BBC 英语学习 News Review 英剧神秘博士剧透

The BBC names the next doctor who This is news review from BBC Learning English.

And I'm Rob. And joining me to talk about this story is Roy.

Hello Roy. Hello Rob. And hello everybody.

If you would like to test yourself on the vocabulary around this story, all you need to do is head to our website, bbc learning english dot com, to take a quiz.

But now, let's hear more about this story from this BBC news report.

The BBC has announced that the next star of doctor, who will be shooting Gatwa, who will take over from Jody Whittaker, to become the 14th daughter the 29 year old Scott, who's best known for playing Eric in the Netflix show Sex Education, is the 1st black actor to take the lead role.

So Doctor, who is a popular, long running science fiction drama made by the BBC.

Now the BBC has announced the next actor to play Doctor, who also known as the Time Lord, that will be shooting Gatwa.

Shooting Gatwa will be taking over from Jody Whittaker and be the 14th time traveling doctor.

Yeah, it's an interesting story. And you pick three words and phrases from the news headlines about this story, what are they, please, roy.

We have under wraps irrepressible and bows out.

That's under wraps irrepressible and bows out.

Okay, let's pick that 1st phrase from your 1st headline, please.

Okay, so our 1st headline is from the BBC, and it reads, doctor who it's been tricky trying to keep this under wraps, says Gatwa.

Under Wraps secret. Okay, so this is a two word expression.

1st word is under U-N-D-E-R. 2nd word is raps, W-R-A-P-S, and it basically means that is a secret.

Hmm. And breaking that phrase down under means to to be below things.

Under things is is when it's yeah, beneath something.

We sometimes use under as a prefix, so we might say, underfunded or under resourced, E.G.

But here we're not using under as a prefix, are we?

No, we're not. Now, if you, uh, take that idea of under a big meaning beneath and then raps, think about something being wrapped up.

Now, something wrapped up, e.g., if you're in bed, you may be wrapped up in the dove, which means you are completely covered in the dove.

And together underraps basically means that something is secret.

And of course, we we talk about presents being wrapped up.

We wrap things up because what's inside?

I guess it's a secret, isn't it?

We don't want people to see it until the day comes for your birthday present.

So that's what we're talking about here.

Well, yeah, I mean, it's that basic idea of something being rapped, and then you open it and it's a big surprise.

But in terms of underraps, the expression, we often use it for really big secrets, so e.g.

plans, big plans that are being kept secret, or big pieces of information.

So, e.g., in the headline, we're talking about, who is going to play the new doctor?

This was a secret for a long time, and it all for a while, and it was kept under wraps.

Hmm. And you had a secret the other day, and you told me, don't let the cat out of the bag that Yeah, don't tell anybody.

So E.G., when we say the expression, don't let the cat out of the bag, we're basically saying, reveal a don't reveal the secret.

To let the cat out of the bag means reveal a secret.

So if you're keeping a secret under wraps, don't let the cat out of the bag.

It's a great little idium. OK?

I'll remember that. We'll keep it quiet.

Let's have a summary. We've been talking about secrets, and if you want to learn more expressions about keeping secrets, why not watch our very funny drama, the White Elephant.

Where can we see that? Roy?

All you need to do to watch that is click the link in the description below.

Keep it a secret. Okay, let's have a look at your next headline, please.

Okay, so our next headline comes from The Guardian, and it reads, doctor who shooting Gap was irrepressible Rise to new time.

Lord. So that's irrepressible. Energetic, lively, uncontrollable.

Okay? So, irrepressible is an adjective, and it is spell I-R-R-E-P-R-E-S-S-I-B-L-E.

And it basically means that something is lively full of energy, energy.

It's used to describe, often used to describe a person, and it sometimes means that they can't be stopped.

Okay, now, I know about the word repressible, meaning to stop something happening, but here

we have a prefix I-R, yes, yeah.

And that I-R means not So repress

is a verb. It means to stop something.

Repressible is an adjective. It means that it can be stopped.

Irrepressible means that it cannot be stopped.

Now, this adjective, when it's used to describe a person, is often quite positive.

So we say that all the persons so full of energy, they're so full of they're so lively, and they just can't be stopped.

Occasionally, it can be used to describe somebody who's being a bit annoying.

Maybe they're doing the same thing over and over again, and maybe I could say they are irrepressible.

Hmm. And we can say that you roy are irrepressible in a good way, of course.

Could I say your irrepressibly cheerful?

Is that the same meaning? Yeah, if you want, if you want.

Yeah. So there you use that as an adverb irrepressibly.

Now, one thing I want to talk about this often we use irrepressible as a positive adjective to describe somebody who can't be stopped.

Sometimes as a negative. We can use the word uncontrollable.

If they are out of control and you can't stop that person, you can't manage them.

So if you have an employee and they are uncontrollable, maybe the manager can't control them or stop them.

They are out of control. OK, thanks for that.

Let's have a summary now. Doctor, who is a fictional doctor, but we've been talking about real doctors and what life will be like without them.

How can we watch that program?

Er Roy, all you need to do is click the link in the description below.

Yep, just down there. OK let's have a look at your next phrase from your next headline, please.

Okay, so our next headline is from The Mirror, and it reads, doctor whose new Timelord is sex education star Shooting Gatwa as Jody Whittaker Bows out.

That's bows out. Stops working after doing a job for a long period of time.

OK? So this is a Frasal verb.

1st word bows B-O-W-S. 2nd word out, O-U-T.

And it means to stop doing a job or activity, usually after a long period of time.

So we break down this phrase.

1st of all, we have bowels.

Now, I know about bowing. This is when you bend over to say thank you, or to to greet someone for the 1st time.

Maybe if you go to the theater, often at the end of the performance, all of the actors come on stage and they give a bow, and it's to say thank you and to tell people that the show is over.

And now, if we continue with that idea of bowing at the end of a theater piece, that's a very similar idea to bowing out.

To bow out means to end, uh, working, stop working after a long period of time.

You can use it as bowout, bowed out, or bowing out.

Hmm. So you might bow out when you retire from a job, E.G.

Yeah, absolutely. And there you go.

That's that long period of time idea.

So after a long career, maybe quite commonly use it in sport as well, when somebody retires from the sport that they've been playing, e.g.

of footballer has been playing for a long time, and they decide to bow out a football got an informal phrase?

Would I use it? Maybe at the end of my working day, I've done a day in the office.

Do I bow out and go home?

No, no, this is for a long period of time.

Maybe after a long career, several years, or a long period of time working, you bow out.

Now, if you want to say at the end of the day that you are, you, you're finished, you can say, I'm done.

I am done. I'm done for the or I'm done for the day.

Or even if work is becoming a bit difficult that day, you could just say, I give up, which means like, you surrender.

You can't do it anymore. Okay, but going back to bows out, I mean, this is usually your decision to leave.

You finish your career, e.g. you're not being pushed or sacked, you choose to bow out.

Yeah, you bow out when you want.

Okay, got it. Let's have a summary.

Ok Roy, before we bow out, could you recap the vocabulary we've discussed today?

Please? Of course I can. We had underraps secret, we had irrepressible,

energetic, lively, uncontrollable, and we had bows out, stopped working after doing

a job for a long time.

Now, if you want to test your understanding of these words and phrases, we have a quiz on our website at bbc learning english dot com, and that's a good place to go to for lots of other learning English resources.

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