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12/5(月) 英国王室関係者が黒人差別発言により辞職
Buckingham Palace Staff Member Resigns Over Remarks to Black Guest
rattle ガタガタ音を立てる、苛立たせる
blur 不鮮明、ぼかす
charitable 慈悲深い、寛大な
repeatedly 繰り返して、度々
exclaim 叫ぶ、大声で言う
著者：Mark Landler
(c) 2021 The New York Times Company
LONDON — When Ngozi Fulani was invited to a reception at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday hosted by Camilla, the queen consort and wife of King Charles III, she did not expect to find herself being repeatedly questioned by a member of the household staff about where she was from.
Fulani, who is Black and was born in Britain, documented the exchange with the staff member, whom she identified as “Lady SH,” on Twitter. The encounter, in which the employee seemed unwilling to believe Fulani was British, rattled her, she said. And it left her with “mixed feelings” about the gathering, which was dedicated to raising awareness about violence against women and girls, showcasing Camilla’s involvement in this cause.
“The rest of the event is a blur,” wrote Fulani, who runs a charitable group, Sistah Space, that helps women of African and Caribbean descent who are victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Less than 24 hours later, Buckingham Palace said the staff member had resigned and offered her “profound apologies for the hurt caused.” The BBC and London newspapers identified her as Susan Hussey, 83, a close friend of Queen Elizabeth II who served her for six decades as a lady-in-waiting and is godmother to Prince William. The palace did not confirm the staff member’s identity.
“We take this incident extremely seriously and have investigated immediately to establish the full details,” the palace said in a statement Wednesday. “In this instance, unacceptable and deeply regrettable comments have been made.”
In the account offered by Fulani on Twitter, the staff member first moved aside her hair so she could read her name tag.
“Where are you from?” she said the woman asked, pressing repeatedly when Fulani said she had been born in Britain and held British nationality. “No, but where do you come from, where do your people come from?”
When Fulani finally answered that her parents had immigrated to Britain in the 1950s, she said, the woman exclaimed, “I knew we’d get there in the end, you’re Caribbean!”
Fulani said she then pushed back, telling the woman she was of “African heritage, Caribbean descent and British nationality.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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12/6(火) 2022年流行語大賞は「ゴブリン・モード」
The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode
vax ワクチン (= vaccine)
venerable 尊敬するに足る、敬うべき
self-indulgent わがままな、自堕落な
slovenly [形] だらしのない、無精な
satirical 風刺的な
lexicographer 辞書編集者
just for the record (誤解のないように)はっきり言っておきますが、一応言って おきますが
著者：Jennifer Schuessler
(c) 2021 The New York Times Company
A year ago, the lexicographic grandees at Oxford Languages dutifully stuck out their arms and chose “vax” as the 2021 Word of the Year.
But this year, the venerable publisher behind the Oxford English Dictionary has — like the rest of us, apparently — gone full goblin mode.
“Goblin mode” — a slang term referring to “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations” — has been named Oxford’s 2022 Word of the Year.
Yes, you read that right. After a landslide online popular vote, an in-joke that surged to prominence thanks to a satirical viral tweet involving an actress, a rapper and a doctored headline has been named 2022’s One Word to Rule Them All.
“New words catch on when they capture our imagination, or fill a hole with a word for a concept we need to express,” Katherine Connor Martin, product director at Oxford Languages, said in a telephone interview. “What ‘goblin mode’ tells me is it resonated with the feeling that the pandemic is over, but we’re still grappling with it. Do we want to go back to the notions of respectability of the pre-pandemic world?”
The Word of the Year is based on usage evidence drawn from Oxford’s continually updated corpus of more than 19 billion words, gathered from news sources across the English-speaking world. The selection, according to Oxford, is meant “to reflect the ethos, mood or preoccupations” of the preceding year, while also having “potential as a term of lasting cultural significance.”
Normally, Oxford’s lexicographers assemble a list of words that had a statistically relevant surge, then choose one. This year, they took a more populist approach, announcing a shortlist of three — “goblin mode,” “#IStandWith” and “metaverse” — and then throwing it to a two-week online public vote.
The precise origins of “goblin mode” are murky. It popped up on Twitter as early as 2009, according to Oxford, but it went viral last spring, thanks to a satirical tweet featuring a fake news headline that quoted actress Julia Fox saying that she and Kanye West broke up because he didn’t like it when she “went goblin mode.” (Fox later posted a denial on Instagram Stories, saying: “Just for the record, I have never used the phrase ‘goblin mode.’”)
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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12/7(水) 米国、気候変動に脅かされている先住民族の移住のため、数百万ドル支払う
U.S. to Pay Millions to Move Tribes Threatened by Climate Change
tribe 種族、部族
(アメリカの)先住民 indigenous people
Native Americans
to date 今までに、現在までに
relocate 新しい場所に移す、移転させる
eroding 浸食する
inland 内陸の
著者：Christopher Flavelle
(c) 2021 The New York Times Company
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will give three Native tribes $75 million to move away from coastal areas or rivers, one of the nation’s largest efforts to date to relocate communities that are facing an urgent threat from climate change.
The three communities — two in Alaska, and one in Washington state — will each get $25 million to move their key buildings onto higher ground and away from rising waters, with the expectation that homes will follow. The federal government will give eight more tribes $5 million each to plan for relocation.
“It gave me goose bumps when I found out we got that money,” said Joseph John Jr., a council member in Newtok, a village in southwest Alaska where the land is quickly eroding. It will receive $25 million to relocate inland. “It will mean a lot to us.”
The project, funded by the Interior Department, is an acknowledgment that a growing number of places around the United States can no longer be protected against changes brought by a warming planet. The spending is meant to create a blueprint for the federal government to help other communities, Native as well as nontribal, move away from vulnerable areas, officials said.
In addition to Newtok, the other tribes to receive $25 million were Napakiak, a village on the shore of the Kuskokwim River that is losing 25 to 50 feet of land each year to erosion, and the Quinault Indian Nation, on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula, whose main town, Taholah, faces a growing risk of flooding.
The Quinault nation has selected a new site on higher ground, said Fawn Sharp, the nation’s vice president. She said the new money will be used to build a community center, which will also house a health and wellness center.
“For years, our pleas have seemed to fall on deaf ears,” Sharp said. With the new money, she said, “they’re paying attention to us.”
Eight other tribes will get $5 million each to consider whether to relocate and to begin planning for relocation if they decide to do so. They include the Chitimacha Tribe, in Louisiana; the Yurok Tribe, in Northern California; and other Native villages in Alaska.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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12/8(木) EU、G7がロシア産石油取引に上限設定
An EU Embargo of Russian Oil and G-7’s Price Cap Take Effect
curbing (強く)抑制する
by design 目的をもって、計画的に
embargo 禁輸措置、制限
quell 鎮圧する、抑える
gyrated 変動する、乱高下する
著者：Stanley Reed
(c) 2021 The New York Times Company
LONDON — Europe and the United States started enforcing Monday two of the toughest measures aimed at curbing Russia’s income from oil, the principal source of cash used to fund its nearly 10-month-old war in Ukraine.
But there was no drastic impact on oil markets — prices were largely unchanged by late afternoon — and that was by design.
The first measure, a price cap initiative led by the United States, sets a top price of $60 per barrel for Russian crude, and was endorsed by the Group of 7 countries, Australia and the European Union.
The second is an embargo that prohibits European Union countries from buying most Russian crude as of Monday. It was a step that the bloc had agreed to months ago but that was phased in with exceptions to prepare member nations.
The U.S. approach seeks to gradually limit Russia’s oil revenue while also providing enough financial incentive to keep the crude flowing onto the global market, avoiding oil shocks.
The price cap program prohibits firms that play a key role in servicing Russian oil exports — such as Greek tanker companies and Europe-based insurers — from dealing with cargoes sold above the $60-a-barrel limit.
The bet is that despite bluster from the Kremlin, Russia will keep pumping oil, and major customers for Russian crude, including refiners in China and India, will see a benefit in the combination of low prices and a relatively stable global oil market.
These moves are not expected to have a sudden impact on oil supplies for Europe, because the regulation has been in the works for months and traders and shippers have had time to adjust. In particular, energy companies have begun buying more oil from the United States, Brazil, Guyana and the Middle East. The European Union is also giving exemptions to countries such as Hungary, whose energy needs depend on flows of Russian crude by pipeline, to quell their objections to the sanctions.
“These measures will undoubtedly have an impact on the stability of the global energy market,” Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesperson, said Monday, according to Tass, the Russian state-run news agency.
Prices gyrated in the oil markets Monday but then slipped lower in late afternoon, down about half a percent, with Brent crude, the international benchmark, at $85.50 a barrel, and West Texas Intermediate around $79 a barrel.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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12/9(金) アーロン・ジャッジ、3億6千万ドルの契約でヤンキースへ復帰
Aaron Judge Returning to Yankees on $360 Million Deal
pending 保留
verdict 評決
slugger 強打者
cash In 換金
ample 十分な
著者：Scott Miller
(c) 2021 The New York Times Company
SAN DIEGO — Nine months after declining a $213.5 million contract extension from the New York Yankees, Aaron Judge, who proceeded to set an American League single-season record with 62 home runs, has landed the biggest free-agent contract in baseball history.
The deal, which is pending a physical examination, will be for nine years and $360 million, said two people familiar with the negotiations.
Brian Cashman, the Yankees’ general manager, would only acknowledge optimism that “we’re in a good place” on Wednesday because not all of the deal’s details were finished. But Judge’s All Rise Foundation congratulated its founder and announced via Twitter, “The Judge has rendered a verdict. Back to New York.”
Cashman praised Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner as being “the tip of the spear” in the negotiations to retain Judge.
On opening day in April, the Yankees made it known to the news media that Judge had declined the team’s offer of a seven-year extension. Judge, who has been one of MLB’s top sluggers since his rookie season in 2017, chose to pass up immediate financial security in hopes of earning more as a free agent. He then broke Roger Maris’ AL record with 62 home runs, won the league’s MVP award and has now cashed in with a deal that is two years longer and carries $146.5 million more in guaranteed money.
The San Francisco Giants, whom Judge had rooted for growing up, had made a spirited attempt to sign him. As the negotiations reached their climax, the Yankees were unsure whether Judge, a California native, might opt to play on the West Coast. Instead, Judge, 30, will now have ample opportunity to secure a lasting legacy as a Yankees great.
The deal will surpass the free-agent contracts of Philadelphia’s Bryce Harper (13 years, $330 million), Texas’ Corey Seager (10 years, $325 million), the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole (nine years, $324 million) and San Diego’s Manny Machado (10 years, $300 million).
In terms of total dollars, Judge’s deal will trail only those of the Los Angeles Angels’ Mike Trout (12 years, $426.5 million) and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Mookie Betts (12 years, $365 million). Both of those deals came via contract extensions, not free agency.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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12/10(土) 複数の銀行を強盗した犯人、ストローで検挙！
A Straw Leads to the Arrest of a Man Suspected in Bank Robberies, Officials Say
to the effect of というような意味で
teller （銀行などの）窓口係
discarded 捨てた
surveilling 監視していた
obscure 覆い隠す
disposition 処理
著者：Christine Chung
(c) 2021 The New York Times Company
A Massachusetts man sought in connection with more than a dozen bank robberies was arrested Thursday after authorities linked DNA found at a robbery in May to a straw he used to sip a Red Bull energy drink at a casino five months later, prosecutors said.
Federal prosecutors said the man, Taylor Dziczek, 30, of Chicopee, presented a People’s United Bank teller in Plainville, Connecticut, on May 26 with a note with words to the effect of “I have a gun. Don’t call 911. Don’t set off any alarms.”
He then showed the teller what appeared to be a black firearm, although the gun may have been fake, according to court documents.
“Don’t be a hero,” he told the teller, according to prosecutors.
Plainville police officers collected paper money wrappers that were discarded at the scene and they subsequently underwent a DNA analysis, according to court records.
Five months later, on Oct. 21, Dziczek was at the MGM casino in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was drinking a Red Bull energy drink out of a black straw. Multiple agents from the FBI were surveilling him, court records said, and one of them collected the discarded Red Bull can and straw as evidence. It was not clear what led the agents to surveil him in the first place.
A laboratory analysis of DNA left on the straw was connected to DNA found on discarded money wrappers at the Plainville robbery, prosecutors said. Dziczek was charged in that robbery Thursday.
If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison, prosecutors said. Charles Willson, Dziczek’s lawyer, could not be immediately reached for comment Sunday.
Dziczek is being investigated in connection with 14 robberies and one attempted robbery of banks and credit unions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont between September 2021 and August, court records show. They state that a total of about $137,000 was stolen.
In each of the robberies, the suspect wore similar clothing and exhibited a unique tendency to obscure his right hand, according to court records. Photos in the criminal complaint show that Dziczek has tattoos on his right arm and hand.
In 2017, Dziczek was convicted of a 2015 unarmed robbery of the Easthampton Savings Bank in Hadley, Massachusetts, according to court documents. The disposition of that case was not immediately available.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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