每日口說挑戰雪地直擊：被意想不到的英雄拯救的年幼帝王企鵝 (Penguin chicks rescued by unlikely hero | Spy in the Snow - BBC)

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雪地直擊：被意想不到的英雄拯救的年幼帝王企鵝 (Penguin chicks rescued by unlikely hero | Spy in the Snow - BBC)

They try to flee, but running isn't an Emperor's strong point.

小企鵝們試著逃跑，但跑步並不是帝王企鵝的強項。

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學習重點

1. flee(尤指因危險或恐懼而) 逃跑

flee

[fli ](v.)(尤指因危險或恐懼而) 逃跑

2. emperor 皇帝

emperor

[ɛmpərɚ](n.)皇帝

3. strong point 強項，優勢

strong point

[strɔŋ pɔɪnt](n.)強項，優勢

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EmmaGo6 年前

I hope there’re no more zoos because those animals belong to natural fields, not human. I haven’t experienced any animals rescues, but I become a vegan for years, which saves more animals’ lives.
Thailand is another country still has an emperor. I think China hasn’t an emperor anymore, but its leader does like an emperor.
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Recording: They try to flee, but running isn’t an Emperor’s strong point. A slip is all the petrel needs. The chick is grabbed by his neck feathers, but the down just falls way. They form a defensive circle, and prepare to stand their ground.
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Hello again, VoiceTubers! This’s your host, Steve and I’m excited to be here recording another episode with all of you. It’s Saturday which means you can all relax a bit. Saturday is typically the day I like to get outside in nature. I will usually hike, but if I’m back home in the States, I also like to fish, kayak, and go camping. For all of you, I hope you’re fun at studying in English, but let yourselves relaxed too, and maybe you can also get outside.

Today’s video is about baby penguins who are trying to defend themselves against a large bird that wants to eat them. I love animals in general, and in fact, I used to volunteer at a seal rehabilitation([͵rihə͵bɪləˋteʃən]n.康復) center when I was in high school. Rehabilitation center is just a place takes a sick or hurt animal and they try to make it better again. So we took seals that had injuries, that were dehydrated, that had no food, that maybe they couldn’t swim very well, and we would take them and we would try to heal them, and make them better. So that way we can put them back in the ocean. Now, I volunteer so I didn’t make any money, but what I used to do, I used to give them baths. I had to wash off their poo poo, the holes. Many of seal [[?sat in the dry bath tubs for a few hours each day so they poop then they all around in the poop]] so you need to wash that off. I would also prepare food for them, I did this [[?while]] I taking medicine, and I need to put it inside the dead fish that the seals would eat. And the fun part is you get to take the fish and throw in the pool where seals were swimming around. So that’s kind of fun part, the seals swum around and they tried to get the fish you throw in the pool. And I was even licensed to rescue seals from the beach, but unfortunately, the seal rehabilitation center got shut down, so I never got to do a rescue.

Working with seals was definitely one of the best experiences in my life, and I still miss it today. If any of you get a chance to volunteer with animals, I definitely think you should do it. It will definitely give you a new perspective, and give you more compassion for other animals.

Okay, let’s move on to today’s sentence. Here is it: They try to flee, but running isn’t an Emperor’s strong point. So you can see that it’s a pretty short sentence, it’s not too complicated. The first thing to realize this’s a compound sentence. A compound sentence is just two simple sentences put together with a comma and a conjunction. So in this case, we have comma but( , but). But you often see comma and( ,and), comma or, and sometimes even comma yet. So “they try to flee, but…”. So you can see there’s a short pause where the comma is, where put two sentences together.

And the end of sentence is also a little bit hard. “Emperor’s strong point.” A lot of different vowel sounds there, and it’s really easily to [[?jumbo these words up]] and put them together. So try to read it slowly first and make sure that all three of these words have the correct sound. Emperor’s strong point.

1. flee [fli ] (v.)(尤指因危險或恐懼而) 逃跑
Flee is a verb and it means to run away as from danger or pursuers([pɚˋsuɚ]追捕者); take flight. So basically flee just means run away. So let’s check out this sentence.
* The mouse tried to flee from the hungry cat, but the cat was too fast.
So you see the mouse is running away from the cat, it’s fleeing from the cat.

And flee is often used in a war, a battle.
* The British soldiers flee from the German troops(軍隊).

So you probably notice that the word from comes with flee a lot. Flee from. The mouse flee from the cat. The British soldiers flee from Germans. Just note that from is not required, but it does come with flee. So you could say something like, the mouse flees to the tall grass. That’s completely okay. Or in the case, the real sentence today we have, the penguins try to flee. So it just means run away, and it often comes with from, but not always.

2. emperor [ɛmpərɚ] (n.)皇帝
It means the male sovereign([ˋsɑvrɪn]君主) or supreme ruler of an empire. But you can think an emperor is basically kind of a president, but a little bit stronger. The two countries I know that have emperor would be China and Japan. And today I think Japan is the only country still has an emperor. So check out this example sentence.
* The emperor of China wore the yellow clothes.

So even now the emperor is like a president, they’re sort of thought as gods. I don’t know Japan and China really well, so I don’t wanna talk this too much. But I do know that the emperors were considered more than regular people, they’re sort of like either the god talks to them, or the emperors kind of have status that was like a god.

So in this video, there aren’t real emperors, but we have Emperor penguins. They’re called Emperor penguins because they’re the largest species of penguins. They can grow up to 122 centimeters and weigh up to 45 kilograms. So their large size is why we call them the Emperor penguins. They’re basically the king or emperor of penguins.

3. strong point 強項，優勢
It means one’s most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; forte([ˈfɔːteɪ]專長).
So it’s something that you’re good at. If you listen to this example sentence, we’re gonna fond out what someone’s strong point is, so that says:
* Her strong point is her outgoingness. Everyone likes her and she is good with people.
So She is really good at talking with people, she likes to be around people, so her strong point is being outgoing or extroverted.

Now we can also say something isn’t our strong point. I’m not really good at something. It’s not my strong point. The second example talks about what something’s not our strong point. Here it is.
* Math was never my strong point. I was always much better with language.
Math was never my strong point, so I’m not good at math, it’s not my strong point. If you give something related to math, I’ll do worse on it than something related to language. So strong point is just a strength or advantage, and we say something is our strong point. So I can say something like, exercise is my strong point, I like exercise, I’m good at it, my body is very in shape. Or you can say something like, drawing is not my strong point. Every time I draw something, it comes up very bad, very ugly. It’s just not my strong point. Art is not my strong point. So hopefully, that’s obvious. If you have questions, feel free to leave them in the comments.

Alright, that’s it for today’s pronunciation and vocabulary. Sentences are always fun when they’re about cute animals. And penguins are pretty much the cutest devoted([dɪˋvotɪd]執愛的) animals. It’s definitely debatable, but they are out there. Now, have you guys ever seen the penguins? If so, was it in the zoo or in the wild? I’ve only seen penguins in the zoo, and although I wanna see a penguin in real life, I’m a little bit worried about their homes becoming too hot due to global warming, or climate change. Climate change is the world getting hotter due to the activities of human beings. So hotter weather isn’t really good for penguins, so we should all take a moment to think of the cold weather friends and fight for a cleaner, more green world.

Alright, by the way, I’m writing a weekly blogs on global VoiceTube page. I would love for all of you to check them out. I’ll leave the link to the blogs below, so be sure to check out the blogs and leave some suggestions for future content. That’s it for today. I hope you enjoy the pronunciation challenge. As usual, leave your comments, questions, and example sentences below. And I will try to give you as many as I can. See you next time. Cheers!