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This is a LEGO castle.

It has a working portcullis and drawbridge, dungeons, kitchens, cottages, and not one, not two, but three LEGO frogs.

And this… is 10 of them.

I also have a ton of extra bricks, including a thousand of… this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, French stick, this brick, that brick, those bricks, these bricks, and take a look at all of… these frogs!

The plan is quite simply to build until I run out of pieces, and hopefully that should make a pretty big castle, big enough, jelly-beans crossed, for my two cats, Ralph and Bella.

I’ve previously built Château de Ralph, multi-tiered and much-ignored, followed by Boxingham Palace, much larger but largely boring.

This LEGO castle therefore will complete the trilogy, and since my cats are generally rather fond of my LEGO creations, insert footage of Bella head-butting every LEGO set I’ve ever made here, I’m hoping I can trick them into actually liking this one.

But then the weirdest thing happened.

I laid the first brick, and as if by magic the castle started building itself.

I’m kidding, it was a painfully meticulous process, but with the initial footprint locked in place, building upwards was incredibly satisfying, and very soon, the towers were joined together.

So the towers are connected, I’ve built a portcullis although it’s fixed in position, and I’ve added all these arrow-slits and the used masonry bricks to give it some kind of texture, you can really get a feel for how it’s gonna look now.

Next I built a dining hall, complete with a comically long table, Christmas decorations and a suit of armour, as well as a kitchen in one turret and a drink storage room in the other.

The kitchen has all manner of cooking utensils, but only enough ingredients to make carrot sandwiches.

Deeeeelicious!

The drinks room sees barrels, bottles and goblets galore, and has a very long ladder leading down to the bottom of the castle.

Now you might have noticed that both rooms have an umbrella, and the kitchen even has a mop and bucket in there, and that is because I forgot to build a roof.

Yeah. Lack of roof aside, I was incredibly pleased with how this first section turned out, but it was about to get a whole lot bigger.

First was a simple square tower, built in a spellbindingly spinny timelapse that unfortunately stopped recording halfway through.

Yup, how unsatisfying is that?!

This is what the finished tower looks like anyway, and I gave it a rooftop garden, with a fountain, beehive and tons of overgrown plants.

I then built an identical tower, but this time with two rooms inside.

The lower room is the castle Treasury, overflowing with gold coins, gold bars, and solid gold frogs.

The upper room is a study, including a globe, grandfather clock, cartographer’s writing desk and bookshelf.

I’m really happy with how it turned out, and there’s even a colony of seagulls nesting on the roof.

How cute is that?

So we’re up to an entranceway and two towers, but I think it’s time we build the biggest part of the castle, the keep.

This section alone is already the biggest thing I’ve ever made from LEGO.

It’s huge, and features a cat tunnel through the middle, as well as two rooms, an armoury on one side and a bedroom on the other.

You can probably tell from the cobwebs and bright green carpet that was outdated even in medieval times that the armoury hasn’t been used in a very long time, and that’s because the castle’s occupants are pacifists.

The bedroom sees all the normal furniture, plus the original Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting, a shelf of weird and wonderful artefacts, and a pen with twin lambs who are being hand-reared.

There are then also these thatched cottage sections, adapted from the original castle, and two bell towers.

Now I ran out of windows as I was building this, so I’ve had to use ivy to tactically cover the caps, but other than that I’m delighted with it, it’s enormous!

It finally felt like I was getting somewhere, especially once I built the walls and connected all the sections together.

But before the grand reveal, it’s time for some finishing touches.

I built stables, home to the castle’s horses, plus a farm, with cows, pigs, chickens, and sheep, as well as lots of babies.

I added crops, such as corn, pumpkins, and a hopeful prize-winning carrot, a market, selling fresh produce and baked goods, and the fountain of youth, which appears to have worked a little too well.

Then I built a dragon, and placed him on the roof of the keep.

He’s incredibly fragile and flimsy, which aren’t exactly desirable qualities when describing your castle’s fierce defender.

Next is probably the most important part of the entire castle, a time traveller.

You see being YouTube, some people watching will inevitably have felt the overwhelming urge to smugly point out that for instance, teddy bears weren’t invented until 1902, so how could there possibly be one in a medieval castle?

Well it was the time traveller of course.

Or maybe they can’t resist informing me that Van Gogh didn’t in fact paint starry night until 1889, so I’m wrong.

Nope, they’re wrong, there’s a time traveller, in fact Van Gogh is the time traveller.

Verrassing!

Or that Christmas trees weren’t a thing until the 16th century, nor were pumpkins or sweetcorn grown in Europe, or carrots coloured orange nor did they start growing vertically out of the ground like this until 2064.

It was the time traveller mate, didn’t you see him?

For once, this video is entirely free of inaccuracies- ah, he’s gone.

Well I guess it’s time for that grand reveal then.

It’s crazy to think something this big is made entirely from LEGO, Bella was first, wasting no time in rubbing up against the castle.

And once inside the castle walls, promptly set about attacking the crowd of innocent villagers.

She soon discovered the treats I’d put in the cat tunnel, and that it made a wonderful place to scratch.

But the spikes on the portcullis proved to be an even more satisfying place to scratch her head.

And the rest of her body.

She then attacked the villagers some more, and sat down to admire her destruction.

All in all, I don’t think Bella was too impressed, I know the poor villagers certainly weren’t anyway.

But what would Ralph make of the castle?

He immediately started rubbing his head on the portcullis, with a little too much force.

Why must you destroy the things I love?

He then headed inside, to sit unamusedly in the courtyard, before showing no regard whatsoever for the castle walls and hopping straight over them.

On second thought, I don’t want this to be a cat castle anymore.

I want it to be a Chris castle.

I repaired the damage, rescued the villagers, and enjoyed the castle for myself.

The cats are more than happy with their many other toys, and I was unquestionably delighted with mine.

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背景与上下文

在这段视频中，讲者展示了他用LEGO积木建造的巨型城堡。从城堡的设计到建设过程，讲者用热情的口吻分享了每一步的细节，生动地描述了城堡的各个部分，比如餐厅、厨房和宝库等。这种幽默且富有创意的展示方式不仅引人入胜，还为观众提供了丰富的信息和娱乐，适合广大英语学习者在轻松的环境下练习听力和口语。

日常沟通的五个常用短语

build until I run out of pieces - 一直建到我没有配件为止
magically started building itself - 好像奇迹般地自动建成
overflowing with gold coins - 装满了金币
hand-reared lambs - 手工饲养的小羊
it’s enormous! - 它真是巨大!

逐步跟随练习指南

要有效地进行跟读练习，您可以按照以下步骤进行：首先，观看视频并尽量捕捉讲者的语调和节奏。在这个阶段，您可以使用shadow speak技术，反复模仿讲者的语音和语调。

接下来，暂停视频，针对上面提到的短语进行反复练习。试着多次大声朗读，确保您能准确发音并理解意义。可以利用shadowspeaks的特点，结合视频的上下文，记忆这些短语的用法。

然后，再次观看视频，观察讲者在表达时的情感和肢体语言，尝试把这些元素融入您的跟读中。通过这种shadowspeak练习，您将不仅能提高发音，还能增强英语的语感。

最后，将这些短语嵌入到您的日常交流中，随时练习，例如和朋友讨论LEGO或者其他话题时，使用这些短语。利用看YouTube学英语的资源，选择您感兴趣的内容，让学习过程变得轻松有趣。

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
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事	I've previously built · I've ever made · I've built
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	were joined · are connected · was outdated

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逐步跟随练习指南

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