跟读练习: How do lungs work? - Emma Bryce - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Many of us have hundreds of things on our minds at any moment,
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often struggling to keep track of everything we need to do.
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But fortunately, there's one important thing we don't have to worry about remembering.
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Breathing.
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When you breathe, you transport oxygen to the body's cells to keep them working,
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and clear your system of the carbon dioxide that this work generates.
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Breathing, in other words, keeps the body alive.
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So how do we accomplish this crucial and complex task without even thinking about it?
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The answer lies in our body's respiratory system.
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Like any machinery, it consists of specialized components and requires a trigger to start functioning.
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Here, the components are the structures and tissues making up the lungs,
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as well as the various other respiratory organs connected to them.
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And to get this machine moving,
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we need the autonomic nervous system.
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our brain's unconscious control center for the vital functions.
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As the body prepares to take in oxygen-rich air,
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this system sends a signal to the muscles around your lungs,
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flattening the diaphragm and contracting the intercostal muscles between your ribs to create more space for the lungs to expand.
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Air then whooshes into your nose and mouth,
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through your trachea, and into the bronchi that's split at the trachea's base,
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with one entering each lung.
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Like tree branches, these small tubes divide into thousands of tinier passages, called bronchioles.
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It's tempting to think of the lungs as huge balloons,
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but instead of being hollow,
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they're actually spongy inside, with the bronchioles running throughout the parenchyma tissue.
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At the end of each bronchiole is a little air sac called an alveolus,
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wrapped in capillaries full of red blood cells containing special proteins called hemoglobin.
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The air you've breathed in fills these sacs,
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causing the lungs to inflate.
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Here is where the vital exchange occurs.
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At this point, the capillaries are packed with carbon dioxide,
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and the air sacs are full of oxygen.
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But due to the basic process of diffusion,
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the molecules of each gas want to move to a place where there is a lower concentration of their kind.
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So as oxygen crosses over to the capillaries,
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the hemoglobin grabs it up,
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while the carbon dioxide is unloaded into the lungs.
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The oxygen-rich hemoglobin is then transported throughout the body via the bloodstream.
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But what do our lungs do with all that carbon dioxide?
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Exhale it, of course.
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The autonomic nervous system kicks in again,
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causing the diaphragm to ball up and the intercostal muscles to relax,
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making the chest cavities smaller and forcing the lungs to compress.
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The carbon dioxide-rich air is expelled,
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and the cycle begins again.
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So that's how these spongy organs keep our bodies efficiently supplied with air.
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Lungs inhale and exhale between 15 and 25 times a minute,
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which amounts to an incredible 10,000 liters of air each day.
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That's a lot of work, but don't sweat it.
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Your lungs and your autonomic nervous system have got it covered.
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