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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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