シャドーイング練習: I'm NOT Testifying Against My Mentor | Suits - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Tell me about your relationship with Cameron Dennis.
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Vague.
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Did you and District Attorney Cameron Dennis work closely together?
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He was my boss.
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He supervised all my cases.
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And were you personally close?
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Subjective.
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A judge would allow it.
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And yet there's not one here.
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Do you really think by deposing him on the stand, you're going to intimidate him?
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I think deposing him here will let him know what it will be like if this evidence is brought forward at trial.
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You're not getting to trial.
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If your client doesn't perjure himself right now, I won't have to.
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Were you and Cameron Dennis close?
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Personally?
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He was my mentor.
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It's a hard relationship to define.
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Moving on, counselor.
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All right.
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We don't have to talk about Mr. Dennis.
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Let's talk about you, Mr. Spector.
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In two years, you handled 18,362 cases.
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36 cases a day.
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That's beyond impressive.
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Thank you.
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You took 147 to trial, winning them all.
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Don't go to trial if you're not gonna win.
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Why'd you leave?
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An attorney by the name of Jessica Pearson helped me get through law school, and she felt that I could use trial experience.
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But I always planned on ending up at her firm and paying her back by earning that firm outrageous settlements.
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How am I doing?
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Could do better.
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You two think that this is a joke?
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Argumentative.
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You're damn right it's argumentative.
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Because he knows that laws have been broken, and he has an obligation to report it.
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Ms. Leeds...
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But if this is the way you want to play it, the Attorney General has given me a broad mandate to uncover what went on.
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And it need not be limited to Mr. Dennis.
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Were you part of the problem, Mr. Spector?
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Vague.
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I'll rephrase.
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In your capacity as Assistant District Attorney in the county of New York, did you knowingly suppress evidence in violation of the ABA Rules of Conduct,
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the NDAA standards, and the New York State Bar Rule 8.4, Section C?
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My client would like to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights at this time.
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I hear you botched the settlement by negotiating against yourself.
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I didn't...
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You let Lewis know the one thing that was most important to our client.
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Yes, I made a mistake, but Lewis made one too.
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Well, he didn't mention that.
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Yes, he knows what our client wants, but now we know the one thing his client wants.
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She doesn't care about winning, Harvey.
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She just wants our client to lose.
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Okay, well, that's good.
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So what's next?
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We lose.
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We give her the tabloid.
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Well, how does that make our client happy?
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We let Madison have the paper, and then we take everyone who works there and we start a new one.
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They all love Kelsey.
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Nothing but the truth is just a name.
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We let Madison have it.
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I've taught you a thing or two.
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Well, I see that you're up to speed.
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Well, as am I.
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Um, I noticed there were some employee issues at the tabloid.
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You know, contracts about to expire.
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So I just want to let you guys know that I, uh, went ahead and locked up all the key employees.
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Just to protect us.
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Since we're all.. working on this together.
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Right?
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Mm-hmm.
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Good.
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He knows.
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He can't.
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He does.
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I was careful.
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I deleted every file from the server.
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The only time any paper trail left my locked desk is when I faxed it to Kelsey.
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You faxed it from the large machine
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that stores all the information you put in it to be printed back later by anyone who has your code?
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He can't do that.
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We have a Chinese wall thingy.
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Oh, God, he's gonna beat us, isn't he?
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Look, he knows what we're up to, but he couldn't keep his tactics to himself.
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So we can use that against him.
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And that's how we'll crush Lewis.
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Refresher course, Harvey.
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You and Lewis aren't opponents on this one.
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You're working together.
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Like Captain and Tennille?
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If so, he's Tennille. Who?
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You need to come with me.
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What, am I in trouble?
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Yeah, Harvey.
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You are.
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You gonna buy me a drink before you screw me?
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Sit down, Harvey.
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I just know what she has to say.
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You got me trembling in my boots.
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You're a small fish, and you don't even swim in the pond anymore.
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But if I have to eat you alive to get to Cameron Dennis, I will.
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This is my case against him.
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Falsifying DNA tests, coerced confessions, testimony buried.
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You have all this, why do you need me? Because this is circumstantial.
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You have the crimes, but you can't physically tie them to Cameron.
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He's a dirty public servant, and I think it's why you left.
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Your record was too good to just walk away.
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Maybe I got greedy.
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Harvey.
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I'm not testifying.
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You're being stubborn.
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And this isn't one where you get to make the call.
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I'm sorry.
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I've done all I can.
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It wasn't just his cases he cheated on.
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Hector Avila, take a look.
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You think you were really that great?
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You think your great track record was because of your skill? because of your skill.
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I got two theories here, Harvey.
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Either you're wasting your time protecting a man who screwed you from the beginning, or you didn't just know he did this.
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You participated, in which case I'll have you disbarred.
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Thank you.

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法律用語や緊迫した会話が多いこの動画は、英語シャドーイングやshadowspeakの練習に最適です。法廷での質問や反論、弁護士同士のやり取りは、リアルなコミュニケーション能力を養う上で重要な文脈です。特にIELTS スピーキング対策にも役立ち、論理的な発言や即応力を鍛えることができます。早口の会話や微妙なニュアンスの違いを捉えることで、実践的な英語力が飛躍的に向上します。

文脈の中の文法と表現

動画の会話から学べる重要な表現をいくつか紹介します。

  • 「I think deposing him here will let him know...」:「~することで~を知らせる」という構造。意志的な行動の結果を表し、論理的な主張に使われます。日常会話や議論で頻繁に用いられるので、shadow speakの練習で覚えておきましょう。
  • 「My client would like to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights...」:「~の権利を行使する」は法律用語ですが、「would like to」の丁寧な表現や「exercise rights」の組み合わせは一般的な場面でも応用できます。
  • 「Did you knowingly suppress evidence in violation of...」:「~に違反して...を故意に隠したか?」という疑問文。「in violation of」はルール違反を表す重要なフレーズで、論争的な会話で必要な表現です。

発音の注意点

動画の会話には発音が難しい単語やアクセントの変化があります。

  • 「perjure」:/ˈpɜːrdʒər/ と発音し、「証言偽造をする」という意味です。語尾の「-ure」の発音に注意しましょう。
  • 「mandate」:/ˈmændeɪt/ で「委任状」や「命令」を意味します。アクセントが最初の音节にあり、早口でもはっきり発音できるように練習します。
  • 「suppress」:/səˈpres/ で「抑圧する」「隠す」です。「ss」の発音と「e」の短い音がポイントで、shadowspeaksの練習で繰り返し口に出して慣らしましょう。

これらのポイントを押さえて動画を何度も繰り返し聞き、シャドーイングを行えば、自然な英語の発音と表現力が身につきます。

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型動画での表現
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係しているhave been broken · has given · I've taught
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるis brought · have been broken · be limited
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加えるeveryone who works · anyone who has · man who screwed

シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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