《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.08.29☆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 28, 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。

[12:22] Sarah Palin has won her bid for a new trial against The New York Times. A federal appeals court ruled today that a judge in her 2022 trial was wrong to dismiss the case while the jury was still deliberating. The former Alaska governor accused the paper of defamation after it incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting in a 2017 editorial. The Times later corrected the mistake. This case could force the Supreme Court to revisit its ruling in The New York Times v. Sullivan case, which set a high bar for public figures to prove defamation.

[16:02] GEOFF BENNETT: Vice President Kamala Harris launched a two-day swing through Georgia today. It's her seventh trip to the state this year, and it ends with a rally in Savannah.

[18:11] DONALD TRUMP: I look at California. I gave a speech. I had so -- I had a crowd so big. I said there's no way I could lose California, but automatically they mark it down if you're a Republican as a loss, that you lose by five million votes. I said, five million votes? I guarantee, if Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California, OK?

[19:00] QUIL LAWRENCE, National Public Radio: Well in advance of the visit, they had been told that there would not be allowed to bring a personal outside photographer to Section 60, which is where most of the Iraq and Afghanistan casualties are buried. And when they arrived, an official from Arlington National Cemetery approached them to say, no, you can't bring a videographer or photographer into Section 60. And that person was verbally abused and pushed aside.
LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: In a statement, Arlington National Cemetery said it "can confirm there was an incident and a report was filed. Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army national military cemetery."

[23:18] GEOFF BENNETT: That manipulation that you talk about, you describe meetings in the Oval Office as exercises in competitive sycophancy.

[32:23] North Lawndale, like many South and West Side Chicago neighborhoods, is majority-Black. Much of this segregation can be traced to the Great Migration of a century ago. Black Americans from the Jim Crow South moved north, seeking greater opportunities, but what they found was not the segregation imposed by Jim Crow, but new and different barriers.

[33:22] FRANKLIN COSEY-GAY: We're talking about a $3 billion to $4 billion wealth gap between white Chicagoans and Black Chicagoans that's directly tied to the inability to develop equity from housing.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Cosey-Gay recalls that, in 1919, during the Red Summer, when Black Americans across the country were terrorized, 23 Black Chicagoans were killed and hundreds more were injured in this city; 15 white Chicagoans were also killed in the violence. And between 1917 and 1921, 58 Black Chicagoans were firebombed in their homes.

[36:41] PASTOR PHIL JACKSON: A lot of companies and factories have left, so it takes a politician to take a chance, which might seem like a black hole to others, to invest in a neighborhood. It seems like pulling teeth sometimes with different powers that be to make that happen. There are a lot of people who try to make things happen and work, but there's a lot of systems in place that seem to pull back.

[38:37] JAHMAL COLE: The purpose really is, like, to just leave a love [* lead with love?] and build relationships with youth and keep them alive. How can we wrap around you and make sure we get you to college?

■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。

• sense of beleaguerment

• used up/ I can't make a difference with him. We just got kind of used up in that process.

• Loop

• Ida B. Wells

• redlining

• disinvestment

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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。