今日の英語ニュース☆2023.12.11☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める
PBS News Weekend Dec. 10, 2023
週末版の字幕はいつも間違いや省略が非常に多いのですが、今日は、比較的少なかったので字幕ファイルを作りました。
オリジナルの字幕は大文字表記のものを使いましたが、一度すべて小文字に変換してから使いましたので、今日の字幕ファイルは小文字表記になっています (書き加えた部分などは一部大文字) 。
比較用に、訂正前のオリジナルの字幕もアップロードしておきます。
動画サイトの週末版の字幕は、翌日以降に比較的正確なものに差し替えられるようです。
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 News Weekend Dec 10, 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。
■ 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
・上のダウンロード用の字幕ファイルがメインです。以下はサンプル程度
[00:00] Introduction
今日の番組内容
[01:53] News Wrap
今日の主要ニュース
Emergency responders searched for survivors after deadly tornadoes tore through parts of Tennessee, the Palestinian death toll continues to climb amid heavy fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, UPenn’s president and board chair both resigned after backlash over testimony about antisemitism on campus, and Elon Musk restored conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ X account.
《イスラエルとハマスの戦い６５日目; University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill and Board Chairman Scott Bok resigned last night; テネシー州; 竜巻; イーロン・マスク; アレックス・ジョーンズ; 》
[05:19]★今日のおすすめ★ Your questions answered about staying safe from COVID, RSV and flu this winter
この冬、コロナ、RSV、インフルエンザから身を守るには
As we head into the winter holidays, John Yang speaks with epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina about the current state of affairs with COVID, RSV and flu infections, lagging vaccination rates and how to stay healthy this season.
[06:23] There's actually been a very dramatic effect, particularly around vaccine disparities. Like you said, the funding is gone, which means campaigns, education, pop-up clinics, partnerships, incentives. those are all gone as well.
[** pop-up = temporary; operating or existing for a brief period only. 期間限定の。仮設の ]
[09:00] Yeah, long COVID is certainly a thing. There are millions of people suffering right now, and we are working very hard in public health to try to figure out the patterns and the treatments for it.
[** thing = (informal) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief) (wiktionary) ]
[11:56]★今日のおすすめ★ How the black-footed ferret is making a comeback from the brink of extinction
絶滅したと思われたクロアシイタチ、その復活への道のり／絶滅危惧種保護法から５０年
When President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law 50 years ago, one of the first on the endangered list was the black-footed ferret, North America’s rarest animal. Once thought to be extinct, they are making their way back thanks to the work of dedicated conservationists. John Yang reports on some of that work for our ongoing series, “Saving Species.”
《Black-footed ferrets were first put on the endangered species list in 1967. And then in 1979, when the last known member of the species died in captivity, they were declared extinct; But two years later came a surprising discovery made by a Wyoming ranch dog named Shep. He took a dead black-footed ferret home to his owner. That led to the discovery of 24 black-footed ferrets alive and well in Northwest Wyoming. All members of the species known today are descendants of that group; complexity comes in part from the black-footed ferret's relationship with prairie dogs, which make up 90% of their diet. ... They require prairie dogs to thrive. They require prairie dogs for their burrows, for their homes, and also it's their primary prey source. The prairie dogs are not very popular with the farmers, especially because they do so much damage to the farmland. And so the prairie dogs are actively removed from farmland; So it's a balance. And they're all occurring naturally and they should all be occurring naturally and keeping each other in balance. But if you take out one piece of that, which is usually caused by humans, then everything falls out of balance and then we have complete loss of species. But anytime you have an extinction event like that caused by human intervention, obviously we're doing something really catastrophic to the ecosystem; If we can save the black-footed ferret, our thought and all of our partners' thought is that we can save the other 130 unique plants and animals that are native to the north american prairie. And it's a pretty special ecosystem; another threat to the black-footed ferret, a bacterial disease called sylvatic plague. both black-footed ferrets and the prairie dogs they eat are highly susceptible to it. it's transmitted by fleas and has been known to infect humans; sylvatic plague; 森林ペスト; プレーリードッグ; 》
[13:33] Each day, the staff carries out a carefully choreographed routine to separate the kits from their mothers for inspection. After they've been checked out and placed in a fresh, clean box...
>> We're going to pick it up and she just goes right back in.
>> ... the kits are returned to their mothers, who sometimes give the caretakers a piece of their mind.
[** a piece of (one's) mind = One's true thoughts or feelings about something, especially angry or frustrated criticism ]
[20:29] In 2020, researchers used the frozen cells of a black-footed ferret that had been dead for 30 years to produce the first-ever cloned member of the species, Elizabeth Ann.
[** see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Ann ]
[21:42] A Brief But Spectacular take on legacy and poetry
作家、教育者、枠を超えたアーティストのアナスタシア・レニー
Anastacia-Renee is a writer, educator and interdisciplinary artist. In collaboration with New York City’s Lincoln Center, she performs pieces from “Side Notes from the Archivist,” her new book that explores five decades of American history through her perspective as a Black, queer feminist. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on legacy and poetry.
《I am not the kind of person that's probably gonna be outside with a picket sign. Writing is my act of resilience. Writing is my way to make change. Writing is my way to see the ripples go; 詩; 》