《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.05.17☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める

■今日の動画：PBS NewsHour May 16, 2024

[ １年前の今日のニュース ]

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■今日の注目語句

[05:41] GEOFF BENNETT: Well, that's interesting because there was some question as to whether or not Mr. Trump's defense team could provoke Michael Cohen into losing his cool or even lashing out. It sounds like that didn't happen.
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: No, that's exactly right, Geoff. There was no -- there were clearly sometimes where Todd Blanche tried to do that. He several times raised his voice today and said, that was a lie, what you were just saying, wasn't it? And Cohen, for the most part, did not take the bait. There were other times where Blanche brought up testimony about some very personal and humiliating times in Michael Cohen's life,like, for instance, when he was very frustrated about not getting a job in the White House, and there were texts back and forth with his daughter, where his daughter was saying, dad, it seems like you're clearly getting walked all over by the Trump administration. But even then, Michael Cohen did not seem to sort of give up the ghost in this case.

[10:27] Texas Governor Greg Abbott has pardoned a former U.S. Army sergeant who had been convicted of fatally shooting a protester during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020. The announcement came just minutes after Texas parole officials announced they were recommending a pardon for Daniel Perry. He was convicted last year and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the death of Garrett Foster. Abbott had previously ordered the parole board to review Perry's case.

[27:41] AMNA NAWAZ: How is she doing?
SIMON FROST: She's doing OK, but she has episodes, at least a few every week.

[35:11] And I did indeed grow up in Topeka, Kansas, in part, and went to the very church that Linda Brown played piano and organ at and sang. She was quite a force then,

[38:43] GEOFF BENNETT: [** 興味深い事実 ] And, Annette Gordon-Reed, you could argue that schools remain segregated today because neighborhoods in which they're located remain segregated and that education policy in many ways is linked to housing policy. How do you see it?
ANNETTE GORDON-REED: Oh, absolutely. That's it. I mean, we fund schools through property taxes. And so where you live determines the kinds of the -- the schools that you go to. And so as long as you have a pattern of segregation in housing, you're going to have segregated schools as well. So that's been a big driver of it.

[39:54] I mean, I grew up in public schools before going to college. And, to me, that was really important to have that education. Both my parents credited education as the thing that got them beyond. They grew up in the segregated South, in Louisiana, to be specific. And they each were the first among their family members to go to college. And they went all the way. My father ended up becoming a physician. And my mother got a Ph.D. in chemistry.

[50:36] GEOFF BENNETT: What's gained by viewing violent crime, this epidemic of violent crime, as a public health imperative?

[53:31] The E.R. exists purely to deal with people who are in a distressed state. And we aren't always taught to process what we have seen. We're taught to compartmentalize. We're taught to tuck it away, so that you can take care of the emergency at hand, and then, when you get some time, go back to it and reflect on it. But there's not a really designated process to do that. Now I think people are starting to learn the language about trauma-informed care and trauma -- and overall trauma and wellness practices, but it's not something that we're taught.

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それでも分からない場合、下の有料部分に語句説明があります。辞書の定義では分かりにくい時は、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)。

■その他の語句

下の字幕ファイルの中には、次の表現についての説明 (あるいは説明へのリンク)もあります。説明はほとんどすべて英語です。

• to rot in hell

• to go with/ For the moment, the risk level is one that we can go with on the basis that no aid is coming in the other areas.

• to suffer from/ we still have, across cultures, across communities, across the world -- and I see it in my work -- the depth of humanity of ordinary people, which has not changed. There's no change in these essential values. What there is a change in is the leadership that we suffer from, I'm afraid, which don't listen to these straightforward pleas, which all of us, all of us believe in.

• AHC

• to medevac/ And our plan is to get them -- get the family, as many of them as we can get, to Al-Arish and then medevac out to UAE, where we have a system of doctors on the ground ready to support her.

• PCRF

• Brown v. Board of Education

• New Orleans Four

• freedom of choice plan

• import/ I think what accounts for Brown's import is starting a process that's still ongoing.

• HBCU

• to jump/ I was coming home from school and these two guys jumped me

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■字幕ファイル

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