跟读练习: 5 "Impossible" Things That Can Happen On Other Planets - 通过视频学习英语口语

There are some things that are just not possible on our planet.

It would certainly be understandable that you would think that if it's impossible here on Earth, then it would be impossible everywhere else in the universe.

But that's simply not the case, and the universe is far stranger than any of us can actually believe.

Let's begin with shadows.

Your shadow on Earth is always alone

and you're always used to seeing it this way as it follows you around during the day.

You're also used to seeing everybody else with just one shadow, but this isn't a universal thing that would be experienced elsewhere.

You have one shadow because our primary light source on Earth is our sun.

But what would happen if there were two suns?

A planet that orbits two stars would look much like Tatooine from Star Wars, with two brilliant sunsets each day and two shadows instead of one for each person.

It used to only be science fiction until the planet Kepler -16b was discovered, which is a place that orbits two different stars.

If you were suddenly teleported to the surface of the planet, you would likely die from the extreme temperatures and lack of air to breathe, but assuming that you were teleported in a suit that could help you survive,

then you would experience having two different shadows, a friend for your always lonely shadow that you experience on Earth.

Our next extremely bizarre place is a planet that is likely completely covered in water, an ocean planet named GJ 1214 b.

The planet is several times larger than the Earth, which makes the Pacific Ocean on our planet seem like a puddle in comparison.

Even though water covers over 70 % of the Earth's surface, water only accounts for 0 .05 % of the Earth's total mass.

On GJ 1214 b, however, water may account for up to 10 % of the planet's total mass,

planet would be covered in an ocean hundreds of kilometers deep.

Our own ocean goes down only a mere 11 kilometers,

and we already have terrifying monsters like this and this or huge whales like this So,

one's imagination can run absolutely wild with what fantastical monsters could

exist in an ocean that's over ten times deeper than our own.

Who knows what could be lurking there if you crash -landed your ship on the surface, but what is known is that at the very bottom of this massive ocean, hundreds of kilometers beneath the surface,

The pressure would be so intense

that the water at the bottom would be transformed into an exotic form of ice known as ice Seven.

This ice wouldn't be like ice that you know on Earth it wouldn't be cold at all, but would remain in a solid form.

This doesn't happen naturally on Earth, but neither does our next bizarre example.

Weather on Earth is often violent and unpredictable, but it's extremely tame compared to other places in the universe.

Take the planet C -O -R -O -T -7 -B for example, where instead of raining water, it rains down rocks.

This is because half of the planet is scorching hot at 2 ,600 degrees Celsius, while the other half is far cooler at 177 degrees Celsius.

so too will rocks condense into rock clouds on this planet.

These strange rock clouds will then rain liquid rock or magma back onto the surface.

But since the atmosphere is cooler the further up it goes and the temperature on the cool side is far lower, the magma rain will often harden into rocks before striking the ground.

This planet seems like the closest place to hell that a place in the universe could get, but another planet has perhaps even more bizarre weather.

This planet, known as HD 189773 b, is located 63 light years away from us, is a little larger than Jupiter,

and looks stunningly beautiful from space, but that beauty is hiding a terrifying secret.

It looks this way because the planet's atmosphere is made up primarily of silicate particles.

Winds on the planet can scream at 5 ,400 miles per hour, equal to 2 kilometers every second, or seven times the speed of sound.

Temperatures can soar up to 930 degrees Celsius,

but most terrifying of all is that the planet rains glass, sideways in its extremely violent 2km /s winds.

This is so fast and scary that if a storm like that happened to appear on Earth,

it would travel across the entire planet at the equator in just 5 hours and 33 minutes, and leave behind a shredded trail of glass.

But even this storm pales in comparison to the mightiest wind so far known in our entire universe, the wind on the planet HD 189733 b.

degrees Celsius, but the temperature on the dark side is still very hot at 688 degrees Celsius.

So, how does the dark side remain so hot still?

The answer is extremely, wickedly fast wind, possibly up to 22 ,000 miles per hour, equal to 10 kilometers per second,

or nearly 29 times the speed of sound.

For reference, the fastest ever recorded wind on the earth happened during a tornado in Oklahoma back in 1999,

and that was only 301 miles per hour

or 73 times less than the nightmare storm on this giant that's raging right now as you are watching this video.

If you made yourself a kite and flew through the wind, then you could zip around the entire Earth in a mere one hour and eight minutes.

But perhaps the most interesting place is somewhere that's much closer to home, specifically this place called Titan, which is a moon of Saturn.

It has such a thick atmosphere that we didn't even know what its surface looked like until 2005, which if you're curious it looks like this.

But Titan is a very bizarre place.

It has an atmosphere, rivers, and lakes, and it even rains like on Earth.

But the temperature is a bone -shattering negative 179 degrees Celsius,

which is so cold that water is as hard as rocks and the chemical methane exists in a liquid state.

The clouds, rivers, and lakes on the moon are made of methane, which is the primary component of natural gas.

Only 20 % of Titan's surface has ever been mapped, but it is estimated that in that region alone,

there is hundreds of times more natural gas and oil than is located on all of Earth.

There is so much gas on Titan that it literally rains it.

It's an oil tycoon's dream, and maybe the best way to encourage space travel is to let a few countries know about Titan.

But even more strange, you could actually theoretically fly on Titan.

The atmosphere is thick enough and the gravity is weak enough

that if you attached a pair of wings to your arms and made a running jump, then you could actually flap around the moon like a bird, taking in all the alien sights of rivers and lakes.

Of course you would need a suit to protect yourself, but still, you could fly just like in your dreams and achieve something that's impossible here on Earth.

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上下文与背景

在这段视频中，讲述者探讨了在其他星球上可能发生的一些不可思议现象。通过对宇宙中不同环境的描述，观众可以更深入地理解宇宙的神秘性和复杂性。尽管这些现象与我们的地球相去甚远，但它们为学习英语提供了丰富的素材。对话的内容不仅引人入胜，而且包罗万象，适合用来提高英语发音和整体语言能力。

日常沟通的五个关键短语

你的影子总是独自一人。 - 这个短语有助于你描述常见的观察和体验。
如果有两个太阳，会怎样？ - 利用这个短语可以激发想象力和讨论。
整颗星球可能被水覆盖。 - 这是一个极具洞察力的话题，可用于扩展词汇。
那里的天气到底有多奇怪？ - 帮助你在对话中询问并引入新信息。
这颗行星的风速非常快。 - 一种描述极端气候现象的方式，可以提升表达能力和描述能力。

逐步影子练习指南

为了有效地提高英语发音，建议采用影子练习法。在观看视频时，遵循以下几个步骤：

首先，全神贯注地听视频内容，了解整体意思，尤其是影子（shadow）相关的表述。
接着，暂停并重复每个短语，尽量模仿讲话者的语调和节奏，特别是涉及“shadow speak”的部分。
如果有困难，可以慢慢回放，帮助自己适应不熟悉的发音和词汇。
进行几次练习后，尝试 不看字幕，用“shadowspeaks”练习在听到短语后立即反应。
最后，记录自己的模仿，比较与原声，寻找进步的地方，并不断改进。

通过参考视频中的科学现象和超现实场景，不仅能提高英语能力，还能激发对外星世界的兴趣，为日常交流增添更多乐趣。持续运用以上影子练习技巧，定能提升你的影子语言（shadow speech）能力，进而实现更优质的英语沟通。

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
“used to” used to + 动词 — 过去的习惯或状态，现在已不再如此	used to seeing · used to only
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	would be experienced · was discovered · were teleported
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物	discovered, which is · Earth, which makes · Titan, which is

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。

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逐步影子练习指南

视频中的语法

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