【歡迎朗讀】The Butterfly Effect

美音原讀：

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I haven't read NCE for a long time.  I  have many reading pronunciation errors. But I am glad that I read NCE again.:) 

那誰，那誰誰，

童鞋們，一起來讀吧：）

 

Lesson 14
The Butterfly Effect
蝴蝶效應
First listen and then answer the following question.
聽錄音，然後回答以下問題。
Why do small errors make it impossible to predict the weather system with a high degree of accuracy?
Beyond two or three days, the world's best weather forecasts are speculative, and beyond six or seven they are worthless.
The Butterfly Effect is the reason. For small pieces of weather -- and to a global forecaster, small can mean thunderstorms and blizzards -- any prediction deteriorates rapidly. Errors and uncertainties multiply, cascading upward through a chain of turbulent features, from dust devils and squalls up to continent-size eddies that only satellites can see.
The modern weather models work with a grid of points of the order of sixty miles apart, and even so, some starting data has to be guessed, since ground stations and satellites cannot see everywhere. But suppose the earth could be covered with sensors spaced one foot apart, rising at one-foot intervals all the way to the top of the atmosphere. Suppose every sensor gives perfectly accurate readings of temperature, pressure, humidity, and any other quantity a meteorologist would want. Precisely at noon an infinitely powerful computer takes all the data and calculates what will happen at each point at 12.01, then 1202, then 12.03...
The computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton, New Jersey, will have sun or rain on a day one month away. At noon the spaces between the sensors will hide fluctuations that the computer will not know about, tiny deviations from the average. By 12.01, those fluctuations will already have created small errors one foot away. Soon the errors will have multiplied to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe.
JAMES GLEICK, Chaos
New words and expressions 生詞和短語
forecast
n. 預報
speculative
adj. 推測的
blizzard
n. 暴風雪
deteriorate
v. 變壞
multiply
v. 增加
cascade
v. 瀑布似地落下
turbulent
adj. 狂暴的
dust devil
小塵暴，塵旋風
squall
n. 暴風
eddy
n. 旋渦
grid
n. 坐標方格
sensor
n. 傳感器
humidity
n. 溫度
meteorologist
n. 氣象學家
Princeton
n. 普林斯頓（美國城市名）
New Jersey
n. 新澤西（美國州名）
fluctuation
n. 起伏，波動
deviation
n. 偏差

所有跟帖： 

• 太棒了！一是朗讀得棒，喜歡你的發音。二是NCE又回來了，期待已久了。美壇多一些接地氣的學習貼，一起學習。真好！！！ -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 16:42:31

• 謝謝盈盈鼓勵！我一直想讀，第八課就是讀不下去，總算找了個好看的題目讀了。你也來讀！發現找來找去還是新概念的課文可讀性更強 -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 16:49:53

• 在朗讀方麵，真要向你和還有壇裏的高手好好學習。你讀吧，很期待你繼續讀下去。這是美壇我最喜歡的節目之一。一起練習提高發音！ -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 16:58:42

• 有時間你也來讀，對發音和表達都有幫助。我爭取這次堅持下來：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 19:26:02

• 歡迎童鞋們單獨發帖朗讀。寫作文如果能寫到新概念4的水平，那就相當好了。 -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 16:52:53

• 抑揚頓挫，像聽廣播一樣：） -CLary- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 17:13:06

• 陽陽也來讀，我覺得很有用，下午聽NPR一下覺得容易很多，不知道有沒有關係：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 19:20:41

• 讀出來是個好方法，我先學習一下：） -CLary- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 19:56:59

• Blame the pandemic, enough Chaos still thesame lovely voice -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 17:35:01

• 謝謝啦：）你也來讀吧，發主帖讓更多人聽到，一起讀才好玩：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 19:22:34

• 剛才差點跟著讀一下，有個客戶這時候問一些事情，睡覺前趕緊讀一遍 -移花接木- ♂ (271 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 20:50:17

• 太厲害啦，光速還能讀這麽棒！發音真好，beyond的o，chain我都發不好，我的i也張不開嘴， -妖妖靈- ♀ (191 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 21:20:18

• No, Blame Canada -Marauders- ♀ (212 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 20:51:29

• 哈哈，這麽有自我犧牲精神。開心大S來了，這周三（3月30日）你有時間主持聽歌練聽力嗎？：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 21:24:32

• 必須有 -Marauders- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 21:28:23

• 太謝謝啦！：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 21:29:47

• 讀的很好，讚~~~ -慢兔- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 17:54:35

• 也來讀吧，我讀起來覺得收獲大大的：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2022 postreply 19:23:17

• + 88 -AP33912- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/29/2022 postreply 05:41:00

• 謝謝AP，你也來讀吧！英文那麽好！：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/29/2022 postreply 08:47:48

• 共同學習。周五俺給念一段古老的英文。 -AP33912- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/29/2022 postreply 09:17:00

• 和大家預告一下，這個朗讀節目，我打算每兩周一課的速度，新概念第四冊，下次爭取讀第十五課。 -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/29/2022 postreply 08:57:53

• 跟著靈靈朗讀一哈： -ibelieu- ♀ (272 bytes) () 03/29/2022 postreply 14:42:50

• 期待！期待！我打算最近重新複習老友記，不知道這裏有沒有童鞋，願意一起打卡。一到兩周，一集。每次先聽後跟讀。 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/30/2022 postreply 02:51:21

• 非常好的主意！提高日常對話的能力！我可以每兩周跟一集：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/30/2022 postreply 08:35:07

• 讚靈靈。英語讀音很棒。周末愉快。 -chuntianle- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/02/2022 postreply 20:51:33

• 打卡 -天邊一片白雲- ♀ (271 bytes) () 07/09/2022 postreply 04:54:48