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This is a peach.
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Soft, fuzzy, sweet, and oh -so -delicious.
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When you get a really good peach, it's a tremendous kind of sensory experience.
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The U .S produces 600 ,000 tons of this stone fruit each year, and it's synonymous with one place, Georgia.
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That's one of those Georgia peaches.
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Georgia peaches.
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Those are considered the best.
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In your outfit, you look like a little Georgia peach.
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It's on license plates and road signs and at the end of almost every film you've ever watched.
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There's even an entire county named after it.
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But here's the thing.
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Despite its nickname, Georgia doesn't even produce the most peaches in the U .S.
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So there's an act of myth -making it's really not a southern fruit in particular.
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So how did Georgia become the peach state?
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A peach is what's called a stone fruit, meaning there's a hard pit at the center.
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There are clingstones, which cling tightly to the pit, and freestones, which pull away cleanly.
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They could be yellow or white, fuzzy or smooth.
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Those are nectarines, same fruit, just no fuzz.
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And like most crops grown in the U .S., peaches came from somewhere else.
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The earliest evidence we have for peach usage dates back to China around 7 ,000 years ago.
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They came to Europe via the Silk Road, and so they acquired the scientific name Prunus persica because it was assumed they originally came from Persia.
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From there, Spanish explorers carried peach bits across the Atlantic in the 1500s and planted them across Florida, where Native Americans used them for food and medicine and spread them up the coast.
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So by the time English colonists arrived in Virginia in the early 1600s, peaches were abundant.
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But they weren't glamorous.
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Most peach usage seems to have been for foraging hogs and making cider and brandy.
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It tastes like peach brandy to me.
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No one was calling it a state symbol.
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It would take a war, a broken economy, and a new generation of horticulturalists to turn
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that idea into an industry when the civil war ended george's economy was shattered
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because cotton had built the old south there's a really strong push among a lot of newspaper men
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and sort of upper class folks in the south to develop
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a new reputation like a new face for the south there was also in georgia really active horticultural society
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so there's a lot of language like queen peach is dethroning king cotton to sort of say georgia is doing something different.
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We're making a new kind of agricultural civilization.
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Peaches were already growing in Georgia, but getting them to market was the issue.
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They bruise easily and spoil fast, so if Georgia was going to build a new identity around this fruit, it needed a peach that could travel.
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Enter Samuel Rumpf.
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In Georgia, the most important commercial peach variety was developed.
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It was called the Alberta by Samuel Henry Rumpf, done in Marshallville.
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Rumpf likely crossed Chinese cling with a yellow freestone known as early Crawford.
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However, he was never able to provide a clear genealogy for the Alberta.
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He named it after his wife.
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That was also kind of an important move for, you know, a Southern gentleman.
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And at the same time Rumpf was experimenting in his orchards, something else was changing.
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The development of refrigerated transport, that was a key part of getting the commercial industry going in the South.
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Georgia really is kind of the first peach growing region that's
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shipping at a considerable distance to some of the big marketplaces of the north.
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There were at one time more Alberta peaches grown than any other fruit variety.
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By the early 1900s, Georgia was known for its peaches.
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Labels on crates shipped north featured the word Georgia front and center.
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Macon, Georgia hosts a big peach carnival in the 1890s.
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That culminates in the 1920s in Peach County.
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Peaches were becoming something people in Georgia rallied around.
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There were pies and cobblers and crisps.
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Even during During World War I, peach pits were burnt down and packed into the filters of gas masks.
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But despite their many uses, peaches never really did overtake cotton.
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Peaches were never more important than cotton economically, as far as I can tell.
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Peaches fit kind of hand in glove with the cotton economy, especially with regard to labor.
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But the story stuck.
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More than a century after the Alberta peach was introduced, Georgia made it official.
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In 1995, the peach became the state fruit.
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But today, George's reputation is bigger than its harvest.
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no antibiotics, and no growth hormones.
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So when you're on your next grocery run, consider checking out Stonyfield Organic Yogurt.
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It's also important to note that Stonyfield Organic didn't dictate the content of the story, but their support made this tasty reporting possible.
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now back to peaches south carolina and california have both overtaken peaches
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and and today california produces by far the most peaches in the country
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but even they're dwarfed by china china produces way more in
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peaches than anybody else in the world by the 1920s nearly
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150 000 acres of peaches were planted across the state
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but by 2017 georgia just had nearly 12 000 acres of peaches left in georgia peaches
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and the people growing them look different today the mostly black labor forest
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that powered these early orchards declined during the great migration
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and modern orchards rely heavily on immigrant labor mainly through h2a guest worker programs
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and labor isn't the only challenge peaches needed a certain amount
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of chill hours every winter time below 45 degrees to reset
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and bloom properly in the spring too much cold and there's risk
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if peach trees start to bloom
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and then there's a late freeze you can lose most of
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your crop in 2023 some georgia growers reported losing more than 90 % of their peaches.
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The season was described as disastrous.
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But despite all this, Georgia is still the peach state.
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At that moment when the South was really looking for this sort of new reputation, a new face, peaches were there.
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They were emerging as a major crop.
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I think there's been a continuation of a maintenance of the myth.
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Because it turned peaches into a story.
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And that lasts longer than any crop ever could.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节口语课以视频“The biggest peach myth in America”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：peaches, georgia, peach, fruit, cotton。 这段视频共有 91 个句子、1149 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 6:47。 说话人语速自然，每分钟约 169 个词，接近日常对话。 只有 76% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| peach 名词 | /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/ | 桃, 桃子 |
| cotton 名词 | /ˈkɑt.n̩/ | 棉花, 棉 |
| crop 名词 | /kɹɑp/ | 作物 |
| reputation 名词 | /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/ | 名譽 /名誉, 聲譽 /声誉 |
| orchard 名词 | /ˈɔɹ.t͡ʃɚd/ | 果園 /果园 |
| usage 名词 | /ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/ | 用法 |
| myth 名词 | /mɪθ/ | 迷思 |
| acre 名词 | /ˈeɪ.kɚ/ | 英畝 /英亩 |
| brandy 名词 | /ˈbɹændi/ | 白蘭地 /白兰地 |
| membership 名词 | 會籍 /会籍, 會員身份 /会员身份 | |
| label 名词 | /ˈleɪ.bəl/ | 標籤 /标签, 簽條 /签条 |
| worker 名词 | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | 工人, 工作者 |
| decline 动词 | /dɪˈklaɪn/ | 惡化 /恶化 |
| smooth 形容词 | /smuːð/ | 平穩 /平稳, 順利 /顺利 |
| arrive 动词 | /əˈɹaɪv/ | 到達 /到达, 到 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| check out 动词 | 退房 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | are considered · was assumed · was shattered |
| 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 | you've ever watched · there's been |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 10 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 doesn't, we're, didn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “th” 音: myth /mɪθ/, smooth /smuːð/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, migration /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, continuation /kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, considerable /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, economically /ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪ.kli/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, harvest /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, carnival /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/, glove /ɡlʌv/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: peach /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/, crop /kɹɑp/, orchard /ˈɔɹ.t͡ʃɚd/, usage /ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/, myth /mɪθ/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: rally /ˈɹæli/, rely /ɹɪˈlaɪ/, considerable /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/, carnival /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/, explorer /ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/
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。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 peach, cotton, crop 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。