跟读练习: To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM - 通过视频学习英语口语

If you look up an image of the Earth and Moon, you're gonna get a picture where they're quite close together.

Something like that.

But in reality, the Earth and Moon are about,

About that far apart, that is the Earth and the Moon to scale.

Taking the same concept but for the solar system, every single picture of the solar system that we ever encounter is not to scale.

If you put the orbits to scale on a piece of paper, the planets become microscopic and you won't be able to see them.

There is literally not an image that adequately shows you what it actually looks like from out there.

The only way to see a scale model of the solar system is to build one.

Welcome to Black Rock Desert.

This is Alex.

I'm Wiley.

He's going to be behind the camera.

I'm going to be probably making a lot of mistakes on camera.

We have 36 hours to measure the distances, trace out the orbits, and set up a time -lapse shot from up on top of a nearby mountain.

To create a scale model with an earth only as big as this marble,

you need seven miles of empty space so that's why we're here why did you guys come I don't have a job

at this scale the Sun is a meter and a half so about about that big around

So we are driving right now to Mercury, and we've arrived.

Venus is the same size as Earth.

I have the world in my pocket somewhere. And Earth.

And this is Mars, got a couple of robots rolling around on that one.

Once the time lapse is ready, we'll drive each orbit with a light.

Hopefully you'll be able to tell just how big they really are.

Onward to the outer planets,

Jupiter, Saturn,

that tiny light out there is our sun just over a mile away.

The sun is way, way out there now. So this is it.

This is the edge of the solar system.

So right now it's about 7 a .m.

We just woke up right before the sun's about to rise.

We are on Earth's orbit.

Wiley is over there holding our sun.

Cue the dramatic sunrise music.

So if we've made our model correctly,

your perspective from where Earth is on the model will match your perspective from standing on the real Earth.

So if you look back at the sun, you will see that the model sun and the real sun are the exact same size.

And that's how you can tell that the proportions are correct.

There are 24 people in the entire history of the human species,

billions of people who have actually seen the full circle of the Earth with their own eyes.

Following the breakfast, the astronauts went to the soup room where they donned their spacesuits.

This is man's attempt to get to the moon.

Zero.

We have liftoff.

Liftoff at 751.

In Earth orbit, the horizon is just slightly curved.

When you head on out to the moon, that horizon slowly curves around and upon itself, and all of a sudden, you're looking at something that is very strange, but it is very, very familiar.

Oh, my God, look at that picture over there.

Wow, that's pretty.

You can put your thumb up, and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb.

everything that you have ever known, all behind your thumb.

Not any bigger than that, way up there.

It's really beautiful.

You can cry.

That's what I really wanted to try and capture.

We are on a marble, floating in the middle of nothing.

When you sort of come face to face with that, it's staggering.

Thank you.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这段视频共有 57 个句子、626 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 6:36。说话人语速较慢，每分钟约 95 个词，你有足够的时间模仿每一个音。 88% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇容易理解。

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
orbit 名词	/ˈɔɹ.bɪt/	軌道 /轨道, 軌跡 /轨迹
thumb 名词	/ˈθʌm/	大拇指, 拇指
curve 名词	/kɚv/	彎子 /弯子
horizon 名词	/həˈɹaɪ.zən/	地平線 /地平线, 天際 /天际
marble 名词	/ˈmɑɹ.bəl/	大理石
pocket 名词	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	口袋, 荷包
capture 动词	/ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/	捕獲 /捕获, 佔領 /占领
dramatic 形容词	/dɹəˈmætɪk/	戲劇的 /戏剧的
sudden 形容词	/ˈsʌd.ən/	突然, 急劇 /急剧
arrive 动词	/əˈɹaɪv/	到達 /到达, 到
encounter 动词	/ɪnˈkaʊntɚ/	遇到, 遇見 /遇见
robot 名词	/ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/	機器人 /机器人, 機械人 /机械人
trace 名词	/tɹeɪs/	痕跡 /痕迹
soup 名词	/sup/	湯 /汤
proportion 名词	/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/	比例

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	发音	释义
look up 动词	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	仰, 上看
wake up 动词	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	醒, 醒來 /醒来

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 13 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I'm, we've, you're。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/

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 orbit, thumb, curve 这类单词。

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	we've arrived · we've made · have actually seen
“will” 表将来 will + 动词 — 决定、承诺或预测	won't be · we'll drive · you'll be
“going to” 表将来 be going to + 动词 — 计划或明显即将发生的事	gonna get · He's going to be · I'm going to be
现在进行时 am/is/are + -ing — 此刻或近期正在发生的事	are driving · you're looking

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。

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