跟讀練習: Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps - 通過影片學習英語口語

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The mixer tap.

Brilliant invention, and yet something that seems to have passed Britain by.

You'll get Americans coming over here and asking why our taps look like they're from the 1940s.

And even here, in my parents' bathroom, I'm visiting my folks this weekend, and I just have a new bathroom put in.

Separate hot and cold taps.

And there are all sorts of theories out there about why that might be, generally revolving around that we're British and stiff upper lip, and, you know, we don't need mixer taps, we've never had them and,

well, that's partly true, but it also goes back to how houses in Britain were constructed after World War II.

In most old British houses, there's a cold -water storage tank up in the attic.

It's reasonably sized, about 250 litres, and that, in turn, feeds a hot -water storage tank that's for the central heating

and for hot water in the bathroom and the kitchen and so on.

But the trouble is, that might not be entirely safe drinking water, because that cold water storage tank, in some houses that weren't properly maintained,

might have been open to the elements, or silted up, or covered with iron rust, or in one particular case that you can read about, have a couple of dead rats floating in it.

That water might technically not be drinkable, and under the regulations it is not counted as drinking water.

The cold, meanwhile, at least certainly in the kitchen and sometimes the bathroom too, that cold water comes straight from the mains.

That counts as drinkable.

So here's the thing, you have cold, safe, the regulations call it wholesome drinking water, and you have, well, almost certainly safe,

but not technically, not legally under the regulations, hot water.

And never the twain shall meet.

If you have a mixer tap, then technically, the unsafe hot water, in worst -case scenario where there's a backwash valve failure and the mains turns off,

that unsafe water could go back, backwash through all the systems and go out to contaminate the rest of the street or the rest of the water system.

That's not legal, therefore, no mixer tap.

You don't cross the streams.

Nowadays, of course, it's a little bit different.

This house had its hot water tank ripped out a few months ago.

The attic is now just a big empty space again.

And, well, there's a very modern, shiny bit of technology downstairs that heats up water on demand.

All new -build houses, go this way, they've got mixer taps, it'll be absolutely fine.

But, I remember being told as a kid, never drink from the hot water tap.

And that stuck with me.

Even now, if there is a mixer tap and I want to drink from it, I will run the cold water for a few seconds, just to make sure that anything that's unsafe has come out of it.

Even now, old habits die hard, and sometimes these things just feel a bit safer.

Thank you.

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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“Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：tap, cold, hot, mixer, bathroom。這段影片共有 32 個句子、510 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 2:49。說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 181 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 83% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

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
mixer 名詞	/ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/	混合器, 混頻器 /混頻器
technically 副詞	/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/	嚴格來說 /嚴格來說
drinkable 形容詞	/ˈdɹɪŋk.ə.bəl/	可飲用的 /可飲用的
attic 名詞	/ˈætɪk/	閣樓 /閣樓
revolve 動詞	/ɹɪˈvɑlv/	圍繞 /圍繞
litre 名詞	/ˈli.tɚ/	升, 公升
wholesome 形容詞	/ˈhoʊl.səm/	治癒的，治癒系
downstairs 副詞	/daʊnˈstɛɹz/	樓下 /樓下
rust 名詞	/ɹʌst/	鏽 /鏽, 鐵鏽 /鐵鏽
stiff 形容詞	/stɪf/	硬, 僵硬
float 動詞	/fləʊt/	浮, 漂浮
construct 動詞	/ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/	建造, 建設 /建設
reasonably 副詞	/ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/	合理的
invention 名詞	/ɪnˈvɛnʃən/	發明 /發明
nowadays 副詞	/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/	現在 /現在, 現今 /現今

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
go back 動詞	回去, 返回
heat up 動詞	加熱 /加熱
turn off 動詞	關 /關, 關掉 /關掉

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 constructed · is not counted · being told
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 never had · has come

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 10 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, I'm, it'll。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: backwash /ˈbæk.wɑʃ/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, contaminate /kənˈtæmɪneɪt/, reasonably /ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/

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 mixer, technically, drinkable 這類單詞。

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