今日の英語ニュース☆2023.11.15☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める
このnoteの目的は、アメリカのニュース番組が理解出来るようになる方法を伝えることです。その方法とは、英語字幕を読みながら英語ニュースを毎日見続けること。 こんな感じです(サンプルのスクリーンショット)。
使う教材は、上のリンクの動画です。
アメリカの公共放送PBSのニュース番組で、質の高い報道に定評がありますが、残念なことに、字幕に誤りがかなり含まれていることがあります。番組がアメリカで放送されてから約2時間で最終版の字幕がアップロードされますので、時間的制約を考えれば誤りは仕方がないことかもしれません。
しかし、英語学習者の場合、字幕に誤りがあると、変だと思っても、それが本当に間違いなのか分からないことがあると思います。あるいは、間違いに気付かないこともあるかもしれません。ですから、正確な字幕が必要です。
そこで、約1時間の番組ですが、英語音声をすべて聞いて、字幕の明らかな誤りを訂正したものをダウンロードできるようにしています(少し下にあります)。この字幕ファイルと動画をダウンロードして再生ソフトで使ってください(上のスクリーンショット動画のように再生できます。英語が速すぎる場合は、あまりおすすめしませんが、再生速度の調節もできます)。
また、このnoteや字幕ファイルでは、辞書を調べても分からないような英語表現を説明しています(辞書を引けば分かる言葉は、自分で調べてください)。辞書に載ってないような表現、辞書にあっても意味がたくさんありすぎてどれなのか分からない言葉、文脈の中で特殊な使われ方をしている言葉、背景の知識がないと分からない部分、ニュース英語や時事英語の独特な表現、知っていると訳に立ちそうな表現などを説明しています(書き加えた説明は[* ……] )。
それでは、今日も一緒に英語のニュースを見ていきましょう!
■ 英語字幕ファイルのダウンロード
[PBS NewsHour Nov. 14, 2023] の字幕ファイルのダウンロード
(この字幕ファイルはテキストエディタ(windowsの「メモ帳」など)で開くことも出来ますが、下の「字幕ファイルの使い方」のように再生ソフト(無料)で使うことをおすすめします。こんな感じに表示されます。)ブラウザーによってダウンロードがブロックされる場合ば、下のテキストファイルをダウンロードして拡張子.txtを .lrcに変更して使ってください(例えば、Chromeは、.lrcのようなあまり使われない拡張子のファイルを危険と判断することがあるようです)。
■ 動画サイトへのリンク
・直接動画サイトを見る場合のリンクです(リンク先字幕の誤りは元のまま)
・分からない言葉はこの2つの辞書でたいてい見つかると思います
・上の字幕ファイルには、約1時間の番組の全字幕と語句説明があります
・以下はサンプル程度です
[00:00] Introduction
[02:40]★今日のおすすめ★ Civilians shoulder burden of war as fighting rages around Gaza hospitals
[07:40] Israeli politicians and Knesset members Danny Danon and Ram Ben-Barak published an op-ed calling on other countries to take in Gazan refugees. Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich agreed and said the state of Israel could not accept an independent Gaza, inflaming Palestinian fears of another Nakba, or catastrophe.
[** Nakba = The Nakba was the violent displacement and dispossession of Palestinians, and the destruction of their society, culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. The term is used to describe both the events of 1948, as well as the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and persecution and displacement of Palestinians throughout the region...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba ( Wikipediaの右上のlanguagesに日本語のページへのリンクもあります ) ナクバ ]
[08:44]★今日のおすすめ★ Speaker Johnson faces first major challenge as government shutdown deadline looms
[14:24] Burchett feels the other way. Burchett is concerned that McCarthy actually will primary him and that this could be a political problem for him as well.
[** to primary = to run against (an incumbent) in a primary election. この文脈では、Burchett下院議員の選挙区の共和党予備選で、McCarthy前議長が対立候補を支持して勝たせ、Burchett議員を本選挙に出られなくする ]
[15:04] SEN. MARKWAYNE MULLIN (R-OK): Sir, this is a time. This is a place, if you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here.
[** to run one's mouth = To talk profusely, especially in an insolent or antagonistic manner (thefreedictionary)]
[15:59] News Wrap
[16:43] The former president will stay on Michigan's presidential primary ballot. A state judge today rejected argument that Mr. Trump is ineligible under the U.S. Constitution because he engaged in insurrection. The Minnesota Supreme Court already issued a similar ruling. Cases are pending in at least two other states. [** 関連ニュース ]
[18:57] The Senate Rules Committee adopted a resolution today allowing confirmation of large groups of military promotions all at once. Alabama Republican Tommy Tuberville has blocked individual votes on hundreds of military promotions to protest a Pentagon abortion policy. The resolution now goes to the full Senate. [** 関連ニュース ]
[20:06]★今日のおすすめ★ Treasury Secretary Yellen on economic competition and cooperation between U.S. and China
[26:37] Jewish Americans share views on conflict as Israel-Hamas war continues
[35:41] Abbas Ibrahim discusses Israel-Hamas war and Hezbollah's looming threat
Much of the focus of this latest Israel-Hamas war is focused on Gaza and the brutal fighting there. But a larger, more threatening force in Hezbollah sits across Israel's northern border. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn recently sat down with a former top Lebanese intelligence official who knows the region well and is deeply involved in the negotiations over hostages taken by Hamas.
《レバノンの諜報機関の元トップでハマスとの人質交渉に深く関わっているAbbas Ibrahimへのインタビュー; We need to be balanced, or at least not to have a double standard dealing with issues; A double standard specifically when it comes to condemning the killings of civilians; You have a problem with the Palestinians. Go solve your problem with the people, not with their neighbors; 二重基準; ダブルスタンダード; 》
[37:36] SIMONA FOLTYN: Around 5,000 Palestinians are being held in Israeli jails, including 33 women and 170 minors, while more than 1,200 are placed under administrative detention.
[** Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial. A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security reasons. Many countries claim to use administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism or rebellion, to control illegal immigration, or to otherwise protect the ruling regime...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_detention ]
[43:11]★今日のおすすめ★ Latest climate assessment reveals how much climate change is costing Americans
[45:34] KATHARINE HAYHOE: Well, so often, we refer to climate change as global warming, which references the increase in the average temperature of the entire planet. But how we as individuals experience it is through what I call global weirding. In other words, wherever we live, our weather is getting weird.
[** global weirding = The belief that climate change causes or will cause various weather-related extremes, including both hot and cold weather, to become more intense. < A play on global warming, popularized by Thomas Friedman (wiktionary). ]
[46:15] Wherever we live, our lives are being touched by how climate change is loading the weather dice against us.
[** < to load the dice against someone = To rig something so that the outcome is predetermined to put someone at a disadvantage ]
[48:25] New museum honors untold stories of enslaved Africans through genealogy
[48:25] GEOFF BENNETT: Digging deeply into family lineage has taken off in recent years, with some estimates putting the number of visits to genealogy Web sites at over 100 million a year.
[** to take off = to become popular ]
[49:15] GEOFF BENNETT: The same team also offers instruction about the ins and outs of accessing public records, all while inspiring visitors to glean new meaning from a distant past.
[** ins and outs = The details or fine points of something ]
[51:29] Carolina Gold showcases the impact of enslaved people on South Carolina plantations who helped build the lucrative rice industry, while the Gullah Geechee exhibit looks at contemporary issues facing these descendants of West and Central Africans, who predominantly live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. and includes this replica of a praise house.
[* Lowcountry = A geographic and cultural region along the coast of South Carolina, including the Sea Islands, and including significant salt marshes and other coastal waterways ]
[** praise house = A praise house (also prayer house) was a type of vernacular religious architecture, typically built within the plantation complexes of the American South for the use of enslaved people who were legally bound to the property...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praise_house ]
[53:11] DARIUS BROWN: During the Port Royal Experiment, different abolitionists were coming down to Beaufort. They were teaching the people how to read and write for the first time. They were some of the first African Americans to earn wage labor. And so a lot of people -- photographers came down and they were taking pictures of the enslaved people.
[** The Port Royal Experiment was a program begun during the American Civil War in which former slaves successfully worked on the land abandoned by planters. In 1861 the Union captured the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and their main harbor, Port Royal. The white residents fled, leaving behind 10,000 black slaves. Several private Northern charity organizations stepped in to help the former slaves become self-sufficient...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Royal_Experiment ]
[54:39] There's something pretty radical about living under conditions that really aren't built for you to survive, and to still choose to love.
[** radical = (slang) awesome, excellent , cool]
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