《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.06.11☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める☆PBS NewsHour

■今日の動画：PBS NewsHour June 10, 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。字幕は、すぐ下の「字幕ファイルの作り方」のようにすれば簡単に出来ます。

• 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 (「その他の語句」の説明は字幕ファイル内)。辞書の説明では分かりにくい場合、文脈の中でどういう意味で使われているか説明しています。調べても分からない表現の意味が分かるかもしれません。

■おすすめの辞書

• Wiktionary

• TheFreeDictionary

• 英辞郎 on the WEB

• このページ上部の検索欄に語句を入れて「でWGCを検索」をクリックすると、これまでの取り上げた語句説明が見られます( 検索時はアポストロフィーやコンマなどは省略、スペースの代わりに _ )

■今日の注目語句

[03:43] NICK SCHIFRIN: On Saturday, Israel took matters into its own hands and today released this new video, police and intelligence operatives storming into a Hamas compound in the middle of Gaza in the middle of the day to rescue Israeli hostages, confirmed in Hebrew, including Andrey Kozlov and Almog Meir Jan. But, by then, the Israelis' cover had been blown and they had to shoot their way out.

[04:39] WOMAN (through translator): People in the Arab world are eating our olives and olive oil, and our children are dying in the streets. The world sold us out. My kids died in the streets. God is sufficient for me.

[17:05] Indiana Fever star guard Caitlin Clark is taking the high road following news that she didn't make the cut for the Summer Olympics. The top overall pick in the WNBA draft says she will be rooting for Team USA to win gold in Paris.

[26:41] AMNA NAWAZ: Let's start now with an issue we know Democrats have been leaning into, one we saw former President Trump messaging on today. That is abortion rights. He spoke at the Danbury Institute today. It's an anti-abortion rights conservative Christian group that has compared abortion to child sacrifice.

[31:27] In terms of Biden, I was there with him in France. I'm kind of surprised I'm still standing because I just got back. But he went to that cemetery looking for that split screen, because that World War I cemetery is notable because former President Trump was supposed to go there to mark the end of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. He didn't go. And "The Atlantic" reported that it wasn't just that there was a bad weather call, but that he didn't want to be there, and that he called over that time period people who died in war suckers and losers.

[35:25] And I think that there is an increasing realization that, for multiple election cycles, Democrats talk about demographics as destiny. Demographics aren't destiny, or at least it isn't the same demographics. The idea that Black and Latino voters are just automatically going to vote overwhelmingly for the Democrat may not be the case this time.

[38:01] STEPHANIE SY: Voss says the ban has cut down classroom distractions and increased student achievement. But when it comes to mental health: SHANE VOSS: It's not a panacea to just look at phones and then all of a sudden everything will be fine. I think there are a lot of factors that are attributed to this rise in anxiety and depression, but this has accelerated it, there's no question.

[38:48] STEPHANIE SY: Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's book "The Anxious Generation has been near the top of bestseller lists for months, stoking debate around how smartphones and social media are, in his words, rewiring childhood and largely to blame for the youth mental health crisis.

[46:15] AMNA NAWAZ: When Stephen Sondheim died in 2021, he was remembered as one of musical theater's all-time greats, creator of masterpieces like "Sweeney Todd" and "A Little Night Music." But one of his musicals, "Merrily We Roll Along," never achieved that success. Now it has, and the show actors and director, Maria Friedman, are all up for Tony Awards this Sunday.

[47:15] JEFFREY BROWN: The material is "Merrily We Roll Along," now on Broadway with rave reviews and star turns by Jonathan Groff as Frank, a composer-turned-film-producer, Daniel Radcliffe as Charley, a playwright, and Lindsay Mendez as Mary, a novelist-turned-theater-critic.

[48:24] MARIA FRIEDMAN: Being in a room with Stephen Sondheim and George Furth rewriting a piece, new songs, new dialogue every day. And Stephen -- everybody knows Stephen Sondheim, when you're working with him, is completely exacting. When you're working with him as an actor, he just drills into your psychology and expects the world from you.
JEFFREY BROWN: How does he do that? I mean, what is it like?
MARIA FRIEDMAN: Like, lots of questions, asking you about, why would you be singing this? And how -- he would offer you the internal dialogue that you need in order to sing the actual material. So, every -- and he had a reason for every single note and lyric he wrote. So I was full up as an actress. It just felt like this was like the greatest gift.

[53:55] What you're seeing right now, this is a brief time-lapse video showing the construction of the studio, which took nearly four years from planning to construction of a new wing at our WETA headquarters and build-out of the new studio.

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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

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• Cambridge Analytica scandal

• mixed reality

• James Lawson Jr.

• tee up

• present/ We really wanted to teach students to dedicate their full energy and be present, and it started with the cell phones.

• called for

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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 (自分で作ればもちろん無料。その場合、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。

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