英字新聞を読み解く!!!Vol.233難易度★★☆☆☆

英字新聞を読むには各単語の形式を知ることが大事!

英語を勉強し始めたばかりの段階だと、教材と違って英字新聞を読むのはかなり難しいと思います。それぞれの新聞が独自の書き方をもっていたりもするので。なので、僕が補足をつけながら、英字新聞を読むのお手伝いしようと思います。教材の文法には慣れたけど英字新聞はまだ苦手という、初級ー中級あたりの人用の解説です。

何回も言いますが、新聞を読むためには各々の単語が名詞(noun)なのか、形容詞(adjective)なのか、副詞(adverb)なのかがめちゃくちゃ大事になってきます!文法はほんっっっっっっとうに大事です!!!一緒に一つずつやっていきましょう!僕の勉強がわりにもなっているので、僕が知っていることは飛ばしていたりします。なので、何かわからないことがあれば気軽にコメントください。できるだけ答えます!よろしくお願いします 😉

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5830015/Woman-lashes-female-morality-police-try-force-wear-hijab.html?ito=social-facebook

まずはざっと読んでみてください。

難易度は★★☆☆☆です!

読み終わったら、下の単語の解説と照らし合わせながら読んでいってみてください!よろしくです 😉

それでは英字新聞 読解スタートです!

Woman lashes out at female morality police after they try to force her to wear a hijab on Iranian subway – and tells them: ‘I wear whatever I like!’

・The woman was set upon by agents at the Darzaveh Zowlat station in Tehran

・Three hijab-wearing morality policewomen criticised her for her clothing choice

Footage taken at the scene shows her boot one of the policewoman in the fray

lash out (phrasal verb)

Cambridge Dictionaryによると” to suddenly attack someone or something physically or criticize him, her, or it in an angry way: というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

Occasionally the patients will lash out at the nurses.

I was only teasing him and suddenly he lashed out (at me) and hit me in the face.

set on/upon sb (phrasal verb)

Cambridge Dictionaryによると” to attack someone: と、” to surround or catch someone and prevent them from escaping: “いうふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

He was set upon by a vicious dog. ​

As he left the theatre, the singer was set upon by fans desperate for autographs.

To boot (verb)

Cambridge Dictionaryによると” to kick someone or something hard with the foot: “いうふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

They booted him in the head.

She booted the ball down the field.

He kept booting the ball into the crowd.

the fray (noun)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると” an exciting activity or situation in which someone competes with other people “と、” a fight or argument ” というふうに記載されていますね。

This is the remarkable moment a defiant woman fights back against Iran‘s stringent Morality Police after they confronted her about her clothes.

The unnamed woman was caught on camera taking a stand against a gang of agents at the Darzaveh Zowlat metro station in Tehran, Iran.

In the footage she can be seen booting one of three hijab-wearing policewomen after they took issue with her western clothing.

‘I will wear whatever I like. It’s none of your business. You aren’t my parents,’ she says in the clip as she chases them down the platform.

remarkable (adjective)

Cambridge Dictionaryによると” unusual or special and therefore surprising and worth mentioning: というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

Nelson Mandela was a truly remarkable man.

He’s a remarkable young man.

Her mother made a remarkable recovery.

defiant (adjective)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると” refusing to obey a person or rule というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

He was in a defiant mood. 

a defiant attitude/gesture

stringent (adjective)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると” stringent rules or conditions are strict and make you achieve high standards というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

The safety regulations are extremely stringent.

We need to introduce more stringent security measures such as identity cards.

Stringent safety regulations were introduced after the accident.

take a firm stand/line (phrase)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると” to state your opinion and refuse to change it というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

The government has taken a firm line on illegal immigration.

take issue with someone/something (phrase)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると” to disagree with someone, or to disagree about something というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

I must take issue with you on the question of teachers’ pay.

I take issue with parents who push their children too hard.

The enraged woman then boots one of the officers, sending her running away in fear before screaming at them: ‘You’ve corrupted this society with your ways!’

One of the morality police officers then screams at her – calling her a ‘b****’.

Eventually one of the male metro operators decides to intervene to help the woman, telling the morality police: ‘You shouldn’t intervene.’

This is not the first time the Iranian morality police have been caught on camera trying to enforce strict religious clothing protocol.

To enrage (verb)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると to make someone extremely angry というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

Plans to build a new nightclub in the neighbourhood have enraged local residents.

He was enraged at the article about him.

Enraged readers boycotted the newspaper.

To enforce (verb)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると” to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

It isn’t always easy for the police to enforce speed limits.

The new teacher had failed to enforce any sort of discipline.

We need to enforce the traffic laws.

protocol (noun)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると a set of rules for the correct way to behave on formal occasions というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

diplomatic protocol

According to protocol, the new ambassador will present his credentials to the president.

Last month, another woman was filmed being brutally beaten by a gang of agents after they deemed her red headscarf ‘insufficient’ coverage.

While in February Iranian police arrested 29 women for appearing in public without a headscarf as protests as they protested against the dress codes which have been in force since the Islamic revolution of 1979.

In a further show of defiance several Iranian women recently took to social media to pose in public without their headscarves.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, a cleric who is considered a moderate within Iran’s political system, has previously criticised the morality police for their brutal tactics.

clericは聖職者です。

To deem(verb)

Cambridge Dictionaryによると” to consider or judge something in a particular way: というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

The area has now been deemed safe.

The story was deemed too controversial and so they spiked it.

She is currently deemed to be the best British athlete.

insufficient (adjective)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると not enough というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

The police had insufficient evidence to arrest him.

There was insufficient money to fund the project.

moderate (noun)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると” someone whose opinions and actions are reasonable and not extreme, especially in politics というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

The party is deeply divided between moderates and extremists.

He is well-known as a moderate in the party.

tactic (noun)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると a particular method or plan for achieving something というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

These bomb attacks represent a change of tactics by the terrorists.

The police force’s stated mandate is ‘promoting virtue and preventing vice.’

But Rouhani warned; ‘Grabbing people’s collars to promote virtue will not work.

‘You cannot do it by being aggressive.’

The hijab and loose-fitting clothing became mandatory for all women in Iran in 1979.

The Islamic code also forbids women touching, dancing or singing with men outside their families.

In Tehran today, some fashionable young women wear tighter clothes with a scarf loosely covering their head, technically meeting the requirements of the law while drawing the ire of conservatives.

Women arrested for showing their hair in public in Iran can receive jail terms of two months or less and face fines equivalent to $25.

mandate (noun)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると” an official order to do something というふうに記載されていますね。

virtue (noun)

Cambridge Dictionaryによると a good moral quality in a person, or the general quality of being morally good: というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

Patience is a virtue.

Patience is not one of my virtues.

teaching children the virtues of discipline and self-control

vice (noun)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると” a bad habit or personal quality というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

He has the occasional cigarette but that’s his only real vice.

My one real vice (= bad habit) is chocolate.

mandatory (adjective)

Cambridge Dictionaryによると Something that is mandatory must be done, or is demanded by law: というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

It’s mandatory to wear a seat belt in the UK.

The test includes a mandatory essay question.

ire (noun)

Macmillan Dictionaryによると anger というふうに記載されていますね。

例文:

The team drew the ire of local politicians when it moved to a new stadium outside the city.

最後に、内容が理解でき、新しい単語も知ることができたら、必ずCambridge Dictionaryか、Macmillan Dictionaryで例文を読むようにしてください。そして一番シンプルで、自分が日常使いしときやすそうなもをノートやスマホに書き溜めておいてください。そしてこれを移動中の時などに声に出して覚えることが本当に大事です!(電車では難しいので、僕はよく歩きますw)

これをしないと全然伸びていきません!

それではまた明日も更新していきます!

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