BBC 英语学习 News Review 里希·苏纳克是英国新任首相

The UK has its 3rd

Prime minister in seven weeks. This is news review from BBC Learning English.

I'm Sean, and I'm Beth. Make sure you watch to the end to learn vocabulary to talk about this story.

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Today s story Wishy Soonak, has taken over from Liz Trust, after she spent just 45 days in office.

Trust resigned after being heavily criticized for her economic plan, which saw the value of the pound drop significantly.

Richy soon act, the UK s 1st British Asian Prime Minister, will have urgent issues to deal with, including the ongoing cost of living crisis.

Opposition parties are calling for a general election.

OK, so both youve been looking at the headlines, what's the vocabulary?

We have bruising Rushynomics and steep learning curve.

This is news review from BBC, learning English.

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

This one is from The Times how Richy Soonak bounced back from summer's bruising defeat.

OK, so a bit of context.

Liz Trust beat Rishi Sunak earlier in a leadership contest this summer.

Now the headline says, he's bounced back, so he's returned quickly.

He's now Prime Minister. But the Times describe that defeat as bruising.

OK, so bruise is something you get when you hurt yourself, right?

Exactly. So a bruise, as a noun, is that kind of dark area of skin when you walk into a table or something like that, and if you touch it, it's quite painful.

So the headline is saying that this was a bruising, meaning a painful defeat for recession act, yes.

And here it also means that it damages his reputation.

It damaged his reputation or confidence.

So the loss damaged his reputation.

So like a bruise damages your skin.

That's right, yeah. And we can hear this adjective bruising in other news headlines, particularly when it comes to sports.

Now, shan yesterday, my football team lost five mill that's a bruising loss.

No. But other any other words we could use instead of bruising?

Well, bruising isn't that common. It's not really heard in everyday conversation.

So you might describe a defeat or a loss as painful, bitter or sometimes sore as well.

Okay, let's have a look at that again.

Ok let's have our next headline.

This one is from the Telegraph.

Why return of Richynomics means more pain for Britain.

Okay, so the headline writer thinks that more pain is coming, and specifically that richynomics will cause this pain.

But richynomics, what is that? Doesn't even sound like a word.

Well, richynomics is a playful way of combining his name, richie with the suffix nomics that comes from economics.

So literally, rich economics means the economics of risky.

OK, so is it normal to combine a name with the suffix nomics?

Well, it is if you're talking about a politician and their economic policies.

Now, recently, a lot of people have been criticizing trustnomics.

That's the economic policies of Liz Tress.

And you also might have heard of regonomics from the eighties in the USA.

Okay, so can I start talking about charnonnomics?

Not really, you know. I mean, if you get into government and you become in charge of all the finance, then or yes, let's hope that never happens.

Let's lick at all of that again.

OK, next headline, please bet. This one is from The Financial Times.

SOONAK faces steep learning curve on World stage.

OK? So the headline says that the new Prime Minister will need to face issues on a world stage.

So that means the whole world will be watching how he does his job.

Now, I know

what a curve is. This is a curve, but what is a steep learning curve?

Well, if you picture a graph like this,

when he starts his job, he doesn't have a lot of experience being a Prime minister, but he has to learn a lot right at the beginning.

Okay, so the headline says, or means, at the start of the job,

he will learn a lot. Yes, definitely, he'll learn a lot quickly.

And this learning curve is described as steep.

Now, if you think about a steep hill, it means it's really difficult to climb it.

It's not like this easy. It's steep.

So it's also a difficult job.

Yes. So steep really emphasizes how quickly he will need to learn.

And can we use this in other situations?

Yes, we can. So when you start a new job, then definitely it can be a steep learning curve.

Also, when you leave home for the 1st time, there's a lot to learn very quickly.

How do you cook for yourself?

Do the laundry, all this stuff?

Or if you move to a new country and also have to learn a new language, that can be a very steep learning curve.

But if you're in that situation, don't worry.

We're here to help. So let's look at that again.

OK? So we've had bruising, it's painful rush economics, the economics of riches.

Sooner, steep learning, curve learning a lot, very quickly.

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