Chapter 9 of 18 · 4'59"
Why Return Home? 回家取刀疑云IMDb ↗
越想把案情说死新疑点越多
12-angry-men-1957 · 1957
Learning settings
The story so far
Everything you need before watchingAfter a new vote shakes the room, the jurors challenge the reasoning behind it. Their debate turns to the boy’s return home, the missing knife, and whether a scream across the street would have changed his actions. As competing explanations pile up, the chapter shows how reasonable doubt can grow from ordinary details—and how one calm question can unsettle an entire room.
Chapters
18 parts · AI-cutTranscript
Language points
Click a card to jump to its moment in the videoTeaching points
Review right after watchingfor crying out loud
真是的;拜托
stand a chance
有机会;有胜算
court-appointed
由法院指定的
kooky detective magazines
挖苦式夸奖
the heck
到底;究竟
off the top of my head
凭第一反应;不假思索
yackety-yack
没完没了地闲聊
what difference does it make
这有什么区别;有什么用
Golden lines
A great line in its own right — why and how to use it“I don't believe I have to be loyal to one side or the other.”
我不认为自己必须效忠于哪一边。
用克制而坚定的方式表达独立判断,适合法庭与日常争论。
I don't believe I have to + 动词
不想被迫选边、表明自己只看事实时。
I don't think I need to take sides. / I can make up my own mind.
neutral
重读 don't believe、loyal、one side,末尾平稳收音。
“Maybe all of those things happened, but maybe they didn't.”
也许这些事全都发生了,但也可能并没有。
对称重复制造悬念,didn't 省略前文动词,简洁又有余味。
Maybe..., but maybe + 主语 + didn't.
承认一种可能、同时保留另一种解释时。
Perhaps it happened, but perhaps it didn't. / It may be true, but it may not be.
neutral
两处 maybe 轻读,重音放在 happened、didn't,形成对照。
Monologue
One character carrying the scene — shadow the whole passageAnd I would like to - please, to say something. - Yeah. - I have been listening very carefully. And, uh, it seems to me that this man has some very good points to make. From what was presented at the trial, the boy looks guilty on the surface. - But maybe if we go deeper? - Oh, come on, will ya? There is a question I would like to ask. Let us assume that the boy really did commit the murder.
我想——请允许我说几句。 - 好吧。 - 我一直在非常仔细地听。 在我看来,这位先生提出的几个观点都很有道理。 从庭审中呈现的情况看,那孩子表面上确实像是有罪。 - 但也许我们可以再深入想想? - 哎呀,行了吧? 我想问一个问题。 假设那孩子确实杀了人。
The woman across the street testified that the moment after she saw the killing... that is, a moment after the train went by... she screamed and then went to telephone the police. Now, the boy certainly must have heard the scream... so he knew that somebody saw something. I just don't think that he would have gone back. Two things. One, in his state of panic, he may not have heard the scream. Perhaps it wasn't very loud. Two, if he did hear it, he may not have connected it with his own act. Remember, he lived in a neighborhood where screams were fairly commonplace. - There's your answer. - Maybe. Maybe the boy did kill his father, didn't hear the scream... did run out in a panic, did calm down three hours later... and come back to get the knife, risking being caught by the police. Maybe all of those things happened, but maybe they didn't. I think there's enough doubt that we can wonder whether he was there at all... during the time the killing took place.
街对面的女人作证说,她看到命案后仅仅一瞬间…… 也就是说,火车开过去后一瞬间…… 她就尖叫起来,然后去打电话报警。 那么,那孩子肯定听见了尖叫…… 所以他知道有人看见了什么。 我就是觉得他不可能再回去。 有两点。第一,他当时惊慌失措,可能根本没听到尖叫。 也许那声尖叫并不响。 第二,就算他听到了,也可能没把它和自己的行为联系起来。 别忘了,他住的那个街区,尖叫声相当常见。 - 这就是答案。 - 也许吧。 也许那孩子确实杀了父亲,没听见尖叫…… 也确实惊慌失措地跑了出去,三小时后又冷静下来…… 还回去拿刀,冒着被警察抓住的风险。 也许这些事全都发生了,但也可能并没有。 我认为疑点已经足够多,多到让我们怀疑,他当时根本不在那里…… 至少在案发的时候不在。
