BBC 英语学习 News Review 印度隧道救援

India Tunnel rescue. All

41 workers freed. This is news review from BBC Learning English.

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At last all 41 workers trapped in a tunnel in northern India for 17 days have been rescued.

They were removed one by one through a 90 centimeter diameter pipe.

None of the men are thought to be injured, but they are all being given medical checks.

You ve been looking at the headlines film.

What's the vocabulary that people need to understand this new story?

In English we have ordeal, nail biting and makeshift.

This is news review from BBC, learning English.

Let's have a look now at our 1st headline.

This is from CNN. All 41 workers rescued from collapsed tunnel in India after 17 day ordeal.

The headline tells us that all 41 of the workers who were trapped have been rescued.

The word we're learning about is ordeal.

Phil what can you tell us about it?

Okay, just think about the situation we have here.

Can you imagine what it would be like to be trapped underground in a tunnel for 17 days without knowing if you were ever going to get out?

Well, I think it's very hard to imagine how scary and awful that must have been.

And that is the type of situation that we describe as an ordeal.

It's not a word used for everyday bad situations, like missing the bus, E.G.

No, we use ordeal for difficult, unpleasant situations.

And it's often situations at the last a long time, or feel like they last a long time.

And just to note about the pronunciation, note that the stress is on the 2nd syllable.

It's ordeal or deal. That's right, or deal?

Okay, let's look about one more time.

Let's have our next headline. This is from India to day Wuttakashi Tunnel rescues last moments captured in nail biting videos.

So this headline tells us that the last moments of the rescue were captured on video, and that it was nail biting.

Nail biting is the vocabulary that we're looking at.

Phil are you a nervous person?

Not generally, but there are certain situations when I might be.

So if I'm watching my football team going through a penalty shootout at the end of a really important match, that's nail biting.

In fact, by the end of it, I'm not sure if I'll have any nails left.

That's because you bite your nails to cope with the stress, and that is where the adjective nail biting comes from.

So if something is nail biting, then the situation is very worrying, because it's not clear how it will end or what the result will be.

That's right, and in this story, it wasn't certain until the end if the workers will be rescued safely.

Now, are there any other similar expressions?

Beth Yeah. We can also describe this type of situation as nerve racking.

OK, let's look at that again.

Next headline, please. This is from nd TV Rescued workers in makeshift hospital inside tunnel.

So we hear that the rescued workers are in some kind of hospital in the tunnel.

But what kind of hospital? It must be very difficult to make a good quality hospital in such a short amount of time.

And that is the key to understanding anex word.

The adjective used to describe the hospital is makeshift.

And we use that to talk about something that's been built very quickly to meet a sudden need.

That's right, and also that it's temporary, or at least intended to only be used for a short amount of time, and it's probably not very good quality either.

We hear about makeshift accommodation, perhaps after people have been evacuated from a natural disaster, like a flood.

Or you might read about a school having makeshift classrooms if their buildings have

been damaged by a war or because the government hasn't spent enough money on school buildings.

OK, let's look at that again.

We've had Ordeal, a very unpleasant experience nail biting.

It

makes you really nervous, and makeshift temporary and low quality.

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