03:37 Can’t resist puppy eyes🥺

超爱你们轻松愉快的开头曲！

I have a pet snake named “August”，she has very delicate black and white pattern and she is so shy.

04:33 My 🐈 did it too!!

13:26 Strange liquid starts to swim?! 我满脸：地铁老人看手机

07:37 自从有次偶然的机会拍了一只鬃狮蜥蜴的头以后，我一直超想养一只😂😂

【转录1/10】 Hi guys, it's Gossip English time！尬聊英语时间又到啦！Let's learn English through gossip！ Hello everyone! Hi! Yao, do you have any pets? Wing, you don't know what my nickname is? What's your nickname? Cat Addict, aka 猫奴 Okay, how many cats do you have? Guess? 3, 4, 6? Yeah, I have 4 cats at home! That's a lot! What's their temperament? Are they troublemakers? Are they naughty? Or are they good? So they all have different temperaments. One is the American Shorthair. He is very active.非常的活跃。And he is very good at social with strangers.他是我们家的社牛。That sounds like a troublemaker. Yeah! And he is also very affectionate with me. And happily follow me from room to room.就是我去到哪就跟到哪。Sounds like a dog. Yeah! I always think that he has a dog's soul, but it's put in a cat's body. Interesting. What about the others? I also have 2 British Shorthairs. They are very easy-going.非常友善。And very sweet-natured. 就非常温顺。And also they are very devotedto me.就是非常亲近我。 I also have one black and white cat. He is actually a typical Chinese local cat. 就是我们所说的中国田园猫。土猫。对，土猫。But he is totallydifferent from the others. Very timid.非常胆小。And aggressive. 就是非常的凶。又胆小又凶。对。And he likes to stay close to me, but not too close.用我们一个话来说就是可远观而不可亵玩。 So Wing, how about you? Oh, I actually have a dog. Very cute little dog. I always say she is a little puppy. But to avoid any misunderstanding, she is actually a medium-large breed called German Shorthaired Pointer.德国短毛指示犬。也叫波音达。 And now she is already 10 months old. So she is not that little puppy per se. Wel, so is she well-behaved? Well, although she is in her first heat 就是发情期。她第一次发情。Bleeding like a human being's period. Which means she is pretty much getting into her adulthood. She is still very much puppying all the time. By the way, puppying is not a real verb. It's just my way to describe how she behaves. You know, like little dog with big round eyes looking at you all the time. And they are too cute that you can't really scold them when they do something naughty.

【转录2/10】 And so sweet that you want to cuddle them all the time. Yeah, that's how I say that behavior, puppying. Well, I can totally relate to you, you know. When they look at you with their puppy eyes, you cannot do anything even though they make a huge mess at home, right? Yep, I luckily still have a few nice pieces of furniture left. Oh my gosh. So you sound like you love her so much. Yeah, she's great. She brings me enormous joy and comfort like the sun in my life's ups and downs. What do you think about your cats? Like, do they bring you anything special? Any specific feelings? You know, every day when I go home, my cats will come to the door and welcome me home. It gave me the sense of belonging. It gives me a lot of joy, you know. And sometimes when I feel so scared at night, I cannot sleep alone, my cats will just sleep beside me. So I won't be so scared of the darkness or whatever. So I really love them. I always think cats and dogs are both domestic pets already after so many years of domestication. But I still think cats and dogs are so different. Like cats are more arrogant and dogs are more humble. Yeah, exactly, right? I don't know. I never have cats. So I don't know. Do you ever have any dogs before? Yeah, I used to have a dog. Tibetan mastiff. Wow, that's a very extreme dog. Yeah, everybody thinks like that. However, you don't know. Actually, he's just like a baby boy. Even though he has a huge size of body, however, deep inside, he's just a little boy. He would just jump on you, just give you a big hug. So like a big guy? No, like a baby boy soul living in a masculine guy. Exactly. That's funny. So I think people have pets for all kinds of reasons. Probably goes with your life experience and your own personality and needs, etc. What's the weirdest pets have you ever heard? I think the weirdest pets maybe are snakes. I can't really imagine why people like having the snakes as pets. They seem so... Cold? Yeah, I think so. They are not clingy?

【转录3/10】 Yeah, so I cannot really imagine that. I know some of my friends have pet snakes. For me, it's a little bit strange. Well, since I was a little, my family have pet tortoises. Tortoises are still reasonable because my sister used to keep a tortoise as a pet. When I saw the tortoise, I asked her, are you going to use it for the soup or something? Very Cantonese. Well, that was actually my first pet tortoise. They are cold. They're not very cute per se, you know? Like hard shells, always hiding their head and feet. Not until I had a dog recently, I found having pets should be furry and you can talk to them. Probably they re a little bit clingy, but that's the fun part. Having a tortoise, basically it's like you and that tortoise will never know each other forever. That's the feeling because my tortoise doesn't really talk to me or act like talking to me. I know, you cannot feel the connection between you guys, right? Exactly. So, tortoises and snakes actually are categorized as exotic pets. Exotic pets.就是奇异宠物，也叫异宠。 Okay.现在很多宠物展里面 都有异宠的专门的部分。我有看到。 So, they could be reptiles, like snakes and lizards.它们可以是那种爬行动物，像蛇还有蜥蜴。Amphibians, like frogs and toads.两栖动物，例如青蛙还有蟾蜍。 Actually, my cousins have some toads at home. Wow. Yellow color. Very strange. Very, very strange. Oh. The third kind isexotic birds, like cockatoos and toucans. 那些比较奇异的鸟类，像凤头鹦鹉还有巨嘴鸟。Small mammals, like ferrets and sugar gliders. 那还有一些比较小型的哺乳动物，像雪貂树袋熊。 Arachnids and insects, like scorpions and certain species of mantises. 还有一些蛛型的动物和昆虫，就像是蝎子，还有一些特定的螳螂品种。etc.就之类的。 其实那个异宠非常多种类。大家有空可以去一下那个宠物展，去逛一逛，你会很震惊有那些动物。 我最近看到是有浣熊。哦，浣熊。那个raccoon吗？对呀。那raccoon很..它现在是那个 exotic pets.我不知道，就是我在宠物展有看到有人可以卖作为宠物。oh mygosh.天啊，我…我…我很难想象耶。 你知道 very interesting facts？什么？你知道浣熊的名字怎么来的吗？为什么叫浣熊？我还真不知道。浣熊的英文叫raccoon。然后中文名呢，其实更有特点，浣其实就洗的意思。它浣熊呢，其实很喜欢干净，很喜欢洗东西。你就给它任何东西，它就要先洗一洗。我记得之前…. 这么像广东人在吃饭之前要洗一洗那个碗筷。 对，我记得之前，有人就给它一个那个棉花糖，给那个浣熊，然后它就拿到水里洗一洗，就不就没了吗？溶了，直接溶掉。对，给它洗了几次。然后呢，浣熊其实我一直觉得它的英文名应该叫做washing bear，因为它很喜欢洗东西，所以应该叫washing bear。

【转录4/10】 然后中文其实就这样讲。所以我觉得这是比较有趣的一个 fact。哦，原来是这样。 This is a really interesting fact, huh? Yeah. Anyway, why do we talk about so many pets here? Because I've read a piece of very viral news. What is it? A father bought his son, 8-year-old son, an octopus. An octopus? Yes. As a pet? Yes, 章鱼 Oh, wow. Because the son had been begging for a pet octopus for a year, and now they named the octopus Terrence. Oh my gosh, you know, as a Cantonese... Very delicious. Talking about the octopus, I was just thinking how to cook it. Deep-fried or fried? You reminded me of one time I went diving. Actually, that was my first time to dive. I remember when we went down to the ocean, and I saw an octopus. Okay. My trainer is also Chinese, but Malaysian Chinese, so I did a gesture like Chinese using chopstick. My two fingers like chopstick, and the other hand like a bowl. So I made the hand gesture to my trainer. First, I pointed at the octopus, and then I made the gesture to my trainer and showed him it was delicious. And then after we surfaced, the trainer almost wanted to kill me. Why? Because all divers should be ocean animal lovers, I think. Sort of. We need to protect the animals, I guess. 这只是你的广东人DNA动了，对啊，就是我一次去潜水，应该是我第一次潜水的经历。 我跟我的教练下去水之后，就看到一个章鱼，我就给他做一个吃饭的动作。然后那个教练上到来，他也是华人，然后上到来就说，哎呀，你怎么可以这样子？但是我觉得是蛮好玩的。我就喜欢看他急的那个样子。 You know what? If I were you, I would do the exact same thing. Because just looking at a big octopus, who doesn't want to have a feast？谁不想吃一大饱一顿呢，对吧？对啊。 Well, that's not why it becomes news. After all, the news is not from Canton area, so that's not about big octopus become a feast. Okay. Why I mention about this news? Because the next day, they brought the octopus home. The new tank was filled with dozens of eggs. Dozens of eggs? Yes. So the octopus laid the eggs? Yes. Oh, wow. Well, the first reaction of the family was, well, Terence was not a male octopus, because they thought that was a male octopus. That was their first thoughts.

【转录5/10】 But that was the only first twist in saga.就是故事的第一个转折点。 So what is it? The biggest surprise actually came a few days later, when the father picked up one of the eggs, which he had long assumed weren't fertilized. 他以为那个下的那个蛋是没有受精的。And accidentally, he popped it. Wow. What he thought at that time was a blob of some strange liquid，就是一滩奇怪的水，came out and fell back into the tank. Seconds later, the blob started swimming. That was a tiny version of Terence. Let me show you the picture. Wow, it's so tiny. Just like a red bean. 就像一个红豆一样。 But I can see it's eight-legs clearly. So the whole body is the same size as the fingernail. Of a little boy. Yeah, of a little boy. Yeah. And it moves flexibly. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah. Can you picture 50 of them? I can not. So that just started the whole stress of it. Because now the family felt the immense responsibility of taking care of these babies. All those eggs became tiny octopus. In total, at first, it was 50 of them. Wow. 所以现在总家人的话就已经要承担这个责任，对吧？要照顾一下这些小 babies。对，它们就突然之间 从一只大的章鱼变成了一只大的加50只小的。买一送50。买一送50 还是挺划算的。 Yeah. So this type of octopus is called California Two-Spot Octopuses, also known as Bimacs. 叫双点章鱼对，也叫双色章鱼 oh. So having an octopus is really hard, the father said. It's laborsome and expensive. It's wet, it's all over the places. The father warned, you shouldn't do it if you are not prepared to follow through. Well, I think he is right. No matter what kind of animals, what kind of pets we have, we have to shoulder our responsibility and take good care of them.

【转录6/10】 Because we have so many things in our world, but they only have us in their world. Yeah, we are all they have in their life. Well, the family is kind of lucky and unlucky at the same time. I feel bad for them in some way because of 50 octopus babies. The prospect of caring for 51 octopuses was daunting. The babies have to be fed a daily serving of live shrimp. They have to be hand-fed one by one. So tiring. Yep. And each octopus, each baby octopus, has to be kept in its own plastic containers. It seems that they are so fragile. Not just because of that, it's also because they would fight and eat each other if they are not kept separately. Ah, I see. Especially when they are hungry, just like us. If you are hungry, we will eat anything. Yeah, just like the hamsters, right? If they are too hungry, they will eat the other hamsters or something like that. Really? Yeah. That's awful. For mammals, I feel extremely awful. I think so. But this is the rule of survival. I guess nature. Yeah, so I think the family just spent so much time and effort taking good care of their octopus. Yeah, they are now on a mission to find good homes for all those octopuses. That's good. Yeah. And the interesting part of the whole story and also the very touching part of the story for me is the whole family wound up owning about 90% of all octopuses in Oklahoma exactly because of this journey. It starts their son's love of marine biology, especially octopuses. So after they have 50 babies and the little boy who asked for pet octopus, now he has learned how to tender 50 baby octopus. And now he's really into it.

【转录7/10】 I think this is a really good lesson for the whole family, especially for the kids. Learning how to love the animals, learning how to appreciate our nature. Yeah. Well, let's see how the people react to the 90% of all octopuses in Oklahoma. Okay, so this is the most interesting part, I think. Okay, so Vonnie said, Is the ocean closed? Is the ocean closed？对啊，你可以把50只章鱼放回海里啊。对啊，我怎么没有想到。是不是？对啊！ Yeah. And Cheryl Ranee said, Why would anyone think that an octopus wants to live with them and not in the ocean？所以只是他们自作多情了，是不是？就感觉宠物都是这样子，但是章鱼还是没有被完全驯化的，所以这个还是跟狗跟猫，还是有一点点区别。 Anything else? One more. Mama's nail. Mama's nail. Yeah. Fun fact. Octopuses and octopi are both generally accepted as the plural form of octopus. But the word is Greek, so the plural form is octopodes. Octopodes. Yes. Just some fun facts. Actually, you can say octopuses or octopi or octopodes. Good to know. Yeah, just some fun facts. So, Wing, just now we talked about so many funny things. Let's talk about something serious. So, any speaking tips that we can use in our speaking test? As a matter of fact, in TELTS Part 2, there is a topic about animals. The topic is, Describe your favorite animal. You should say what it is, where it lives, and what it eats, and explain why you like it. So, let's use the phrases we just mentioned today in our topic. So, can you give us an example? Sure. In the depths of the ocean lives my favorite animal, the octopus, because of its unique and intelligent temperament. （它们的性情非常的独特，而且它们非常聪明）。 Often considered as exotic pets.

【转录8/10】 （Exotic pets， 异宠）。 Octopuses come with a unique set of challenges, but those who care for them feel immense responsibility. （Feel immense responsibility.感到了巨大的責任 感). Yeah, we just gave some examples of the phrases we've just learned. I hope you can use all of them in our exams, and you can score higher. So, any other questions that we can use to describe the pets? In IELTS Part 1 or Part 3, there are a few questions about pets. For example, do people in your country typically keep pets in their homes? How would you answer? Well, actually in my country, some people keep cats and dogs as pets at home. Some people even keep the exotic pets, like snakes. However, also some people don't keep pets because they feel immense responsibility to take good care of them.刚才就提到了两个我们今天学的词。一个是 feel immense responsibility，很大的责任。另外一个就是异宠 exotic pets. So, another question might come up in IELTS Part 1 and 3 would be, did you have a pet when you were a child? For me, this question, just like as I mentioned before, I had a tortoise, which is also an exotic pet. Their temperament is just like a stranger who doesn't like to talk to you. So they have a really unique temperament. Yes，就是他们的心情就是不太爱跟你聊天，也不会跟你说话。就永远高傲，永远高冷。就是我的，我从小养的一只乌龟。 Okay, so any other questions? Sure, is there any kind of pets that you would like to have?

【转录9/10】 In the future, I really want to have an exotic pet, like octopus, because I really want to see if they can lay 50 eggs. If they can, then I think it's a really good bargain. Buy one, get 50! That's immense responsibility of 50 octopuses, baby octopuses. Yeah. Well, Wing, I think maybe you can help me take care of 25 octopuses? Well, let's talk about it then. Well, it's time for today. Thank you for listening, I hope you can learn a lot.

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