who has nuclear weapons and who doesn't. The weapons themselves are the problem.
82
They are deeply immoral and an existential threat to all of us.
83
No matter what country you come from, no matter what political side you find yourself on, we need to demand that they disappear forever.
84
This will not happen without pressure.
85
If you want to be part of this pressure, there are things you personally can do too: Visit notonukes.org to learn more about nuclear weapons and what you can do about them.
86
S
同頻道
C110
Queen Ant Clones Another Species
Daily ConversationUniversity Students
C13
How Caffeine Works
Daily ConversationUniversity Students
B232
Your Skeleton Is Electric
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B237
Your Brain Peaked at Birth
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C11
The Beginning of Everything -- The Big Bang
Daily ConversationUniversity Students
C1118
Could Humans Evolve Flight?
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C112
Would You Upload Your Mind?
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B21
Your Brain on Magic Mushrooms
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
C14
You Will Only Like Half of This Video
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C136
Why Ebola Keeps Coming Back
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B2560
What If You Never Slept?
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B25
Let’s Steal a New Moon
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B23
What Happens AFTER Nuclear War?
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Awesome! 3/3
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
C118
What Falling in Love Does to You
University StudentsWorking Adults
B26
YOU Own the Moon. And Mars. And Venus.
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B23
What Is Life? Is Death Real?
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C1149
How Antidepressants Work
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C173
We Won’t Explore the Galaxy...
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
B26
Dozens of Nukes Are Missing. Why? HOW?
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
FOR YOU
推薦影片
C14
55 句
What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench? (Science not Fantasy)
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
C15
15 句
Let’s Cause a Country-Wide Blackout!
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
C15
53 句
Meeting scene - HBO Chernobyl 2019 | Episode 02
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepCambridge Exam Prep
C13
22 句
How The Universe Could Destroy Life On Earth
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
C12
76 句
The Nucleus: Crash Course Chemistry #1
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
C11
28 句
What is Nuclear Medicine | Dr. Paulien Moyaert
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
C16
32 句
Anti-matter & nuclear weapons: Why technology is always a double-edge sword | Don Lincoln
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
C168
44 句
Why is it Hot Underground?
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
C12
89 句
Fire in ZERO-G!!
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
C15
28 句
How to Blow Up the Earth - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Zack D. Films
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
C11
290 句
What If I Fell Into A Black Hole?
American AccentIELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
B25
53 句
How to Survive a Grenade Blast
American AccentIELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
背景與上下文
在這個影片中，講解者探討了核武器的危害和它們對城市的影響。通過對核爆炸的詳細描繪，影片試圖提供一個更真實的視角，讓觀眾理解核武器的破壞力。影片採用了生動的語言和影像，幫助觀眾感受到核爆所帶來的衝擊。這種資訊對學習英語的學生也非常重要，因為他們可以通過觀看此類影片提升自己的聽力和口語能力。
日常交流中的五個重要短語
- 一瞬間 - 在影片中提到核爆炸發生的瞬間，強調了事件的突然性。
- 火球 - 描述核爆炸中產生的高溫 plasma 球體，這對了解核武器的威力有重要意義。
- 衝擊波 - 討論了爆炸後所產生的強大沖擊波，影響範圍極廣。
- 生死瞬間 - 強調了在核爆炸中，普通人的生命在瞬間被改變。
- 災後援助 - 提及核爆炸後，救援和救助將面臨的困難挑戰。
逐步影子跟讀指南
要充分利用此影片並提高你的英語口語能力，建議採用以下步驟進行影子跟讀（shadow speech）練習：
- 初步觀看: 首先觀看影片一次，理解主要內容，不必著重細節。
- 分段學習: 將影片分成幾個小段。每段觀看並嘗試理解講解者的發音與語調。
- 重複影子跟讀: 選擇一段，播放後立即跟讀，模仿講解者的語調和節奏，進行英語影子跟讀（英語影子跟讀）。
- 記錄與回聽: 錄下自己的跟讀，聽取與原音的差別，找出需要改進的部分。
- 持續練習: 每天定時進行練習，直至能夠流利地複述內容，增強雅思口語練習的能力。
結合這些練習方法，使用像“看YouTube學英語”的工具將極大地提升你的語言能力，通過影子跟讀，也使得學習過程更加高效有趣。
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 | were detonated · are lost · is detonated |
| 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 | we've partnered · have been leveled · has changed |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | people who didn · people who receive · those who survived |
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。