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Donald Trump arrested and charged with business fraud.
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This is News Review from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil. And I'm Beth.
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Make sure you watch to the end to learn vocabulary
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to talk about this story.
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Now, the story.
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Donald Trump has become
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the first ex-US president to be arrested
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and charged with criminal offences.
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He's accused of business fraud connected to money paid to an adult film actress
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shortly before he won the presidential election in 2016.
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The case comes as he campaigns to be president again
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in the 2024 election.
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Trump pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court on Tuesday.
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You've been looking at the headlines, Beth.
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What's the vocabulary?
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We have 'mugshot', 'unfolded'
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and 'rails against'. This is News Review from
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BBC Learning English.
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Let's have a look at our first headline.
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This is from The Telegraph.
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Donald Trump campaign releases mugshot t-shirt.
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So, Donald Trump's campaign team have released a mugshot t-shirt.
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'Mugshot' is a word
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we've heard and seen a lot of in the last few days.
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Is it connected to this mug?
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Well, that is a mug Neil,
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but the 'mug' in mugshot is actually a different word.
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It means 'face'. Now,
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the second part of that word is 'shot' and 'shot' is another word for 'photo'.
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OK, so, simple then -
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a mugshot is a photo of someone's face,
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or is there more to it? There is more.
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So, a mugshot is a particular photo that the police take
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when somebody is arrested.
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We should say that Trump didn't actually have a mugshot taken,
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but t-shirts with a mugshot of him have appeared anyway.
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One last important point.
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We've said the word 'mug' means 'face', so, can I say
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'she has such a pretty mug'? No. 'mug' does mean 'face',
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but it's only used in a negative way
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and it's actually quite often used with the adjective
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'ugly' - an ugly mug.
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OK, so be careful with that.
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Let's look at that again.
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Let's look at our next headline.
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This is from The Times of India. Surrender, arrest and then a rally:
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How the day unfolded for former US president Donald Trump.
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So, this headline describes the events
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of the day when Donald Trump was arrested.
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The word we're looking at is 'unfolded'.
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Can you tell us about it, Beth?
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Yeah. Well, let me demonstrate the literal meaning of 'unfolded'.
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This is my script.
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It's folded
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so I can't read it.
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I can't see what's inside.
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I don't know the detail.
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But, if I unfold it,
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then I can see what it says.
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Now, that's literal but, in the headline, it's metaphorical.
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It is metaphorical in the headline,
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but the meaning is the same as in your literal example.
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So, we can say that events unfolded.
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It means we didn't know what would happen at first,
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but as the day developed, things became clearer.
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Yes. And as you said, we often use unfolded, with 'events' and 'story'.
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Neil, have you seen the TV
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series, The Crown?
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I have seen it, yes. I thought it was a bit boring
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at first, but as the story unfolded,
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things became clearer.
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I really started enjoying it.
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Let's look at that again.
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Let's look at our next headline.
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This is from The Hill.
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Trump rails against charges in post-arraignment speech at Mar-a-Lago.
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So, this headline is about the speech that Donald Trump made
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after his arraignment. Now, 'arraignment' is a legal word that
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describes the process of being arrested,
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charged, appearing in court and pleading guilty or not guilty.
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But, the vocabulary
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we're looking at is 'rails against'. There is a familiar looking
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and sounding word in there - 'rails'.
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But, this is not about trains, is it?
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No, it's not. So, if you 'rail against'
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something, then you complain about it very angrily
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and this is not just the anger that you feel if the bus is late.
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It's real anger.
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Yeah. That's right. Well, you might rail against the bus company
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if it's late every day and it makes you late for work every day
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and you get in trouble because of it.
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You would feel very angry and have a kind of long complaint and
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that's what it means to 'rail against' something.
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Yeah, and take note, because we can also
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say 'rail at'. So, 'rail at' or 'rail against'
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something. And a similar word is 'rant'. Now, again,
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that means to talk or shout angrily about
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something you really dislike. OK, let's look at that again.
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We've had 'mugshot' - photo
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of a person's face taken by the police when they're arrested.
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'unfolded' - became clear as it developed.
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And 'rails against' - complains angrily.
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