《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.06.21☆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 June 20, 2024

[ １年前の今日のニュース ]

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■今日の注目語句

[00:17] CHARLES HAYNES, Senior Fellow for Religious Liberty, Freedom Forum: We have so many religious differences, and yet we have managed to negotiate them, live together, peaceful coexistence, mainly because we kept the government out of the religion business.

[07:21] JANET YELLEN, U.S. Treasury Secretary: They rely on access to banking systems and to the U.S. dollar to make payroll and finance purchases. And this means the Treasury Department has a unique ability to disrupt and degrade their operations.

[16:25] But the court changed how they interpret the Establishment Clause. It used to be neutrality in public schools under the Establishment Clause by government. Now it's history and tradition.

[17:58] REAR ADM. DANIEL HAGARI, Spokesperson, Israeli Defense Forces (through translator): The political echelon has to decide and the Israel Defense Forces will implement. But this business, this business of destroying Hamas, making Hamas disappear, it's simply throwing sand in the eyes of the public. If we don't bring something else to Gaza, then at the end of the day, we will get Hamas.

[18:48] I think the IDF recognizes, while they may be winning militarily, they're losing morally, and that has long-term strategic implications for Israel's security. This idea of indecision, I think what they're saying to the prime minister is, take a position and defend it. The prime minister cannot be an undecided voter. We need you to support our ask for Ultra-Orthodox fighters. Our forces are depleted.

[21:42] LAURA BLUMENFELD: Well, this is very significant. And the theories have been flying, everything from maybe it's a fist-bump to Trump, because he's decided that Trump will be the next U.S. president, to he's come completely unhinged.

[22:04] But it sort of violates all the rules of kind of no daylight between Israel and the United States and ultimately undoes what is a key strength. I mean, if Biden, the U.S. president has your back, why would you stick a knife in his?

[25:31] GREG GUTFELD, FOX News Anchor: What is up the Dems' sleeve to drag that body back into the White House? What's the dog that's not barking? And then let's say by some weird miraculous chance that we didn't see coming, given that Trump is ahead, has a 66 percent chance of winning, looks like he's going to get the electoral count, and Joe still wins. Well, then what do you do after you win? How do you convince anyone that's real? Have they even thought of that? Like, even the Dems behind the scenes better hope he doesn't win, because no one's going to believe it.

[37:59] KIM SHANAHAN: Each little step of the wall is a lot of labor, and it's simply not something that a production builder or even a small builder could ever imagine doing. And that's why it never really could be done at scale.

[38:51] BRIAN JOHNSON: Once you start looking at these homes differently than traditional construction in the country and in the world, these just make so much more sense.
JESS JOHNSON: It feels good to be part of that. You know you're just a little bite, but you're part of something, something special, I think.

[40:24] ANNA PILKINGTON, Glentauchers Distillery: It is an energy-intensive process. This is our stillhouse.

[41:15] ANNA PILKINGTON: Exactly, exactly. So we're in Speyside today. And Speyside are known for lighter, prettier flavor profiles. However, if you were to go to Islay, they are known for their much heartier, fuller, richer spirits. And that's all to do with their malts, their water and the shape of their stills.

[44:23] And unlike the multinationals with far-flung supply chains, everything is locally sourced. MARK MASH: All of our white spirits.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Today, it sells and serves tourists vodka, gin, and a rye whiskey, things that need less aging, all to keep the lights on until the big release in 2033 of its single malt whiskey.

[46:10] JEFFREY BROWN: And to talk about summer books and reading, I'm joined by Ann Patchett, author and owner of Parnassus Bookstore in Nashville, Tennessee.

[** Ann Patchett see: https://note.com/wgc888/n/n5d68614656bc#4e4a0628-87fe-44fc-b3ca-694eb68a24cd ]

[46:25] ANN PATCHETT, Owner, Parnassus Books: Sure thing. I am very excited about "Sandwich" by Catherine Newman. If you want a book that has you from hello, this is the one. Family goes to the cape every summer for two weeks. They have kids in their 20s. They have elderly parents and they eat sandwiches. They are very near Sandwich, and they are the sandwich generation.

[50:02] "My Black Country" by Alice Randall, which is a journey through country music's Black past, present, and future. Alice is a fiction writer and a scholar. This is the story of all the people who have been erased in country music's past, and she is restoring them into the landscape. It's a terrific book.]

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■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。

• That's that.

• Van Orden v. Perry

• get a hold of oneself

• REAL ID

• bandwidth/ They're requesting duplicative things that are just sucking up their bandwidth

• wash/ Imagine if you only have two stills, one wash, one spirit.

• Prisma barley

• shout-out

• cursing

• board book

• S&H Green Stamps

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