BBC 英语学习 News Review 土耳其和叙利亚地震

Another earthquake has hit Turkey near the border with Syria.

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Turkey has been hit by another powerful earthquake.

Two weeks ago, tremors affecting Turkey and Syria killed over 44000 people and left thousands homeless.

The latest quake has caused many buildings weakened by earlier tremors, to collapse.

You ve been looking at the headlines both what s the vocabulary?

We have Fresh Rattle and wind down.

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

This is from The Financial Times.

Fresh Tremors hit Earthquake devastated province in Turkey.

Yes, so tremors have hit again.

Tremors, or when the earth moves because of an earthquake.

We are looking, though, at the word fresh in the headline, which most people will know.

But why Beth, is it being used in this context?

And what does it mean? Well, yeah, people know about it because we often use the word fresh when we're talking about food, and that means that it's at its best, really, it's new.

Okay, so when we see the expression fresh tremors, it means new tremors, new earthquakes.

Yeah, exactly. So we know that two weeks ago, areas in Turkey and Syria were hit, and now they have been hit again.

So fresh refers to the tremors being new and different, yes?

And there are other things you can use fresh to talk about with this sense of something being new.

E.g., in your everyday life. Maybe you're studying for an exam, and you take a break overnight and look at your notes again in the morning with fresh eyes.

That's right. Or maybe you forget to drink your coffee, it goes cold, so you have to make a fresh cup.

OK, let's look at that again.

Let's look at our next headline.

This is from Harriet Daily News.

Hospitals evacuated right after new tremors rattle her tie?

Yes. So hospitals were evacuated. That means people had to be moved from them, because it was a dangerous situation.

The area was rattled by earthquakes, and we're looking at rattled.

It means, as a verb, shake violently.

Yeah? Now, when everything shakes in an earthquake, the tremors make the earth move very quickly.

And this word rattle is very often used in negative situations, isn't it?

Yes. So imagine really, really strong winds.

They might rattle the windows of a house.

Or maybe somebody walks into a table, bumps into a table, the plates and cups might rattle.

Yeah. Now, this word rattle can also be used as a noun, and it means a loud and repeated noise.

Now, babies often play with a rattle.

It's a toy that they shake.

It makes a rattle, the noise.

And the name of it is a rattle.

And you probably know the animal of rattle snake.

It shakes its tail violently, and it also makes that sound rattle.

Let's look at that again. Our next headline.

This is from the Washington Post.

Death toll from Turkey, syria Earthquakes rises to 46000 as rescues wind down.

Wind Down is the verb we're looking at.

So rescues after the 1st earthquake were winding down.

And that's the expression. That's the word we're looking at.

What does it mean? Well, wind down means that something is gradually ending.

So in the headline, it's referring to the rescues They were ending in stages.

Yes. And this is a frasal verb we can use with lots of other situations.

So, e.g. a company might be struggling a bit, and so they decide to wind down their operations.

Yep. And it can be used in informal situations as well.

So maybe a meeting, they tend to wind down towards the end of the working day.

Yes? And there's another meaning you can wind down, meaning relax.

So after a hard day at work, you might wind down by listening to music that's right now.

A note about the pronunciation Wind ends with a duck

sound, and down begins with a duck.

So when we say wind down together, you might notice that the dirt at the end of wind

disappears wind down. Let's look at that again.

Weve had fresh, new or different rattle move quickly and often loudly, and wind down gradually end, often in stages.

Now, to learn and practice the disappearing death sound in English phrases like wine down.

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