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グローバル人材育成の道｜海野惠一（元アクセンチュア代表）2015年12月31日
米国国防総省は中国の戦闘機がアメリカの海軍機の進路妨害をしたと言っている。
これはニューヨークタイムズだ。
Pentagon Says Chinese Fighter Jet Confronted American Navy Plane
By HELENE COOPERAUG. 22, 2014
米国国防総省は中国の戦闘機がアメリカの海軍機の進路妨害をしたと言っている。
WASHINGTON — A Chinese fighter jet flew within 30 feet of a Navy surveillance and reconnaissance plane this week in international airspace just off the Chinese coast, the Pentagon said Friday.
recnnaissance：偵察
The encounter, known as an intercept, was “very, very close, very dangerous,” said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary.
intercept：迎撃する ／横取りする
The Pentagon filed a diplomatic complaint with the People’s Liberation Army on Friday morning, Defense Department officials said. As of Friday afternoon, it had not received a reply.
The episode, which occurred on Tuesday, began with the Chinese warplane flying closely underneath the Navy’s P-8 Poseidon. It then moved parallel to the naval plane, with the wingtips of the two aircraft separated by less than 30 feet.
As a final maneuver, the Chinese fighter executed a barrel roll, apparently to show off its weapons payload to the American pilot. A barrel roll is just as it sounds: A fighter jet rolls over and then levels out. Admiral Kirby called it an aggressive move.
maneuver：操作
barrel roll： 〔航空機の〕バレル・ロール◆敵の銃撃などをかわすために、進行方向を変えずに横に1回転すること。
show off：誇示する
payload：弾頭
level out：水平飛行する
“We have registered our strong concerns to the Chinese about the unsafe and unprofessional intercept, which posed a risk to the safety and the well-being of the air crew and was inconsistent with customary international law,” he said.
register：示す
well-being：保全／安定／健康で安心なこと
customary：通例の
The intercept is bound to increase tensions between the Pentagon and the Chinese military, already high because of Beijing’s aggressive actions against Japan and other American allies concerning territory in the East and South China Seas.
bound：きっと〜するはずだ。
Earlier this year, China refused to invite Japan to a naval parade it hosted, which the Defense Department then boycotted as well. One American defense official lamented the episode as “so totally high school.”
lament：失望する
This time, the encounter was more serious, particularly given that a Chinese fighter jet collided with a United States Navy spy plane in April 2001 in the skies above Hainan Island. The Chinese pilot was killed, and the American plane was forced to make an emergency landing on Hainan.
After the collision, the Chinese authorities detained the American crew for over a week and initially issued an angry statement saying that “the U.S. side has total responsibility for this event.”
Adm. Dennis C. Blair, then commander in chief of the United States Pacific Command, issued his own angry statement, charging that the Chinese plane had been tailing the American jet, a practice Beijing’s military had increasingly adopted. “It’s not a normal practice to play bumper cars in the air,” Admiral Blair said at the time.
charging：非難する
bumper cars：バンパーカー 《遊園地などでぶつけ合う小型電気自動車》.
木曜日。今日はこれまで。昨日は英語の勉強以外は引越しの作業と事務所の後片付けだ。引越し作業はほぼ完了したが、事務所の片付けは年を越して3日ぐらいまでは十分にかかりそうだ。予想外の膨大なゴミが出てきた。資料の管理は人に任せてはダメだな。今日はオーストラリアからの友人が来ているので会食。あとは後片付けと小説の構想練り、英語の読み方練習がある。今回の年末は相当英語の発音の勉強をしている。ではまた明日。
Pentagon Says Chinese Fighter Jet Confronted American Navy Plane
By HELENE COOPERAUG. 22, 2014
米国国防総省は中国の戦闘機がアメリカの海軍機の進路妨害をしたと言っている。
WASHINGTON — A Chinese fighter jet flew within 30 feet of a Navy surveillance and reconnaissance plane this week in international airspace just off the Chinese coast, the Pentagon said Friday.
recnnaissance：偵察
The encounter, known as an intercept, was “very, very close, very dangerous,” said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary.
intercept：迎撃する ／横取りする
The Pentagon filed a diplomatic complaint with the People’s Liberation Army on Friday morning, Defense Department officials said. As of Friday afternoon, it had not received a reply.
The episode, which occurred on Tuesday, began with the Chinese warplane flying closely underneath the Navy’s P-8 Poseidon. It then moved parallel to the naval plane, with the wingtips of the two aircraft separated by less than 30 feet.
As a final maneuver, the Chinese fighter executed a barrel roll, apparently to show off its weapons payload to the American pilot. A barrel roll is just as it sounds: A fighter jet rolls over and then levels out. Admiral Kirby called it an aggressive move.
maneuver：操作
barrel roll： 〔航空機の〕バレル・ロール◆敵の銃撃などをかわすために、進行方向を変えずに横に1回転すること。
show off：誇示する
payload：弾頭
level out：水平飛行する
“We have registered our strong concerns to the Chinese about the unsafe and unprofessional intercept, which posed a risk to the safety and the well-being of the air crew and was inconsistent with customary international law,” he said.
register：示す
well-being：保全／安定／健康で安心なこと
customary：通例の
The intercept is bound to increase tensions between the Pentagon and the Chinese military, already high because of Beijing’s aggressive actions against Japan and other American allies concerning territory in the East and South China Seas.
bound：きっと〜するはずだ。
Earlier this year, China refused to invite Japan to a naval parade it hosted, which the Defense Department then boycotted as well. One American defense official lamented the episode as “so totally high school.”
lament：失望する
This time, the encounter was more serious, particularly given that a Chinese fighter jet collided with a United States Navy spy plane in April 2001 in the skies above Hainan Island. The Chinese pilot was killed, and the American plane was forced to make an emergency landing on Hainan.
After the collision, the Chinese authorities detained the American crew for over a week and initially issued an angry statement saying that “the U.S. side has total responsibility for this event.”
Adm. Dennis C. Blair, then commander in chief of the United States Pacific Command, issued his own angry statement, charging that the Chinese plane had been tailing the American jet, a practice Beijing’s military had increasingly adopted. “It’s not a normal practice to play bumper cars in the air,” Admiral Blair said at the time.
charging：非難する
bumper cars：バンパーカー 《遊園地などでぶつけ合う小型電気自動車》.
木曜日。今日はこれまで。昨日は英語の勉強以外は引越しの作業と事務所の後片付けだ。引越し作業はほぼ完了したが、事務所の片付けは年を越して3日ぐらいまでは十分にかかりそうだ。予想外の膨大なゴミが出てきた。資料の管理は人に任せてはダメだな。今日はオーストラリアからの友人が来ているので会食。あとは後片付けと小説の構想練り、英語の読み方練習がある。今回の年末は相当英語の発音の勉強をしている。ではまた明日。
