《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.07.03☆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 July 2, 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。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

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• 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

[06:31] LLOYD AUSTIN, U.S. Secretary of Defense: We will continue to provide the critical capabilities that Ukraine needs to push back Russian aggression today and to deter Russian aggression tomorrow. This package under presidential drawdown authority will provide more air defense interceptors, anti-tank weapons and other critical munitions from U.S. inventories.

[15:56] JEFFREY BROWN: How much power for the executive branch? What kind of legal restraints? Those are questions that have been debated since the beginning of the country. But now, by any account, there's been a major new development. We look at the past and potential future with historian Heather Cox Richardson, a professor at Boston College. And welcome back to the program. [** Heather Cox Richardson前回登場時 ]

[16:26] HEATHER COX RICHARDSON, Boston College: Well, I want to be clear that, in fact, there hasn't been much dispute about the power of the president since the founding of the United States of America. The people who framed the Constitution as well as the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence, were very clear that they did not want a king, that it was important for the chief executive to have guardrails around him at the time, is what they thought, and that those -- that it was imperative that the president always was answerable to the law. So we had Alexander Hamilton, for example, in Federalist 69 being very clear that the president could be impeached, the president could be convicted of treason or bribery or high crimes or misdemeanors, could be removed from office, and, crucially, would always, as he said, be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. They contrasted that with a king.

[17:22] Now, that really has not been in dispute, as we know, certainly we have got from 1974, when President Richard Nixon stepped down because he had broken laws and received and accepted a pardon from Gerald Ford, which suggested that he recognized that a president could be held liable for crimes. And we have had in the confirmation hearings of many of the Supreme Court justices who yesterday overturned that central rule of law saying they too believe the president was under the control, should be under the control of the law. So this is not a question of we have jockeyed with this. This is a question of -- this is a brand-new development that undermines the central American principle that we are all answerable to the law. No one is above it. No one is below it.

[40:43] JOHN UNDERHILL: In the period since COP 26, there's been a seismic event, if you like. And with events in Ukraine, we now see that energy security and affordability have come right up the political agenda, perhaps at the -- arguably at the expense of environmental sustainability and climate compatibility.

[45:53] A number of prominent musicians, including George Gershwin, Miles Davis, and John Lennon, were also artists in other mediums. You can now add Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart to that list. Special correspondent Mike Cerre visited Hart in Las Vegas, where his fans are flocking to see his art and to hear his band play in its summer residency.

[47:29] MICKEY HART: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. When I paint, I have music going and I'm painting in rhythm and I'm grooving and I'm having fun.

[49:04] MIKE CERRE: His sources of good vibrations for painting come from as far away as outer space, from his previous collaboration with Nobel Prize-winning physicist and Deadhead Dr. George Smoot, and as close to home as his own brain's reflection of different rhythms from his medical research with neurologist Dr. Adam Gazzaley.

[51:26] MICKEY HART: When I'm painting, the same thing happens. It's a groove. And I'm improvising. I improvise in the Grateful Dead, Dead & Company. That's improvisational music.

[53:50] "No one can take your mind away from you,' he said sternly to his daughters and nieces and eventually to me. The woman of my family took that edict and ran with it.

番組内に語句の説明があることがありますし、そうでない場合も辞書や検索で意味が分かることが多いと思います。

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。

• liberatory

• tactical gear

• accurate

• anchor

• art is in the eye and ear of the beholder

• jam

• peripatetic

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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。

有料は困るという方は、コメント欄か一番下の「クリエイターへの問い合わせ」で知らせてください。場合によっては、無料にします。