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Brian Dines With Valery's Friends, Explained：able to afford

Valery hosts Brian at a dinner full of celebrities, introducing him around and telling him this may be "the first of many" handshakes. Brian holds his own, joking that he looks forward to affording the chef's restaurant. Talk turns to whether a great musician is a god or a man, and afterward Brian admits he cannot believe the evening happened.

あらすじ

Valery hosts a dinner and introduces Brian to a room of notables: a conductor, a writer, a famous chef, and an editor who might publish him. Valery calls the introductions the first of many handshakes. Brian is charming and self-deprecating, telling the chef he hopes to afford the restaurant one day. A guest asks the conductor whether an immortal artist is a god or a man.

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able to affordtake very good care ofthe first of manythree of my favorite words

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このシーンの表現

able to afford

have enough money for

Brian answers the famous chef with dry self-deprecation about being able to afford his food.

After years of saving, she was able to afford the trip.

このシーンの他の表現

  • take very good care of

    look after someone well

  • the first of many

    the first of many more to come

  • three of my favorite words

    a phrase he loves to hear

  • immortal

    never to be forgotten

  • kill everything in the room

    feel like destroying everything

このシーンのメモ一覧

37 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ

表現 · B1a great pleasure

a real honor

- Pleasure. - It's a great pleasure, maestro.
表現 · B2be able to afford something

have enough money for

Brian answers the famous chef with dry self-deprecation about being able to afford his food.

I look forward to one day being able to afford to eat in one of your restaurants, sir.
スラング · B2Nonsense

rubbish, don't be silly — A breezy dismissal among peers; too blunt upward.

Nonsense. Nonsense. I'll give you my card later.
表現 · B1take good care of someone

look after someone well

The chef promises Brian will be well looked after at his restaurant.

And I'll tell Kareem to take very good care of you.
表現 · B2the first of many

the first of many more to come

Arielle introduces Brian to an editor and hints this handshake is the first of many.

Now, Jane is an editor at Farrar, Strauss and Giroux and perhaps this is the first of many handshakes between you two.
発音my favorite words

Slow down and stress favorite words for the tease.

Ladies and gentlemen, three of my favorite words.
表現 · B2not X but Y

not one thing but another

You, maestro, though immortal are not a God but a man.
文法 · B2though immortal

concessive clause: Though immortal is short for though you are immortal.

You, maestro, though immortal are not a God but a man.
発音not a God

Link not a into /nɒ-tə/ before God.

You, maestro, though immortal are not a God but a man.
表現 · B2what kind of X is that

what sort of thing is that

What kind of a God is that now, maestro?
表現 · A2at times

sometimes

I... I've listened to my own recordings at times and wanted to kill everything in the room, myself, the composer.
文法 · B2Even if the composer is dead

concessive clause: Even if concedes the extreme case before the joke lands.

Even if the composer is dead.
表現 · C1in someone's image

modeled on someone

Not if we're made strictly in His image.
文法 · C1Not if we're made

elliptical if-clause: Not if answers the previous question by supplying only the condition.

Not if we're made strictly in His image.
発音made strictly in

Run made strictly in together, /meɪ-dstrɪk-tɪn/.

Not if we're made strictly in His image.
表現 · B1enough already

that is quite enough

Enough already with the maestro.
スラング · B2Enough already

stop it already — Mildly impatient spoken pushback; keep it casual.

Enough already with the maestro.
表現 · B1you're saying

so what you mean is

So tonight actually happened you're saying.
表現 · B1get used to something

become accustomed to

Arielle tells Brian he will get used to this new world of famous dinners.

You'll get used to it.
表現 · B1have seconds

take a second helping

Oh, God, should I not have had seconds on the little hens?

「Brian Dines With Valery's Friends」を読み解く

What's really going on

The dinner is Valery's way of folding Brian into a world. The guests are real cultural figures, the introductions are deliberate, and "the first of many handshakes" is not small talk but an offer of access - Brian's writing career is being helped along by the man whose wife he is seeing. Brian manages the room well, using self-deprecation to cover his inexperience, and the table's conversation about whether a genius is a god or a man mirrors his own situation: he is a young man among the accomplished, and no one is treating him as a threat. Afterward, his disbelief - that the night actually happened - is the film's way of measuring how far the affair has carried him.

Theme

ClassValery's dinner seats Brian among famous artists and editors, opening doors that his own background cannot yet reach.
RomanceThe husband's hospitality keeps the affair functioning, and Brian's new access is inseparable from his relationship with Arielle.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Take good care of someone promises real hospitality.
  • Get used to marks a slow adjustment over time.
  • The first of many forecasts a lasting connection.
  • Seconds means a second helping at the table.

発音のポイント

  • my favorite words — Slow down and stress favorite words for the tease.
  • not a God — Link not a into /nɒ-tə/ before God.
  • made strictly in — Run made strictly in together, /meɪ-dstrɪk-tɪn/.
You, maestro, though immortal are not a God but a man.

A dinner-table compliment with a sting: the artist is celebrated as immortal but reminded that he is still human, flaws included.

Not if we're made strictly in His image.

The wry turn in the God argument - if humans are made in God's image, then human temper is divine too, and blame cuts both ways.

I look forward to one day being able to afford to eat in one of your restaurants, sir.

Brian's self-deprecating wit with the famous chef: a compliment about the cuisine and a confession about his own finances at once.

What kind of a God is that now, maestro?

The playful question that keeps the analogy going, needling the conductor about an artist's godlike moods and sulks.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Valery introduce Brian to so many people?

He is folding Brian into his world and helping his career. The introductions are generous, but they also keep the affair inside a social circle Valery controls.

Why does the table debate whether an artist is a god?

The compliment to the conductor turns into a joke about whether a great artist is divine or just a difficult man. It is polite teasing dressed up as theology.

Why is Brian so surprised the evening happened?

He is a young, unpublished writer suddenly dining with famous artists. His disbelief measures the distance between his ordinary life and the world the affair has opened.

What does the first of many handshakes mean?

Valery means the introductions should lead to future contacts and opportunities. It is a promise of access, not just a pleasantry at the table.

Why does Brian joke about affording the restaurant?

He is being charming and honest about being out of his depth. The remark flatters the chef while admitting Brian cannot yet afford the world he has stepped into.

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