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A Passage to India · 1984 — 第 17 / 19 章 · 2'35" · B2

Adela's Echo Is Gone, Explained：have a hunch

After the charges are dropped, someone asks Adela why she accused Dr Aziz if she meant to withdraw. She answers with "My echo's gone": the noise that has lived in her head since the cave has finally stopped. The talk drifts to ghosts, guilt, and what she can and cannot explain.

あらすじ

Adela Quested has withdrawn her charge against Dr Aziz, and now she faces the question everyone is asking: why did she make it at all? Sitting with Richard Fielding, she says the noise she calls her "echo" — present in her head since the Marabar Caves — has suddenly gone. They talk about Mrs Moore, ghosts, and the dead.

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make wayout of pityhave a hunchbroke down

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このシーンの表現

have a hunch

have a feeling

Fielding has a hunch that McBryde's questioning somehow cured her.

I have a hunch she will say yes.

このシーンの他の表現

  • make way

    clear a path

  • out of pity

    because of compassion

  • broke down

    lost control emotionally

  • exorcised

    drove out like a spirit

  • make some tea

    prepare some tea

このシーンのメモ一覧

26 行のセリフに 16 件のメモ

表現 · B1make way

clear a path

Fielding asks the crowd to make way as he escorts Adela out.

Make way, please. Thank you.
表現 · A1take someone somewhere

drive someone to

- Where shall he take you? - I don't know.
表現 · A1get in

get into a car

Get in.
文法 · B2if you were going to

condition clause: The if-clause questions why she charged him at all.

Why did you make such a charge if you were going to withdraw it?
表現 · C1expect gratitude

want thanks

- I ought to feel grateful to you, I suppose. - I don't expect gratitude.
表現 · B2feel grateful to someone

be thankful to

- I ought to feel grateful to you, I suppose. - I don't expect gratitude.
表現 · B2out of pity

because of compassion

Fielding asks whether Adela withdrew the charge out of pity.

Did you do it out of pity?
発音out of pity

Out of blends into one sound.

Did you do it out of pity?
表現 · B2have a hunch

have a feeling

Fielding has a hunch that McBryde's questioning somehow cured her.

I have a hunch that poor old McBryde exorcised you.
表現 · B2break down

lost control emotionally

Fielding says McBryde retraced the cave step by step until Adela suddenly broke down.

He took you back, step by logical step, into that cave, and you broke down quite suddenly.
表現 · B2step by step

gradually and in order

He took you back, step by logical step, into that cave, and you broke down quite suddenly.
発音broke down

Broke down blurs its consonants in fast speech.

He took you back, step by logical step, into that cave, and you broke down quite suddenly.
表現 · B2live again

come back to life

No, I only meant that it's difficult, as we get older, not to believe that the dead live again.
文法 · B2as we get older

time clause: The as-clause marks change over time.

No, I only meant that it's difficult, as we get older, not to believe that the dead live again.
表現 · C1I fear not

I am afraid not

I fear not.
表現 · B2forgive me a moment

excuse me briefly

Forgive me a moment.

「Adela's Echo Is Gone」を読み解く

What's really going on

The awkwardness is that Adela cannot explain her own accusation. When someone asks, "Why did you make such a charge if you were going to withdraw it?", she has no defense — only the news that the noise in her head has stopped. She does not say Aziz is innocent; she says the thing that drove her has left her. Her companion offers a gentler theory: that McBryde's patient questioning took her back into the cave, step by logical step, until she broke down, and the breakdown itself purged the echo. It is an explanation that lets both of them avoid the harder question — whether the charge was ever real. The talk about ghosts and the dead is not idle; it is two people circling the fact that Adela may never know what happened in that cave.

Theme

GuiltAdela can't justify the charge, and the scene is less about proving innocence than about easing her own conscience.
MemoryThe "echo" she has carried since the cave is a memory that hurts until it suddenly, inexplicably stops.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A hunch is a guess you cannot prove yet.
  • Broke down means losing emotional control.
  • Out of pity names a motive starting with out of.
  • The echo is her name for a private trauma.

発音のポイント

  • out of pity — Out of blends into one sound.
  • broke down — Broke down blurs its consonants in fast speech.
Why did you make such a charge if you were going to withdraw it?

The one question Adela cannot answer: if she meant to drop the case, why did she ever accuse Aziz? Her silence says more than an explanation could.

- I ought to feel grateful to you, I suppose. - I don't expect gratitude.

Adela assumes she owes her companion thanks for some kindness; the cool reply refuses the debt, insisting nothing was done for a reward.

I call the noise in my head my echo. I've had it since the cave.

Adela's name for the persistent noise left by the cave. Calling it an "echo" makes her private torment sound almost ordinary and bearable.

I have a hunch that poor old McBryde exorcised you.

A half-joking theory: McBryde's relentless questioning drove the haunting out of her, as if a trial could work like an exorcism.

No, I only meant that it's difficult, as we get older, not to believe that the dead live again.

The companion softens the ghost talk: believing the dead return isn't superstition so much as something age makes harder to resist.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Adela withdraw the charge against Dr Aziz?

The film doesn't spell it out, but on the stand she realizes she cannot be sure of what happened in the cave. Rather than accuse a man she may have misjudged, she takes the accusation back, leaving both the court and Aziz without a clear answer.

What is the 'echo' Adela keeps talking about?

It's her own word for the noise that has stayed in her head since the Marabar Caves — a kind of lingering disturbance, not a literal sound. When she says it's gone, she means the inner pressure that shaped her accusation has finally lifted.

Did Fielding believe Adela or Dr Aziz?

Fielding leans toward Aziz's innocence and stays loyal to him, yet he treats Adela with patience rather than contempt. He suggests the trial itself shocked the echo out of her, an explanation that lets him stay kind to both sides.

Why do Adela and Fielding talk about ghosts and the dead?

Mrs Moore's talk of ghosts comes up, and the conversation turns to whether the dead return. For Adela, it mirrors the uncertainty she can't escape: she may never know what really happened in that cave, only what she felt.

インドへの道 · 全 19 章

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第 1 章in the same boxAziz Meets Mrs Moore in the Mosque第 2 章an exercise in powerThe Bridge Party at the Club第 3 章a muddleAziz Invites Them to the Marabar Caves第 4 章account forGodbole Explains the Marabar Caves第 5 章put our shoulders to the wheelAdela Calls Off the Wedding第 6 章condescend toFielding Visits Sick Aziz第 7 章call it offAziz Shows Fielding His Dead Wife第 8 章in tattersAdela Vanishes at the Marabar Caves第 9 章go over the topFielding Defends Aziz After the Charge第 10 章of no consequenceFielding Picks a Defence Lawyer第 11 章await the verdictFielding Resigns from the Club第 12 章have anything to do withMrs. Moore Says Goodbye to Ronny第 13 章make it my businessMcBryde Accuses Aziz at Trial第 14 章carried him awayDas Rules Mrs Moore Does Not Exist第 15 章cast your mind backAdela Wavers on the Witness Stand第 16 章withdraw the accusationAdela Withdraws the Accusation再生中 · 第 17 章have a hunchAdela's Echo Is Gone第 18 章extend an open invitationGodbole Says Goodbye to Fielding第 19 章smithereensAziz Breaks With Fielding
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