BBC 英语学习 News Review 美国和英国对胡塞武装进行打击

US and UK launch new air

strikes on hoofy targets. This is news review from BBC Learning English, where we help you understand news headlines in English.

I'm Beth, and I'm Georgie. Make sure you watch to the end to learn the vocabulary you need to talk about this story, and remember

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Now today s story The US and UK have launched more airstrikes against hoofy targets in Yemen.

The hoofies have been attacking ships they say are linked to Israel and the West as they travel through the Red Sea trade route.

The UK and US said that they were trying to protect the free flow of commerce.

You ve been looking at the headlines.

What's the vocabulary that people need to understand this story?

We have fresh deal another blow, and send a clear message.

This is news review from BBC Learning English.

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

This one's from the BBC, US and UK launch fresh strikes on hoothies in Yemen.

This headline tells us that the UK and US have launched strikes, which means they have started an attack on the hoofies.

But this isn't their 1st attack on the hoofies.

So we need to look at the word fresh.

Now, georgie, this word always makes me think of food.

So why is it being used here?

Yes, it's true that fresh is usually used to describe food that is recently produced.

So fresh fruit is fruit that has just been picked.

Fresh bread has just come out of the oven.

Here, though. Fresh is another way of saying that the strikes on the hoofies are new.

Okay, so the US and UK have sent strikes before, but these ones are new.

They are fresh. Can you give us some other examples of when we can use fresh with this meaning?

Yes. Sure. So you could say that the lawyers brought fresh evidence to the court, which means that they brought new evidence that no one had seen before.

If a company hires someone, they usually want someone with a fresh perspective, someone with new and innovative ideas.

That's right. OK, let's look at that one more time.

Let's have our next headline. This one's from the Evening Standard Fresh UK and US Air strikes on hoofy targets deal another blow to militants.

This headline gives us a quote from the uk's Defense Secretary Grant Shaps, who says that, the strikes deal another blow to the hoofies.

Now deal a blow is the expression we're looking at.

Georgie, can you break this down for us?

Yes. Well, it's got two parts.

We've got deal and blow. So deal, in this sense, is another way of saying, give out or distribute.

So imagine in a card game, we deal cards to the other players.

Blow, in this sense is another word for a big hit or a sudden impact, right?

So deal, a blow, in this case, sounds very literal, because the US and UK have given that's deal.

The hoof is a big hit, and that is the blow because of these airstrokes.

Now, in guessing that this has a metaphorical meaning as well, that's right, and I think both are relevant here.

So in a metaphorical sense, it can be used when something causes a significant problem or setback.

So in this story, the purpose of the strikes was to cause problems for the hoofies so that they would be weaker and less able to attack ships in the Red Sea.

Can you give us another example?

Yep. So we can say that the pandemic dealt an enormous blow to the economy.

It damaged it. Notice here how the past form of deal is dealt, which has a different pronunciation.

So we're going from the sound E to the sound F, yes, we have deal and dealt.

Okay, let's look at that again.

Let's have our next headline. This one's from The Guardian.

Fresh US UK Air strikes send clear message to hoofies, says Cameron.

Now this time, we're hearing from the UK s Foreign Secretary David Cameron, and we're looking at his phrase Send a clear message.

Now, when I hear a clear message, it makes me think about something spoken

or written that is really easy to understand, like a very clear email or something.

Yes. But in this story, the US and UK

government say they are sending a clear message to the hoofies with air strikes.

And the message here, according to Cameron, is that if the UK gives a warning, then it will do what it says.

Now, we hear this phrase a lot in a very literal sense.

This morning, I sent a clear message, a text message, to my mum um.

But can you give us an example of how it's used in this headline?

Yes. So imagine a company decides to remove all single use plastic from its packaging.

You might say that this sends a very clear message that it cares about the environment and sustainability.

Yes, that's right. OK, let's have a look at that.

One more time. We've had fresh it's new deal.

Another blow. Cause more harm, and send a clear message.

Communicate something with an action that is easy to understand.

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