把楊樹籽熱解會發生什麼事？：英語精讀講義

Hey, it's a beautiful day in May

嘿，這是五月裡美好的一天，

and this tree right here is shedding these seeds everywhere 用詞

這裡這棵樹到處都在掉落這些種子，

that look a lot like cotton balls. 片語搭配

它們看起來很像棉球。

Now, it's not technically cotton, 語氣意圖

雖然嚴格來說它不是棉花，

but it's very light and fluffy the same way.

但它同樣非常輕盈和蓬鬆。

And if you look on the ground here,

如果你看看這裡的地面，

you can see they are pretty much everywhere. 片語搭配

你會發現它們幾乎無處不在。

Now, you can see as you add the seeds together,

你看，當你把這些種子聚在一起時，

it makes a nice big ball of fluff.

它就變成了一個漂亮的大絨球。

It's very soft,

它非常柔軟，

very light and fluffy.

非常輕盈和蓬鬆。

Let's see,

讓我們來看看，

it's very easy to tear.

它是很容易被撕開的。

This stuff should make some pretty good tinder. 用詞

這東西應該能成為很不錯的火種。

Let's add it to our batch.

讓我們把它加到我們收集的這批裡。

Now, of course,

當然了，

the first thing that comes to my mind is whether or not 講解

我腦海中浮現的第一個念頭是，

we could use these to make some of that improvised charcloth.

我們能不能用這些來製作簡易的炭布。

I used cotton balls for in a previous project.

我在之前的專案中就用過棉球做這個。

So, let's go fill up a tuna can full of this stuff

所以，讓我們去把一個鮪魚罐頭塞滿這東西，

and put it on the burner

然後把它放到燃燒器上，

and see if we can make some improvised fire starter.

看看能不能做些簡易的生火材料。

So, I got quite a bit of this fluffy stuff. 片語搭配

所以，我弄了不少這種蓬鬆的東西。

I also got a tuna can.

我還拿了一個鮪魚罐頭。

You can see I poked a hole in the bottom there.

你可以看到我在它的底部戳了個洞。

And if we shove all that down in there

如果我們把所有這些都塞進去，

and put the lid back on top, 片語動詞

然後把蓋子蓋回去，

makes a pretty tight seal. 片語搭配

就能密封得很嚴實。

And now we can set that upright on a fire,

接下來我們可以把它立在火上、

a flame, a stove,

火焰上、或者是爐子上，

whatever you want as long as there's quite a bit of heat. 文法

隨你怎麼選，只要熱量足夠大就行。

We want to cook this thing without letting oxygen get in. 文法

我們要烘烤這個東西，同時不讓氧氣進去。

Now, when you go to cook charcloth that's as light and fluffy as

當你烘烤像

uh this cotton type of stuff,

這種像棉花一樣的輕盈蓬鬆的炭布時，

you want to make sure that no air can get in there. 片語搭配

你必須確保沒有空氣能進去。

And this will pop open under pressure. 片語動詞

這個在壓力下會爆開。

So, I'm just using like a rock to set on top there.

所以我只是隨便找了塊石頭壓在上面。

And it's really important not to overcook this. 文法

而且非常重要的是不能過度烘烤。

We want to just heat it up until it makes the flame.

我們只需要加熱到它冒出火焰為止。

And when that flame goes down out of the top,

當火焰從頂部熄滅時，

we want to stop.

我們就要停止。

If we go any further than that, 文法

如果我們繼續烤下去，

our charcloth is not going to work.

我們的炭布就不能用了。

There it goes.

搞定了。

We're done.

我們完成了。

Now, we just need to plug that hole with something 片語搭配

現在我們只需要找點東西把那個洞堵上，

to make sure that no air gets in there.

確保沒有空氣進入。

Something like that.

像這樣就行。

And let it cool down.

然後讓它冷卻。

All right, it's actually only been about 2 minutes here, 文法

好了，實際上這才過了大概2分鐘，

but I'm just going to show you what would happen if we open this up. 講解

但我打算給你們看看打開它會發生什麼。

There we go.

我們打開看看。

Oh.

噢。

There, you see this one's undercooked. 用詞

你們看，這個沒烤透。

This got really nicely charred,

這部分碳化得非常漂亮，

but this other side is only half-cooked.

但另一半才烤了一半。

But, I'm going to take a piece off here off the top

不過，我要從這頂上取下一塊，

and we're going to see if that'll work as a proof of concept. 用詞

我們來看看它是否管用，權當是概念驗證了。

Now, let's see how many of you guys remember what this thing is.

讓我們看看有多少人記得這是什麼東西。

This is one of the earliest projects I did.

這是我最早做過的專案之一。

It was my 14th project video

這是我的第14個專案影片，

and I made it transparent

我把它做成了透明的，

so we could actually see compression starting in action.

這樣我們就能真實看到壓縮點火的起火過程。

And it worked with cotton balls.

它和棉球配合得很完美。

So, I'm really curious to see how it's going to work with this improvised char 片語搭配

所以我很好奇，用我們從棉花樹種子裡做的

that we made from this cotton seed.

這種簡易炭布，效果會怎樣。

Now, all we need to do is just 文法

現在我們只需要

load the tip with a little bit of our char. 片語搭配

在頂端裝上這點我們的炭布。

You see that claw grabs everything in there pretty nicely.

你們看，那個爪子能把裡面的東西抓得很緊。

Once that's all nestled and set,

一旦它被塞好固定住，

we can go ahead and give it a nice big whack. 講解

我們就可以直接用力給它狠狠來一下。

Here we go.

準備。

If we did it right,

如果我們做對了，

we should have got a little flash.

應該會看到一絲火光。

And of course,

當然了，

once you get your tinder smoking, 文法

一旦你的火種開始冒煙，

you can put it in a bundle,

你就可以把它放進引火柴捆裡，

give it a little blow.

輕輕吹一吹。

That actually did light on fire, though. 講解

不過，那還真的著火了。

That's cool.

太酷了。

You just want to drop that down in there.

你只需要把它扔進去就行了。

That is getting pretty close to going up in flames. 慣用語

它眼看著就要燒起來了。

I had to bring this outside

我不得不把它帶到室外來，

so I didn't set off the smoke detector in the house. 片語動詞

免得引發房子裡的煙霧警報器。

I wrapped another piece of paper towel around

我又拿了一塊紙巾繞在它上面，

it just to give it a little more fuel.

只是為了給它多加點燃料。

But, I want to light this thing up for you.

但我想為你們點燃這個東西。

And then,

然後，

it should only take a few breaths of uh fresh air.

只需要吹幾口新鮮空氣。

And when you're trying to get your tinder to light, 文法

當你試圖讓火種點燃時，

it's best just to let it smolder at its own pace. 講解

最好讓它按自己的節奏慢慢悶燒。

You don't want to rush it.

不要操之過急。

You go too fast,

如果你太快了，

it's not going to like that. 慣用語

它可不會喜歡的。

You can see this smoke is starting to get really thick.

你們看，這煙開始變得非常濃了。

There we go.

著了。

Ooh, here we go.

噢，著了。

Fire.

起火了。

Whoa!

哇！

that wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be, 文法

並沒有我想像的那麼容易，

but at least we got it to work. 語氣意圖

但至少我們成功讓它起作用了。