《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.05.28☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める
■今日の動画：PBS NewsHour May 27, 2024
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[15:49] JOE BIDEN, President of the United States: Decade after decade, tour after tour, these warriors fought for our freedom and the freedom of others, because freedom has never been guaranteed. Every generation has to earn it, fight for it, defend it in battle between autocracy and democracy, between the greed of a few and the rights of many.
[** tour = (military) a period of duty or deployment away from home ]
[23:00] PNINA SHARVIT BARUCH: Well, the order didn't say that Israel must halt its operations in Gaza. What the order said -- and I will quote it -- is that Israel must halt its military offensive and any other action in Rafah which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about a physical destruction in whole or in part.
[** physical destruction in whole or in part = see: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml ]
[31:26] And so we had great ability for acute empathy, and for in-the-moment decisiveness and commitments. But we had not strapped in for the long haul, which is what's necessary to manage a system and reform, alter, replace a system that's $115 billion annually. That's how much we spend on law enforcement.
[** in-the-moment = (in this context) being in a state of heightened emotions or stakes ]
[37:20] NICK SCHIFRIN: Next-generation sequencing uses magnets to allow scientists to extract human DNA in cases with degraded or little DNA material to work with.
TIM MCMAHON: It allowed us to enrich for the human DNA to get a result.
[** enrich for the human DNA = (in this context) to enrich the sample for human DNA = to increase the concentration of human DNA in a sample ]
[50:37] MATTHEW SPIKER: I think the past four years can basically be described as living out a history book, right. COVID pandemic, protests, the Russia-Ukraine war, or what's happening in the Middle East, right, is basically living out everything that you would see in a history book, right? It's unsettling to me.
[** live out a history book = to experience events so significant that they typically belong in a history book, essentially living a life that mimics a history book ]
[51:21] AIDAN BOOKER: Our entire freshman year was online. And then sophomore year, it was still online, and then the entire high school year, you're sort of transitioning and getting back into the groove of talking to people and just adjusting to that face-to-face connection.
[** < in the groove = being in a state where things run smoothly or effortlessly ]
[52:27] ENOLA GUETA: It's so easy for people of my generation to be pessimistic. We have all of the reason, in my opinion, to be pessimistic about our future. But there is people actively working not to be, and I think that's something to really celebrate personally, restlessness at what good -- what the future can hold for us, even if it seems like there are odds stacked against us.
[** restlessness = (in this context) a sense of eagerness or anticipation that makes one excited ]
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close/ Spain itself cannot close this issue, but there are enough Patriot systems in the world
pursuit policy/ Some of the incremental change, like bans on choke holds, new pursuit policies, those have moved forward
STAR program/ Places like Denver that's had the STAR program, that has replaced law enforcement with mental health response in certain crises
Support Team Assisted Response
enforcement fee/ improve public safety and the efficiency of collecting whatever enforcement fees
Twitter activism
fulsome
sticky/ a more fulsome consideration, a more fulsome moral conversation has been sticky in this country
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