wax 蝋
metaphor 比喩
squeeze 詰め込む
admission 告白、自白
Jacinda Arden has resigned as the Prime Minister of New Zealand. She announced last week that she didn’t have enough energy to continue. Ardern was the youngest female head of government in the world when she came to power. She led New Zealand through the COVID pandemic, a terrorist attack and a natural disaster.
1.Burnout: Why Jacinda Ardern’s ‘rare’ admission about her mental health matters
This headline is saying that it is important that leaders, prime minister like Jacinda Ardern talk about issues like mental health. Burnout is where your job leaves stressed and exhausted, that you no longer have energy or enthusiasm. It’s a noun and made up of two parts ‘burn’ and ‘out’. It’s useful to imagine a candle, which of course has a flame at the top and then e long part of wax and it burns out. So it’s used to talk about exhaustion. When you’re working really long hours or you’re feeling very stressed, we use it as a noun. It’s common to hear the expression “try and avoid burn out” or maybe “look for the signs of burnout”. And also we use as an adjective. I can say that I’m burnt out.
2.Grateful Ardern makes last public bow as New Zealand PM
This story and this headline is about Jacinda Ardern’s final speech as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Bow is a noun. Imagine that actors do it at the end of play and from that we get a metaphor. When they make their last public appearance.
3.”Jacinda Ardern has crammed a lot into her relatively short career”- a resignation in New Zealand
Creamed is a verb that means to try and squeeze lots of things into a small space. For example, you’re going away and you’ve got a small suitcase but you want to take lots of clothes. You’ve got to really cram them in to make sure that they all fit. So it can be really difficult trying to get all of this things into a small space and so what this story is saying, the point is that Jacinda Ardern did a lot in a short space of time and it was really hard. And also we have a different, but related, meaning with ‘cram’. So if you cram for an exam, it means you study really hard for a short space of time.
