跟读练习: Rolling a Reliant Robin | Top Gear | BBC - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Here we go.
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Reliant robin.
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Oh, no. I've crashed it.
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I've crashed it almost immediately.
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I mean, literally, 20 feet.
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I can't get out, obviously.
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I'm completely stuck.
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Luckily, people in the north of England are friendly and keen to help out.
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Excuse me.
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Boop, boop, boop.
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Excuse me.
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Oh, heavens, look who it is.
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It's Phil Oakey.
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Do you think you could push me back on my wheels?
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Yeah, certainly.
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Thanks very much.
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No way back, sir.
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You're.. thank you so much.
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Thank you very much, Phil Oakey, out of the human league.
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Pleasure.
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I suppose, as a Sheffield boy, Phil Oakey spent a lot of his youth putting Robin Reliance back on their wheels,
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when he wasn't rescuing waitresses from cocktails.
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Help!
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Again, help!
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Where's Martin Frye?
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Out of ABC when you need him.
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That's a useful feature.
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In the early days, the Robin had a 750cc engine.
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With 32 brake horsepower on tap, 0 -50 took 22 seconds.
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0 -60 wasn't really possible.
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In 1975, though, Reliant fitted an 850cc engine.
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This improved the acceleration enormously, but the consequences were catastrophic.
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The big engine increased the top speed, too.
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It would now do 85, and that was catastrophic as well.
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Oh, not again!
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Oh, no. I'm 50 years old.
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I'm on the side on a street in Sheffield.
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Oh, is that the sound of somebody?
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Hello?
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Hello.
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Peter Stringfellow.
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Were you just walking by, or...?
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Oh, nearly.
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Yes.
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Thank you so much, Peter Stringfellow, out of lap dancing clubs.
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My pleasure.
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Really, I can't thank you enough.
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To try and understand why the robin was so popular up north, I pulled over to chat to some enthusiasts.
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How do you drive a Reliant?
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Straight lanes.
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You don't go round roundabouts.
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You get to it and you see where you're coming off and you go straight across.
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Right.
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Try to avoid the middle.
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Right.
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Sack of cement on passenger seat helps.
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Cement?
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Sack of cement on passenger seat helps balance.
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Why do you think Reliant owners have big toolboxes? To weigh it down.
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I was going to say, your teeth.
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Did you lose these in a Reliant accident?
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You did, didn't you?
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Why do you think, everybody, Reliance was so popular at North?
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A lot of miners used them.
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Yeah, but why?
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Because they were more expensive than minis.
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No, because a lot of miners originally started with motorbikes, and they didn't have a full driving licence.
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So to get out of weather in winter, when it were absolutely siling it down, they bought a Reliant.
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So, it was just because miners didn't have a driving licence?
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Some of them, but other ones, also in winter, with them being light, you'll get your normal car stuck in snow or whatever.
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These just simply glide over the top of it.
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Until you get to a corner.
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Well, as long as you live somewhere with a straight line to a pit.
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Soon, I was back on my perilous journey.
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In this, it feels like I'm driving through South Yorkshire in the 1970s again.
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Because I grew up not far from here, so did James May for that matter.
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But now we're a lad round here.
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Whole rich people, them's as good a food.
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It's all wheels on the car.
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They all had larders, lardy -dars, we called them.
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You didn't want to hit one of them, I'd tell you that for no. They were built like tanks.
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One of the best ways to protect your robin was to lavish it with an exotic paint job, such as this Starsky and Hutch homage.
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The idea was that having spent many hours with the spray cans and the masking tape, you'd drive more carefully.
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But this didn't always work.
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It really is a wonder how anyone in the north survived the 1970s.
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Of course, a lot didn't.
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In 1971, the population of Sheffield was 573 ,000.
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Since then, it's dropped to just 513 ,000.
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Some of the lost 60 ,000 moved down south, of course, but many, many,
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many more were wiped out by their three -wheelers.
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Today, of course, most of the Robins are gone and people up here drive Kias and Hyundai's instead.
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And this means the local TV news channel has to think of things other than reliant crashes to put in its bulletins.
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OK, to Braithwell in South Yorkshire now and a blooming mystery that's baffling its green -fingered residents.
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Harry is there for us.
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Harry, what's going on?
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Welcome here to beautiful Braithwell.
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You can see the sun exploding on a kaleidoscope of colour.
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And I have to say, there's been a real area of controversy here because...
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Oh, well, that's been big.
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My God!
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Are you all right, sir?
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Are you all right?
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Yeah, I'm getting used to it now, thanks.
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Oh, all right.
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Thanks very much.
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If you could just plop me back on the wheels.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you, Harry Grayson, out of Luke North.
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Pleasure.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这段视频共有 111 个句子、823 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 7:29。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 110 个词，很适合跟读。 只有 80% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇难度较高。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| robin 名词 | /ˈɹɑ.bɪn/ | 知更鳥 /知更鸟, 歐亞鴝 /欧亚鸲 |
| cement 名词 | /səˈmɛnt/ | 水泥, 洋灰 |
| miner 名词 | /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/ | 礦工 /矿工, 礦夫 /矿夫 |
| passenger 名词 | /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ | 乘客, 旅客 |
| sack 名词 | /sæk/ | 袋, 囊 |
| catastrophic 形容词 | /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/ | 災難的 /灾难的, 災難性的 /灾难性的 |
| finger 名词 | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | 手指, 指頭 /指头 |
| rescue 动词 | /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ | 拯救, 救援 |
| carefully 副词 | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | 小心地 |
| mystery 名词 | /ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/ | 謎 /谜, 謎團 /谜团 |
| resident 名词 | /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/ | 居民, 居住者 |
| mask 名词 | /mæsk/ | 面具, 面罩 |
| controversy 名词 | /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/ | 爭論 /争论, 爭議 /争议 |
| spray 名词 | /spɹeɪ/ | 噴霧器 /喷雾器 |
| keen 形容词 | /kin/ | 熱衷於 /热衷于, 樂意 /乐意 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| grow up 动词 | 長大 /长大 |
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 crashed |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | were built · were wiped |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 24 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 didn't, I'm, can't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, homage /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/, lavish /ˈlævɪʃ/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, controversy /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/, acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, enthusiast /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/, kaleidoscope /kəˈlaɪ.dəˌskoʊp/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
- 用正常速度逐句跟读，每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 robin, cement, miner 这类单词。
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。