《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.11.09☆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 Nov. 8, 2024
長かったアメリカの政治の季節が終わりました。
大統領選の結果に対する思いは、それぞれだと思いますが
一つの終わりであり、そして新たな始まりでもあります。
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Internet Archive PBS NewsHour KQED October 27 2023
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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、動画を見て確認してください。
( 辞書を引けば簡単に分かる語句は自分で調べてください。上の「おすすめの辞書」でたいてい分かると思います)
説明はほとんどすべて英語です。英語は英語で理解することを習慣にしましょう。英語を別の英語で言い換えることが出来るようになると、英会話が飛躍的に上達します。
[04:46] You didn't hear any leaks of her sort of reining back Donald Trump or talking down to him
[** talk down to someone = To speak in an insultingly condescending manner to one; to speak to one as if they are less mature, intelligent, or capable than they really are. (thefreedictionary) ]
[05:35] But Susie Wiles' first big race in Florida was Rick Scott's in 2010, when he ran for governor. And, at that time, Rick Scott looked like he had no prayer of winning the state.
[** have no prayer of = to have virtually no chance or hope of succeeding at something ]
[07:54] So to the degree of comparing Susie Wiles to a guardrail, I think it's fair. But it's also important to remember that Donald Trump is an 18-wheeler and sometimes he careens down the hill at top speed. And there's no amount of guardrails that can necessarily prepare against that. We have seen in this election cycle, though, that whatever you want to call it, the guardrails, good advisers, selflessness, luck or Zen, Susie Wiles played a really key role in that, perhaps the key role.
[** Zen = enlightenment, particularly the kind acquired through Zen meditation; An approach to an activity, skill, or subject that emphasizes simplicity and intuition rather than conventional thinking or fixation on goals (wiktionary); a calm, open-minded, and fluid approach, often associated with being in tune with one's surroundings and acting naturally or spontaneously ]
[09:01] STEPHANIE SY: The game between Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Dutch Ajax team ended in a tie. What happened after, outside the lines, was a clear loss. Hundreds of riot police deployed across the city after chaos and violence erupted,
[** outside the lines = (in this context) outside the soccer field or after the soccer game // lines refers to the actual lines drawn on the soccer field ]
[20:04] JEFF BROOKS, Harris Supporter: One of the reasons that I didn't vote for Donald Trump was because of the last election. So I feel like I need to stand on that now, that these are the election results. This is what the American people want. And we go from here.
[** stand on something = (in this context) to use something as a foundation or point of reference for one's thoughts and actions going forward ]
[26:53] CHRIS VITALE: I think Democrats have an opportunity to work with Trump to put the brakes on some of these mega-mergers, multi-borderless corporations that pay taxes into the Netherlands or Ireland or something like that. They have an opportunity to bring some of that back to this country.
[** "multi-borderless corporations" probably refers to multinational, borderless corporations ]
[29:06] And when you think about American voters really prioritizing the economy, immigration, maybe not seeing a woman as the person that embodied the characteristics of strength or power around those issues, I think that this was absolutely an election that was gendered. We definitely saw former President Trump coming back into the White House on a message of his particular brand of masculinity. I think that we cannot have a conversation about this election without having a conversation about the role -- the ongoing role of gender in our politics
[** gendered = (in this context) influenced by or framed in terms of gender. ]
[31:43] But I do want to talk about, I mean, the 92 percent of Black women that showed up to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, how excited and energized they were about her unprecedented campaign, how hard that they worked to try to get her elected. I mean, Black women have long been regarded as the backbone of the Democratic Party. And so to see somebody who shared their lived experience at the top of the ticket felt for a lot of the Black women that I talked to, a lot of the voters, a lot of the organizers, a lot of the longtime kind of political folks that have been around in the Democratic Party, to see that, for them really represented kind of a return on their investment, I mean, their investment being their voting loyalty over so many years to the Democratic Party. And so circling back with a lot of those same Black women, where they are right now is that they are feeling abandoned by a party that they have supported so heavily and so loyally for so long, and really wondering what it is about Black women that other groups somehow are not necessarily able to stand with, and white women, in particular.
[** circling back with a lot of those same Black women = revisiting or returning to the previously mentioned group of Black women ]
[32:49] Because I think that we saw, when Vice President Harris became the candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, there were some white women who were publicly reckoning with 2016. White women did not in the majority support Hillary Clinton then, somebody who shared their lived experience, and wondering if they were going to make a different choice this time around and stand with Black women and other Democrats in voting for Kamala Harris. But that did not end up being the case. And you have to ask, how much of that -- I mean, we know the history of white women and what they have chosen to do with suffrage since they got it, they first got it in 1920, and, frankly, at the expense of so many Black women suffragists who also stood shoulder to shoulder with them, but were then thrown under the bus when the 19th Amendment was passed more than a century ago.
[* reckon with = to reflect on; to deal with or confront ]
[** see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#African-American_women //
throw someone under the bus = to betray someone as a scapegoat ]
[50:14] PAVNI MITTAL: Some young artisans are also taking on the mantle to save the crafts.
[** take on the mantle = to assume responsibility or a leadership role for a cause or mission ]
[50:42] GIGI BURRIS O'HARA, Founder, Gigi Burris Millinery: The work force is -- primarily are in their late 40s, 50s and 60s. And so there's been a tremendous gap between individuals that are in this aging work force and the new individuals that are coming up. We're talking about 10 to 20 years' difference. And if we continue to see that work force age out, we are not going to capture that generational knowledge. So, the time is now. It is very critical that we can get young people placed into these jobs, that we can make these jobs stable and livable.
[** livable = (in this context) providing sufficient income to meet basic living needs ]
[52:43] PAVNI MITTAL: Artisans are hoping the revival of craft will change the very fabric of the industry. In this age of fast fashion, they want to restore value to creating with time, love and passion. For this, they need to raise awareness and alter customer demands. That, they say, will move the needle.
[** "move the needle" is a pun that combines the literal meaning of moving a needle (as in crafting or sewing) with the idiomatic expression meaning to change a situation or outcome to a noticeable degree. ]
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falling out
give something a whirl
S.S./ nudge the ship of S.S. Trump
Kristallnacht
here we go
identity politics
invested
grievance politics
stew
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