跟读练习: Philomena Cunk vs Prof. Brian Cox - 通过视频学习英语口语
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To find out, I spoke to expert science man and former DREAM keyboardist, Dr Brian Cox.
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How will the world end?
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Well, the sun will run out of fuel in about 4 billion years or so, and actually before that, it will begin to swell up,
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expand, and so we think the Earth will get incinerated.
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Do you think we might be able to do something about it?
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Stop it being incinerated?
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Yeah, stop it being incinerated.
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Oh, the sun burning the Earth can't we put it out with a big hose or something?
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It's an inevitable consequence of the laws of nature.
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You're pleased with that, are you?
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You're happy with that.
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You can live with that.
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Well, there's nothing I can do.
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So this is the actual large hadron colander.
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So am I right in thinking that this might prove the existence of chakras within the human body?
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No. You're not interested in chakras?
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No. In the same way, I'm not interested in ghosts.
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But my Aunt Carol, she can sense chakras in someone's body.
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And she doesn't need any machines.
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Also, the Andromeda galaxy is going to hit us.
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The Andromeda galaxy?
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A whole galaxy is going to hit us.
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Yeah.
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On about the same time scale, actually.
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So as the sun runs out of fuel and expands and incinerates the Earth, a galaxy of 400 billion stars is going to collide with us.
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You're much gloomier than I expected, cos you're quite smiley.
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Well, yeah, well, it's quite a long time in the future.
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This could explode at any minute, couldn't it?
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No. How fast do the protons in this thing go?
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99.999999% the speed of light.
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Your sense of smell is faster, isn't it?
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No. Well, how come that when someone's frying bacon and you walk in the kitchen, you can smell it straight away before you've even seen it?
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Have you ever tried putting bacon in here?
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No. Yeah, you should try it.
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You might make quantum bacon.
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Would that make it more interesting?
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A little bit.
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Why would it be more interesting?
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Because what it's trying to do...
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I'm desperately...
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I'm trying to help you out here.
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I'm trying to, like, make it even slightly more interesting than it is.
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But what it did was it detected...
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a thing called a Higgs particle.
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Without the Higgs particle, you, me and everything else that we know of in the universe, none of those things would exist.
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Can the Higgs boson rewind time?
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No. Can it tell when an earthquake's going to go off?
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No. Can it make food spicier?
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It's just a particle.
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It's like saying, can an electron tell when an earthquake's going to go off? Can it?
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No. You said things can only get better.
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So why can we trust anything you ever say now?
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Yeah, it's a gross misunderstanding of the laws of nature.
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It's one of the most misleading and scientifically inaccurate pop songs that's ever been written.
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Catchy, though.
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Yeah, but it's just inaccurate.
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Scientifically inaccurate.
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Things get worse.
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So after the universe ends, there'll be nothing?
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Depends what you mean by after the universe ends.
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When it's exploded.
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Well, it's not going to explode.
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It's going to, we think...
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Melch.
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..carry on expanding.
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Right. And then...
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Forever.
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Well, that'll be fine, won't it?
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We need the space.
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What is quantum physics?
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Quantum physics is...
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So quantum mechanics is our best theory of how the world works.
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It describes everything that we've observed other than gravity.
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Do mirrors run on quantum physics?
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Run?
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Yeah. As in...?
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Well, according to quantum physics, mirrors shouldn't work, they're a miracle.
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That's not correct.
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You get to the point that it carries on doing that, then galaxies get ripped apart, and then solar systems get ripped apart, and then even planets get ripped apart,
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and even atoms get ripped apart.
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But so what?
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All the stars will die.
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Even all the black holes that are left, the final sort of end points of the most massive stars will evaporate away.
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Quantum theorionics proves there's infinite multiverses, like in Marvel films, doesn't it?
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That's one interpretation of the theory.
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How many infinite multiverses are there?
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If there were an infinite number of multiverses, then the number of multiverses would be infinite.
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See, I think there's two.
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Ours and the one in mirrors.
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So can we...could we fall down a black hole?
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Yeah, you could fall into one.
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Is that the same?
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Because I heard that you could be...
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If, you know, this is one way that the world could end, is that we're all just sucked off through a hole.
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It's, er...
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I mean, that must be terrible.
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Can you imagine what it would feel like to be sucked off through a hole?
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Yeah.
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Mirrors are windows into other universes, aren't they?
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No. My mate Paul says they run on quantum power,
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and that's why you can see into an alternative dimension in which everything's the same as our realm but backwards.
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What does Paul do?
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Well, he worked in a tennis ball factory where he had to catch the tennis balls, but he was fired from that, and now he's unemployed.
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Sorry, am I wasting your time?
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Any time?
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Yeah.
为什么要通过这个视频练习口语？
通过与“Philomena Cunk vs Prof. Brian Cox”的对话练习口语，可以帮助学习者在轻松幽默的环境中提升英语口语能力。视频中的问答形式互动使得学习者能够模仿自然的对话，增强对英语发音的掌握。此外，这段对话涉及科学主题和生活趣事，促进了对实用表达的理解。习惯使用这些真实场景下的语言，能有效提高英语口语练习的效果，特别是在掌握复杂概念时，强化理解和表达情感。通过这种方式练习，学习者不仅能提高英语发音，还可以获得更加地道的表达技巧，从而自信地参与各种对话。
语法和表达的使用情境
在这段对话中，有几个关键语法结构和表达方式值得注意：
- 将来时结构: “the sun will run out of fuel”展示了将来发生的事件，强化了学习者对未来时态的理解。
- 条件句: “Do you think we might be able to do something about it?”使用了条件句来表达对可能性的思考，帮助学习者理解如何表达假设。
- 反问句: “Can the Higgs boson rewind time?” 这个问题通过反问的方式使对话更加生动，学习者可以通过模仿这种表达方式来增强自己的对话技巧。
常见发音陷阱
在视频中，有些单词和短语可能会给学习者带来发音上的挑战：
- “incinerated”: 这个词较长，并且包含多个音节，发音时需注意重音和语调。
- “universe”: 这个词的发音可能因口音不同而变化，学习者可以通过反复练习来提高准确度。
- “particle”: 由于其特殊的拼写，学习者易于混淆发音，建议进行单独练习。
将这段对话作为英语口语练习的材料，通过shadow speak的方式练习，可以帮助学习者克服这些发音陷阱，提升英语发音及沟通能力。
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。