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I – Chapter 01

0100 [00:00:38] "You look at that river gently flowing by. " (Al Gore)

by: 前を通り過ぎて (flow by の by は副詞です。)
flow: 流れる

0110 [00:00:44] "You notice the leaves rustling with the wind. " (Al Gore)

rustle: カサカサと鳴る

0120 [00:00:51] "You hear the birds. You hear the tree frogs. In the distance you hear a cow. " (Al Gore)

tree frog: アマガエル

0130 [00:01:00] "You feel the grass. The mud gives a little bit on the river bank. " (Al Gore)

bank: 土手、岸
give: 緩む、崩れる、弾力性がある、(機構が)緩む、和らぐ、(霜が)解ける (この give は自動詞です。)
grass: 草

0135 [00:01:08] "It's quiet. It's peaceful. " (Al Gore)

0140 [00:01:12] "And all of a sudden, it's a gear shift inside you. And it's like taking a deep breath and going, "Oh, yeah, I forget about this." " (Al Gore)

all of a sudden: 突然、前触れもなしに、不意に
go: 〜と言う (= say)
take a deep breath: ハッと息を呑む、深呼吸をする、深いため息をつく

0200 [00:01:34] "This is, uh, the first picture of the Earth from space that any of us ever saw. It was taken on, uh, Christmas Eve, 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. " (Al Gore)

mission: ミッション、任務、宇宙飛行、軍事作戦

0300 [00:01:45] "...within relatively comfortable boundaries. But we are filling up that thin shell of atmosphere with pollution. " (Al Gore)

atmosphere: 大気、大気圏
boundaries: 範囲
comfortable: 心地の良い
fill up : 満タンにする
pollution: 汚染、公害
relatively: 比較的
shell: 外殻、卵の殻

0400 [00:02:16] "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Al Gore." (MC)

0500 [00:00:00] "I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States Of America. " (Al Gore)

used to do: 以前は〜であった (used to be the next president of the United States of America は「次の大統領だった」なのですが、結局、大統領にはなれませんでした。)

0600 [00:02:28] "I don't find that particularly funny. " (Al Gore)

0700 [00:03:03] "I've been trying to tell this story for a long time and I feel as if I have failed to get the message across. " (Al Gore)

as if: あたかも〜かのように
get across: 行き渡らせる、理解させる、わからせる

0800 [00:03:34] "I was in politics for a long time. And I'm proud of my service. " (Al Gore)

0900 [00:03:45] "You got to be kidding me. This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their...moving to New Orleans. That's they are thinking small, man, and this is a major, major, major deal. What do you need right now?" (radio)

doggone: 忌まわしい

1000 [00:04:03] "There are good people, who are in politics in both parties, who hold this at arm's length because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable. " (Al Gore)

acknowledge: 事実だと認める
imperative: 必須事項、義務、責務
recognize: 事実だと認める、受け入れる

1100 [00:04:21] "...unless you fix the biggest damn crisis in the history of this country. " (radio)

1200 [00:04:42] "...scouted out landing spots and they lost radio contact when they went around the dark side of the moon. And there was inevitably some suspense. Then when they came back in radio contact, they looked up and they snapped this picture, and it became know as Earth rise. " (Al Gore)

inevitably: 必然的に、否応なく
radio contact: 無線連絡
scout out: 探す、見つけようとする
snap: パチンと音を建てる、写真をとる
suspense: 不安定な状態 (「サスペンス」ではなく「サスペンツ」) のようは発音になります。)

1300 [00:05:00] "And that one picture exploded in the consciousness of human kind. It led to dramatic changes. Within 18 month of this picture, the modern environmental movement had begun. " (Al Gore)

consciousness: 意識
environment: 環境
environmental movement: 環境保護活動
explode: 爆発する、破裂する
human kind: 人類

1400 [00:05:11] "The next picture was taken on the last of the Apollo missions. Apollo 17. This one was taken on December 11, 1972, and it is the most commonly published photograph in all of history. " (Al Gore)

1500 [00:05:23] "And it's the only picture of the Earth from space that we have where the sun was directly behind the spacecraft so that the Earth is fully lit up and not partly in darkness. " (Al Gore)

be lit up: light up (照らし出す、ライトアップする) の受け身系

1600 [00:05:36] "The next image I'm going to show you has almost never been seen. It was taken by a spacecraft called the Galileo that went out to explore the solar system. And as it was leaving Earth's gravity, it turned its cameras around and took a time lapse picture of one day's worth of rotation, here compressed into 24 seconds. Isn't that beautiful?" (Al Gore)

compress: 圧縮する
explore: 探検する、探索する
gravity: 重力
rotation: 回転、自転
the solar system: 太陽系
worth of: 〜に値する

1700 [00:05:57] "This image is a magical image in a way. It was made by a friend of mine, Tom Van Sant. He took 3,000 separate satellite pictures taken over a three-year period, digitally stitched together. And he chose images that would give a cloud-free view of every square inch of the Earth's surface. All of the land masses accurately portrayed. " (Al Gore)

accurately: 正確に
land mass: 地塊
portray: 描く、表現する
satellite: 衛星
satellite picture: 衛星写真
square inch: 平方インチ
stitch together: 縫い合わせる
surface: 表面

1800 [00:06:19] "When that's all spread out, it becomes an iconic image. I show this because I...I want to tell you a story about two teachers I had. One that I didn't like that much, the other who is a real hero to me. " (Al Gore)

iconic: 象徴的な (→ おなじみの)
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