BBC 英语学习 News Review 禁止“牛排”

No more plant based

stakes, at least not in France.

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Now the story plants based food can no longer have meat based names.

In France, the French governments have published a list of words such as stake and ribs that will not be allowed on labels for meat free products.

Farmers in the country have argued that using these words for non meat products could confuse customers.

Similar measures are being discussed in other countries.

Even looking at the headlines. Beth, what's the vocabulary?

We have meeting Salvo and re Ignites.

This is news review from BBC, learning English.

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

This is from The Guardian No More Cordon Blur France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language.

So as the headline says, france is banning the way that certain foods, plant based foods, are described.

It's not banning the food itself.

Now we are looking at the adjective meaty.

Um. How exactly can language be meaty?

Well, firstly, meaty can be used to describe food.

If you are cooking or eating something meaty, then it either is actually meat or it has a strong flavor of although this headline is playing with the meaning of the word meeting, because the band words could actually be used to describe actual meat.

But meaty language is what we're looking at tell us more.

Well, meaty can also have this meaning of complex or serious, and it's often used to describe books and films.

I really like reading. I enjoy a good big novel, lots of difficult language in it, which could be described as meaty.

Yeah, well, you're obviously a lot cleverer than me, beth, because I don't really like reading anything meaty.

I prefer just to look at the sports pages.

That's good enough for me. Okay, let's look at that again.

Let's have our next headline. This is from Voa News.

France ready s new salvo against meat substitutes labeling.

We are learning about the word salvo.

Beth tell us more. There's a military origin.

I think there is yet. So salvo is originally a military term, and it means to fire all the guns at once.

Imagine an old warship and all of the cannons shoot at the same time.

Well, that is the literal meaning, but we are learning a metaphorical meaning, which is attack.

And here it's a legal attack.

It's not a physical attack. The French government has tried this in the past and is getting ready to try it again.

That's right now. We can also use the expression launch a salvo to describe criticizing someone.

Last night, very late, the neighbors in the flat above me were being really loud, so when I saw them this morning, I launched a salvo of angry words in that direction.

Okay, that sounds a bit scary.

I must remember never to make any noise near you.

Beth, I'm not sure if I could handle a salver of angry words.

Let's look at that again. Let's have our next headline.

This is from W-I-O news. France regnites bid to ban use of words stake, spare ribs for plant based food.

So we are going to learn about the word reagnite.

And there is a clue hidden in the word.

It's connected bath to fire. It is now, if you ignite a fire, you start a fire, and that prefix re means again.

So re ignite means to start a fire again.

Now, we're not talking about a literal fire here, but obviously fires dramatic.

Its can related to conflict. And here we're talking about a political campaign.

Yes, as we've already heard, this isn't the 1st time the French government has tried to ban these

meat related words. But they are doing it again.

They've regnited

it. They've started exactly And there are other things that you can re ignite.

Maybe you're having an argument with somebody, it's finally calmed down, and then they say something really annoying, and it re ignites the argument again.

Yes, but it doesn't have to be all negative.

You can regnite your passion for something you love.

Now, I heard Beth, that you used to go surfing and you've regnited your passion, you're going to start again.

I have. In fact, I'm going to regnite my passion and go surfing right after news review.

OK, let's look at that. We've had meeting interesting or complex, salvo, an attack or criticism and regnite.

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