Hello, everyone. Welcome to EnglishPod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erica. And today with Erica, we have a very aggressive(好斗的) lesson for you today. That's true.
We've got a revolutionary(革命的) lesson. Yes. Today at EnglishPod, we're protesting(&vt.抗议). So Erica, why don't you tell us what a protest is? Well, when you protest something, you go into the streets and show your disagreement(分歧). Right.
And you yell(大叫) and you have signs and everyone's just protesting(&vt.抗议). And the news comes and if it's not clear now, it'll be clear after the dialogue, I'm sure. Definitely, definitely. So why don't we start with our vocabulary preview? Vocabulary preview. We have two words in our vocabulary preview today.
The first is bankrupt(破产者). Bankrupt. Bankrupt. Bankrupt. Bankrupt. So if a company goes bankrupt, what happens?
It means the company doesn't have any more money. So it can't pay salaries. It can't pay anything. Can't pay its bills. Yeah. So basically(基本上), if it's bankrupt(破产者), it's probably going to close.
Exactly. Okay(好). Our second word today is bail(保释) out. Bail out. Bail out. Bail out.
B-A-I-L. Bail out. So bail out is when the government gives money to a company that is about to go bankrupt. That's true. It's emergency(紧急情况) money that will help save the company. Well, these two words are taken directly(直接地) from our dialogue.
And in today's dialogue, we're going to bring you live to a newscast(新闻广播). Right. So why don't we just listen to the dialogue? This is Action 5 News reporter Sarah O'Connell reporting live from Washington(华盛顿), D.C., where a protest has broken out. Thousands of angry citizens(公民) are protesting(&vt.抗议) against the proposed(提议) bail(保释) out of the auto manufacturing industry. Sir, Sir, Sarah O'Connell, Channel(海峡) 5 News, can you tell us what's happening?
Yeah. Yeah. We're here because we feel this is an injustice(不公正). The financial(财政的) irresponsibility of big business has to stop. We're here to show the government that we don't like the way they're spending our tax( 税) dollars. Sir, but what exactly is making(使) everyone so angry?
It's an absolute(绝对的) outrage(暴行), Sarah. The U.S. government wants to give $25 billion of taxpayers(纳税人)' money to the auto((口语)汽车) industry. These are companies that have been mismanaged and are now nearly bankrupt. I see. But many supporters(支持者) of the bail(保释) out argue that it could help save the jobs of millions of hardworking Americans.
That may be true. And I, for one, don't want to see anyone lose their job. But how can these CEOs ask for a bailout when they're making millions of dollars? And then they have the nerve(神经) to fly to Washington(华盛顿) in private(私人的) jets. This costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. They're asking for money.
That is just not right. Good point. This is Sarah O'Connell reporting live from Washington, D.C. Back to you, Tom. Wow, these people are really angry. I think they're furious(狂怒的).
Well, I think they have some good points, and we'll talk about that later. But now, it's time for Language Takeaway(外卖食品). Language Takeaway. There was some great language in this dialogue. A lot of language we use to express our anger(怒). Right.
And one of those words, and the first one for Language Takeaway, is injustice. Injustice. Injustice. And injustice. So an injustice is something that isn't fair. It's totally(完全地) unfair( 不公平的).
It's unfair, yeah. This is an injustice. Let's look at our second word, outrage. Outrage. Outrage. And outrage.
So, Erica, why don't you give us an example on how you would use outrage. There's no more coffee. This is an outrage.