BBC 英语学习 News Review 杀手盐

Adding salt to food can take years of your life.

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I'm Neil, and I'm bath and we have lots of language about this story.

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salts. It makes everything taste better, but it's also killing people.

New research has found that adding salts to your meal may reduce your life by two years.

But the good news is that even a small reduction insult can make a big difference to your health.

You've been looking at the headlines, beth, what's the vocabulary?

We have Deadly, knock off and tea Time.

This is news review from BBC, learning English.

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

This one comes from US News.

Your salt shaker may prove deadly, study finds.

So the word we are looking at is deadly.

And Beth, there's a big clue in the 1st part of that word dead Yeah, We see in this headline that the salt shaker, that's the thing you pour salt onto your food with, may be deadly.

Now, that's an adjective, and it just means likely to kill.

Yeah? And we see this word often in connection with substances.

Disease is dangerous situations and animals, isn't that right?

Yeah. So, e.g., a deadly spider is one that can kill you.

But like so many of the words we look at in news of you, it has another very different meaning, and I'm deadly serious about that.

There we go. Hell yet deadly, as you've used it, there means completely, and we often use it with dull, boring and serious.

Deadly, dull. Deadly, boring, deadly serious.

You do look a bit serious, then you Sorry, I was just thinking about that deadly spider.

And get ready for the bonus word now, beth, spiders are dead.

Scary. They are. You are dead right now.

So some people use dead in this way too, especially if they're from the north of England.

And it can mean completely or very dead, right?

Dead. Easy. Dead. Interesting. Yes. And what's really interesting or dead interesting about this use is that we use it for good things.

So dead easy, yeah, or dead good.

But we don't say deadly easy or deadly good.

Best to keep deadly for dull, boring or serious things.

Let's take another look at that.

Let's have a look at our next headline.

This one is from Nine News in Australia.

Sprinkle of salt at table could knock two years of your life.

Study finds we're looking at the frasal verb Knock off.

And it's a frasal verb, so unfortunately, it's got lots of different meanings.

Yeah, you're right, but in this headline, it just means reduce.

Let's think literally. Imagine you have a pile of things, say, books, and you knock one off the top.

That happens. Yeah. And so the size of the pile is smaller, it's reduced exactly.

So in this headline, we see that too much salt can knock years of your life.

It can reduce the number of years you live.

That doesn't sound too good. We can also knock a few pounds off the price of something.

So e.g., if I'm selling this beautiful luxury watch and you think it's too expensive, that's right.

Can you knock 10 lb off it?

I want him to reduce the price?

I'll think about it. Talking of selling watches, it's got another meaning, hasn't yet.

We can also use knockoff as a single word, with or without a hyphen and this time it means a cheap, possibly illegal copy of a real product.

So actually, nail, I don't think I want that.

Watch. It's a knock off. Let's have another look at that.

Our next headline there, please. This one comes from the sun.

Tea time killer, popular condiment, increases your risk of dying young by 28 %.

Scientists warn we're looking at tea time.

This is easy enough. It's the time when you have tea.

Everybody knows what he is, but you don't put salt in it.

Well, that depends, neil. Tea is, of course, a drink, and you definitely don't want to put salt in it.

But tea is also a meal.

Tea time is traditionally a small meal in the afternoon with tea and cake, yes, but there is more to tea.

And this is where it can get quite confusing, because

depending on where you live, tea means different things.

Beth, you are from the north of England, I am.

And I call the meal that I have in the evening my main meal tea.

So I would say, do you want to come round for tea, neil?

You're from

the south of England, aren't you?

Yes, I'm from the south, and I call my main meal in the evening dinner, and I would ask somebody if they want to come for dinner.

So tea time can be an afternoon meal or an evening meal, though not everyone uses tea time in this way.

Let's take a look at that one more time.

We've had deadly. It can kill you.

Knock off ridges and tea time a meal for some in the afternoon or the evening.

Don't forget, there's a quiz on our website.

Thank you for joining us, and see you next time.

Goodbye. Bye.

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