on Endurance(持久力 耐久力)4
So, I started full focus.
所以，我开始全是关注了。
I completely trained to get my breath hold time up for what I need to do.
所以，我训练有素的去延长我的屏息时间，做我需要做的事儿。
but there was no way to prepare for the live television aspect of it, being on Oprah.
但没有办法完全按照奥普拉电视直播希望的那样去准备。
But in practice, I would do it face down, floating on the pool.
但是在练习时，我将脸朝下，漂浮在池塘里。
But for TV, they wanted me to be upright, so they could see my face, basically.
但是对于电视节目来说， 他们要我面朝前，以便观众们基本上能看到我的脸。
The other problem was the suit was so buoyant(有浮力的 能漂浮的) that they had to strap my feet to keep me from floating up.
另一个问题是，这套服装浮力太大以至于他们得抓住我的脚以保证我不漂浮起来。
So I had to use my legs to hold my feet into the straps that were loose, which is a real problem for me.
所以，我不得不用自己的双腿来保持套在松松皮带里的脚站稳，那对我来说真是个问题。
That made me extremely nervous, raising the heart rate.
那使我很紧张，心率提高。
Then what they also did was, which we never did before, is a heart-rate monitor.
然后他们又放了一个心律监测器，我们以前从没做过的。
And it was right next to the sphere.
而就放在球型水室旁边。
So every time my heart was beat, I feel the beep- beep -beep, you know, the ticking, really loud.
所以，每次我心脏挑动时，我就感觉到哔哔哔的声音。你知道，那个跳动的声音，真的很吵。
which is making me more nervous, there is no way to slow my heart rate down.
这使得我更加紧张，没有任何办法去降低我的心律。
Normally, I would start at 38 beats per minutes, and while hold my breath it would drop to 12 beats per minutes, which is pretty unusual.
一般情况下，我心律始于每分钟38次，而当我屏息时心律降低到每分钟12次，这是非常不寻常的。
This time it started at 120 beats, and never went down.
I spent the first five minutes underwater desperately trying to slow my heart rate down.
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I was just sitting there thinking, " I've got to slow this down. I'm going to fail, I'm going to fail.
And I was getting more nervous. And the heart rate just kept going up, all the way up to 150 beats.
Basically, it's the same thing that created my downfall at Lincoln Center, it was a waste of O2.
When I made it to the halfway mark, at 8 minutes, I was 100 percent certain that I was not going to be able to make this.
当我进行到一半， 8分钟时， 我ba
So, it was no way for me to do it.
I figured, Oprah had dedicated an hour to doing this breath holding thing,
If I had cracked early it would be a whole show about how depressed I am.
So, I figured I'm better off just fighting and staying there until I black out, at least then they can pull me out and take care of me and all that.
1. What is Blain referring to when he talks about his down fall at Lincoln Center?
....He wasted too much oxygen due to a higher heart rate.
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2. I figured, Oprah had dedicated an hour to doing this breath-hold thing, if I had cracked early, it would be a whole show about how depressed I am.
I kept pushing to 10 minutes.
At 10 minutes you start getting all these really strong tingling sensation in your fingers and toes.
And I knew that that was blood shunting, when the blood rushed away from you extremities to provide oxygen to your vital organs.
At 11 minutes, I started feeling throbbing sensations in my legs, and my lips started to feel really strange.
At minute 12, I started to having ringing in my ears, and I started to feel my arm going numb.
And I'm a hypochondriac(疑病患者), and I remember arm numb means heart attack. So，Started to really get really paranoid(患偏执症的，有妄想狂的).
Then at 13 minutes, maybe because of the hypochondria(疑病), I started feeling pains all over my chest. It was awful.
At 14 minutes, I had these awful contractions, like this urge to breathe.
At 15 minutes, I was suffering major O2 deprivation() to the heart.
And I started to having ischemia to the heart.
My heart beat will go from 120, to 50, to 150, to 40, to 20, to 150 again.
It would skip a beat. It would start. It would stop. And I felt all this.
And I was sure that I was going to have a heart attack.
So, at 16 minutes what I didi was I slid my feet out, because I knew that if I did go out,
If I did have a heart attack, they'd have to jump into the binding and take my feet out before pulling me up.
So, I was really nervous.
So, I let my feet out, and I started floating to the top.
And I didn't take my head out,
But I was just floating there , waiting for my heart to stop, just waiting..
They have doctors with the "Pst", you know, so , sitting there waiting.
And suddenly I hear screaming.
And I think that there is some weird thing. That I had died or something had happened.
And then I realized that I had made it to 16:32.
So, with the energy of everybody that was there I decided to keep pushing. And I went to 17 minutes and four seconds.
1. Why does audience laugh when Blaine went his constructions?
...Any ordinary person would have had the urge to breath much earlier.
2. Why was Blaine willing to stay underwater until his heart stopped?
..He wanted to push himself to the limit.
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3. At 16 minutes what I did was I slide my feet out because I knew that if I didi go out, if I did have a heart attack, they'd have to jump into the binding and take my feet out before pulling me up.
As though that wasn't enough, what I did immediately after is I went to Quest Labs and had them take every blood sample
that they could to test for everything and to see where my levels were, so the doctors could use it. once again.
I also didn't want anybody to question it. I had the world record and I wanted to make sure I was legitimate.
So I get to New York City the next day, and this kid walks up to me
I'm walking out of the apple store, this kid walks up to me, he's like" Yo, D!"
I'm like “Yeah?"
He said," If you really held your breath that long, why did you come out of the water dry?"
I was like," What?"
And that's my life. so...
As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible.
And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple.
It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.
And that's what magic to me, so, thank you.
1. How does Blaine reinforce(加强 充实 使更强烈) his opening message?
...he says magic can open people's minds.
2. How does Blaine fulfill his goal as a magician?
...He trains so hard that he redefines the spirit of magic.
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3. His heart rate kept rising which led to a waste of oxygen.
4. As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible.
5. During blood shunting, the blood rushes away from extremities to provide oxygen to vital organs.