BBC听力丨看国外新闻，学地道英语 Vol.366

Everton Football Club

埃弗顿足球俱乐部，

英超球队之一

英格兰足球超级联赛

Premier League

Everton Football Club get the biggest punishment in the Premier League's history for breaching its financial rules.

降级区

relegation zone

The team gets club is given a 10-point deduction, meaning it's now in the relegation zone.

v.上诉

appeal

fuel truck

加油车

（英国）财政大臣

Chancellor

US [ˈtʃænsələr]

UK [ˈtʃɑːnsələ(r)]

秋季财政报告

Autumn statement

拿破仑

Napoleon

/ə//əʊ/

UK [nə'pəʊljən]

史诗剧

epic drama

~ sb/sth

to surround or to cover sb/sth completely包围；吞没；淹没

engulf

Residents who lost their home when they were engulfed by wildfire say they are now facing a bill of 10, 000 from the council to rebuilt rebuild them.

他被一群记者团团围住。

He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters.

汽车被大火吞没。

The vehicle was engulfed in flames .

to a very noticeable degree and often with surprising suddenness显著地

dramatically

有点像greatly

get into trouble with sb/sth=

fall foul of sb/sth

Today, Everton Football Club has dramatically fallen foul of breaching its the strict financial rules which regulate the Premier League.

（竞赛等的）名次表，排名榜，积分表a list of sports teams, countries, schools, etc. that shows their position in a competition, etc.

table

委员会

commission

~ (on sth)

an official decision made by sb in a position of authority, especially a judge裁决；裁定；判决

ruling

法庭下周将对本案作出裁决。

The court will make its ruling on the case next week.

to spend too much money or more than you planned花钱过多；比（预计的）花得多；超支

overspend

It happened after an independent commission found it breached the rules governing how much clubs are allowed to overspend by.

这个公司在市场推广方面开支过多。

The company has overspent on marketing

许多部门今年开支都超过了预算。

Many departments have overspent their budgets this year.