《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.06.08☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める

■今日の動画：PBS NewsHour June 7, 2024

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■今日の注目語句

[04:28] Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has disclosed two luxury trips from 2019 that were partially paid for by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow. Justice Thomas said the trips to Bali, Indonesia, and to California's Wine Country were -- quote -- "inadvertently omitted" from a previous disclosure. The Bali trip was part of a ProPublica report last year that led to renewed focus on the court's ethics [** 以前の番組の関連ニュース ] .

[06:57] And Pat Sajak's turn as the host of "Wheel of Fortune" is coming to an end. His final episode airs tonight, after 41 years at the helm. The 77-year-old has been a fixture on our television screens through seven presidents and the rise of streaming TV. Through it all, Sajak has coolly walked contestants through the hangman-style game, with longtime partner Vanna White turning the letters. He will be replaced by TV personality Ryan Seacrest, who makes his debut in September. On behalf of countless fans across America, I'd just like to say, Pat, I'd like to buy a vowel.

[16:22] The one thing they are thinking about in terms of electoral strategy is someone who will have a good matchup with Vice President Kamala Harris in a debate and in general. They think that she is a weaker part of the Biden/Harris campaign. They want to expose that. So this is what they're thinking about. But, in general, part of it is a casting aspect. He wants someone who looks good beside him and who has a name that looks good next to him.

[21:21] DAVID BROOKS: I will tell him what he should be looking for. I can't get deep inside Trump's mind to know what he actually is looking for. But if I were him, I'd think, OK, I have got class resentment down. I'm good with that. I -- people know where I stand, so J.D. Vance out.

[22:49] But the number one thing that I'm looking at is something that Trump always talks about, and that is how the person looks. It's always about, oh, they're out of central casting.

[27:07] And so I think it's -- he's approaching the right policy. I just wish he had said, well, this is my project as president to be a center-left Democrat and not a left Democrat. And I think he's hurting politically because he hasn't struck that.

[28:26] We're talking about a drug addict who had a very bad problem, lied on some government forms, is being held accountable, and is being held accountable in a court of law, where all the messiness is coming out. And I think the one thing that might inure to the president's benefit and his family's benefit is what they're going through is what millions of American families are going through.

[30:24] They don't want to go out and shoot people and be in an army. They want to have their lives. And yet when history called them, they just came. And they were -- it was like a beautifully altruistic thing for Americans to go 3,000 miles across the ocean to liberate Europe. It wasn't only altruistic, but it was partly altruistic. And so you can't help but thinking about the moral reflection of our generations -- and I'm not dumping on [* dump on someone = To criticize someone severely and unfairly ] the young -- I include my age group two -- versus what they did. And it's a little haunting.

[31:12] JONATHAN CAPEHART: You know, I look at -- I think about Bob Kagan and his -- the book before this latest one, I think the title is "The Jungle Grows Back." And he makes an incredible historical point. And that is this -- these seven decades, eight decades of relative peace, particularly in Europe, is an historical aberration and that we have been able to maintain the peace because of institutions created with leadership from the United States to be able to maintain the liberal order, the small-D democratic order. It's all under threat. And it is very easy for the jungle to grow back, meaning, without American leadership, the -- NATO could go by the wayside. All sorts of things that we have taken for granted could just fall apart. And that's why this election is so important.

[49:50] JEN PSAKI, Former White House Press Secretary: Give your friends grace, your parents grace who are all out there, your future partners grace or current partners grace, and, most importantly, give yourself grace in these moments. You are all already resilient.

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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。

• at a steady clip

• pre-college/ they're volunteering, they're traveling, they're having pre-college experiences

• cruise away/ Modi is a populist sort of authoritarian figure, and he looked like he was just cruising away

• Mad Dog

• plum/ I thought for sure she would have been the next speaker of the House when McCarthy fell, and I thought that Donald Trump would give her the push because he loves her. But maybe this is a better plum

• be latched onto

• bucket/ this court case will fall into that bucket, and it'll be very empathetic

• dump on someone

• Queen Ramonda

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