《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.08.27☆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 26, 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。

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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。

[10:07] And it was mostly a down day on Wall Street today, but the Dow Jones industrial average climbed to a new all-time high, beating its old record set back in July. Some major tech stocks fell, pulling the Nasdaq down by nearly a percent. The S&P 500 also finished lower on the day.

[22:58] AMNA NAWAZ: There are just 70 days left until Election Day, and the campaigns are ramping into high gear.

[24:52] And most important, she's been able to, even as the incumbent, grab the change candidate. So people are upset with the status quo, she's part of the status quo, but she's somehow managed to also be the person who's turning the page.

[26:01] Then he went to a Vietnamese restaurant in Northern Virginia campaigning with a Senate candidate, doing these sort of small retail type events. That's not something he's typically done.

[26:55] AMNA NAWAZ: And there's another factor that could have an impact in this race that we know will be won on the margins. That was Friday's announcement of Robert F. Kennedy, saying he's suspending his campaign and endorsing Donald Trump.

[35:01] In December, the basement flooded again three feet. And then this past July, the basement flooded again. Having to figure out how to pay a mortgage and rent and get that money from FEMA, I have just spent so much time and energy trying to recover and not feel like -- instead of a disaster happening to me and not feeling like becoming the disaster.

[35:49] It's been very challenging. We're shifting from living and enjoying to preparing and bracing. All of that really just affects quality of life at the end of the day, how much we spend enjoying looking out the window versus stressed about packing a to-go bag. None of that is exciting and fun.

[37:37] BEN NGUYEN: Not once have I considered moving, until this year when the derecho and Hurricane Beryl came through. Seeing the power outages, seeing the damage on the homes, seeing the excessive heat where A.C.s can't keep up anymore, it sparked me and my partner to look somewhere else to live. And we just recently put an offer down in a house in the Seattle-Tacoma area.

[40:24] It's really important that these thrusters work as advertised when they're supposed to, because it's a very unforgiving, risky portion of the flight, to say the least. If they come in too hot, that's a problem. If they come in with not enough speed, they could skip off the atmosphere.

[42:04] AMNA NAWAZ: So an eight-day mission has now turned into a several-months-long mission. If the decision has now been made about how Suni and Butch are going to get home, why will it take so long to actually bring them home? Why until 2025?
MILES O'BRIEN: Yes, why is it "Gilligan's Island," people are asking, for sure.

[42:38] they could build a whole rocket for them to come pick them up, or, much more efficiently, a crew which is set to arrive next month is -- has -- it's a four-person crew. Two of those crew members will stay home now, opening up two seats. And Suni and Butch, for all intents and purposes, have been volunteered to be a part of this mission, which lasts six months into February.

[47:20] STEPHEN KING: I'm interested in what happens when regular people are suddenly confronted with something that's totally out of their wheelhouse, something that's entirely different. I think that literature in quotation marks is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances. And what I do are ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

■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。

• go nuclear

• hot lights/ under the hot lights of having to answer a question that's not on a teleprompter, that's not scripted.

• writer's writer

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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。