BBC 英语学习 News Review 查尔斯国王加冕典礼

The coronation of a king. Charles the 3rd is crowned.

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Now the story Charles the 3rd has been crowned King of the UK and other Commonwealth realms in a coronation ceremony, members of the Royal family and senior politicians from around the world attended various events took place over the weekend, including a special concert and street parties.

But not everyone has been celebrating.

Police controversially arrested anti monarchy protesters on the day.

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

We have Touching Wingman and bolts.

This is news of you from BBC, learning English.

Let's look at our 1st headline.

This is from The Guardian, the Coronation Review Immaculately Rehearsed.

Touching and Shakespeareian. So the headline is saying that The Coronation was Immaculately Rehearsed.

That means practiced until it was perfect.

But we are looking at touching and touch physically.

Is this? What's the sense here though?

Well, if you touch something physically, then you feel it, but if you touch something metaphorically, then it is emotional.

And that's the meaning of touching here.

It's literally like a feeling reaches out and touches you.

And so the headline is saying that the coronation was an emotional event.

That's right. And we can use touching to describe other things, e.g., maybe your friend gives a speech at graduation and you find it very emotional.

It's touching. Yes, perhaps you're reading a book about soldiers returning from a war meeting their families for the 1st time in a long time.

It's touching. It's emotional. Let's look at that again.

Let's have our next headline. This is from the Times Coronation Concerts.

I'll be your Wingman. Tom Cruise tells King Charles, as it happened, we're looking at wingman.

It's made up of two parts wing and Man the 1st part wing.

Is this that helps a plane or a bird fly?

Man We all know. Man Put them together.

Wingman what's the sense? Is it connected to flying?

It is? Yeah. So think of a group of planes flying together.

The wingman is the pilot that flies on the wing, so behind and to the side of the other planes, OK?

So it is the pilot that supports the other pilots, and support is the key to understanding this here.

So Tom Cruise is basically saying that he would support King Charles.

Yes, exactly. And the reason that Tom Cruise says this is because he played a pilot in the film, top Gun.

And also, king Charles is a trained pilot.

He was in the Royal Air Force.

But there's another meaning of wingman.

Isn't an ill? Yes. So a wingman is a friend who supports another friend, e.g., you might be out with a group of friends, and a male friend in particular, wants some support in trying to meet a partner that is a wingman.

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

This is from Forbes. Prince Harry shunned from Buckingham Palace balcony and soon bolts for airport.

So Prince Harry was shunned from the balcony, it means he wasn't included.

We're looking at bolts, which is a verb, but it might be useful to think of it as a noun A lightning bolt.

Yes, it's definitely helpful to think of that, because a lightning bolt is something that happens very quickly, and to bolt as a verb means to leave or escape very fast.

Yes? And in fact, prince Harry did leave the coronation very quickly, and there was some controversy about him attending at all.

Yes, there was now note in the headline, it uses the preposition

for bolts four plus a place, in this case the airport.

And we can also say, bolt to a place, e.g.

you might bolt to the supermarket before it closes.

And bolt down is also

possible. It means doing something in a

hurry, so you could bolt down the stairs if you need to leave your house quickly, or bolt down your food if you're really hungry or you need to eat quickly.

Let's look at that again. We've had touching, emotional wingman a supportive person, and bolts moves quickly.

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