跟读练习: This Fly Torpedoes a Bindweed Bee’s Nest | Deep Look - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Life for bindweed turret bees is violent and unfair.
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It's spring in California and these male bees are in an all-out brawl, desperate to mate with the female trapped at the bottom of this pile.
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Sometimes the fight is so intense that the female they're going after gets crushed to death.
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But if she survives, she and the winner steal away and mate.
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Until another male wants in.
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Buzzkill.
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Now she starts an epic dig, prepping a place to lay her eggs underground.
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She tirelessly scoops earth with her mandibles, dousing it with nectar she collected earlier to soften it.
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The majority of the world's bee species, 70%, nest in the ground.
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These ones chose a dirt parking lot.
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Some nice folks cordoned it off to protect the bees.
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Females work side by side.
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Each is queen of her own funky little castle.
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They build turrets, but only some of them are vertical.
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Many are tunnel-like with a sideways entrance.
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Others curve down.
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You'll see why that's important in a bit.
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Once the bees are done digging, they head off on another mission.
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They gather pollen from one plant only, morning glories, also known as bindweeds.
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She rubs her shaggy legs all over that pollen.
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And down she goes with her haul.
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Pollen pants.
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Inside her nest, she packs the pollen into neat balls, each one in its own chamber, and lays an egg on top.
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When the egg hatches into a larva, it will live off the pollen.
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she toils.
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Freeloaders show up.
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They look like a bee, but their huge eyes give them away.
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They're called, wait for it, bee flies.
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The fly doesn't dig or gather pollen for her young.
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She just hovers over a bee's nest and...
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Yep, she's dropping her own eggs in there.
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She'll drop 200 eggs over her lifetime.
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This is where those tunnels and curved turrets are useful.
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They make it harder for the flies to drop their eggs in from the air.
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But when the fly does succeed, the fly's egg hatches into a larva that digs tiny hooks into the bee larva.
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As the bee eats the pollen and grows, the fly larva sucks it dry.
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Sometimes the flies are so successful they can nearly wipe out a population of bees.
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These bees don't give up.
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Two or three months of mating, foraging, and warding off parasites come to an end when they seal up their nests with dirt.
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Below ground, babies will grow.
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The following spring, if the bees are lucky, a new tiny city will burst to life,
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full of bees persevering, just as their mothers did before them.
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Let's talk about yellow jackets.
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It's true, these ladies have a special taste for flesh.
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But they don't eat it themselves.
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They bring it to their young.
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How?
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By crashing your cookout and carving your burgers and dogs into teeny tiny meatballs.
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Enjoy.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这段视频共有 49 个句子、484 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 4:46。 说话人语速较慢，每分钟约 102 个词，你有足够的时间模仿每一个音。 只有 73% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| bee 名词 | /ˈbiː/ | мифыр, фыр |
| egg 名词 | /ɛɡ/ | 卵, 卵子 |
| nest 名词 | /nɛst/ | вә, 岫 |
| dirt 名词 | /dɝt/ | 泥土, 污垢 |
| tunnel 名词 | /ˈtʌn(ə)l/ | 隧道, 地下道 |
| dig 动词 | /dɪɡ/ | 挖, 挖掘 |
| curve 名词 | /kɚv/ | 彎子 /弯子 |
| hatch 动词 | /hæt͡ʃ/ | 孵化, 孵出 |
| pants 名词 | /pænts/ | 褲子 /裤子, 長褲 /长裤 |
| chamber 名词 | /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/ | 臥室 /卧室, 寢室 /寝室 |
| violent 形容词 | /ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/ | 暴力, 強烈 /强烈 |
| castle 名词 | /ˈkɑːsəl/ | 城堡 |
| suck 动词 | /sʌk/ | 吸吮, 咂 |
| steal 动词 | /stiːl/ | 偷, 盜 /盗 |
| entrance 名词 | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | 入口, 門口 /门口 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| give up 动词 | 投案, 自首 |
| show up 动词 | 露面 |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 7 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 don't, they're, doesn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: flesh /flɛʃ/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, shaggy /ˈʃæɡi/
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 bee, egg, nest 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。