泽平 的ScalersTalk第八轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day9

练习材料：

Lesson 42-1     Recording an earthquake

An earthquakecomes like a thief in the night, without warning. It was necessary, therefore,to invent instruments that neither slumbered nor slept. Some devices were quitesimple. One, for instance, consisted of rods of various lengths and thicknesseswhich would stand up on end like ninepins. When a shock came, it shook therigid table upon which these stood. If it were gentle, only the more unstablerods fell. If it were severe, they all fell. Thus the rods, by falling, and bythe direction in which they fell, recorded for the slumbering scientist thestrength of a shock that was too weak to waken him, and the direction fromwhich it came.

rɪˈkɔːdɪŋ ən ˈɜːθkweɪk

ən ˈɜːθkweɪk kʌmzlaɪk ə θiːf ɪn ðə naɪt, wɪˈðaʊt ˈwɔːnɪŋ. ɪt wɒz ˈnɛsəsᵊri, ˈðeəfɔː, tuː ɪnˈvɛntˈɪnstrəmənts ðæt ˈnaɪðə ˈslʌmbəd nɔː slɛpt. sʌm dɪˈvaɪsɪz wɜː kwaɪt ˈsɪmpᵊl. wʌn,fɔːr ˈɪnstəns, kənˈsɪstɪd ɒv rɒdz ɒv ˈveəriəs lɛŋθs ænd ˈθɪknəsɪz wɪʧ wʊd stændʌp ɛnd laɪk ˈnaɪnpɪnz. wɛn ə ʃɒk keɪm, ɪt ʃʊk ðə ˈrɪʤɪd ˈteɪbᵊl əˈpɒn wɪʧ ðiːzstʊd. ɪf ɪt wɜː ˈʤɛntᵊl, ˈəʊnli ðə mɔːr ʌnˈsteɪbᵊl rɒdz fɛl. ɪf ɪt wɜː sɪˈvɪə,ðeɪ ɔːl fɛl. ðʌs ðə rɒdz, baɪ ˈfɔːlɪŋ, ænd baɪ ðə daɪˈrɛkʃᵊn ɪn wɪʧ ðeɪ fɛl, rɪˈkɔːdɪdfɔː ðə ˈslʌmbərɪŋ ˈsaɪəntɪst ðə strɛŋθ ɒv ə ʃɒk ðæt wɒz tuː wiːk tuː ˈweɪkᵊn hɪm,ænd ðə daɪˈrɛkʃᵊn frɒm wɪʧ ɪt keɪm.

任务配置：L0 + L4

知识笔记：

单词：1、slumber：沉睡，睡眠，2、slept：睡觉，入睡，3、device：装置，设备，方法，仪器，4、rod：杆，棍棒，装避雷针，5、ninepins：九柱戏，九瓶保龄球，6、rigid：严格的，刻板的，坚固的，7、unstable：不稳定的，不稳固的，8、

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练习感悟：这篇文章虽然比较短，但是有点拗口，而且语速也偏快，录了三遍才勉强达标。