《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.07.10☆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 July 9, 2024

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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。

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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。初歩レベル以外で日本語に訳して理解する人は、英語を話せるようにはなりません。また、基本的な英文法は別として、重箱の隅をつつくような英文法で英語を理解しようとするのは時間の無駄です。もう一つ確実に言えることは、英語を話せない人に英語を習っても、話せるようにはなりません。どこかの国の英語教育の話みたいですね。
さて、本題に入りましょう。

[07:47] AMNA NAWAZ: And Lisa joins us live now from Capitol Hill. So, Lisa, we saw what lawmakers are willing to say on camera there. What are your sources telling you off camera?
LISA DESJARDINS: Democrats are in a stutter step moment.

[11:47] They are also watching other pieces of news, like, for instance, this one that happened just in the last few hours. The Cook Political Report with our own Amy Walter, friend of the "News Hour," of course, came out and said, because of the environment now, they are predicting that more states are leaning Republican, moving more towards Trump. That includes three battleground states that were toss-ups that they now say will be lean Republican, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada. That is something Democrats I talked to just now really are hearing and listening and worried about in terms of how they see President Biden.

[15:04] And so, for us, this is about doing what is right and recognizing what this president has done. Even if it hasn't said, oh, this was for the Black folk, we can tell you that he has done a lot specifically for the Black community, whether we're talking about the debt relief that has been sustained as a result of the student loan debts, or whether we're talking about the fact that he has decided that those that had felony convictions or federal convictions as relates to marijuana, making sure that he could clear that up.

[16:16] GEOFF BENNETT: Would the Democratic Party have a better chance of beating Donald Trump with another nominee?
REP. JASMINE CROCKETT: I absolutely don't believe that that's true. First of all, your question presupposes the fact that there could be another nominee. Listen, we are in the last quarter. This is not time to play fantasy president. That's not what we do in this country. We have a democratic process. And so you don't decide that, because somebody is polling bad, that you're going to withdraw and subvert the will of the people in the primary.

[16:50] So, at the end of the day, he has a record that spans not only his presidential career, but spans approximately a total of 50 years. That is what he can run on. And what people need to understand is that, even though the Supreme Court has decided that we will anoint presidents and make them kings [** 関連ニュース ] , we don't have that currently. We have a democracy. And so it's bigger than just the president. So, at this point, I just want to keep it real with everybody. This isn't about having the perfect candidate.

[* keep it real with everyone = to be honest and straightforward with everyone ]

[27:40] RADOSLAW SIKORSKI: Well, membership would mean that we would need to join the war against Russia. And there is no appetite among Western publics for that. But Ukraine is getting a lot. And, remember, the Russian economy is suffering badly. They are running out of their national reserve fund. They are running out of Soviet-era tanks to refurbish. Inflation is high. Interest rates are very high. In a year or two, Putin will be like Wilhelmine Germany. He will run out of resources to continue.

[29:40] NICK SCHIFRIN: Another option, as floated by these aides, would be essentially creating two-tiers within NATO, and that Article 5 would only apply to countries paying more than 2 percent. Is that a workable solution?

[30:22] NICK SCHIFRIN: Last week, you tweeted the following -- quote -- "Marcus Aurelius was a great emperor, but he screwed up his succession by passing the baton to his feckless son, Commodus, (He, from the Gladiator), whose disastrous rule started Rome's decline. It's important to manage one's ride into the sunset." Are you saying that President Biden should drop out of the race?

[33:25] AMNA NAWAZ: Former President Donald Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025 [** Project 2025はこれまでに何度も番組に出てきましたが、今日の番組で詳しく説明しています ] , the handbook for a new conservative government written by several right-wing think tanks.

[36:31] AMNA NAWAZ: So reshaping the Justice Department seems to be just one part of a larger plan to change the federal government, including gutting career civil servants. What has your reporting found on that?
LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: The Project 2025 blueprint proposes abolishing the Department of Education, transforming the FBI into a political task force, reinstituting what's known as Schedule F. That's an executive authority that would be instituted by Trump to grow the number of political appointees across the civil service. And they also want to install roughly 20,000 loyal civil servants across agencies. And they have been preparing for this. Project 2025 leaders have called those loyalists -- quote -- "conservative warriors." They have called them an army. They have called -- of weaponized conservatives. And they want to essentially make lawyers across all federal agencies, not just the Justice Department, any legal counsel, they want to make them loyal Trump -- loyal -- loyalists to Trump.

[38:56] And constitutional scholars that I have spoken to have said that the decision, that Supreme Court decision, could strengthen the basis of Project 2025, which is known as the unitary executive theory, which essentially says that the president has total control over the executive branch, over all the federal agencies.

[42:38] CATHERINE RAMPELL: YouTube and TikTok teem with so-called skinfluencer content.

[51:53] JEFFREY BROWN: This peaceful garden full of native plants is home to the Egyptian Museum in San Jose, created by the Rosicrucians, a philosophical order that dates back to 1614 and studies the laws of nature in order to live in harmony with them.

■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。

• Celtics

• papa

• tick/ They are watching every single tick on the campaign trail

• put on one's big girl and big boy pants

• invoke/ Let them know about the fact that they are trying to invoke loyalists as the only people that can work in the federal government.

• yap one's gums

• give someone a pass on something

• straight-ahead/ straight-ahead question

• do the rounds/ Those are the ideas that are doing the rounds

• America First Legal

• turn someone on to something/ I get her leftovers, so I have started using a gel moisturizer that she has turned me on to.

• P.R. haul

• Dr. Google

• airbrushing

• LEED Platinum

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■字幕ファイル

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