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hey check this out you know what eric asked me when i got into work this morning
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i have no idea what do you ask you he asked me if i felt the earthquake last night
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earthquake you've got to be kidding i didn't feel an earthquake
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i know that's what i said he told me it actually
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woke him up last night you know what yeah it was like it went it happened at like, uh, four 42 in the morning.
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So we must've been sleeping, but I mean, it's possible that, you know, even if we had been awake, we might not have felt it because, you know, maybe it, uh,
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wasn't felt, you know, this far North, but, uh, I mean, I thought he was pulling my leg when he first talked about it.
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Well, I guess that's not so far fetched considering we live on a major fault line here.
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Yeah.
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But actually I think this earthquake was, uh, on a different fault line um
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because you know eric lives uh just uh south of san jose yeah
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and uh the earthquake he said was due east of san jose
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so he was obviously a lot closer to the epicenter than we were
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so i don't i'm not even sure it was felt here yeah
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that makes sense well you know i've experienced quite a few earthquakes in the past several years
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but i've been living here now a little over two years I think I've only experienced one here.
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It was really strange, too.
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I should say each earthquake has been a completely different experience.
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But the one I felt here, I was standing outside a restaurant talking to AJ and another friend, and all of a sudden,
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it just felt like this shift.
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It's really hard to explain, but it made me think of like a cartoon, like how in the cartoon, like buildings might just shift to the right and then shift right back.
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Yeah, without falling.
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Yeah, without falling.
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And I had no idea what was going on for a few minutes afterwards.
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And then I realized, oh, that must have been an earthquake.
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Yeah, you know what I usually notice? the times
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that i've been at home here and uh there's been an earthquake it's almost as
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if there's this really big train or like a gigantic mac truck going by
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and uh suddenly i start to hear the heater shaking
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and um it's like the noise is like uh is loud for like a second and then it's gone. So it's really weird.
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You know, it's almost like the first couple of times I felt it, I wasn't even aware it was an earthquake while it was happening.
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Well, that's so funny you say that because one that I experienced in Bangkok, it actually was after the tsunami.
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And so later I found out that it was, it was aftershock from the tsunami.
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But anyway, I was in a building up on the ninth floor and suddenly there was all this rattling.
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And I'm thinking to myself, it just, it was so irrational.
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I'm thinking to myself, God, there's like a train going by and I can't believe that this building is shaking so much from the train.
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And of course a train wouldn't have made a building
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or at least me up on the ninth floor feel something to that effect.
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And I think it happened about two times.
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And that one wasn't until several days later when I was talking to people and they were like, oh, did you feel the earthquake?
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Then it dawned on me, oh, that was an earthquake.
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Yeah, I know.
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It's crazy how when you're not used to feeling them, you could think it's something else.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, totally.
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I've been living here for a while now and I've definitely felt my share of earthquakes.
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I mean, when you live here, it's a given that you're going to experience earthquakes.
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You just hope that you're not going to be here for the big one.
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Right.
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When I first moved here, it was five years after the Loma Prieta earthquake, which was a very big earthquake here.
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And there are a lot of people who lived here who
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I met who had actually been living in the area when the earthquake hit.
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So it was interesting to get their perspective.
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And it also like made me remember where I was when I heard about the Loma Prieta earthquake.
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I was watching the World Series on TV and, you know, it was taking place in San Francisco go.
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So as I'm watching it, suddenly the announcer starts saying, wow, I think we're feeling an earthquake here.
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And the cameras started shaking.
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And all of a sudden, the TV coverage cut out.
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So, you know, I wanted to get a rundown of what happened.
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So I turned to the news station and within a few minutes, they were discussing this gigantic earthquake.
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That had hit San Francisco, and they started showing pictures,
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maybe 30 minutes later, of these people who were trying to weed through the rubble of these buildings that had been, like, coming down.
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So, I mean, it was pretty scary, I'll tell you what.
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Yeah, well, you know, the three months I was living in Japan, I experienced two.
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Both of those were very different, very different from the one I'd experienced here and also very different from the one in Bangkok.
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But one of them, I was actually up in my apartment, which was on the fifth floor of a building, and I was woken up at about five o 'clock in the morning to the building swaying.
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And because earthquakes are like a dime a dozen in Japan, they've built a lot of their buildings to absorb the shock.
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So that's why it was swaying.
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It was really, it's a very surreal feel.
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Hi, this is Kristen Dodds, and this is Joe Weiss,
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and we just wanted to let you know that this material is copyrighted in the year 2008 by Learn Real English,
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LLC, www .learnrealenglish .com.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节 B1 级别的口语课以视频“01.a Earthquakes Conversation - Effortless Real English”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：earthquake, felt, experienced, train, san。 这段视频共有 72 个句子、1024 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 6:03。 说话人语速自然，每分钟约 169 个词，接近日常对话。 82% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中最难的 15 个单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| earthquake 名词 | /ˈɝθkweɪk/ | 地震, 地動 /地动 |
| shake 动词 | /ˈʃeɪk/ | 搖 /摇 |
| tsunami 名词 | /(t)suːˈnɑːmi/ | 海嘯 /海啸 |
| gigantic 形容词 | /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/ | 巨大的 |
| sway 动词 | /ˈsweɪ̯/ | 搖晃 /摇晃, 搖擺 /摇摆 |
| ninth 形容词 | /naɪnθ/ | 第九 |
| cartoon 名词 | /kɑɹˈtun/ | 卡通, 諷刺畫 /讽刺画 |
| aftershock 名词 | /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/ | 餘震 /余震 |
| epicentre 名词 | /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/ | 震央, 震中 |
| rattle 名词 | /ˈɹæ.təl/ | 手搖鈴 /手摇铃 |
| rubble 名词 | /ˈɹʌb.əl/ | 瓦礫 /瓦砾, 碎石 |
| heater 名词 | /ˈhitɚ/ | 加熱器 /加热器, 暖氣 /暖气 |
| irrational 形容词 | /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/ | 不合理 |
| announcer 名词 | /əˈnaʊnsɚ/ | 播音員 /播音员, 廣播員 /广播员 |
| surreal 形容词 | /səˈɹiː(.ə)l/ | 玄妙, 超現實的 /超现实的 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| come down 动词 | 下來 /下来, 降 |
| find out 动词 | 找出, 查明 |
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 现在完成进行时 have/has been + -ing — 以前开始、现在仍在继续的动作 | i've been living |
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | i've experienced · I've only experienced · has been |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | wasn't felt · was felt · was woken |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | earthquake, which was · people who lived · people who were |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 26 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I've, I'm, wasn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “th” 音: earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/, ninth /naɪnθ/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: epicentre /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, gigantic /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/, ninth /naɪnθ/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: rattle /ˈɹæ.təl/, rubble /ˈɹʌb.əl/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/, surreal /səˈɹiː(.ə)l/
- /æ/ — 嘴张大，不要读成 /e/: gigantic /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/, rattle /ˈɹæ.təl/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 earthquake, shake, tsunami 这类单词。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。