BBC 英语学习 News Review 哈里王子的书

Prince Harry reveals royal secrets in new book.

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I'm Neil, and I'm Shaun. Make sure you watch to the end to learn vocabulary about this story.

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Now, the story,

prince harry's autobiography, spare, has finally gone on sale.

He writes about his struggles growing up as a member of the royal family.

Harry describes dealing with his mother s death, his anger with the media and the treatment of his wife, megan.

The Royal family have said they will not comment.

You ve been looking at the headline, shine, what's the vocabulary?

OK, so we have from the horses now floods and have their cake and eat it.

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

This one is from the standard harry's memoir Spare hits bookshelves at midnight.

As fans q to read duke's story from horses mouth?

Yes. So Harry s book has come out, and people want to hear his story.

They want to hear it from the horse's mouth.

And that is the idiom that we're looking at.

It's got a horse, it's got a mouth, yeah, but it's an idiom, so there are no actual horses or mouths involved.

So if you hear something directly from the horse's mouth, it means you hear it from the original source.

So in this case, from Prince Harry.

Yeah. So it's saying that fans are waiting in these bookshops to hear this story told by Harry himself.

Is from The horse's Mouth. It's from the original source?

Yes, exactly. And we often see this expression written in the news.

And talk about celebrities, often gossip about them.

Yeah? Because often what we read or hear about famous people or celebrities, it's just gossip.

It's what one person thinks. But if they give an interview or write a book, then that is from the original source, the Horses Mountain.

And we often use this in what we also use in everyday conversation as well, don't we?

Yes. So e.g., there could be a rumor at your place of work, maybe someone's pregnant, maybe somebody is leaving, and then that person tells you directly.

You hear it directly or straight from the horse's mouth?

Yes? And we often use things like straight from or directly from, just to emphasize that it comes directly from the original source.

OK, let's look at that again.

Let's have a look at our next headline.

This is from The Telegraph. Readers Flood bookshops in midnight Rush to purchase Prince harry's spare.

Yes, so the headline is saying that Readers Flooded Bookshops.

Now, I thought flood meant too much water?

Yeah, normally it does. But this is actually quite a useful way to think about it.

So if lots of water enters a building in an uncontrolled way, we can say it floods the building.

But imagine instead of water, it's people.

So if lots of people enter a building, we can say they flood it.

So it means that the bookshops are so full because there are people, lots of people, who want to buy and read this book.

Yeah? And even though we use flood normally with water, we can also use it with other words, like people we just saw, or sunlight, or complaints.

Yes, light can flood a room, and it means that the room is filled with light.

Yeah? And if complaints flood in, that means you suddenly receive lots and lots of complaints.

Yes, let's hope that complaints don't flood in about us and that you write loads of nice stuff.

Yeah, that would be better. Let's have a look at that again.

Let's have a look at on next headline.

This is from The Guardian. Prince Harry Booklets let papers have their cake and eat it.

Yes, so before the official release of this book, somebody leaked it.

It means that they published it before they were supposed to.

We are looking at the expression, have your cake and eat it, which is another idiom.

It's got cake. I love cake, yeah, but unfortunately, it's an idiom, so it's not actually about cake.

So if you want to have your cake and eat it, you want to gain two advantages from one thing, but it's not possible.

You have to choose, yes. But luckily, for the newspapers, they

could have their cake and eat it this time, because firstly, they got to write about Harry, and secondly, they got to criticize him.

Yes, but pay attention, because normally we use this phrase in a negative sense.

So we say, you can't have your cake and eat it because it's impossible.

If you have a cake, you can't keep the cake and also eat it.

It's just not possible. Yeah? And so if I want to save money and at the same time buy something expensive, you can't do it so hard have you can eat it exactly.

I can't have my car and my money.

Let's have a look at that again.

We've had the the horse's mouth directly from the source floods, enter into alerts.

Have their cake and eat it.

Try to gain two advantages from one thing.

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