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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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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 😉
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Tattooed mom, 26, SMILES for her mugshot after ‘leaving her baby girl in a car with the engine running so that she could drink shots at a bar’
・Samantha Vaughan can be seen grinning in her mugshot after being arrested outside the TrackSide nightclub in Copperas Cove, Texas at 2am on Sunday
・Officers who apprehended Vaughan say she then shouted a racial slur
・She recorded a blood alcohol level of 0.148, the legal driving limit there is 0.08
・Her daughter, 1, was ‘found in the backseat of a car with the doors unlocked’
・Vaughan was found inside the club minutes later, and told police ‘she had shots’
・She claimed to have gone in to use the bathroom after picking up her husband
・Now, she faces a charge of abandoning/endangering a child with intent to return
mugshot (noun)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” a photograph taken by the police of a person who has been charged with a crime: “という風に記載されています。
例文：
A poster with mugshots of wanted men was on the wall.
A tattooed mom accused of leaving her baby girl in a car with the engine running while she drank shots in a bar shows no remorse in her mugshot photo.
Samantha Vaughan, 26, can be seen with a wide grin in the police image after her arrest outside TrackSide nightclub in Copperas Cove, Texas in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Officers who apprehended Vaughan at around 2am say she then shouted a racial slur before recording a blood alcohol level of 0.148. The legal driving limit there is 0.08.
Her one-year-old child was found in a safety seat in the backseat of a car with the doors unlocked, according to police. Vaughan was said to have been found inside the club minutes later.
remorse (noun)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” a strong sad and guilty feeling about something that you have done wrong “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
He felt no remorse for the murders he had committed.
After the argument, she was filled with remorse.
She has never shown any remorse for her crime.
An affidavit states that officers smelled ‘a strong odor’ of alcohol.
Vaughan is then said to have told police ‘she had two shots’ before shouting ‘you will not take my child and place her with a f***ing n*****’.
Court records show Vaughan claimed to have gone into the bar to use the bathroom after picking her husband up from the nightclub.
The affidavit says when she found her husband she ‘sat with him while she consumed the two shots’.
During her arrest, Vaughan ‘continued to thrash her body around…yell and throw herself about’, court records show.
Law enforcement says she ‘smashed her forehead’ on the steel bar inside a police patrol car twice which ‘caused a small laceration to her head’.
She now faces a charge of abandoning/endangering a child with intent to return, resisting arrest and terroristic threats to a public servant, Fox44 reports.
affidavit (noun)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” a legal document containing a written promise that something is true “という風に記載されていますね。日本語にすると《法律》宣誓供述書です。
To thrash (verb)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” to move in a violent uncontrolled way, or to make part of your body move in this way “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
His body began to thrash around wildly.
He was screaming and thrashing around on the floor.
laceration (noun)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” a cut: “という風に記載されていますね。フォーマルな表現です。
例文：
She had lacerations to her head and back.
The boy had received horrific injuries in the attack, including lacerations to both arms.
The body showed signs of laceration and bruising.
public servant (noun)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” someone who works for the government, especially someone who has been elected “という風に記載されていますね。
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）
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