《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.05.25☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める

■今日の動画：PBS NewsHour May 24, 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

[11:08] How are schools thinking about compensating athletes in those sports that generate a lot of revenue versus those that don't, so, say, the star football player, the star basketball player versus the star pole vaulter?
PAT FORDE: Well, how this actually is going to be divided up is going to be one of the great sources of curiosity and ultimately controversy, I would imagine. As it stands now, it seems like the preponderance of thought is to make this an institution-by-institution decision. This will not be like a nationally mandated pay scale.

[16:11] DR. JENNIFER AVEGNO, Director, New Orleans Health Department: Well, practically, abortion medications are already illegal for elective terminations in Louisiana. We have some of the most restrictive laws post-Dobbs. So what we're really talking about now is not abortion care, but it is all the routine medical uses that mifepristone and misoprostol are used for every day, things like to induce childbirth, to stop uterine hemorrhage, miscarriages, and there are several other non-obstetric indications. So this is really the routine practice of health care that these drugs are being mischaracterized as somehow dangerous drugs of abuse.

[29:02] DAVID BROOKS: Yes, I mean, if you're a Republican politician, you have two options. One, we will call the Liz Cheney option, where you take a principled stand against Donald Trump's character and you become a former politician. Or we will call the second, the Marco Rubio option, which is, you get along with the program and don't say anything and just get along with Trump world.

[30:31] And she called Trump everything but a child of God in the last -- in the closing weeks of her campaign.

[40:15] When we talk about greenhouse gas emissions and transportation, we largely focus on cars and trucks, since they generate the most. But the aviation sector is under pressure to reduce its carbon footprint too. In the second of two reports [* 前回リポート] , science correspondent Miles O'Brien looks at efforts to create greener fuels for the skies.

[42:14] DAVE KIMBALL: It's a drop-in fuel, so you don't have to modify anything to use it. You don't have to build charging stations for airplanes and all those types of things.

[43:44] JERRY TUSKAN: There is enough land potentially available to produce 35 billion gallons of aviation fuel. It will take a portfolio or a mixture of species geared toward adaptive production in specific regions.

[47:20] MILES O'BRIEN: To entice farmers to grow energy crops, they will need new equipment, financing and crop insurance. For now, it's a field of dreams, except, if you build it, the market may not come.

[53:13] ROB HOLDWAY: People take the pub for granted, and they underestimate the importance to the local community. That's definitely true, and bringing people together, and that sort of like release that you get from having a good pint, a good quality meal, and just basically enjoying yourself. It's a good -- it's a very important part of society, just like the church is for some people as well.
MALCOLM BRABANT: But pub life is not the religion it once was in Britain.

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。

• condition/ this three-headed monster knowingly exposed him to the weapon, conditioned him to see it as a tool to solve his problems and trained him to use it.

• I think it's going to be about 14 months from now, 15 months, setting into the 2025-'26 academic year

• parameter

• suss out/ the football players, the men's basketball player and probably increasingly women's basketball players will get the majority of this, but then, even within the team, what sort of parameters are put on in terms of performance or recruiting star power or experience as far as who gets what. That's all that's going to have to be sussed out at the institution level

• booster/ they will turn to boosters or collectives and say, hey, can you help us out with this star quarterback over here? We'd like to give him some more money.

• nuclear option/ this conscription law was a sort of nuclear option

• readouts/ they're getting live readouts on their phones from their reporters inside the courtroom

• soften/ Black voters and Hispanic voters, specifically a group that went heavily for Mr. Biden in 2020 and have since softened their support for him.

• permission structure

• grease the skids

• Wingstop

• UCO

• used cooking oil

• SAF

• sustainable aviation fuel

• bioenergy crop

• miscanthus giganteus

• carbon budget

• belly up/ special correspondent Malcolm Brabant bellies up to the bar

• last call/ How many others are facing the last call?

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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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