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今日の英語ニュース☆2023.10.14☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める

PBS NewsHour Oct. 13, 2023

このnoteの目的は、アメリカのニュース番組が理解出来るようになる方法を伝えることです。その方法とは、英語字幕を読みながら英語ニュースを毎日見続けること。 こんな感じです(サンプルのスクリーンショット)

使う教材は、上のリンクの動画です。
アメリカの公共放送PBSのニュース番組で、質の高い報道に定評がありますが、残念なことに、字幕に誤りがかなり含まれていることがあります。番組がアメリカで放送されてから約2時間で最終版の字幕がアップロードされますので、時間的制約を考えれば誤りは仕方がないことかもしれません。

しかし、英語学習者の場合、字幕に誤りがあると、変だと思っても、それが本当に間違いなのか分からないことがあると思います。あるいは、間違いに気付かないこともあるかもしれません。ですから、正確な字幕が必要です。

そこで、約1時間の番組ですが、英語音声をすべて聞いて、字幕の明らかな誤りを訂正したものをダウンロードできるようにしています(少し下にあります)。この字幕ファイルと動画をダウンロードして再生ソフトで使ってください(上のスクリーンショット動画のように再生できます。英語が速すぎる場合は、あまりおすすめしませんが、再生速度の調節もできます)。

また、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 NewsHour Oct. 13, 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(例えば、Chromeは、.lrcのようなあまり使われない拡張子のファイルを危険と判断することがあるようです)。



■ 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
上の字幕ファイルには、約1時間の番組の全字幕と語句説明があります
・以下はサンプル程度です

[00:00] Introduction

[02:46]★今日のおすすめ★ Mass exodus begins in Gaza as Israel tells people to leave ahead of more raids

The Israeli military has told more than one million Gaza residents to leave their homes in advance of further airstrikes and an expected ground operation in retaliation for last Saturday's Hamas terror attacks in Israel. More than 3,100 have died in seven days and Prime Minister Netanyahu says this Israeli campaign was "only the beginning." Amna Nawaz and Leila Molana-Allen report from Tel Aviv.
《イスラエルとハマスの戦い7日目; In the Northern Gaza Strip, the beginning of a mass exodus, the streets filled with confusion after Israel's military gave residents 24 hours to leave and relocate south; The United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences. The United Nations strongly appeals for any such order to be rescinded; Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the evacuation was necessary; Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarked on a tour of Arab countries; Around the world, Jewish institutions are on high alert, after a former Hamas leader called for a day of rage against Israel; In Beijing, an Israeli Embassy employee was stabbed in broad daylight; across the Muslim world, massive protests, from Turkey, to Iran, and Yemen. Residents took to the streets in support of Palestinians and to condemn the Israeli state; Al-Aqsa compound, one of the holiest sites in Islam and set amid some of the holiest Jewish sites, has been a flash point for conflict in recent years; There is this crossing where you could come out of Gaza into Egypt; It's two million people. The population of Egypt is about 110 million. They could take these people. Politically, they don't want to. They don't want to take on the Palestinian cause right now; if Israel is able to push down two million civilians onto that border, it would be incredibly difficult for Egypt to refuse to take any of them, if they are running from war, there are wounded women and children desperate on this border; that's possibly a strategic calculation for the Israelis; 》

[14:11] Defense secretary visits Israel in latest show of U.S. support for fight against Hamas

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a quick trip to Israel Friday from NATO meetings in Brussels, the second U.S. cabinet official in as many days to visit. Nick Schifrin traveled on this whirlwind journey with Austin and spoke with the secretary and Israeli officials about the conflict and U.S. support.
《ロイド・オースティン国防長官イスラエル訪問; 》

[16:55] The senior official told me that the coming ground invasion of Gaza would not be the same as previous ground invasions. He said -- quote -- "This is going to be something different, something out of the box," but of course, he would give no details.

[** out of the box = unconventional; outside the limits of conventional thinking ]

[18:17] In total, the U.S. is sending a series of weapons, most notably, Iron Dome munitions, expecting those Hamas rockets to continue, small-diameter bombs, which are bombs designed to be more precise, and therefore cause fewer civilian casualties, what are known as the Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM, kits. Those turn older dumb bombs, so to speak, into precision-guided munitions, and -- quote -- "critical ammunition" that Israeli soldiers use.

[** Joint Direct Attack Munition = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition ( Wikipediaの右上のlanguagesに日本語のページへのリンクもあります ) ]

[19:44] News Wrap

Health care unions reached a tentative agreement with medical giant Kaiser Permanente after a strike over wages and staffing, the UAW said the ongoing auto industry strike will expand to new factories, the U.S. said there's evidence of North Korea supplying Russia with weapons for its war in Ukraine and Microsoft finally closed its deal to buy Activision Blizzard.
《United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain; Today marked the final day of campaigning in Australia on changing the Constitution to create an indigenous committee that would advise the government. Both sides held rallies and made their final case before tomorrow's referendum. If approved, it would be the first time the country's Constitution will be amended since 1977; Indigenous Australians comprise just under 4 percent of the country's population. Pre-election polls suggest the amendment will be rejected; NASA fired a new asteroid mission into space today, chasing a rare space rock that's believed to be largely metal. The Psyche spacecraft rode a SpaceX rocket into the sky above Cape Canaveral. It'll take six years to reach an orbit the asteroid it's named for, one that could hold secrets about the origins of Earth; a Minnesota man pleaded guilty today to stealing a pair of the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz." Terry Jon Martin is now 76. He admitted taking the shoes from the Garland Museum in her hometown, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in 2005. He said he thought the rubies were real. The FBI recovered the slippers in 2018. They're one of four pairs known to exist; 探査機サイキ; 》

[24:11]★今日のおすすめ★ GOP picks Jim Jordan as latest House speaker candidate, but unclear if he can win

House Republicans have a new nominee for speaker ten days after Kevin McCarthy was ousted and less than 24 hours after their last pick stepped aside. Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan got enough votes in the behind-closed-doors meeting of the GOP conference, but it's unclear if he can get the 217 votes necessary to win on the House floor. Congressional Correspondent Lisa Desjardins reports from Capitol Hill.
《終わりが見えない下院議長選び; スティーブ・スカリースは断念; 共和党の次の指名はジム・ジョーダン、過半数にははるか及ばず; it's still unclear if he can get the 217 votes necessary to win on the House floor; he's someone who's very popular with the base, an ally of Donald Trump; unexpected challenger Austin Scott of Georgia, a McCarthy ally; Jordan got 124 votes, Scott got 81; 152 said they will support Jordan on a floor vote, 55 Republicans said, no; you need somewhere around 217 votes to become speaker; floor vote can happen on Monday; 》

[28:21] Colo. officer convicted, another acquitted in first of 3 trials in death of Elijah McClain

Jurors convicted one white Colorado police officer and acquitted another in the first of three trials stemming from the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. The officers put McClain in a choke hold that caused him to lose consciousness and paramedics later injected him with ketamine. William Brangham discussed the case of racial justice involving the use of force with Julia Cardi of The Denver Gazette.
《Elijah McClain死亡事件で白人警官1人に有罪評決、もう一人は無罪; officer Randy Roedema was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault. A second former officer, Jason Rosenblatt, was acquitted; ketamine, sedative; jury selection is under way now for the trial of the third officer in this case; Nathan Woodyard is accused of being the first officer to actually stop Elijah McClain. And he is also accused of being the officer who used the carotid hold or neck hold on Elijah McClain that caused him to briefly lose consciousness. He faces a charge of reckless manslaughter and of criminally negligent homicide; ケタミン; 》

[28:21] GEOFF BENNETT: Jurors have convicted one white Colorado police officer and acquitted another in the first of three trials stemming from the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man. McClain was unarmed while walking home in Aurora, Colorado. He was wearing a face mask because of a blood disorder that made him feel cold. After a driver called police saying he was acting suspiciously, officers arrived and forcefully restrained him. The use of force set other events into motion, leading to McClain's death.
[** Elijah McClain = see:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elijah_McClain ]

[34:21]★今日のおすすめ★ Brooks and Capehart on the Israel-Hamas war and U.S. support

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the war between Israel and Hamas, President Biden pledging U.S. support and the uncertainty surrounding the selection of a new House speaker.
《金曜恒例:2人の政治アナリストと今週を振り返る; President Biden's effort to shepherd a normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia that could really revamp the geopolitics of the entire Middle East, that seems to be stalled, at best; one of the reasons Hamas did this was to prevent Saudi-Israeli alliance. So, let's put that first. Let's have a revenge by having a Saudi-Israeli alliance; 》

[38:25] DAVID BROOKS: Well, first I want to appreciate Jonathan's comments. The history of Judaism is the history of hiding in homes while people come and kill -- try to kill you and try to burn you down. And so that goes back to the exiles thousands of years ago. It goes back to the pogroms, when my ancestors left Central Europe. It goes back to the Holocaust. And so the whole point of the state of Israel was, that would not happen again.

[** pogrom = A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement). Similar attacks against Jews which also occurred at other times and places became known retrospectively as pogroms… 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom ( Wikipediaの右上のlanguagesに日本語のページへのリンクもあります ) ]

[41:21] I am happy to be wrong about the reaction from the Republican presidential field. I thought they would follow form and not criticize Trump at all, for fear of engendering the rage of their base. But Governor Haley, Governor DeSantis, Governor Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, most of them criticized Trump, and I applaud them for that.

[** to follow form = いつものやり方に従う]

[43:52] What is happening within the Republican Conference, Jonathan, so much that anyone would know?
JONATHAN CAPEHART: It's chaos. It's mayhem. It's also pathetic.

[** mayhem = A state or situation of great confusion, disorder; chaos ]

[44:02] We -- the speaker of the House isn't just some person. It's a constitutional officer. It's a third in line to the presidency.

[** 下院議長は副大統領の次なので、second in line to the presidencyが正しい ]

[44:40] GEOFF BENNETT: Well, on that point, we spoke with the Democratic leader on this program yesterday, and he made an overture to what he called traditional Republicans, offering something of a coalition government.
REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D-NY): [** 昨日放送されたこのインタビュー ] There is a real path and a real opportunity to be serious, to be substantive, to be sober in meeting the needs of the American people and our allies like Israel and Ukraine across the world. But we just need traditional Republicans to break from their extremist wing and join us in a bipartisan coalition.

[45:54] Patrick Stewart reflects on his life and legendary career in new memoir, 'Making It So'

Patrick Stewart cut his acting teeth in the theater, taking on numerous roles in Shakespeare and other classics. For his second act, he became known to millions as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in "Star Trek" and Charles Xavier in the "X-Men" films. Now, he tells his own story in a new memoir, "Making It So." Stewart discussed the book with Jeffrey Brown for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
《俳優パトリック・スチュワートの新刊回顧録『Making It So』; 新刊本 》


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