BBC News Review 终身禁烟

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more English from news headlines. Now the story Buying cigarettes is to become illegal for anyone born after 2009, for their whole life.

Lawmakers in the UK have approved a government plan to create a smoke free generation.

The law will make the sale of tobacco products, but not the act of smoking illegal.

Tobacco use is the UK s single biggest preventable cause of death, killing 80 thousands people every year.

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

People need to understand this story?

In English, we have backlash, derail and nuts.

This is news review from BBC, learning English.

Let's have our 1st headline. This is from the Financial Times.

Richy Sunac faces Tory backlash against long term smoking ban.

OK, so this headline says that Richy Sunak, who is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is facing a backlash from members of his own party, that's the Tory Party, that's nickname for conservative.

Um, we are looking at backlash.

It's made of two parts, and it's helpful to break them down.

Yes, so the 1st part is back, which is the opposite of going forwards, and the 2nd part is lash, which means to hit hards like this, which now, the original meaning was machinery that, when it broke, went backwards.

And it still has that kind of meaning that used metaphorically, because backlash is a strong rejection of something yes.

And that's what this headline is saying, that there are members of Richy sunex's own party who really don't like this idea, this proposal to ban smoking, and so there is a backlash.

They reject the idea. We can also use this, E.G.

to talk about a school which tries to ban junk food.

The kids really want junk food.

There could be a backlash against that decision.

Yes. Now, it is often used for these large scale, serious events that maybe affects the public, not really used for everyday personal situations.

Now, neil, I'm having a birthday party this weekend.

We're going to karaoke, and some of my friends don't really like singing, but I wouldn't say there's been a backlash against the idea.

It just sounds a bit strange.

It does sound strange. There is an alternative word to backlash with a very similar meaning, outcry, but again, used for sort of large scale, serious things.

And so I wouldn't say that there was an outcry against your decision to go to karaoke, even though I haven't been invited.

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

This is from The Guardian. Tobacco firms lobbying MPS to derail smoking phase out, charity warns.

So this headline means that tobacco firms, that tobacco companies, have been lobbying MPS.

Mobbying is trying to influence the decisions that MPS make.

We're looking though, at derail, a word we can break up into two parts D and rail.

Rail is connected to trains best.

Well, there are definitely no trains being talked about here in this headline.

But the literal meaning of derail is for a train to come off its tracks.

Here its metaphorical, and it means prevent something from reaching its final place.

OK? Yes, so when a train derails, it literally can't get to its destination.

Here in the metaphorical use in the headline, it means this idea, this proposal, can't get to its final metaphorical destination.

Yes, that's right. Now, this is very often used for plans the word derail, and quite often controversial ones, like smoking.

It is a controversial topic. And thinking about that meal in my town, they have decided to build some flats in a park.

A lot of people are not happy about it, and they are trying to derail it.

They've set up a group to derail it.

But again, that is a big, serious situation.

Derail is not really used for personal, everyday things.

My friends

will, hopefully, you know, not derail the plans for the birthday party.

Or we wouldn't say that. At least, no, it sounds way too formal.

Doesn't alternatives to derail with a very similar meaning.

Our scupper and

sabotage Again, for big, serious things, but for more low scale, less serious events, like your party that you haven't invited me to, we could use wreck.

E.g. I might try and wreck your plans.

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

This is from BBC news. Rishi Sunax attempts to ban smoking is nuts, says Barris Johnson.

So this headline is about something the former UK Prime Minister, boris Johnson said about Richy Sunax plans to ban smoking.

He said, they are nuts. Nutspath.

That's a food. So why is there a reference to food in this headline about smoking?

Well, they're not talking about food here at all.

Here, nuts means crazy. So Boris Johnson saying banning smoking is nuts means he thinks it's crazy.

And it is often used with ideas and suggestions.

Neil, you are running a marathon soon, and you haven't done any training yet, that is nuts.

Now, something interesting about this word is that it is an adjective, but it's usually used after the noun.

We can say that idea is nuts, but you wouldn't say it's a nuts idea.

Sounds a bit strange. Okay, so is this a common thing in English?

Can we use food to mean crazy?

Can I say that's the idea is apples?

You can't say it's apples, but you can say it's bananas.

Bananas is another way of saying crazy.

Also, crackers. That idea is crackers.

A different word not related to food would be bunkers.

Okay, yes, bonkers. That's a good word.

It's a bonker's idea for you to have a party without me.

Let's look at that again. We've had backlash, strong rejection of an idea derail, stop a plan, and nuts crazy.

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