跟读练习: A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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During COVID, everyone was sequestered in their own corners of the world.
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During COVID, everyone was sequestered in their own corners of the world.
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I had the strange fortune of being sequestered here aboard the Ocean Explorer,
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one of the most advanced research vessels on the planet,
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filming a show for National Geographic.
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The ship was designed not just for research, but also for storytelling.
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My job was to travel the world and show people what exploration is like from the perspective of an engineer.
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When I tell people this,
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they usually have three questions.
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What was it like?
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What did you learn?
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And how did you get the job?
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I'll go backward.
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I wasn't always a great engineer.
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I wasn't even a good student.
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I spent more time tinkering than doing homework.
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But I love engineering, and that has led me on an incredible journey.
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With friends, I built low-cost underwater robots designed to democratize exploration,
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and that democratization drew the attention of the show's producers.
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You can watch the show to see what we discovered,
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but for me, the most powerful moments we're seeing things that no one had ever seen before,
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using the tools that we had built.
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In the Azores, we teamed up with Rui Pareto,
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renowned whale biologist who spent decades studying sperm whales.
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These giants can dive to over a mile deep to hunt,
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and we know very little about what they do when they're down there.
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So to find out, Rui had put together a very DIY tag.
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It used a taken-apart action camera.
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It had a light, there was a radio beacon,
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and it had suction cups designed to stick to the whale for a few hours
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and then pop up and float to the surface.
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It was very DIY, but even on an advanced research ship,
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building your own tools is often the way to get the information you need.
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It barely worked.
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We had to spend nights soldering and improvising to try to get it going.
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And at like 2 in the morning,
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we finally got it going.
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And while I overslept, Drew was already out on the boat.
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He placed the tag on a whale,
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and I remember him radioing back.
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The tag was on.
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Okay, a huge amount of suspense.
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Would it ever come back to the surface?
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Or would it flood with water?
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Would the battery die?
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Would the camera work?
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We had no idea.
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But it did come up.
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We found it.
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We took it back to the ship.
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And fingers were crossed.
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Finally, we opened it up.
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There was no water inside.
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Oh, my God.
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We pulled out the SD card,
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and like with bated breath,
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we put it in the computer and waited for the files to load.
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And oh my God, we had footage from the back of a sperm whale.
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Oh my God.
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Rui and I were losing it.
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The first thing we saw was the whale's head and back as she descended into the bottom.
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You could hear the water rushing by as she swam faster and faster into the deep particles rushed by the camera.
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And the water pressure was so immense from the speed that eventually the suction cup started to come loose.
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I thought that was going to bit.
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We were going to lose it.
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But one suction cup miraculously held on.
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And it caused the tag to rotate backward.
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And now we can see the sails massive fluke.
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These can be 16 feet across on some whales,
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driving her into the depths.
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And as it got deeper,
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we started hearing on the camera's microphone clicking.
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You guys hear that?
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That is echolocation.
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That is the sound of the sperm whale hunting by listening for echoes bouncing off of prey.
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I couldn't believe it.
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And it didn't seem like she caught anything that time,
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but as she came shallower in the light group rider,
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we were just, like, amazed at what we were seeing.
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It didn't seem like this was possible.
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And then we started hearing a different sound.
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It was a rapid series of clicks.
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That's called codas.
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This is the way sperm whales used to communicate with each other.
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So we were hearing her talking to another whale.
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We could not believe our ears and then we couldn't believe our eyes.
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Rui and I were losing it.
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The other whale came into the shot,
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and they were talking back and forth.
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They were swimming and bumping alongside each other.
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For minutes, we watched in disbelief as we watched this exchange of these two whales.
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Friends, family, lovers, we can never know for sure.
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But what we were witnessing was something no one had ever seen before.
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I remember seeing the bond that they had with my eyes and also feeling it with my heart.
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The footage we had seen was not just data.
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This was an experience of life.
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It was reminding me why exploration really matters.
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It's not just about understanding the world with our logical minds.
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I believe exploration has huge potential to allow us to experience things with emotion
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and feel the context of why we're here on Earth.
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We saw that they even dived together,
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and that is really something that moved me.
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That one last dive, seeing that maybe it's not even such a lonely place down there after all.
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We are all here together,
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and that is something extremely powerful.
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So we are living in an era now where our tools
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can give us amazing ability to understand in ways never before possible.
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The same advances that have put computers in our pockets
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and access to almost unlimited information on our screens can also allow us to explore in brand new ways.
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Our tools no longer limit what we can understand.
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It's more that our understanding is limited by curiosity.
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So the question isn't, what can we explore?
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So much is already within our reach.
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The real question is, what will we wonder about next?
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you.
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在這段TED演講中，演講者Eric Stackpole分享了他在COVID期間的獨特經歷。他被隔離在世界上最先進的研究船之一——Ocean Explorer上，與一群科學家一起進行有關海洋探索的研究。他的角色不僅僅是進行技術工作，還負責將這些探索的故事帶給公眾。這段經歷讓他深刻體會到了工程技術在探索中的重要性，特別是在研究鯨魚行為的領域。
日常溝通的五個關鍵短語
- 我有幸... (I had the strange fortune of...) - 用來表達自己在特定情境中所獲得的特殊經歷。
- 這是一段難以置信的旅程 (that has led me on an incredible journey) - 描述個人成長過程中的挑戰和收穫。
- 我們有機會... (We had the opportunity to...) - 用來表達所參與的特殊活動或研究。
- 這是通信的方式 (This is the way...) - 提到特定文化或物種的交流方式。
- 我的天啊 (Oh my God) - 表達驚訝和興奮的感受。
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