跟讀練習: When a Bf-109 spared a stricken B-17 - 通過影片學習英語口語

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It was December 20th 1943 and in the freezing air high above Germany,

2nd Lieutenant Charles Charlie Brown struggled to keep his mortally damaged American bomber on course.

Brown had been wounded in the shoulder, his tail gunner Sergeant Hugh Ecke Eckenrode was dead and several other members of the crew were wounded, some severely.

Their aircraft, B-17 Ye Olde Pub, had been hit twice by flak as it approached its target, the Focke-Wulf plant in the German city of Bremen,

forcing the crew to shut down one of the engines and throttle back on another.

This had left it lagging behind the main formation of aircraft from the 379th Bombardment Group, and groups of German fighters had closed in like sharks, sensing blood in the water.

Up to 15 fighters had attacked the bomber, and the whole tail section was shot to pieces.

The nose cone was missing.

The electrical, hydraulic and oxygen systems were damaged.

The radio was out and the entrails of the crippled bomber flapped in the slipstream through gaping wrecks in the fuselage.

But B-17s are tough old birds and this one somehow kept on flying despite the damage.

Brown blacked out for a short time due to pain, loss of blood and a lack of oxygen, and the bomber spiraled towards the ground.

Brown came to and realized that the B-17 was only a few hundred feet above the ground.

He somehow managed to get it back under control and turned west towards England in safety, 250 miles away.

Brown wasn't able to coax the B-17 much above 1,000 feet, and he was vaguely aware that he had passed close to the perimeter of a German airfield.

Soon after he realized that a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 was flying in close formation beside him.

It was so close that Brown could see the German pilot as he gestured towards the ground, telling Brown to set the bomber down.

Most of the B-17's gunners were wounded.

Only a few guns were still working and none were able to shoot at the enemy fighter alongside.

Brown could only look on at the German pilot and shake his head.

For a short time the Messerschmitt flew beside the bomber.

Then it slid away above and behind.

Brown waited for the gunfire that must mean the end of the old pub. But nothing happened.

He realized to his astonishment that the German fighter was flying escort on the B-17.

As they crossed the coastline and flew out over the North Sea, the fighter remained on station.

Only when they were well out from the German coast did the fighter slide in again close to the bomber.

Brown looked across and the German pilot looked back at him, raised a gloved hand in salute and then swung his aircraft away back towards the east.

Brown managed to put Ye Olde Pub on the ground, not at their home base in Cambridgeshire, but at an air base of the 448th Bomb Group near Norfolk and East Anglia.

He and all his crew, other than the tail gunner, survived.

At debriefing, Brown told his story about the German fighter which escorted him.

It was decided that this should be kept secret.

The notion of an honorable German pilot choosing not to shoot

down a damaged American bomber just didn't fit with the message that the US Air Force wanted to give out.

Charlie Brown survived the war, went home to go to college and then rejoined the Air Force in 1949.

He served until 1965 when he retired as a colonel.

It wasn't until much later, in 1986, at a meeting of retired combat pilots called gathering of the Eagles, that he first spoke about what had happened.

The response was strong, though some questioned whether the whole incident really happened.

Even Brown began to wonder.

His memories of that day in 1943 were hazy due to his injuries, exhaustion and the stress of combat.

Could he be remembering it all wrong?

Brown decided that he was going to find the German pilot involved, if only to prove that he hadn't imagined the whole thing.

It took four years, But in 1990, Brown finally received a letter from a man named Stigler, who was living in Canada.

Stigler explained that he had been the pilot of the German fighter who had escorted Ye Olde Pub.

On December 20, 1943, Franz Stigler had been a 27-kill veteran pilot.

He had flown against American bombers in his Messerschmitt Bf 109 G6 that morning, and he was refueling on the ground when Ye Olde Pub passed close by.

He took off intending to shoot down the American bomber.

However, as he closed with the limping aircraft, he could see just how badly it had been hit.

He would later say that he had never seen a more severely damaged aircraft still flying.

Stigler's commander had told his pilots never to fire an enemy who was descending on a parachute.

While the crew of the old pub hadn't bailed out, they were clearly no longer capable of fighting and Stigler decided that he could not bring himself to attack.

Instead he flew alongside and gestured to Brown to land.

He just simply couldn't imagine that the crippled aircraft could possibly make it back to England.

When Brown refused, Stigler made an extraordinary decision.

Instead of shooting it down, he flew close formation with the B-17, hoping that this would deter flak batteries on the coast from firing at it.

He flew with the bomber well out over the North Sea until it was clear of German airspace

and then left it to continue towards England.

Stigler never told anyone about what had happened.

Sparing an American bomber would likely have led to punishment and perhaps even execution, but he often wondered if it had made it back to base.

Stigler continued flying fighters throughout the war.

In 1953 he emigrated from Germany to Canada where he started a successful business.

When he heard from Charlie Brown in 1990, Stigler confirmed every aspect of his story.

Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown were astonished to discover

that they had been living less than 200 miles apart for much of the time since the war.

Stigler had settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, while Brown was in Seattle, Washington.

In the latter years, the two men remained close friends, often visiting and talking to other flyers about their shared experiences.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“When a Bf-109 spared a stricken B-17”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：Brown, German, bomber, Stigler, fighter。這段影片共有 66 個句子、1070 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 5:51。說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 183 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。只有 79% 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

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
bomber 名詞	/ˈbɑmɚ/	轟炸機 /轟炸機
flak 名詞	/flæk/	高射炮
gesture 名詞	/ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɚ/	手勢 /手勢, 姿勢 /姿勢
retire 動詞	/ɹəˈtaɪɹ/	退休, 引退
airfield 名詞		飛機場 /飛機場, 機場 /機場
airspace 名詞		領空 /領空, 空域
astonish 動詞	/əˈstɑnɪʃ/	震驚 /震驚
astonishment 名詞	/əˈstɑːnɪʃmənt/	驚愕 /驚愕, 驚異 /驚異
emigrate 動詞	/ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/	移民, 移居
exhaustion 名詞	/ɪɡˈzɔːs.t͡ʃən/	耗盡 /耗盡, 用光
fuselage 名詞	/ˈfjuːzəˌlɑːʒ/	機身 /機身
refuel 動詞	/ɹiːˈfjuːəl/	補充燃料 /補充燃料, 加油
throttle 名詞	/ˈθɹɔ.tl̩/	風門 /風門, 節流閥 /節流閥
parachute 名詞	/ˈpæɹəʃut/	降落傘 /降落傘
coastline 名詞		海岸線 /海岸線

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
bail out 動詞	救市
take off 動詞	脫 /脫

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 6 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 hadn't, wasn't, couldn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: astonish /əˈstɑnɪʃ/, astonishment /əˈstɑːnɪʃmənt/, fuselage /ˈfjuːzəˌlɑːʒ/, parachute /ˈpæɹəʃut/, notion /ˈnoʊʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: astonishment /əˈstɑːnɪʃmənt/, perimeter /pɪˈɹɪm.ɪ.tə/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: vaguely /ˈveɪɡli/, glove /ɡlʌv/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: escort /ˈɛs.kɔɹt/, flak /flæk/, beside /bɪˈsaɪd/, astonish /əˈstɑnɪʃ/, astonishment /əˈstɑːnɪʃmənt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: refuel /ɹiːˈfjuːəl/, slipstream /ˈslɪp.stɹiːm/, throttle /ˈθɹɔ.tl̩/, flyer /ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/, hydraulic /haɪˈdɹɔːlɪk/

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 bomber, flak, gesture 這類單詞。

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