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20210511 Wednesday

Audacious 臆面もない bold

For many spectators, what is most alluring about the Olympics is their audacious impracticality, with thousands of athletes from many sports coming together from around the world to compete in one place.

The Tokyo Olympics are in big trouble. Postponed by a year and slated to begin in July, the Olympics have become a political flash point in Japan, where almost 60 percentof the population opposes staging the Games this summer and where less than 2 percent of the population is vaccinated for Covid-19.

be slated to する予定

spigot 蛇口

AfD ドイツ極右政党 Alternative für Deutschland ドイツのための選択肢

代表者たちが投票したのは、EUからの離脱、ドナルド・トランプのような国境フェンス、そして誰もがドイツに移住することがほとんど不可能になる日本式移民政策でした。

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/afd-wahlprogramm-zeigt-wie-radikal-sie-wirklich-ist-a-a1abd1bd-b03b-47ea-894c-ba5de98251b6-amp?__twitter_impression=true