22년 8월 16일자 뉴욕타임즈 기사 공부하기(ft. 케냐의 새 대통령 선출: 윌리엄 루토)

* 오늘부터는 뉴욕타임즈 기사로 영어공부하는 시간을 가져보겠습니다. 

 

* 많은 영어 전문가들이 뉴욕타임즈 기사의 문장을 손에 꼽고 있습니다.

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A new Kenyan president?

Kenya’s vice president, William Ruto, won the country’s presidential election, the head of the electoral commission said yesterday. The result came days after a cliffhanger vote.

Ruto gained 50.5 percent of the vote, narrowly defeating Raila Odinga, a former prime minister, said a top official. That percentage is enough to avert a runoff vote, but a majority of election commissioners refused to verify the results. Here are live updates.

An official, speaking on behalf of four of the seven electors, said the panel could not take ownership of the results because of the “opaque nature” of the election’s handling. Kenyan law allows for an election result to be challenged within one week — a prospect that many observers viewed as a near certainty.

Profile: Ruto, who grew up poor and became a wealthy businessman, appealed to “hustlers” — underemployed youth striving to better themselves.

Analysis: Kenya is East Africa’s biggest economy and is pivotal to trade and regional stability. The vote is being closely scrutinized as a key test for democracy in the country, which has a history of troubled elections. Rising prices, corruption and drought were top issues for voters.

☞ cliffhanger: an exciting end to part of a book or television programme that makes you want to read or watch the next part

 

☞ 가까스로 누구에게 승리하다, 영어로 어떻게 했나요?

narrowly defeating Raila Odinga

 

응용해 볼까요? 스페인에 가까스로 승리하다, 영작해 보세요!

"narrowly defeated Spain"

Italy narrowly defeats Spain to win 1st place in Ostia - Total Waterpolo

 

☞ opaque : opaque glass, liquid etc is difficult to see through

 

☞ scrutinized : to examine something very carefully

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Ukrainians share detention stories

Hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, mainly men, have gone missing in the five months of the war in Ukraine.

They have been detained by Russian troops or their proxies and held with little food in basements, police stations and filtration camps in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine. Many said they had suffered beatings and sometimes electrical shocks, though Russia has denied torturing or killing Ukrainian civilians. The U.N. says hundreds have disappeared into Russian jails.

One 37-year-old auto mechanic, Vasiliy, was seized by Russian soldiers when he was walking in his home village with his wife and a neighbor. That was the beginning of six weeks of “hell,” he said.

Shunted from one place of detention to another, he was beaten and repeatedly subjected to electrical shocks under interrogation, with little understanding of where he was or why he was being held. “It was shaming, maddening, but I came out alive,” he said. “It could have been worse. Some people were shot.”

Prisoners: Brittney Griner, the U.S. basketball star, appealed her conviction. A senior Russian diplomat spoke of a possible prisoner swap.

Fighting: Russia has been firing shells from near a nuclear plant in an effort to thwart a Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kherson. The move has added to fears of a nuclear accident and has blunted Ukraine’s progress. Here are live updates.

Economy: Ukrainian factories are moving west, away from Russian bombs, causing a land rush.

 

☞ proxies :

1. a person authorized to act on behalf of someone else; agent

to vote by proxy

2. the authority, esp in the form of a document, given to a person to act on behalf of someone else

3.  computing short for proxy server

☞ filtration : the process of removing solid parts that are not wanted from a liquid or gas by passing it through a filter

 

☞ shunt : to move someone or something to a different place or position, especially to avoid dealing with them

We can’t just shunt patients off to other hospitals.

The children are constantly shunted around to various relatives.

☞ subject to : (subject someone to something) to make someone experience something unpleasant

Her husband subjected her to years of physical abuse.

☞ interrogation: the process of asking someone a lot of questions in an angry or threatening way, in order to get information

under interrogation (=while being questioned): 

She remained silent under interrogation.

☞ swap : to give something to someone in exchange for something else

Do you want to swap seats?

swap with someone: 

If you like this one better, I’ll swap with you.

swap something with someone: 

Members are encouraged to swap books with each other.

☞ thwart : to prevent someone from doing something that they want to do

The leaders were determined to thwart her.