Elon Musk: The future we're building -- and boring | TED – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.Chris Anderson: Elon, hey, welcome back to TED
2.It's great to have you here
3.Elon Musk: Thanks for having me
4.CA: So, in the next half hour or so, we're going to spend some time your vision for what an exciting future might look like, which I guess makes the first question a little ironic: Why are you boring
5.EM: Yeah
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Key Vocabulary (CEFR C1)
exploring
B1To seek for something or after someone.
Example:
"CA: So, in the next half hour or so, we're going to spend some time exploring your vision for what an exciting future might look like,"
frequently
B1At frequent intervals.
Example:
"EM: Yeah. I ask myself that frequently."
alleviates
B1To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
Example:
"CA: Which, I guess, alleviates some traffic from the surface streets as well. EM: So, I don't know if people noticed it in the video,"
visualization
B2The act of visualizing, or something visualized.
Example:
"CA: I think you've brought with you the first visualization that's been shown of this. Can I show this?"
road-type
B1A B1-level word commonly used in this context.
Example:
"CA: So possibly, initially done, it's like on a sort of toll road-type basis. EM: Yeah."
traditionally
B2In a traditional manner.
Example:
"But you can go to any arbitrary number of tunnels, any number of levels. CA: But people -- seen traditionally, it's incredibly expensive to dig,"
regulation
B2The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
Example:
"So a single road lane tunnel according to regulations has to be 26 feet, maybe 28 feet in diameter"
imagining
B1To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
Example:
"Victory is beating the snail. CA: But a lot of people imagining, dreaming about future cities,"
guillotine
B1A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade.
Example:
"You're thinking, "Did they service their hubcap, or is it going to come off and guillotine me?""
distances
B1The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
Example:
"running quite long distances. EM: Exactly. And looking at tunneling technology,"
| Word | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| exploring | B1 | To seek for something or after someone. |
| frequently | B1 | At frequent intervals. |
| alleviates | B1 | To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty. |
| visualization | B2 | The act of visualizing, or something visualized. |
| road-type | B1 | A B1-level word commonly used in this context. |
| traditionally | B2 | In a traditional manner. |
| regulation | B2 | The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated. |
| imagining | B1 | To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind. |
| guillotine | B1 | A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade. |
| distances | B1 | The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line. |
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