跟讀練習: Why don't you remember being a baby? - 通過影片學習英語口語

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What's the earliest memory that you have?

Well, I've got bad news, it's probably fake.

According to neuroscientists, anyone who says they remember being a baby is probably lying, but they don't even know it.

Psychologists did this experiment where they interviewed three -year -olds about real stuff.

Zoo trips, first day of preschool, that kind of thing.

Then they came back years later and asked those kids to recall those memories.

By age 5, 6, or 7, they remembered 60 % or more of those early life events, But by age 8 or 9, they only remembered like 40%.

Most of that early memory was gone, and it declines quickly from there.

So you didn't forget being a baby when you were a baby.

You forgot it in like second grade.

Researchers from Yale put infant babies in an MRI, which is probably easier said than done.

And they showed that a key memory area of the brain, called the hippocampus, well, it lights up when a baby locks in on, say, a photo that it's never seen before.

So our memory is definitely running by about age 1.

The memories get made, but something's happening to them after.

Well, here's what we think's going on.

During the first few years of life, that memory region of the brain is being flooded with new, growing neurons.

This shuffles around the cells that were already there, rewiring the chain of neurons and basically breaking that old memory.

There's research in mice that suggests that maybe those memories could still be hiding in there somewhere, they just can't be accessed test.

See, when scientists zapped the original neurons with light in mice, some early memories came back.

But we've never tested the same thing in humans, because it turns out to be pretty hard to recruit people to get fiber optic cables shoved in their brains.

But why would a brain do this?

When you're like one, you don't need to remember specific events as much as you

need to figure out the rules for things like language or how the physical world works, so your brain focuses its energy on that.

Still, nearly 40 % of people say that their first memory is from age 2 or younger.

And somebody's probably going to be in the comments telling me that they definitely remember being born.

But you probably don't.

All this research suggests that those are almost certainly reconstructions that are pieced together from family stories and photos and later memories.

So some version of you learned language, discovered what gravity was, and all those other things.

But sadly, you can never meet that version of yourself.

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這段影片共有 30 個句子、442 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 2:19。說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 190 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 88% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙容易理解。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中 15 個不太常見的單詞，附發音和釋義：

mouse /maʊs/ (名詞) — лочў, 鳥鼠 /鳥鼠. Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
decline /dɪˈklaɪn/ (動詞) — 惡化 /惡化. To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
recall /ɹɪˈkɔl/ (動詞) — 罷免 /罷免, 召回. To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
discover /dɪˈskʌvə/ (動詞) — 發現 /發現, 發覺 /發覺. To find or learn something for the first time.
experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ (名詞) — 實驗 /實驗. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of…
flood /flʌd/ (名詞) — 洪水, 洪災 /洪災. An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
scientist /ˈsaɪəntəst/ (名詞) — 科學家 /科學家. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research…
infant /ˈɪn.fənt/ (名詞) — 嬰兒 /嬰兒. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/ (名詞) — 重建. The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
researcher /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ (名詞) — 研究員 /研究員, 研究者. One who researches.
recruit /ɹɪˈkɹut/ (動詞) — 招聘, 徵兵 /徵兵. To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ (名詞) — 心理學家 /心理學家. An expert in the field of psychology.
shove /ʃʌv/ (動詞) — 推, 推搡. To push, especially roughly or with force.
optic /ˈɑp.tɪk/ (形容詞) — 視覺的 /視覺的. Of, or relating to the eye or to vision.
neuron /ˈn(j)ʊɹɑn/ (名詞) — 神經細胞 /神經細胞, 神經元 /神經元. A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.

影片中出現的短語動詞

come back (動詞) — 回來 /回來, 返回. To return to a place.
figure out (動詞) — 弄清楚. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 8 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, can't, didn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, shove /ʃʌv/, shuffle /ˈʃʌfəl/
長單詞——注意重音位置: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, hippocampus /ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ˈkæm.pəs/

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 mouse, decline, recall 這類單詞。

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	being flooded · can't be accessed · being born
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	anyone who says · MRI, which is

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