《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.05.24☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める

■今日の動画：PBS NewsHour May 23, 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。

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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

[25:22] He said, one, that the trial court only paid lip service to a presumption of good faith on the part of the state legislature that drew the map.

[27:46] [** Appeal to Heaven flagの説明　その１ ]
GEOFF BENNETT: While you're here, I want to ask you about the Supreme Court's latest ethics controversy, given this reporting by The New York Times that this Appeal to Heaven flag was seen flying outside Justice Alito's vacation home. That comes on the heels of earlier New York Times reporting that an inverted American flag was seen flying outside his home after the election. These are symbols that are used by insurrectionists and by election deniers, also a lot of ethics questions around Clarence Thomas

[29:07] [** Appeal to Heaven flagの説明　その２ ]
GEOFF BENNETT: We're going to focus more closely now on that New York Times reporting about that Appeal to Heaven flag seen flying outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's New Jersey beach home last year. The flag has origins dating to the Revolutionary War, but is now associated with Christian nationalism and efforts to overturn President Biden's 2020 election win. The flag was also carried by rioters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

[30:25] [** Appeal to Heaven flagの説明　その３]
MATTHEW TAYLOR, Institute of Islamic Christian and Jewish Studies: I would say it has become a symbol of right-wing Christian extremism, of Christian supremacy, of aggressive Christian nationalism, especially built around ideas of spiritual warfare and fighting against the demons that they believe have taken over the United States. So it attaches itself to all these different things, and it especially connotes support for Donald Trump. And, today, to fly the flag is, in many ways, to reference January 6, to point back to this other moment where people believed that they were appealing to heaven to see an election overturned.
LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: So, as Taylor says, the flag was popularized by the New Apostolic Reformation, but it has become much bigger to represent the 2020 election lies.

[31:13] GEOFF BENNETT: Well, tell me more about this movement and how it's grown.
LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: So leaders in the New Apostolic Reformation [** New Apostolic Reformationの説明 ] , like Dutch Sheets, who I mentioned, who helped popularize the flag, are strong supporters of Donald Trump. They were some of the first Christian leaders to rally around him in 2016. And this movement, specifically, just to expand on that, Geoff, believes in Christian supremacy, believes that Christianity should be the official religion of the United States, ending any separation of church and state, and trying to enact their vision of a Christian society. And as the popularity of that New Apostolic Reformation has grown, so has Trump's popularity amongst Christians and evangelicals. And these Christian nationalists have essentially worked since 2015, Matthew Taylor said, to get more Republican lawmakers and government officials to fly this flag. And as we reported earlier this year, House Speaker Mike Johnson has this Appeal to Heaven flag, has -- has put it outside of his Capitol Hill office.

[34:21] [** 興味深い内容]
And then Trump took to TRUTH Social also this week, claiming that the Justice Department authorized the use of deadly force against him during their search of Mar-a-Lago, claiming that Biden's FBI wanted to assassinate him. And so I spoke to a Yale historian, Timothy Snyder, who said, when you look at this in the big scale of things, Geoff, that ultimately Trump's comments about Biden trying to -- his FBI trying to assassinate him is essentially a classic tactic used by fascist movements, that they want to get a monopoly on victimhood, so that way they can justify any actions they take, whether it's overturning an election or using violence against their enemy.

[47:18] AMNA NAWAZ: Before it was X, it was Twitter, a hub for breaking news, commentary and hot takes [* take = an opinion or viewpoint ] . And in its early days, one subculture, Black Twitter, became a driving force in defining pop culture, creating trending hashtags, unforgettable memes, and even sparking social justice movements.

[49:12] Sometimes, typically, Black culture in this country has to code-switch or be sensitive or not tell its full truth. And I feel like Black Twitter is a space where we got to be fully who we were and, again, drive conversations in America, especially ones that are uncomfortable.

[49:32] PRENTICE PENNY: I think it became a cultural force because I think a lot of times, historically in America, Black life and the things that have mattered to Black culture have sort of been over there, and you can isolate yourself from it. Like, you don't have to read "Essence" magazine or "Ebony" magazine or you don't have to watch Black shows or listen to certain music or whatever. You can kind of curate your own kind of bubble America.

[51:36] And I think that's some of the beauty of Black Twitter is these sort of real powerful moments like Trayvon Martin, [* see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trayvon_Martin ] and Black Lives Matter and Black Girl Magic and coexist alongside of random craziness as this.

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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。

• throwaway line

• Swiftie

• service fees

• unwind/ the challengers had to unwind that to show that race predominated.

• bleach out/ More than 30,000 black Charlestonians were bleached out of Congressional District 1 and moved into neighboring Congressional District 6

• Colonies

• colony

• Dutch Sheets

• New Apostolic Reformation

• light into

• make a splash/ as carp populations have declined, a gilded icon of childhood pets has been making a splash

• feral/ feral goldfish

• substrate

• invasive (noun)

• flounder/ The Last Chance Lagoon intake forms tell the story of floundering fish owners

• take/ commentary and hot takes

• tall tee

• curate

• SayHerName

• Say Her Name

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