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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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それでは英字新聞 読解スタートです！
‘I’m p***** off at myself’: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau apologizes after photo emerges of him wearing BROWNFACE to an ‘Arabian Nights’ gala event in 2001 when he was a private school teacher
・Justin Trudeau has apologized after a photo of him wearing brownface makeup in 2001 emerged on Wednesday
・The picture, obtained by TIME, shows a then 29-year-old Trudeau wearing brown paint on his face, neck and hands while wearing a turban and robe
・Trudeau was attending an ‘Arabian Nights’ themed gala at West Point Grey Academy, which is the private school in Vancouver where he taught at the time
・The photo appears in the West Point Grey Academy 2001 yearbook
・He also admitted to wearing black makeup in high school to perform as African-American singer Harry Belafonte
・The emergence of the photo could undermine his chances for re-election with less than five weeks to go before Canada’s election
gala (noun)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” a special performance or event to celebrate something “という風に記載されています。
例文：
a gala performance of Swan Lake
There will be many stars performing in the Royal Ballet’s Gala Night, held in aid of children’s charities.
To undermine (verb)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” to make someone less confident, less powerful, or less likely to succeed, or to make something weaker, often gradually: “という風に記載されています。
例文：
Business confidence was undermined by a series of major failures.
Their trading position has been seriously undermined by the minister’s remarks.
to go (phrase)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” remaining “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
There are just three weeks to go before the end of the term.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologized and said he is ‘p***ed off’ at himself after a photo emerged showing him wearing brownface at a party 18 years ago when he was a private school teacher.
The photo, published by TIME magazine on Wednesday, shows Trudeau wearing brown makeup on his face, neck and hands while wearing a turban and robe at a party in 2001.
Trudeau admitted to wearing the racist costume when he attended an ‘Arabian Nights’ themed gala at West Point Grey Academy – the private school in Vancouver where he was teaching at the time.
The photo first appeared in the West Point Grey Academy 2001 yearbook.
In a press conference held on his campaign plane on Wednesday night, Trudeau acknowledged that the photo was racist and said he should have known better.
‘I’m p***ed off at myself, I‘m disappointed in myself,’ he said.
The emergence of the photo comes just one week after Trudeau launched his campaign and could undermine his chances for re-election with less than five weeks to go before Canada’s election.
disappointed in (phrase)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” unhappy because someone or something was not as good as you hoped or expected, or because something did not happen: “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
I’m really disappointed in you, Ruth.
We were deeply disappointed at/about the result.
His parents were bitterly disappointed in/with him.
Trudeau said the photo was taken at an end of year gala where the theme was Arabian nights and he dressed up in an Aladdin costume.
‘I should have known better then but I didn’t, and I am deeply sorry for it,’ he said.
‘I shouldn’t have done that. I take responsibility for it. It was a dumb thing to do.’
He also admitted to wearing black makeup in high school to perform a version of African-American singer Harry Belafonte’s song ‘Banana Boat Song (Day-O)’ during a talent show.
‘These are the situations I regret deeply,’ he said.
Trudeau said it was a racist act but he didn’t realize it at the time and that he knows better now.
He acknowledged that he had ‘always been more enthusiastic about costumes than is sometimes appropriate’.
He asked Canadians to forgive him and said he would continue to fight intolerance and discrimination.
Trudeau repeatedly said he would take responsibility for his past mistakes but refused to say why he hadn’t spoken about the existence of the racist photo sooner.
The Liberal Party of Canada had earlier confirmed that Trudeau, who is the leader of their political party, was in the photo.
‘It was a photo taken while he was teaching in Vancouver, at the school’s annual dinner which had a costume theme of ‘Arabian Nights’,’ the party’s media relations lead said.
‘He attended with friends and colleagues dressed as a character from Aladdin.’
He worked at the private school before entering politics and at the same time his father Pierre Trudeau was Canada’s Prime Minister.
Trudeau taught French, among other classes, when he was a teacher at the private school where tuition is about $23,000 a year.
He left his teaching position there after spring in 2001.
dumb (adjective)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” stupid “という風に記載されていますね。インフォーマルな表現です。
例文：
You gave him your phone number? That was a dumb thing to do.
intolerance (noun)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” the fact of refusing to accept ideas, beliefs, or behaviour that are different from your own: “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
racial/religious intolerance
These verbal attacks are clearly motivated by racial intolerance.
tuition (noun)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” money that you pay to take lessons, especially at a college, university, or private school “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
Tuition increased by 5% at universities this year.
The photo emerged publicly for the first time on Wednesday after a tip from a Vancouver businessman Michael Adamson who was said to be part of the West Point Grey Academy community.
Adamson didn’t attend the party but came across the photo in the yearbook in July and believed it should be made public.
The photo emerged a month before Canada’s general election scheduled for October 21.
Trudeau, who has been in power since 2015, is facing a tough re-election battle against the main opposition Conservatives led by Andrew Scheer.
He has been admired by liberals around the world for his progressive policies in the Trump era, with Canada accepting more refugees than the United States.
His Liberal government has also strongly advocated free trade.
Trudeau has come under fire of late following one of the biggest scandals in Canadian political history, which arose when Trudeau’s former attorney general said he improperly pressured her to halt the criminal prosecution of a company in Quebec.
criminal prosecutionは、刑事訴追です。
Trudeau has said he was standing up for jobs.
He is but the latest politician to face scrutiny over racially insensitive photos and actions from their younger days.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam was embroiled in a blackface controversy back in February in relation to his own yearbook pictures.
Northam initially apologized but then later denied he was pictured in a 1984 medical yearbook photo that showed a man wearing blackface and another dressed in a Ku Klux Klan hood.
attorney (noun)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” a lawyer “という風に記載されていますね。
dumb (adjective)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” stupid “という風に記載されていますね。インフォーマルな表現です。
例文：
You gave him your phone number? That was a dumb thing to do.
scrutiny (noun)
Cambridge Dictionary によると ” the careful and detailed examination of something in order to get information about it: “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
The government’s record will be subjected to/come under (close) scrutiny in the weeks before the election.
The diet industry comes under scrutiny in tonight’s programme.
insensitive (adjective)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” not noticing or caring about other people’s feelings or needs, and not worrying that things that you say or do may upset them “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
He is totally insensitive to my feelings.
The police have been criticized for being insensitive to complaints from the public.
To embroil (verb)
Macmillan Dictionary によると ” to involve someone in a difficult situation “という風に記載されていますね。
例文：
The scandal has now embroiled the police.
We must avoid becoming embroiled in another scandal.
The United Nations was reluctant to get its forces embroiled in civil war.
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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