BBC 英语学习 News Review 美国和加拿大政府的TikTok禁令

30 days to remove TIKTOK. The White House bans the app from government devices.

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Now, the story The US and now Canada have banned tik Talk from government phones.

They are concerned the Chinese app could be a security risk.

Chinese authorities have criticized the move, saying, it's an overreaction.

You ve been looking at the headlines, beth, what's the vocabulary?

We have purging, sighting and over stretching.

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

This is from Reuters Exclusive. White House sets deadline for purging tiktok from federal devices.

So the White House has ordered all us government agencies to remove Ticksock from its work devices.

And the word we're looking at is purging.

Now, purging is a verb, and in this case, it means to remove something or someone from something else, particularly because it might be harmful.

Now, here in the headline, it's saying that tiktok is seen as a risk, so it's seen as something that could be harmful.

Yeah, and the word purge, and purging is used in a number of contexts, but what they all have in common is this idea of removing harm, or what is seen by some as harmful.

So the police might purge crime, they wanting get crime out of the city, or a company might want to purge waste.

That means stop wasting things so they can make more money.

That's right Now, purge can also be used to talk about removing people, particularly from an organization, if the leaders don't agree with them.

Now, imagine there's a new government, and the previous leaders, supporters are purged or removed from the organization.

Yeah? And the word purge there is negative.

You know, when somebody uses the word purge that they don't agree with what happening.

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

This is from NPR, citing security concerns.

Canada bans tik talk on government devices.

So this story is from Canada, but it's similar to the one from the U-S The Canadian government has decided to ban ticked up from its government devices.

The word we're looking at is sighting.

Yeah. Now, sighting is a verb, and it means giving a reason for doing something.

Now, the Canadian government have said that security concerns are the reason for banning tiktar from these work devices.

Now, this is a little bit formal, isn't it?

But that's why it's used more in written English than spoken English.

Yes. And you will see this word a lot in academic writing.

So, e.g., when you're writing a university essay, you have to cite other academics and research to construct your argument and make it stronger.

YEP And there's a noun for this, which is a citation.

YEP. Let's look at that again.

Let's have a look at on next headline.

This is from al Arabia. China says, US overstretching concept of national security on tiktok Ban.

So the Chinese Foreign Ministry has criticized this decision by the US.

The word we're looking at is overstretch, and the 2nd part of that word is stretch, which means to pull something.

It does. Yeah, if you stretch, say, your clothes, e.g., you pull them.

And if you overstretch them, then you pull them so far that they become too big, or they rip and get hole in them.

Yes, so that's the literal meaning here.

We are talking figuratively. But it contains that same idea of trying to get too much from something, and it becomes damaged because of that.

So, e.g., if you try to work more than you can, you can be overstretched, and you are, in a way, damaged.

Yeah, that's right. So in relation to this story, and this headline, china is saying that the US is overstretching, or exaggerating, the idea of national security being a problem, and that is damaging this Chinese company.

Okay, let's look at that again.

We've had purging, removing something considered harmful, citing giving the reason for something, and

over stretching, getting something

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