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Speak for yourself.Arthur the King · 2024 — 第 12 / 19 章 · 4'21" · A2
Arthur Saves Them from the Cliff, Explained：one less mouth to feed
The team has just survived because a stray dog refused to let Michael walk off a cliff. But when the dog wanders off, the talk turns cold: "it's one less mouth to feed, right?" Their relief collides with a practical question about whether they can afford to keep it.
あらすじ
Deep into an adventure race, a stray dog blocks Michael's path and barks toward a drop he can't see. It's a cliff, and the dog has just saved the team. They feed it, marvel at how it kept up with them on bikes and ropes, then get ready to move on — and quietly debate whether the dog can come.
注目の表現
has the balls tobring someone alongsaved your assone less mouth to feed
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このシーンの表現
one less mouth to feed
one fewer person to feed
Debating whether to keep the dog, a teammate voices the cold ration math and dislikes it.
With the intern gone, it's one less mouth to feed on the team.
このシーンの他の表現
- has the balls to
dare to do something
- bring someone along
take someone with you
- saved your ass
save someone from disaster
- met back up
joined again
- oh, shit
an expletive for sudden trouble
このシーンのメモ一覧
87 行のセリフに 29 件のメモ
the correct way to go
It's the right direction, guys.appear to be
What does it look like? What do you think?Link does and it so it sounds like doe-zit.
What does it look like? What do you think?quite obvious
Looks pretty clear to me. Come on!why are you acting like this
What's your problem? Hey, move.a mild swear — shows irritation; too strong for polite talk
- What the hell's goin' on? -Michael, would you move your damn dog?it is wise to do something
I told you it was a good idea to bring him along.Run it was a together as one blur.
I told you it was a good idea to bring him along.The d in Saved is often dropped before your.
Saved your ass.butt; here, one's life — crude among friends; not for formal settings
Saved your ass.how did it find out
How did he know?straight off the edge
Can't believe I almost walked right off that cliff.it was the dog's doing
Because of a dog.sustain someone's life
Well, she knows what keeps you alive, Chiki.give attention to
It will be nice to focus on something else when this is over.going to — everyday speech; keep it out of formal writing
Well, the ladies at the mani-pedi place are gonna love this.relative clause: The clause describes where the second river runs.
Another trek over that ridge, and there is another river that we cross that goes in between here and there.daylight remains
Well, at least it's light out.how the supplies stand
- Yeah. - How's the food situation?be enough for us
It won't last us the, what, five hours we have left of this section?reduced relative clause: The clause trims five hours down to the time that remains.
It won't last us the, what, five hours we have left of this section?Link last and us so it sounds like las-tus.
It won't last us the, what, five hours we have left of this section?the entire distance
How the hell did he get all the way from here to there?on earth — spoken emphasis; avoid in polite company
Now, how the hell did he do that?relative clause: A relative clause modifying wings, with that left out.
He must have wings we don't know about.I wish this were not true
Yeah, I hate to say it, but it's one less mouth to feed, right?right?, a spoken tag — a spoken tag; rare in writing
Guess we should just go, huh?two or three hours later
Save the food for a couple hours from now.「Arthur Saves Them from the Cliff」を読み解く
What's really going on
The dog is the hero of the sequence, but the moment it leaves, the team turns pragmatic in a way that's hard to watch. "I told you it was a good idea to bring him along," one of them says, and then someone answers with "it's one less mouth to feed, right?" — relief, ration math, and guilt all in the same breath. Chiki's aside about his wife living in a shack and never having kids because of racing shows what these athletes give up; the dog, who asked for nothing, gets weighed like supplies. No one is cruel here, which is what makes it sting.
Theme
SurvivalA stray dog's instinct keeps the team off a cliff, and the group's own survival math then decides its fate.
DutyThe team weighs whether they owe the dog that saved them, balancing gratitude against limited food.
このチャプターで学べること
- A stray dog is the first to see the danger.
- The joke about wings hides real unease about the dog.
- Counting one less mouth is survival math, not cruelty.
- A near miss gets retold as a debt to the animal.
発音のポイント
- does it — Link does and it so it sounds like doe-zit.
- it was a — Run it was a together as one blur.
- Saved your — The d in Saved is often dropped before your.
- last us — Link last and us so it sounds like las-tus.
Can't believe I almost walked right off that cliff.He's shaken: he was about to step into open air and never saw it coming. The line names the danger plainly and gives the dog full credit.
He must have wings we don't know about.A joke about how the dog keeps appearing where no animal should be able to follow — as if it flew. Admiration disguised as a throwaway line.
I told you it was a good idea to bring him along.Said after the dog saves them, this is a mild I-told-you-so. Someone had argued for keeping the dog, and now that bet looks smart.
It will be nice to focus on something else when this is over.A quiet admission that the race and everything it costs have taken over his life; he's looking past it, not celebrating it.
このシーンについての質問
Why does the team consider leaving the dog behind?
Their food is nearly gone and they still have hours of hard terrain left, so one more animal to feed is a real burden. It's cold logic, and the scene lets you feel how cold it is.
How did the dog keep up with them?
The scene doesn't explain it — that's the point. They went by bike, zipline, hike, run, and climb, and the dog reappears anyway, which is why one of them jokes it must have wings.
Did the dog really save them, or did they save it?
The dog stops them before they walk off a hidden drop; Michael says he nearly stepped right off the cliff. So the dog reads the ground ahead and saves the humans, not the other way around.
What does 'one less mouth to feed' imply here?
It's an old idiom meaning one fewer person or animal to provide for. Said about the dog, it turns a companion into a cost — the uncomfortable heart of the scene.
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