《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.08.23☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める☆PBS News Hour

■今日の動画：PBS News Hour August 22, 2024

[ １年前の今日のニュース ]

冒頭の動画をダウンロードして、専用プレーヤー(無料)で英語字幕を読みながら再生(あるいは、動画を見ながら聞き取れなかったところを字幕で確認)してください (再生画面はこんな感じです)。この画面なら巻き戻さずに字幕をさかのぼって確認することが出来ます (グローバルホットキーで簡単操作)。字幕は、すぐ下の「字幕ファイルの作り方」のようにすれば誰でも作れます。

• 専用プレーヤー (無料)のダウンロードと使い方

• 動画のダウンロード方法

• 字幕ファイルの作り方

字幕には間違いや省略が含まれていますが (番組放送後２時間ほどでアップロードされる字幕なので、間違いがあっても仕方ないかもしれません)、慣れれば、間違いや省略に気付いて、補正しながら動画を見ることが出来るようになります。

下の有料部分で、実際に英語音声を聞いて確認・訂正した字幕ファイルがダウンロードできます。「今日の注目語句」や「その他の語句」の説明もあります。

■おすすめの辞書

• Wiktionary

• TheFreeDictionary

• 英辞郎 on the WEB

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■今日の注目語句

番組を理解する上で問題になりそうな英語表現や注目すべき語句を書き出しています。リンクを付けてありますので、動画を見て、分からないものがあったら調べてください 。自分で調べることに意義があります。

調べる時間がない場合や調べても分からない場合は、下の有料部分に説明があります。辞書の定義では分かりにくい場合は、文脈の中でどのような意味で使われているかを説明しています。

説明はほとんどすべて英語で書いています。英語は英語で理解することを習慣にしましょう。

[05:24] BILL CLINTON: So, the next time you hear him (Trump), don't count the lies. Count the I's.

[05:54] AMNA NAWAZ: And, once again, this Democratic Convention relied on Republicans to help make the case for their candidate, like former Mike Pence adviser Olivia Troye.
OLIVIA TROYE, Former U.S. Homeland Security Official: You aren't voting for a Democrat. You're voting for democracy.

[** You aren't voting for a Democrat. You're voting for democracy. = permission structure の好例 //
A permission structure provides reluctant people with reasons or justifications to do something they might not have considered or been willing to do on their own. ]

[13:37] One [* Republican] source told me that there is a race right now to define Kamala Harris on the economy, and they said, if Harris is able to project herself as a change agent, versus someone who is to blame for the economy, then it's game over, that Republicans now and Trump himself need to define her as someone responsible for the problems, as she tries to define herself as someone who can solve them.

[14:35] They're also noticing those Republican speakers, including Stephanie Grisham, who spoke Tuesday, former press secretary to Donald Trump. Here's what she said at the convention on Tuesday.
STEPHANIE GRISHAM, Former White House Press Secretary: I saw him when the cameras were off. Behind closed doors, Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement dwellers. On a hospital visit one time, when people were dying in the ICU, he was mad that the cameras were not watching him. He has no empathy, no morals, and no fidelity to the truth.
LISA DESJARDINS: In response, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung wrote to me, wrote this statement: "Stephanie Grisham is a stone-cold loser who clearly suffers from Trump derangement syndrome and many other mental issues. She's a liar and a fraud."

[18:35] SEN. RAPHAEL WARNOCK: Well, listen, President Biden and Vice President Harris have been clear-throated that we need a cease-fire and we need an immediate cease-fire. And so that work continues. If it were a simple issue, it would be resolved already. But, certainly, my heart goes out for the Palestinian people, who have endured so much pain during this war, and even prior to this war.

[21:02] GEOFF BENNETT: I'm saving my most pressing question for last. We were talking earlier about how Georgia won the roll call on Monday night.
GEOFF BENNETT: Lil Jon fired up the Georgia delegation during the DNC's musical roll call. Where did this idea come from? Who had the idea to call up Lil Jon and do the roll call in that way?
SEN. RAPHAEL WARNOCK: Look, I wish I could take credit for that. But this is Georgia. This is how we roll, if you will.

[29:18] President -- former President Clinton might want to share some of that credit with the Republican-led Congress that governed legislatively while he was in office. So there's some squishiness there.

[44:33] And we have a unique passing of note. Australia's Sphen the penguin has died. The male gentoo penguin was one half of a so-called penguin power couple with his male partner, Magic. Same-sex couples are not uncommon in the animal kingdom. They were together for six years, shared a nest, and even raised two foster chicks. They became international icons, immortalized on floats, at Pride celebrations, and appearing in documentaries. Such penguin monogamy is also not limited to Sphen and magic. The majority of all penguin couples stick together for life, perhaps a lesson for us all. Sphen the penguin was 11 years old.

[** Sphen the penguin = see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphen_and_Magic ]

[51:01] And, third, Ukrainian units shouldn't outrun their artillery and their rocket support.

■その他の語句

「今日の注目語句」以外の大切な語句、気になる表現、以前説明した語句などをまとめています。下の字幕ファイルの中に説明やリンクがあります。

• call out/ As far as counting miscarriages, the plan (Project 2025) does call out current abortion data collection practices

• bridge proposal

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■字幕ファイル

上の「字幕ファイルの作り方」のようにすれば、自分で作ることが出来ます (自分で作れば無料ですが、もとの字幕の誤りはそのままになります)。

番組の音声をすべて実際に聞いて確認し、誤りを訂正した字幕が、有料になりますが、この下からダウンロードできます。字幕ファイルの中に語句説明もあります。この字幕ファイルがこのnoteの主要部分です。

番組内の英語表現について質問がありましたら、下のコメント欄に書いてください。