BBC 英语学习 News Review 新闻评论女王-在位70周年

Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, celebrate 70 years as British Monarch.

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English. I'm Rob, and joining me today is Neil.

Hello Neil. Hi, rob.

And hello everybody. If you would like to test yourself on the vocabulary you hear in this program, there's a quiz on our website at bbc learning

english dot com. Now, let's hear more about that new story from this BBC radio report.

The Queen has become the 1st British monarch to spend 70 years on the throne.

Milestone she's marked by expressing her eternal gratitude for the support she's received, and reiterating that her life will always be devoted to service.

In a message released to coincide with her platinum jubilee, she's also written of her sincere wish the Prince charles's wife, camilla, be known as Queen consort when he becomes King, queen Elizabeth the 2nd, the Monarch of the United Kingdom, has been on the throne for 70 years.

Now, that is a record for a British monarch.

Nobody has been on the throne that long before the Queen became queen, 70 years ago, when she was 25 years old, when her father, george the 6th, died.

Another announcement the queen made is that she wishes Camilla, that is the wife of Prince Charles, to be known as Queen consort when Prince Charles becomes king.

Yeah. And we've got three words and expressions from the newspaper headlines that we can use to talk about this story, haven't we?

What are they? Yes, we have.

We have got milestone tributes and heartfelt.

That's milestone tributes and heartfelt. OK, let's have a look at your 1st news headline, please.

Yet. The 1st one comes from the Independent, which is based in the UK.

And the headline reads, queen pictured working.

A new image released for 70 year Milestone.

Milestone important point in someone's life.

Yes, now you've just said it's an important point in someone's life.

But let's break this word up to see its origin.

We have the word mile, and we have the word stone.

Now, mile is a measurement distance, which is the equivalent of rob equivalent of 1.6 km.

Yes, 1.6 km is a mile. The 2nd word there is stone.

Stone is a rock. Now, you put them together, you have a mile stone.

And a milestone is a marker that used to be on the side of the road, which would tell you how far it was to a certain place.

Yeah, so it's a kind of marker, as you say.

Therefore, metaphorically, a milestone is a marker in someones life.

That's right. So we're not talking literally here a stone with 70 written on it for the queen.

It's figurative. It's metaphorical. And we use milestone to talk about important points in someone's life.

And we also use milestone, uh, in connection with the project management, don't we?

We do Yes, in project management, often milestones are set.

Now, these are points or dates in a project when certain things should be achieved by to make sure that the project is going smoothly.

OK, what about you? Near any milestones in your life coming up?

Well, would you believe, rob that I joined the BBC in 2002, which is 20 years ago.

So that is an important milestone for my career.

That sounds like it. We'll put a special plaque up on the wall to mark this important milestone.

Yes, and I'm looking forward to celebrating your 50th.

Very good. Okay, well, we've reached a milestone in our program.

For a summary in News of you, last year we talked about a milestone in American politics.

What was that all about? Neil?

Yes, we did a story about Camalla Harris, the 1st woman of color to become the Vice President of the United States.

If you want to find out more about that story, what do our viewers have to do?

Rob Just click on the link down below.

Just click. OK, let's have a look at your next news headline, please Neil.

My next headline comes from BBC news, and it reads, prince Charles leaves Jubilee Tributes to remarkable queen that tributes announcements

showing respect and admiration for someone or something.

Yeah, so a

tribute, that's a noun, tributes plural there in the headline, and a tribute is something you say or write or do in order to mark or pay

respect to somebody's achievement. Hmm, so I get that.

But what are we kind of paying tribute for, particularly?

OK, so in this case, it's an important anniversary.

The Queen has been on the throne for 70 years.

That's very significant. And so we pay tribute.

It means we say nice things, we write nice things, we reflect on the achievement.

You might also hear it in connection with somebody's death.

So when somebody important dies, or not just important, actually somebody close to you, you might pay tribute, which is a sort of a formal way of saying that that person was really wonderful.

They did lots of good things.

And you'll notice that I said there pay tribute.

That's a collocation. Those words go together to pay tribute to someone.

Yeah, just to clarify, we're not handing money over here for a tribute.

We were not paying someone. No, it's not payment in terms of money.

No, we say pay tribute, meaning to in the same way we say pay, respect is to give.

OK? And I also hear that you can be a tribute to someone.

Yes, that's right. E.G. Rob, I've met your children.

They are really, really wonderful, friendly kids.

You've done a great job bringing them up.

They are a tribute to you.

Oh, thank you very much, neil, you're giving me a tribute.

Are you here? That's right. But I'm using that expression that someone is a tribute to something.

It means they've done a really good job of something, and they deserve to be recognized.

Well, thank you very much for that.

Let's have a summary in each of you.

Last year we talked about people paying tribute to the drummer of Rolling Stones.

Charlie Watts. You can watch that video again.

But how can people watch that meal?

All you need to do is click on the link below.

Great. Lets have a look at your 3rd headline, please.

My next headline comes from the Daily Express and of the UK based news organization.

And the headline is Queen Hails Anniversary of ground breaking British in New heartfelt message.

Heart Felt strong sincere feeling. Yeah, lots of really interesting vocabulary in that headline, but we're focusing on heart felt again, another word we can break up and look at the individual parts and try to um understand it that way.

So we have heart at the beginning.

Heart obviously the organ in your body which pumps blood around, but used very often figuratively, metaphorically, to talk about things connected to emotion, love and that type of thing.

And felt, obviously, there is the past of feel so put together heart felt, we are talking about sincere emotional responses?

Hmm. So it's something we really feel inside.

It's not something we casually feel or casually say.

It really is a feeling that we have inside, a genuine feeling for someone.

Yeah, if we were in the office and you made me a cup of tea, rob, I wouldn't give you a heart felt thank you.

I would. That's a little bit over the top, but if I am at a wedding, I might hear a speech by the father of the bride giving a heart felt speech about his daughter.

It'd be very emotional and very sincere.

OK? If I spill this cup of tea over you, of course I made a mess of your clothes.

I would give you a heart felt apology.

Well, if I was about to go and do something really important, uh, and you completely ruined my outfit, so it was quite serious, then heartfelt apology might be, might be a good idea.

Yes? OK, let's now have a heart felt summary.

OK, it's time now to look back at the words we've been discussing in this program.

Yes, we had milestone, important point in someone's life, tributes, announcements,

showing respect and admiration for someone or something.

And heart felt strong, sincere feeling.

Thank you. Now, if you want to test your understanding of those words, we have a quiz on our website at

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