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Everything we think about aliens might be completely wrong.
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An expression of how primitive humanity actually is.
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We imagine progress as Dyson Spheres, Interstellar Travel and Galactic Empires.
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But what if this is just how cavemen imagine things?
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Bigger is better.
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We need more energy, more space, more stuff.
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What if the universe is full of old, godlike alien civilizations and we don't even realize it?
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What if real progress doesn't mean expanding outwards, but inwards?
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Controlling the tiniest layers of reality?
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Humans are expansionist and hungry for resources.
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In just a split second, we spread across the entire planet, ate most of the large animals, felled a third of all forests,
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carved canyons for metals, and burned mountains of dead plants for energy.
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And our appetite isn't slowing down, it's accelerating.
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The more we progress, the faster we devour the planet.
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So, the next step seems obvious.
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Head into space, claim new worlds, and devour them too.
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Going big and wide feels natural to us because in the brutal world of our ancestors, conquering more land meant more food and security.
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For most of human history, expansion was key to being richer and living better.
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Big is good.
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This logic should also be true for alien civilizations that expand outwards.
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They eat their planet, then they eat space.
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Based on this idea of more, scientists came up with a system to categorize civilizations by their energy consumption on the macro level.
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The Kardashev scale.
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A Type 1 civilization harnesses its home planet.
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Type 2 controls its star system.
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And Type 3 has taken over its galaxy, becoming a vast empire of engineered stars, terraformed planets and titanic ships among the stars.
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This scale is helpful, but also very limited.
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Growing outwards might have been more important in the past compared to the future.
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Because as our civilization climbed up the tech tree, progress stopped coming from the big and began to emerge from the small.
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Our ancestors built the pyramids, an immense technical achievement on a scale 100 times their own.
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But at a scale 100 times smaller, they created something incomparably more impactful.
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Writing, making knowledge eternal and allowing information to travel through time and space.
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Over the next thousands of years, we gained more and more mastery over the small and our capability and standard of living rose in parallel.
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We learned how to mix metals to get better tools, engineered medicines that saved millions from disease.
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We turned air into fertilizer, feeding billions.
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We pushed all the way down to the quantum level to convert sand into transistors, compressing room -sized computers into tiny machines,
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hundreds of millions of times more powerful.
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Controlling the small world makes you richer, healthier and able to live better.
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So what if we categorize alien civilizations by how deep they can go into the micro level?
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This is the Barrow scale, which measures progress by your level of control of the small world.
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It starts at Type 1 -minus, which covers almost all of human history until the late 19th century.
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We were able to manipulate objects and building structures roughly at our own scale, mining minerals, combining and refining them.
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Type 1 -minus already made us the masters of the planet, but this was just the very start and where things become really exciting.
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Type 2 -minus, the immortal gods of nature.
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Today, humanity might have begun its journey to becoming a Type
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2 -minus civilization achieve complete control over the language of life, DNA.
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It's only been 60 years since we cracked the genetic code, and about 10 since we discovered CRISPR, one of the most powerful tools of genetic engineering to date.
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The reward for completely understanding and controlling DNA is immense.
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The jellyfish Turritopsis donai can revert itself to an earlier stage, making it virtually immortal.
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If evolution stumbled on immortality once, What could a civilization achieve that can tell cells precisely what to do?
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It could heal most, if not all, diseases and enhance or change their bodies at will.
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Better blood, bones or muscles.
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Why not start developing super organs?
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Eyes that see more colors, skin that heals without scarring, brains that sense magnetic fields.
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Or, why not create organ banks where you grow spare hearts, lungs or eyes, so there are always fresh organs ready to implant in case you have an accident.
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And this is just us.
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We could make our pets immortal and modify species that hurt us.
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We could mold the biosphere of the planet however we felt like.
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And we could create new forms of life, either just for vanity or to serve a greater purpose.
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Maybe even creating a new Cambrian explosion on Earth, thanks to genetic engineering.
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Climate change might be laughably easy to fix
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if we engineer super -fast -growing plants that suck CO2 from the atmosphere and trap it in materials that don't rot.
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Hey, Mr. Kurzgesagt, this sounds nice and all, but all those superplants are just science fiction.
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That's right, but there are real and effective ways to help nature recover from the damage humans have caused today.
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And now, back to custom plants and animals.
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Type 2 - is already on the level of science fiction, but humanity reasonably might get there in the next decades to centuries.
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The further down we move on the Barrow scale, the more surreal things become.
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Type 3 - to 5 - the invincible gods of matter and energy.
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Beneath the basic bricks of life lie those of ordinary matter, molecules and atoms.
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Today we can manipulate them through chemistry, but Type 3 - and Type 4 - civilizations have the ability to move and combine individual molecules,
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and eventually atoms with the same ease we stack bricks to build a house.
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Achieving this fundamentally transforms what a civilization is able to do.
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Just to be clear, at this point we can only speculate and you can really only look dumb predicting future progress.
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After all, manipulating matter at very small scales takes a lot of energy.
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But just as our ancestors could never have imagined the internet, genetic engineering or drone warfare, we can't know what our distant descendants might achieve.
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But if we push the known laws of physics to their utter limits, several astonishing possibilities appear.
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It could begin with new materials that are more durable and versatile than anything we have today.
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Fabrics that shift texture with the weather, or a coating that can turn into a screen.
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Roads and bridges that self -repair before cracks spread.
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Buildings able to react to light, sound or stress by opening, insulating or reinforcing themselves.
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As this control over the small expands, matter itself becomes programmable.
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Today, the densest information storage system on Earth is DNA.
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But DNA is not magic, it's just atoms arranged so precisely
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that the enormous amount of information needed to run a cell can fit inside the cell itself.
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If we could pack information with that level of efficiency, we might be able to build microscopic nanobots that perform all kinds of tasks,
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from cleaning polluted water to performing surgery inside our bodies.
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Utility fogs, swarms of billions of nanobots could gather into everyday objects like tools or furniture.
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Matter might turn into hardware that we could guide with software.
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If this all sounds incredibly dangerous, that's because it probably is.
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But it also offers incredible riches.
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Every object is just atoms arranged in a specific way.
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So if you can control those arrangements, the word waste begins to lose its meaning.
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Old, broken or rotten stuff becomes poorly assembled atoms waiting to be rearranged again.
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Scarcity largely disappears because a lot of stuff in your planet can be reused again and again.
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This might eliminate the need to expand outwards to gather resources.
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Why travel light years to conquer other planets when most resources we could ever wish for are already here?
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A civilization that can pack information into matter as efficiently as biology does could also build incredibly powerful computers.
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The capacity of all present -day data centers might fit into a device as big as your fist,
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like the world's largest computers of a few decades ago are dwarfed by your iPhone.
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What kind of AIs could we build?
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What kind of simulation could we run?
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What kind of science could we do?
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All of this only escalates with control of the next layer of reality, transitioning into type 5 -minus.
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10 ,000 times smaller than atoms are atomic nuclei.
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Tiny cores that define what atoms are and the fuel that lights up the universe.
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Fusing the hydrogen of a mid -sized lake could sustain present -day humanity for millions of years.
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So a civilization that can control atomic nuclei has access to all the energy they can ever need.
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Dyson spheres or other macro -engineering projects may be entirely unnecessary on that level.
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For a civilization where health, matter and energy are abundant, the true source of progress,
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the only frontier left to chase isn't space or land, it's information.
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The ability to design and redesign your virtually endless resources. To compute.
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Inside nuclei, protons and neutrons pulse with heartbeats, sextillions of times per second, billions of times faster than any transistor can flip a bit today.
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So if it was somehow possible to harness them for computation, nuclei would give rise to an entirely new class of machines.
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Computers powerful enough to design entire new forms of life and matter and start unveiling the ultimate secrets of the universe.
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From here on, there's just one final step.
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Six minus to omega minus.
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The bottom of reality.
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At this point, we're getting
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so far out of our reach from what we can do today that scientists can really only speculate what might be possible.
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Deep below atomic nuclei are elementary particles like electrons, neutrinos and quarks, and here, reality itself begins to dissolve.
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Fundamental particles are like ghosts emerging in a quantum vacuum, an omnipresent cosmic fluid whose tiny vibrations give rise to everything that exists.
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We can't even begin to guess what a type 6 -minus civilization capable of manipulating reality at this scale might achieve.
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Perhaps it will uncover and use new dimensions of space for fancy stuff.
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Perhaps it can locally reshape physics or slow down time for their whole planet or even star system.
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But one idea that scientists have considered for decades is even stranger.
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Full control of the quantum vacuum could enable the creation of new universes.
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Our own cosmos might have started as a tiny instability of the quantum vacuum that inflated into everything we see today.
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If that's true, then mastering the vacuum could give you the power to seed entirely new universes inside test tubes.
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At that point, you'd become an Omega Minus civilization, an actual cosmic god of the infinitely small.
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Do advanced civilizations retreat into smaller and smaller layers of reality?
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We can't say.
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It is possible that to do all the great things we've described at the small scales, they might still need to exploit resources at larger scales.
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So maybe they do a bit of both.
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But for all its speculation, exploring the Barrow scale reveals something deep.
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The path to becoming as immortal
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and powerful as the laws of physics allow doesn't always seem to lead us to the other side of the galaxy.
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It can also guide us into the small world around us.
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This may be the final stage of all advanced civilizations.
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Not becoming huge and visible, shooting through the void of space, but quiet gods of the gigantic small universe in their own corner of the galaxy.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节 C1 级别的口语课以视频“This Is What a Godlike Civilization Would Look Like”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：civilization, planet, type, scale, minus。 这段视频共有 160 个句子、2234 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 14:07。 说话人语速自然，每分钟约 158 个词，接近日常对话。 只有 79% 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
视频中最难的 15 个单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| civilization 名词 | /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ | 文明 |
| minus | /ˈmaɪ.nəs/ | 減 /减 |
| atom 名词 | /ˈætəm/ | 原子 |
| nucleus 名词 | /ˈnuː.kli.əs/ | 核心, 核 |
| manipulate 动词 | /məˈnɪp.jʊ.leɪt/ | 操纵 |
| immortal 形容词 | /ɪˈmɔɹtəl/ | 不朽的 |
| quantum 名词 | /ˈkwɑntəm/ | 量 |
| vacuum 名词 | /ˈvæ.kjuːm/ | 真空 |
| ancestor 名词 | /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/ | 祖先 |
| cosmic 形容词 | /ˈkɑz.mɪk/ | 宇宙的 |
| atomic 形容词 | /əˈtɑː.mɪk/ | 原子 |
| categorize 动词 | /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/ | 分類 /分类 |
| macroeconomics 名词 | /ˌmæk.ɹoʊˌiː.kəˈnɒ.mɪks/ | 宏觀經濟學 /宏观经济学 |
| speculate 动词 | /ˈspɛk.jʊˌleɪt/ | 猜測 /猜测, 推測 /推测 |
| molecule 名词 | /ˈmɑ.lɪ.kjul/ | 分子 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| slow down 动词 | 減速 /减速, 放慢 |
| check out 动词 | 退房 |
| come up with 动词 | 想出, 提出 |
| sign up 动词 | 報名 /报名, 註冊 /注册 |
| take over 动词 | 接管, 接手 |
值得反复跟读的句子
视频中简短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常对话里：
- What kind of simulation could we run?
- What kind of science could we do?
- You want to listen to the beautiful soundtrack without my annoying voice?
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 | has taken · It's only been · have caused |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | be rearranged · can be reused · are dwarfed |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 13 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 can't, doesn't, don't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, manipulate /məˈnɪp.jʊ.leɪt/, categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/, macroeconomics /ˌmæk.ɹoʊˌiː.kəˈnɒ.mɪks/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, vacuum /ˈvæ.kjuːm/, carve /kɑɹv/, devour /dɪˈvaʊɚ/, microwave /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌweɪv/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: minus /ˈmaɪ.nəs/, nucleus /ˈnuː.kli.əs/, outwards /ˈaʊtwɚdz/, manipulate /məˈnɪp.jʊ.leɪt/, cosmic /ˈkɑz.mɪk/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: immortal /ɪˈmɔɹtəl/, particle /ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/, reasonably /ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/, mineral /ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/
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 civilization, minus, atom 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。