In any crisis, leaders have two equally important responsibilities: solve the immediate problem and keep it from happening again. The Covid-19 pandemic is a case in point. We need to save lives now while also improving the way we respond to outbreaks in general. The first point is more pressing, but the second has crucial long-term consequences.
The long-term challenge — improving our ability to respond to outbreaks — isn’t new. Global health experts have been saying for years that another pandemic whose speed and severity rivaled those of the 1918 influenza epidemic was a matter not of if but of when.1 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed substantial resources in recent years to helping the world prepare for such a scenario.
Now we also face an immediate crisis. In the past week, Covid-19 has started behaving a lot like the once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about. I hope it’s not that bad, but we should assume it will be until we know otherwise.
ロイターの英文記事でもGates said has started to behave like a “once-in-a-century” pathogenとゲイツの文章の慎重なトーンを尊重していますので、翻訳もそれを反映した訳をすべきだったでしょう。
Bill Gates calls coronavirus a 'once-in-a-century' pathogen
Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday urged wealthy nations to help low and middle-income countries strengthen their health systems in hopes of slowing the spread of the coronavirus, which Gates said has started to behave like a “once-in-a-century” pathogen.
それに彼のツイッターでもcouldを使ってCOVID-19 could be a once-in-a-century pandemicと書いてあり、被害をこれ以上大きくしない取り組みの重要性を述べています。あの記事を書いた記者さんって、共同とかの外電翻訳情報を裏を取らずに書いたのではないでしょうか。
COVID-19 could be a once-in-a-century pandemic, but the good news is that there are steps we can take now to slow its impact and help us respond more effectively when the next epidemic arrives. #COVID19
そうは言ってもビル・ゲイツはパンデミックになりうる可能性を指摘していることは確かです。There are two reasons ... First, ... Second, ...と英語学習者が学ぶライティングの書き方をして危険性を指摘しています。
There are two reasons that Covid-19 is such a threat. First, it can kill healthy adults in addition to elderly people with existing health problems. The data so far suggest that the virus has a case fatality risk around 1%; this rate would make it many times more severe than typical seasonal influenza, putting it somewhere between the 1957 influenza pandemic (0.6%) and the 1918 influenza pandemic (2%).2
Second, Covid-19 is transmitted quite efficiently. The average infected person spreads the disease to two or three others — an exponential rate of increase. There is also strong evidence that it can be transmitted by people who are just mildly ill or even presymptomatic.3 That means Covid-19 will be much harder to contain than the Middle East respiratory syndrome or severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which were spread much less efficiently and only by symptomatic people. In fact, Covid-19 has already caused 10 times as many cases as SARS in a quarter of the time.
This fantastic little WWI book is a must for any budding historians. Collins was underage when he joined the Seaforth Highlanders and was a 19-year-old officer when he led at the battle of the Somme. This book contains extracts from his diaries and a remarkable personal collection of photographs which lend this account a poignancy and immediacy which is often breathtaking. - Scottish Field This is a harrowing tale of battle, loss and the horrors of war. - Scotland Magazine
It has been commonly said that the average 'life' expectancy at the front of a Second Lieutenant in World War One was approximately six weeks before he was either killed or wounded. In this respect, and in this one respect only, my friend Norman Collins was no better than average. He arrived on the Somme in late October 1916 and was wounded in early December – six weeks. In late April 1917 he returned to France and was slightly wounded in late May – five weeks; then he was wounded for the third and final time in the second week of July – six weeks. His 17 weeks at the front were to put him in hospital for a total of 14 months and give him a lifetime of pain that no disability pension could ever compensate for.
The Last Man Standingは第二次大戦のエジプトのEl Alamein戦いに従軍したオーストラリア兵士の手記にも使われていました。こちらもドイツの名将ロンメル将軍率いたドイツ軍との激戦だったようです。
'Where was the rest of the company? Why is no one else firing? A quick look behind revealed the shocking truth. Herb was alone. No one was following there was no one able to follow. He was the last man standing.'
The Australians played a crucial role in the Allied victory in the Battle of El Alamein, one of the turning points of the Second World War. Rommel said after the battle, I could have won North Africa with a division of Australians under my command'. Yet victory came at a heavy price, with more than a thousand Australians lost in the battle.
リーマンショックを切り抜けたJPモルガンのJamie Dimonの評伝にもLast Man Standingが使われています。Last manとあるくらいですから、大きな犠牲者を出す中でうまく切り抜けて生き延びた人物を指している感じでしょうか。
In the midst of the most disastrous economic climate of Wall Street’s history, one executive has weathered the storm more deftly than any other: Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase. In 2008, while Dimon’s competitors watched their companies crumble, JPMorgan not only survived, it made an astonishing $5 billion profit. Dimon’s continued triumph in the face of an industry-wide meltdown has made him a paragon of finance.
In Last Man Standing, award-winning journalist Duff McDonald provides an unprecedented and deeply personal look at the extraordinary figure behind JPMorgan’s success. Using countless hours of interviews with Dimon and his full circle of friends, family, and colleagues, this definitive biography is by far the most comprehensive portrait of the man known as the Savior of Wall Street.
ボンジョビにの曲にもLast Man Standingがありましたが、昔ながらのやり方を貫いている自分を半ば自虐的に、半ば誇りを持って歌っている感じです。
さて、カンバーバッチの言葉、There's only one way this war ends: last man standing.はどのように受け止めるべきでしょうか。最後の一人になるまで戦い抜くしかないという勇ましい決意なのか、それとも、双方の陣営でひとっこひとりいなくなるまで熾烈で悲惨な戦いを続けるしかないという悲壮な諦めに近いものなのか。まあ、それは映画を見た人が感じ取るべきことでしょうか。
Relying on historical records and accounts from old timers, AL.com may have located the long-lost wreck of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to bring human cargo to the United States.
What's left of the ship lies partially buried in mud alongside an island in the lower Mobile-Tensaw Delta, a few miles north of the city of Mobile. The hull is tipped to the port side, which appears almost completely buried in mud. The entire length of the starboard side, however, is almost fully exposed. The wreck, which is normally underwater, was exposed during extreme low tides brought on by the same weather system that brought the "Bomb Cyclone" to the Eastern Seaboard. Low tide around Mobile was about two and a half feet below normal thanks to north winds that blew for days.
“A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life”- Daily Telegraph
A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker.
This account illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis, who was abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.
Approximately six hundred guests onboard Diamond Princess were the first to be cleared by the Japanese Ministry of Health and released to disembark the ship yesterday.
These guests — all being cleared after a COVID-19 test by the Japanese Ministry of Health — were met in the Yokohama cruise terminal by Jan Swartz, President of Princess Cruises.
Several hundred other guests are expected to be cleared today by health officials.
Compensation – Full Refund and Future Cruise Credit
Because of the extraordinary circumstances onboard Diamond Princess, Princess Cruises will refund the full cruise fare for all guests including air travel, hotel, ground transportation, pre-paid shore excursions, gratuities and other items. In addition, guests will not be charged for any onboard incidental charges during the additional time onboard.
Princess Cruises will also provide guests with a future cruise credit equal to the cruise fare paid for the voyage which ended on February 4.
Princess Cruises also confirmed that although all gratuities will be refunded back to guests the company will ensure crew members receive their designated gratuities for the work performed.
Guests have been provided a letter delivered to their stateroom with details on how to process this refund.
Our team on board Diamond Princess, supported by our shoreside colleagues, is actively working to care for our guests to ensure their comfort and well-being. These are such unusual circumstances so our team has activated new in-room entertainment offerings which include:
Eight (8) new satellite TV channels
More than 80 new video-on-demand releases, including movies in various languages, concerts and in-cabin fitness videos
Cruise Director Show (The Wake Show) in English and Japanese
Printed newspapers in 36 languages
Pre-printed trivia, daily puzzles, games and arts and crafts
Radio Taiso (popular calisthenics) videos
Kids’ activity packs
Food & beverage options offered via room service
Outdoor time for guests in interior staterooms (under the guidance of Japanese Ministry of Health)
the situation has become so bad that people are preparing to make one person take the blame, for example by taking away their job
The knives are out for the chancellor.
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the knives are out (for somebody)
informal used to say that people are being extremely unfriendly in criticizing someone
The knives are out for the vice president.
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the knives are out mainly BRITISH
COMMON If the knives are out for someone, people are criticizing and trying to cause problems for that person. The knives are out for me at the moment.
Now that she's married to one of the world's most famous men, the knives are out.
Note: You can also say that someone has their knives out if they are eager to criticize someone or cause problems for them.
Arendt and Huber had their knives out, and they were being encouraged to stick them in me.
"Stop and frisk" policies are brought into the crosshairs right away.
SCOTT SHACKFORD | 2.19.2020 9:46 PM
It took less than 10 seconds for Michael Bloomberg's support for stopping and frisking black men as mayor of New York City to be referenced at tonight's Democratic debate in Las Vegas. The knives are out, folks.
The debate opened with moderators immediately pitting front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) against Bloomberg over who is the more polarizing figure and which one will bring out enough votes to push Trump out of office.
Physically, Foghorn Leghorn is depicted as a tall, overweight rooster with a Southern accent; he is easily the tallest of all the regular Looney Tunes characters. He has a bombastic and somewhat unrefined personality, added to which he shows a penchant for mischief. Aside from the Senator Claghorn reference, his first name "Foghorn" is indicative of his loudmouthed personality, while his surname "Leghorn" refers to a particular Italian breed of chicken.
Similarly, Blanc was supposed to have a subtle accent, but Craig wanted to copy historian Shelby Foote’s soothing voice “to make him sort of an outsider” and heighten the difference between the detective and his wealthy Yankee suspects.
“We didn’t want to just re-skin an old genre — it was, how do we reflect America right now?” the filmmaker says about his celebrity murder-mystery hit
By DAVID FEAR
And it has a supersleuth, in the form of Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc, a Poirot by way of Lake Pontchartrain who’s blessed with superior investigative skills and a Southern accent that would stop Foghorn Leghorn in his tracks. In a film filled with famous actors playing off of murder-mystery archetypes (the jealous offspring, the flighty heiress, the son-in-law with a secret he needs to stay hidden), the once and future James Bond is the closest thing to Knives Out’s secret weapon. Johnson had seen Craig in Lucky Logan as well as a few theatrical productions, and he’d hung out with the star socially a few times. He passed Craig the script. The actor read it and loved it. But the window of his availability was extremely brief.
“I mean, the whole thing went head-spinningly fast,” Johnson admits. “I’d been thinking about doing a film like this for close to 10 years, but never really had the chance to sit down to write it until January of 2018. It took me six months to get it down on paper — which was unusually speedy for me — and pass the script to Daniel. He liked it but had to start production… and then the starting date for the new Bond got pushed, so we had this very brief, very specific window in which he could do it. When he said yes, we had five weeks to get the cast together, prep the movie, and make it. We just hit the gas and ended up wrapping before Christmas. It was insane.”
As for Craig’s Kentucky-fried accent? “I wrote the character as Southern, but I knew I wanted the lilt to be honeyed and pleasing, as opposed to twangy,” Johnson says. “I sent him recordings of Shelby Foote speaking in a Mississippi drawl. Then he just worked on it — and let ’er rip once he was on set. Plus I had a French tutor named Benoit, and I always liked that name … and Blanc just seemed to roll off the tongue.”
A police detective (LaKeith Stanfield) and his helpful right hand (Noah Segan) have gathered everyone for interviews — and accompanying them is Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), a southern detective so thickly accented that he's compared to Colonel Sanders. Why Blanc is there at all is one of many things I would not dare reveal, as this film is not a trick or a postmodern deconstruction of a genre, but is instead an actual old-fashioned whodunit that will eventually tell you whodunit and why, precisely as it should.
In 1999 the company hired long-standing advertising agency Young and Rubicam to create a cartoon version of the Colonel. Though wearing Harland Sanders' white suit and black glasses, the figure looked nothing whatsoever like the Colonel, nor did it sound like him: actor Randy Quaid was brought in to voice the character, giving him a southern accent utterly different from the rural border-state accent the Colonel actually had and that was well remembered by adults who had seen his commercials. (David Kamp, a food historian, said he would always remember Sanders' boast about how the chicken got an "egg warsh" before frying.)
Laurence Fox has apologised for comments he made about the inclusion of a Sikh soldier in a World War One film.
The actor had previously referred to "the oddness in the casting" of a Sikh soldier in Sir Sam Mendes' movie 1917.
"Fellow humans who are Sikhs, I am as moved by the sacrifices your relatives made as I am by the loss of all those who die in war, whatever creed or colour," Fox tweeted.
"Please accept my apology for being clumsy in the way I expressed myself."
His original comments attracted widespread criticism and historians drew attention to the contribution of Sikhs in the British Army during World War One.
About 130,000 Sikh men took part in the war, making up 20% of the British Indian Army, according to the WW1 Sikh Memorial Fund.
a series of First World War battles (1917) fought near the small town of Passchendaele in Belgium. About 300 000 Allied soldiers and a similar number of Germans died, in terrible conditions.
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Passchendaele
an important battle during World War I in 1917, in northwest Belgium, in which over 200,000 British soldiers were killed. It is remembered especially for the mud (=soft wet earth), which made the terrible conditions in which the soldiers lived and fought even worse.
two long battles that took place in the valley of the river Somme in northern France during First World War. In the first battle, which lasted from July to November 1916, more than a million British, French and German soldiers died. The second battle lasted two weeks in the spring of 1918, and almost half a million soldiers died. Very little ground or any other advantage was won by either side in these battles, which are considered among the most terrible in history.
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Somme, the
a river in northeastern France, or the area close to this river where several important battles were fought during World War I. After five months of fighting, the British army had moved forward by just a few miles, and had lost hundreds of thousands of men. Because of this, the Somme is connected in people's minds with the terrible waste of life in World War I.
1. (in the First World War) a line of military defence set up by the Germans in Belgium and France
2. (in the Second World War) the name given by the Allies to the German line of military defence between France and Germany. A song that was popular with British soldiers at the time began with the line, ‘We're gonna (= going to) hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line.’
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Siegfried Line, the
a line of military defences that the German armies built on the Western Front during World War I and before and during World War II. There is a famous song which was sung by British soldiers that begins ‘We’re going to hang out our washing on the Siegfried Line...’
前振りが長引きましたが、本編も雑学知識みたいなものです。5分55秒あたりのところでウィスキーを振りかけながらThrough this holy unction may the Lordと言っています。この動画では途中で切れていますが、映画本編では以下のところまで言い終えています。
Through this holy unction may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed.
This is the form established for the Roman Rite through the papal document Sacram unctionem infirmorum of 1972. The form used in the Roman Rite in the preceding period included anointing of seven parts of the body (though that of the loins was generally omitted in English-speaking countries), while saying (in Latin): "Through this holy anointing, may the Lord pardon you whatever sins/faults you have committed by... ." The sense in question was then mentioned: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation.
Youtubeのすごいところは、実際のAnointing of the Sickが見れるところ。画質は良くないですが、Jamesを読み上げているのがわかります。
ヤコブの手紙の５章13から16です。聖書協会共同訳とKing James Verson。日本聖書協会の聖書本文検索って、昨年でた聖書協会共同訳をもう検索できるようになっているのですね。五千円も出して買ったのに。。。ヤコブが英語ではJamesって知らないとピンとこないです。
あなたがたの中に苦しんでいる人があれば、祈りなさい。喜んでいる人があれば、賛美の歌を歌いなさい。
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
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In my research, I read chilling accounts of these attacks.
In ecstatic terms, Gen. Thomas Wynford Rees of Britain described the “marvelous advance” of his infantry brigade, “dressed as if on parade,” at the Battle of the Somme. Incredulous Germans watched the men walk — yes, walk — in long rows across open terrain — then proceeded to mow them down. To General Rees, the massacre was a “magnificent display of gallantry.”
On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Somme, there were nearly 60,000 British casualties (a third of them died). Five months later, the number rose to nearly 500,000, and a British general, Douglas Haig, finally ended the attack, but not before claiming that results “fully justify” the effort. He expressed no remorse for the loss of life.
In his book “The Myth of the Great War,” John Mosier describes this “slaughter of the infantry” as “almost exclusively a British achievement.”
Years later, Prime Minister David Lloyd George wrote that while General Haig “ordered many bloody battles in this war,” he took part in only two. Mr. George also noted an “inexhaustible vanity that will never admit a mistake.” It’s no wonder that General Haig was called “the butcher.”
I don’t expect Mr. Mendes to include every fact about the war. Almost by definition, historical drama is selective; we invent characters, we compress events.
But we do this in the interest of creating emotional truth. Mr. Mendes does the opposite. By disguising the brutal truths of the war, he sentimentalizes and even valorizes it — a war in which disregard for human life led to approximately 8.5 million military deaths around the world, and an estimated 21 million wounded.
ですからWe don’t need to feel better about World War I’s slaughter. We need to feel worse.と述べる作者にYutaは賛成です。まだ映画を見ていませんが。。。
“1917” provides escape from the true carnage of the “Great War.” Instead, it might have forced us to question the endless, inconclusive conflicts that have followed, and the butchery and sacrifice they inflict. We don’t need to feel better about World War I’s slaughter. We need to feel worse.
In a poignant image straight out of Shakespeare, Mr. Mendes’s grandfather is said to have washed his hands compulsively for the rest of his life because “he could never get clean” of the war. If we’re going to avoid the stain of endless, senseless wars in the future, we have to tell stories that focus on the horror, rather than false heroics and filmmaking feats of wonder.
