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英検1級に出そうな単語-Vigil for victims of London Bridge attack

ロンドンで起きた事件の話です。

当然ですが、イギリスではまだ連日報道されています。

犯人は、一度、刑務所から釈放されていたとのことで、

いろいろな議論が今後も続きそうです。

2個めは、最新のニュースです。

 

まず

"vigil"は寝ないで監視や警護などを行うことで

"vigil;通夜、徹夜の看病、夜警"

です。

 

"overwhelmed with;で埋め尽くされる、に圧倒される、に閉口する"

"compassionate;思いやりのある、情け深い、同情的な"

"stabbed to death;刺殺される"→"stab;刺す"

"convicted;有罪判決を受けた"

"rehabilitation;社会復帰、リハビリテーション復権"

"politicize;政治的に扱う、政治問題化する"

"discourse;談話、論文"

"disrespectful;無礼な、失礼な"→"respectful;敬意を表して、丁寧な"

"factually;事実上"

"seething;動揺している、沸騰している、煮えくり返る"

→"seethe;煮え立つ、渦巻く、騒然とする"

"perpetuate;永続させる、不朽にする"

"agenda;議題"

"perish;死ぬ、滅びる、腐る"

"assessment;評価、査定"→"assess;評価する、査定する"

"compassion;同情、哀れみ"

"embodied;体現化した"

"embody;体現する、具体化する、まとめる"

 

 

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00:00
overwhelmed with grief Leon O'Brien the
00:03
girlfriend of victim Jack Merritt
00:05
comforted by Jack's father at the vigil
00:08
in Cambridge Jack's mother in a gray
00:11
coat stares at the ground at 11:00 a.m.
00:18
the Cambridge community stood with them
00:21
the Market Square still and silent
00:25
remembering the lives of two
00:27
compassionate young people so cruelly
00:30
murdered Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt
00:34
was stabbed to death by convicted
00:36
terrorist Osman Khan at a prisoner
00:38
rehabilitation event there because they
00:40
wanted to help people like Khan in a
00:44
statement Jack's family said he lit up
00:46
our lives and the lives of his many
00:48
friends and colleagues and we will miss
00:50
him terribly
00:51
Saskia's family described her as a funny
00:53
kind positive influence at the center of
00:56
many people's lives let us keep silent
01:02
at the Guildhall in London less than a
01:05
mile from where the students were killed
01:06
the Bishop of London led the vigil
01:09
London's Mayor Boris Johnson and Jeremy
01:13
Corbyn silent after a weekend in which
01:16
some say they were too quick to
01:18
politicize the discourse the former head
01:22
of the parole board among the critics
01:24
it's really disappointing that's early
01:26
early on there seemed to be people
01:28
making very cheap political points out
01:31
of this which I think was disrespectful
01:33
to the victims but also factually
01:36
incorrect actually we don't yet have the
01:38
facts about this case that we need
01:42
thank you and in response to Boris
01:44
Johnson suggesting tougher sentences for
01:46
terrorists
01:47
David Merritt the father of victim Jack
01:49
wrote this in The Guardian if Jack could
01:53
comment on his death and the tragic
01:54
incident of Friday the 29th of November
01:57
he would be livid he would be seething
01:59
at his death and his life being used to
02:02
perpetuate an agenda of hate that he
02:04
gave his everything fighting against we
02:06
should never forget that pressure then
02:09
on mr. Johnson well of course I feel as
02:12
everybody does a huge amount of sympathy
02:14
for the loss of Jack merits family and
02:18
indeed for all the all the relatives of
02:21
Jack and and Saskia who who perished at
02:25
London Bridge but being her dad I've
02:26
campaigned against early release and
02:29
against short sentences for many years
02:30
Jeremy Corbyn says there's still much to
02:33
understand in the prison but this
02:36
particular individual what assessment
02:38
was made of his psychological condition
02:40
before he was released and also today
02:47
though was not about one man's hatred
02:50
but instead remembering the compassion
02:52
and hope embodied in the lives he stole
02:56
Jason Farrell Sky News