BBC 英语学习 News Review 法国：马克龙赢得第二任期

In France. Macron has been reelected as French President.

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from BBC Learning English. I'm Rob, and joining me today is Roy.

Hello. Roy. Hello, rob and Hallow everybody.

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President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to unite France.

After he was reelected for a 2nd term, mr.

Macron won 58 of the votes to see off a challenge from the far right candidate Marine le Pen.

In his victory address at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, mr.

Macron said he knew that many people had voted for him purely to stop his opponent.

So a manual mcron has been voted President of France for a 2nd time.

He won 58% of the vote against Marine le Pen, a far right candidate.

He promised to unite France, and said that he understood many people had voted for him to stop Marine le Pen getting into power.

Yes. And you've picked three words and expressions from the news headlines about this story.

What are they? Please? We have size of relief, big blow and hinges on.

That's size of relief. Big blow and hinges on.

OK, let's have a look at your 1st headline, please.

OK, so our 1st headline comes from Sky News, and it reads, french election.

Emmanuel mcron's victory will be greeted by size of relief across Europe.

Size of relief relax after a serious problem.

So this is a three word expression.

The 1st word is size, S-I-G-H-S.

2nd word of O-F, 3rd word relief R-E-L-I-E-F.

And it basically means to relax after a serious problem or event.

Now, familiar with that word size?

I think we all do it when we sit down and we relax, we sigh, we make this noise aside, don't we?

Yeah, it's like, ah, so, very good.

So basically what it is, it's an excellation of air, and it demonstrates a sense of relief.

Now, we also say in other ways as well.

It's not just about relaxing. We can also say sometimes when we're bored or frustration, it's quite an, it's quite an emotional, it's quite an motive noise that we make.

Now, the word relief basically means to end a period of pain.

So, e.g., if you've got a headache, you may take a some kind of medication to give you pain relief.

But in this headline, we mustn't take this literally.

We're not hearing lots of people going, ah, are we?

No, no, we're not. It's basically used as an expression to say that after a serious problem or a situation, a negative situation, we can now relax.

And what other situations might we give a sigh of relief?

Well, I can give you a really good personal example.

Now, many of our viewers know that my wife and I, we were separated by the pandemic.

During the pandemic, my wife is from Brazil, and my son is also from there.

And for about for well over two years, nearly three years, we were apart due to the covid pandemic.

Finally, my wife received her visa, and we have been reunited.

And after that terrible time, when my wife and child arrived at the airport, I both literally and figuratively gave out a huge sigh of relief, because I was suddenly like, it's over.

OK, let's see that noise one more time.

Fabulous. OK, let's have a summary.

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Okay, let's move on to your next headline, please.

Okay, so our next headline is an opinion piece, and it comes from C-N-N, and it reads, opinion Why macron's win is a big blow to putin.

That's big blow. Large unexpected negative event.

Okay, so this is a two word expression.

1st word big, B-I-G, 2nd word below, B-L-O-W.

And it basically means an event that has a large and sort of devastating effect.

Now, blow often refers to the act of blowing with air like that, is that what this expression has something to do with.

A lot of air related expressions today apparen'tly sighing and blowing.

But now

let's talk about this idea of of blows.

So when somebody blows air at you, it hits you and it makes an impact.

Another way in which we use blow that will reinforce this idea is in

something like fighting. In fighting, you have punching.

Now, recently there was a boxing match in which Tyson Fury one against Billion White, and his final punch was a or his final hit was an uppercut, and it was the final blow.

So we used that idea of blow for impacts, especially related to punch and the punches and air, right?

But here, in this expression, big blow, we're not referring to air or to punches, are we?

There's no boxing involved? No, no, we're not.

So what we're talking about here, and let's focus in on that idea of an impact.

You're talking about an unexpected event that has a devastating effect, and it's a massive impact.

OK, and I'm just thinking back to last year's Euros, when our country's team, england, lost at the last minute.

That was a big blow for us, at least, wasn't it?

That was a massive blow. But well done, once again to Italy.

OK, let's have a summary of the expression.

We just mentioned. Last year's Euros, the big football tournament, where England, unfortunately didn't win, but Italy did, and we talked about that on News.

Of you, didn't we? Roy? Yes.

And all you have to do to watch that episode is click the link in the description below.

Great. Let's move on to your next headline, please.

Okay, so our next headline comes from The Telegraph.

Now, it's important to note that this headline, which released previously a couple of days before the election, and it reads, why e use future hinges on the French election result?

Hinges on depends on something happening.

Okay, another two word expression. 1st word hinges H-I-N-G-E-S, 2nd word on O-N.

And it basically means that something depends on something else occurring or happening.

And if we take this literally, a hinge is that piece of metal that holds the door to the wall and lets it open close.

Absolutely. Now, without those hinges, that door cannot open and close.

So it is a vital thing for the door to function.

And this is important in understanding what hinges mean.

So without those hinges, the door doesn't work.

And what we're saying, if something hinges on, another thing happening, it won't work unless that other thing happens.

So in my life, I've got two children.

They depend on me. I think they do anyway.

Can I say that my children hinge on me?

No, no, you can't. OK, so the way in which we're using depend on there, e.g., children depend on their paren'ts, is like rely on so, e.g.

they depend on you for things like supplying food and quite often money.

The way we use hinges on is when we're talking about one situation or event, is dependent on another situation or event happening.

OK, so I'm commute this expression in everyday life.

Yeah, so let me give you a good example.

Um, you invite me to a party, I'm still waiting for that invitation.

You invite me to a party, but I say, um, my coming to your party hinges on or depends on whether I get paid, so, e.g.

without money, I can't come to your party, right?

OK, we can also say the success of this program news review hinges on you turning up and presenting it.

Thank you very much for that.

But I-I think it hinges on not just myself, but the the whole team, you and everybody else that works at BBC, learning in English.

Without without the team, our wonderful content relies on our hinges on the success of our fantastic team.

Yeah, and it hinges on having a summary.

So here it is. OK, roy, it's time now for you to recap on the words and expressions we've discussed today.

Show thing, we had size of relief, relax after a serious problem.

We had big blow, large, unexpected, negative event, and we had hinges on depends on something happening.

Now, if you want to test your understanding of these expressions, we have a quiz on our website at bbc learning english dot com, and that's a good

place to go to for lots of other learning English resources.

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Well, that's all for news of you for today.

Thank you for watching, and we'll see you next time.

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