跟读练习: Lusotitan: Bringing One of the BIGGEST Dinosaurs Back to Life 🦕 | Walking with Dinosaurs - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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150 million years ago, in the late Jurassic,
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150 million years ago, in the late Jurassic,
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there was an undisputed king of Europe.
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One of the biggest dinosaurs ever found on the continent.
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A 35 feet tall, 45 ton giant.
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Lusititan.
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The challenge for the Walking with Dinosaurs team is,
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how do you bring this gigantic herbivore to life?
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Capturing a colossus like Lusititan requires a delicate blend of cutting-edge science,
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creative filmmaking, and elite visual effects.
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Oh, and a man on a beach holding a really long pole.
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At the VFX Studio, our long extinct Lusititan is constantly evolving,
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from initial sketches to relatively basic 3D models and into increasingly realistic moving dinosaurs.
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But out in the field,
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the film crew is shooting the landscapes that the digital dinosaurs will eventually inhabit.
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They've come to this beach in Portugal,
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following right in the footsteps of where these ancient beasts once roamed.
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We're here today to film a sequence where two male Lucid Titans are fighting over a female.
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Every scene has been meticulously researched and planned,
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but on the ground, you still need a healthy dose of imagination.
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One of the challenges is kind of making sure with an animal
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that size that you've got enough space for it and that it's all in the frame.
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You know, these things work as long as a swimming pool.
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And I guess it's not a kind of animal or on a scale of anything that's alive today.
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So it's hard to imagine how big they are.
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So for now, our soon-to-be magnificently visualized dinosaur is just,
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yeah, that man with the pole from earlier.
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We work to absolute scale of what we expect the animals to be.
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And so rather than just sort of shooting some fresh air over there,
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even though that's the man holding a pole,
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eventually this will be a glorious shot of a Lusititan tilting up to his face,
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all being well.
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As the fight reaches its climax,
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one defeated Lusititan comes crashing down to Earth.
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But the victorious Lusititan still has one more battle to win.
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for the heart of his mate.
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So he's won the fight with the male,
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but now he's got, I guess,
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a load more work to do because he's got to win over the female.
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And for dinosaurs like this,
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we think they may have engaged in a kind of mating ritual, like a dance.
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With the real-life background footage shot,
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it's now up to the VFX team to truly bring Lusititan to life.
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To visualize a mating scene between two 35-foot giants,
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the VFX artists are going to need some help.
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Luckily, they have some inspiration from the natural world today.
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But how would the gigantic neck of a lucititan actually move?
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Could its neck even support the type of movement required?
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Every single decision made by the film and VFX crew is taken only after consulting with the world's top dinosaur scientists.
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Paleontologist Pedro Macho can prove that lucititan's neck was much lighter than you might expect.
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And instead of solid bone,
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lucititan could reinforce its mammoth neck with air sacs that burrowed through its neck and backbone.
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This kind of structure allows them to support more weight,
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be more dynamic and flexible.
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enough to dance.
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But what happens if the Lusititans' dancing isn't quite sealing the deal?
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So we've got to the point now where our hero's won the fight with the male.
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He's been kind of doing a mating dance,
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but she's still not kind of buying it.
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So this is where he plays his trump card.
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And that trump card is this.
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This bizarre spectacle may look impossible,
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but this too takes its inspiration from dinosaurs' only living descendants,
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who can certainly be quite flamboyant when trying to impress a mate.
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But if nature provides the inspiration,
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the latest science may back it up.
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There could be direct fossil evidence for it in the skull of Lucititan's closest relative.
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So here we have a cast of a Girafa Titan skull.
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It supports a huge ridge of bone that may have housed a large crest
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that some think could have flared and bulged just like the most extravagant of modern birds.
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They may have similar functions of some of the crests that we can see in birds,
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exhibition, or mating.
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It's evolving here for the first time in this group of dinosaurs.
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It's go big or go home.
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And on this occasion, this lucid titan is not going home alone.
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And now, after years of planning,
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research, and filming, the very latest science and cutting-edge animation come together,
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finally transforming and bringing these titans to life.
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Want more prehistoric stories?
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Head to the PBS app or PBS.org to watch Walking with Dinosaurs.
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25 years after the iconic original series,
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the new Walking with Dinosaurs reveals the incredible stories of these long-lost giants,
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brought back to life through state-of-the-art visual effects.
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Check out the link in the description to watch this amazing show.
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观看《Lusotitan: Bringing One of the BIGGEST Dinosaurs Back to Life》这段视频，不仅能欣赏到精彩的恐龙复生过程，同时也为英语学习者提供了一个丰富的口语练习场景。在视频中，讲解者生动地介绍了侏罗纪时期的巨型恐龙Lusititan，通过生动的叙述与引人入胜的视觉效果，帮助学习者提升听力理解与口语表达能力。练习时，可以尝试模仿讲解者的语调和语速，从而提高英语口语流畅度。结合看YouTube学英语的方式，可以更好地领会不同口音和语境下的英语表达。
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- 过去时的使用：视频提到“150 million years ago, in the late Jurassic”，这种结构帮助学习者理解时间上的表述方式。
- 条件句：通过表达“if you want to visualize a mating scene”，让学习者可以知道如何使用条件句来描述假设情境。
- 被动语态：如“the film crew is shooting the landscapes”，帮助学习者掌握被动语态的用法，以便在表达中突出动作的接受者。
- 定语从句：如“where these ancient beasts once roamed”增强句子信息量，适合提高复杂句子的运用能力。
常见发音陷阱
在观看这个视频时，一些单词和口音可能会给学习者带来挑战：
- Lusititan — 这个专有名词的发音可能不容易掌握，学习者可以通过反复模仿视频中的发音来进行练习。
- herbivore — 这个单词的元音部分可能会引发发音错误，建议注意“her”和“bivore”的组合。
- mating ritual — 含有重音变化的短语，练习时可以分解成更小的部分，逐个词汇进行发音训练。
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