[Quotes] Chernobyl: The World’s Worst Man-made Catastrophe.

Chernobyl is a historical drama television miniseries created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. The series depicts the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the unprecedented cleanup efforts that followed. This explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant became one of the world’s worst man-made catastrophes. The series premiered in the United States and the United Kingdom on May 6–7, 2019 and was acclaimed by critics, with particular praise towards historical accuracy and attention to detail.

Let’s enjoy some fantastic quotes from Chernobyl. 

Boris Shcherbina : Can you see inside?

Valery Legasov : I don’t have to. Look. That’s graphite on the roof. The whole building’s been blown open. The core’s exposed!

Boris Shcherbina : [to pilot]  Get us over that building, or I’ll have you shot!

Valery Legasov : [to pilot]  If you fly directly over that core, I promise you, by tomorrow morning, you’ll be begging for that bullet.

Boris Shcherbina: Tell me how to put it out.

Valery Legasov : You are dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet before.

Boris Shcherbina : Of course, you presume I’m too stupid to understand. So I’ll restate: Tell me how a nuclear reactor works, or I’ll have one of these soldiers throw you out of the helicopter.

Boris Shcherbina : A nuclear plant in Sweden has detected radiation and identified it as a byproduct of our fuel. The Americans took satellite photos. The reactor building, the smoke, the fire. The whole world knows. The wind has been blowing toward Germany. They’re not letting children play outside… in Frankfurt.

Fomin : It’s overkill. Pikarov’s showing off to make us look bad.

Bryukhanov : It doesn’t matter how it looks. Shcherbina’s a pure bureaucrat, as stupid as he is pigheaded. We’ll tell him the truth in the simplest terms possible. We’ll be fine.

Bryukhanov : Naturally, we regret the circumstances of your visit, but as you can see, we are making excellent progress in containing the damage. We have begun our own inquiry into the cause of the accident, and I have a list of individuals who we believe are accountable.

Boris Shcherbina : Thank you for your service. You’re excused.

Fomin : Dyatlov was in charge.

Time to learn some collocations and sentence structures:

Valery Legasov : [to pilot]  If you fly directly over that core, I promise you, by tomorrow morning, you’ll be begging for that bullet.

1. beg for：to ask for money, or to ask someone to do something in an urgent way.

•  Is your child begging you for a skateboard?
• He went down on his knees and begged for forgiveness.

Valery Legasov : You are dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet before.

2. deal with: to develop a way to manage or relate to someone or something.

• We have to deal with problems as they arise.
• She had a marvelous ability to deal with people.

Please write down your own sentences by using one of the collocations, and leave your comments down below. We are looking forward to your answers!

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