今日の英語ニュース☆2023.08.14☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める

PBS News Weekend Aug. 13, 2023

今日は上の動画サイトの字幕に多くの誤りや省略があったので（週末版はいつもそうです）、字幕ファイルを作るのはやめて簡単な語句説明だけにしました。下の語句の説明のところの英語は、実際に英語音声を聞いて誤りを訂正し、省略を補足してあります。

いつものような字幕ファイルが必要な人は、リンク先の方法で簡単にできますので自分で作ってください（元の字幕に含まれている誤りや省略はそのままになります）。自分で字幕ファイルを作れるようになれば、このnoteで字幕ファイルが入手できなくなっても、自分で教材を作ってずっと続けていくことが出来ます。

週末版の字幕は、翌日以降に比較的正確なものに差し替えられるようです。でも、ニュース番組なので、翌日以降に更新されても…

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セサミストリートで英語を楽しむ

今までに何回か書きましたが、いつもと違うことを少し…
普段は英語ニュースの動画に使っている再生ソフトですが、動画ファイルと字幕ファイルをダウンロードすれば、セサミストリートもこんな感じに再生できます（レイアウトやフォントサイズは自由に変更可）。
小学生の英語教材として、これ以上のものはないと思います。しかも無料。
大人の私も好きです　＾＾
セサミストリートのYouTubeチャンネル

実際のところ、セサミストリートの英語が分かって、使うことができれば、大人でも英語の日常会話にあまり不自由しないと思います。使う単語は違っても、英会話の基本的な形はセサミストリートで身につきます。つまり、大人の英語教材にもなるってことですね。
何より、英語の発音は抜群によくなるはずです。

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■ 動画サイトへのリンク

・直接動画サイトを見る場合のリンクです(リンク先字幕の誤りは元のまま)
・分からない言葉はこの２つの辞書でたいてい見つかると思います

[00:00]　Introduction

[01:58]　News Wrap

Hawaii governor surveys Maui fire damage, warns death toll will grow: In our news wrap Sunday, the Maui wildfire is now the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century as search efforts continue and the death toll keeps rising, at least 21 people died in a mudslide and flash flood in western China, Russian shelling killed 7 people in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, and the annual Perseids meteor shower peaked overnight.
《Hawaii; Maui fire; wildfire; annual Perseids meteor shower 》

[02:58] I saw one friend dead on the ground like a piece of charcoal, like Pompeii almost, just dead. I mean, there's nothing you could do. It was that fast. [* = ポンペイ。Pompeii was an ancient city located in what is now the comune of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii Wikipediaの右上のlanguagesに日本語のページへのリンクもあります]

[03:59] And last night was peak viewing all over the world for the annual Perseid meteor shower [* = ペルセウス座流星群 ] . The moon was just a slim crescent, so, in places without much light pollution or cloud cover, meteors could be seenen streaking across the sky at a rate of one a minute. It's not too late to cacah the celestial show. There will be some stragglers [* straggler = something or someone that falls behind the rest] tonight and early this week.

[04:49]　Why recruiting and confidence in America’s armed forces is so low right now

The U.S. military has reached crisis levels of low recruitment, at the same time the American public’s perception of the armed forces is increasingly divided. In a recent Gallup poll, only 60 percent of respondents said they had confidence in the U.S. military, the lowest level in over two decades. Matthew Gault, a writer for VICE who covers the military, joins Ali Rogin to discuss.
《military; low recruitment; American public’s perception of the military increasingly divided; Matthew Gault, a writer for VICE; アフガニスタン撤退の失敗、culture war; 軍を巡る文化戦争、厳しすぎる入隊条件 》

[06:14] There is also a lot of culture war [* = Conflict between different ideological groups, especially political conflict for cultural dominance between liberals and conservatives in the United States (wiktionary).「 文化戦争」。
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war#2012–present:_Broadening_of_the_culture_war ] issues that are brewing around the military. And only one percent of the American population serves in the all-volunteer force, and that creates a disconnect especially over the last 20 years.

[09:47] Tuberville is preventing over 200 military promotions and has been. Why is he doing this? He's doing this because he says that he is worried that DOD [* = Department of Defense] has made a verbal and written commitment to its service members to allow them access to abortion care. And, because of that, he is stalling these promotions. [* 関連ニュース ]

[12:00]★今日のおすすめ★　Rural Montana factory closure disrupts local economy, farming community

Farming can be an uncertain endeavor, at the mercy of the weather, pests and blight. But another sometimes unexpected factor for farmers around the country are the business decisions at the companies they rely on. In one small Montana community, the closure of a sugar beet processing plant is upending the area’s farmers and economy. Stan Parker of Montana PBS reports.
《small Montana community; closure of a sugar beet processing plant; upending the area’s farmers and economy; Stan Parker of Montana PBS; sugar beet farmer Adam Cayko; 砂糖大根加工施設の閉鎖; 甜菜; てんさい; てんさい糖; 製糖業; American Crystal Sugar Company owns Sidney Sugars; Sidney Mayor Rick Norby; 新たな挑戦 》

[16:56]★今日のおすすめ★　The legal battle in Oklahoma over public funding for a religious charter school

For several years, the Supreme Court has been lowering the barrier between church and state in education. Now, Oklahoma officials have approved what would be the nation's first publicly funded religious charter school, setting off a court battle that will likely end up at the Supreme Court. John Yang speaks with the NewsHour’s Oklahoma City communities correspondent Adam Kemp for more.
《Oklahoma; nation's first publicly funded religious public charter school; court battle likely end up at the Supreme Court; Oklahoma City communities correspondent Adam Kemp; オクラホマ州、全米初の公立の宗教チャータースクール、online charter school called St. Isidore of Seville; St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School》

[17:31] Right, John. It's an online charter school called St. Isidore of Seville, intetestingly enough, namedd after the proposed patron saint of Internet users. It will be an online charter school run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma.
[* charter school = a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located, and in some cases is privately owned (wiktionary). チャーター・スクール ]
[* St. Isidore of Seville... = As the internet was gaining sway in everyday life, Pope St. John Paul II named St. Isidore of Seville the patron on the internet, which is interesting because St. Isidore was bishop of Seville in 600 AD -- a few years before the internet came to be. As bishop he created a school that became a model for early universities... https://www.up.edu/garaventa/did-you-know/internet-patron-saints.html ]

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