to shoot a signal rocket
I wonder what a ship like that would want to fire a rocket for.A Night to Remember · 1958 — 第 8 / 14 章 · 4'22" · B1
Women and Children First, Explained：in the same boat
On the surface, the lifeboats are being filled in an orderly way. Underneath, every family is being divided: an officer repeats "Women and children first," and wives refuse to leave without their husbands. Andrews tells one father the truth — "The ship has about an hour to live" — and two men joke about being in the same boat.
あらすじ
Titanic's lifeboats are being filled. An officer calls for women and children first and passes children across, while some wives refuse to leave their husbands behind. Below the deck, Andrews gives a worried father the truth: the ship has about an hour left, and he should get his family into a boat.
注目の表現
in the same boatto make matters worsecatch your death of coldget a move on
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このシーンの表現
in the same boat
sharing the same situation or fate
Ismay half-jokes to Andrews that they may soon share a lifeboat, and the same fate.
If the deal collapses, we're all in the same boat.
このシーンの他の表現
- to make matters worse
introducing an even worse point
- catch your death of cold
to get very cold and ill
- get a move on
hurry up
- women and children first
the rule of letting women and children board first
- put one's back into it
to work with all your strength
このシーンのメモ一覧
73 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
to get on board
Step aboard please, madam, and I'll pass the children across.the rule of letting women and children board first
A steward apologises to a wife, then states a rule that cannot be bent.
- But what about my husband? - I'm sorry. Women and children first.elliptical question: It asks what will happen to someone, with the full verb phrase left out.
- But what about my husband? - I'm sorry. Women and children first.to get very cold and ill
And catch my death of cold? Certainly not!The v in 'of' is almost dropped, so it sounds like death-a-cold.
And catch my death of cold? Certainly not!to return to the ship
You won't get back on board tomorrow without a pass.a noticeable tilt to one side here 'list' means a tilt to one side
but this ship has gotten quite a list on it now.hurry up
Below decks the chief engineer snaps at his men to work faster as the water rises.
Get a move on. Come on, lads.Listen for get-a blending together; do not split it into three clean words.
Get a move on. Come on, lads.the men, the boys — An informal address for a group of men; not for strangers or women.
Get a move on. Come on, lads.boss, used to address the chief engineer — Ship jargon for the chief engineer; a respectful workplace address.
What's the use, Chief?to stop something sinking
That may be so, but the longer we can keep her afloat...to work with all your strength
So put your backs into it.to open something
Open up all the spare cabins, take out all life belts and spare blankets...to remove something
Open up all the spare cabins, take out all life belts and spare blankets...conditional clause: The if-clause states the condition under which the extra time is possible.
A little more, if some of the upper bulkheads hold, but not much more.sharing the same situation or fate
Ismay half-jokes to Andrews that they may soon share a lifeboat, and the same fate.
I take it you and I may both be in the same boat later.parenthetical clause: It means 'I assume', and the real statement follows in the next clause.
I take it you and I may both be in the same boat later.Blend 'take it you' smoothly without a stop between the words.
I take it you and I may both be in the same boat later.to hit an iceberg
We've struck an iceberg and damaged the ship.introducing an even worse point
Robert tells his wife about the iceberg, then uses this phrase to unfold the worse news.
And to make matters worse...on the ship's open deck
All women and children have to go up on deck and get into the lifeboats.to handle someone
I can deal with Tom if you'll look after the girls.to take care of someone
I can deal with Tom if you'll look after the girls.「Women and Children First」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is the film's moral centre, and it is built on refusals as much as orders. The officer keeps saying "Women and children first," but the women on deck do not simply obey: one asks what will happen to her husband, another says she will not go without him, and a third jokes she will 'catch my death of cold.' The rules that are supposed to save lives keep running into love and fear. Andrews, meanwhile, is the one man with no comfort to offer. To a father who says he has a wife and three children aboard, he answers plainly: "The ship has about an hour to live." Then he softens it into advice — get them into the boats. The final exchange, two men wondering if they will be 'in the same boat later,' turns the idiom into a fact.
Theme
CourageThe scene shows people choosing the rule that costs them most: women step into boats while men stay, and officers keep working as the ship dies.
Family loveWives refuse to leave without husbands, and a father is told to save his wife and children first, so love is both the comfort and the wound.
このチャプターで学べること
- A polite apology can still deliver a final, unchangeable rule.
- Get a move on reveals panic hidden inside routine orders.
- To make matters worse signals the next line is even bleaker.
- In the same boat works as both a fact and a grim joke.
発音のポイント
- death of cold — The v in 'of' is almost dropped, so it sounds like death-a-cold.
- Get a move on — Listen for get-a blending together; do not split it into three clean words.
- take it you — Blend 'take it you' smoothly without a stop between the words.
- But what about my husband? - I'm sorry. Women and children first.The scene's central conflict in two lines: a wife asks after her husband and the officer answers with the rule — women and children first, men stay.
And catch my death of cold? Certainly not!A passenger's comic refusal to board a lifeboat: she jokes that she would 'catch her death of cold,' using vanity and humour to face a deadly night.
The ship has about an hour to live.Andrews gives the plain truth to a father asking how serious it is: the ship has roughly an hour left. No one else on deck is that honest.
I take it you and I may both be in the same boat later.Two men joke that they may end up 'in the same boat later' — the idiom made literal, since both may soon share one small lifeboat.
このシーンについての質問
Why do some women refuse to get into the lifeboats?
They do not want to leave their husbands behind. Wives argue that they cannot go without their husbands, which slows the loading even as the ship is sinking.
What does Andrews tell the father with three children?
Asked how serious it is, Andrews says the ship has about an hour to live, maybe a little more if some upper bulkheads hold. He tells the man to get his wife and children into the boats.
What does "in the same boat" mean literally here?
It normally means sharing the same difficult situation, but here it is also literal: the two men may soon be in the same lifeboat. The joke turns a common idiom into a real plan.
Why is the chief engineer still ordering the pumps worked?
He knows Belfast's pumps cannot keep the water out, but every extra minute the ship floats means more lives can be saved, so he tells the crew to put their backs into it.
What is the mood among the passengers on deck?
It is oddly calm and divided: some insist the ship cannot sink, others notice the list, and some families are being separated while others still complain about the inconvenience.
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