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Be Here Now · 2015 — 第 25 / 27 章 · 3'02" · B1

Doctors Give Andy Three to Six Months, Explained：buy time

The results are in: the lymphoma has spread, and the doctors give Andy three to six months to live. Vashti refuses to let the sentence stand — "they're only words, honey" — and reaches for a familiar ritual from his Spartacus days, telling him he has "got to roll your sleeves up."

あらすじ

The doctor confirms the lymphoma has spread, and more radiotherapy won't change the picture. Andy says this was the one thing he didn't want, and admits the prognosis — three to six months to live — is frightening. Vashti refuses to treat it as fate, telling him they're only words and that he has to roll his sleeves up and fight.

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change the picturedeal withmonths to livebuy time

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  18. ❝ 独白Andy names his worst fear8 行練習ページ ↗
  43. ❝ 独白Vashti's pep talk6 行練習ページ ↗
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このシーンの表現

buy time

gain extra time; stall

Andy says chemo and radio were only buying time, not curing him.

He kept talking to buy time while help arrived.

このシーンの他の表現

  • change the picture

    change the whole situation

  • deal with

    handle or face something

  • months to live

    how long someone has left

  • get through

    survive a hard time

  • put weight in

    treat something as important

このシーンのメモ一覧

50 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ

表現 · A2be good news

bad tidings

So it's not good news.
発音not a

Link not a so it sounds like no-ta.

It's not a good picture at all.
表現 · A2what does that mean

what does it imply

So what does that mean?
表現 · B1be unlikely to do something

probably will not

I think more radiotherapy is unlikely to change the picture.
表現 · A2how do you feel about something

how are you feeling

So how do you feel, honeybun?
スラング · A2honeybun

a private pet name — A pet name between partners; never in formal talk.

So how do you feel, honeybun?
表現 · B1the one thing someone wants

the single thing

I mean, that was the one thing I didn't want.
表現 · B1be in the same position

in an unchanged situation

I'm in the same position.
文法 · B1for it to have spread

perfect infinitive: It frames the spread as a completed fact he can barely accept.

But, for it to have spread is really...
表現 · A2be still here

still alive and present

But you know, you had that six months ago and you're still here.
表現 · A2at the time

back then

I know, but at the time, I was having chemo and radio and stuff that was buying time.
発音stuff that was

Stuff that was runs together, with that and was reduced.

I know, but at the time, I was having chemo and radio and stuff that was buying time.
スラング · B1chemo

chemotherapy, casually — Everyday shorthand; formal writing says chemotherapy.

I know, but at the time, I was having chemo and radio and stuff that was buying time.
スラング · B1radio

radiotherapy, casually — Common in hospital talk; formal speech says radiotherapy.

I know, but at the time, I was having chemo and radio and stuff that was buying time.
表現 · A2used to do something

did regularly in the past

when you were doing the Spartacus show, before the camera used to roll,
表現 · B1do one's thing

do what one always does

you'd always do the same thing every time, like bit like a tennis player or whatever would do their thing.
スラング · B1do their thing

do one's usual routine — Very casual; keep it out of formal writing.

you'd always do the same thing every time, like bit like a tennis player or whatever would do their thing.
表現 · A2it's time to do something

the moment has come to

And it's time to do that for this.
表現 · B1hardly any different from

almost the same

I mean, it's hardly any different from yesterday, is it?
表現 · B1not as bad as something

less bad than

In fact, it's not as bad as the day I was first diagnosed a year and a half ago,
文法 · B1as bad as the day I was first diagnosed

as ... as comparison: Not as bad as compares today with the worst day he remembers.

In fact, it's not as bad as the day I was first diagnosed a year and a half ago,
表現 · A2a bunch of something

a pile of

They are a bunch of words.
文法 · B1If you believe them and put weight in them

conditional clause: The if-clause states the condition; the will-clause states the result.

If you believe them and put weight in them, they will become our reality.
発音weight in

Link weight and in so the t glides into the vowel.

If you believe them and put weight in them, they will become our reality.

「Doctors Give Andy Three to Six Months」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene stages two ways of hearing the same medical sentence. Andy absorbs it as information and it lands like a verdict: the cancer has spread, and they've given him three to six months. "It's not a good picture at all," the doctor says, and he echoes it — "that was the one thing I didn't want." Vashti takes the opposite approach, refusing to let a doctor's estimate become a fact. "But they're only words, honey," she says, and pushes it further: "If you believe them and put weight in them, they will become our reality." To make it concrete she reaches back to his Spartacus days, when he'd psych himself up before a take, and tells him this is the moment to do it again — "you have got to roll your sleeves up." It isn't denial of the disease; it's a refusal to hand the outcome over to language.

Theme

CourageVashti turns a terminal prognosis into a call to fight, refusing to let it settle into fact.
MarriageShe steadies Andy with the intimacy of a shared ritual and a plain refusal to give up.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A timeline is a guess, not a verdict.
  • She answers fear with work, not comfort.
  • Private nicknames surface once the doctor leaves.
  • He repeats the number because he cannot hold it.

発音のポイント

  • not a — Link not a so it sounds like no-ta.
  • stuff that was — Stuff that was runs together, with that and was reduced.
  • weight in — Link weight and in so the t glides into the vowel.
If you believe them and put weight in them, they will become our reality.

Her argument against fatalism: a prognosis is language, and treating it as fixed is what makes it real. It's a claim about mindset, stated as a rule.

But you have got to roll your sleeves up.

Her call to action — stop waiting and fight the illness with the same effort he once brought to work. The image is physical and unglamorous.

But they're only words, honey.

Her core move: reducing the doctors' estimate to mere words so it can't dictate how they live. The endearment keeps it tender rather than dismissive.

It's not a good picture at all.

The doctor's blunt framing of the scan. 'Picture' stands in for the whole situation, and the doubled negative makes it unmistakably bad.

I mean, that was the one thing I didn't want.

Andy names the exact fear he'd been carrying: not just bad news, but this specific news — that it had spread.

このシーンについての質問

How long do the doctors give Andy?

Three to six months to live. Andy repeats it out loud, and later points out that he was given a similar timeline six months earlier and is still here.

Why does Vashti refuse to accept the prognosis?

She wants to stop a doctor's estimate from hardening into fate. If they treat the sentence as fixed and put weight in it, she argues, it becomes their reality.

Why does Vashti bring up Andy's Spartacus days?

Before filming he would psych himself up with a set routine. She wants him to bring that same fighting energy to his treatment now, rather than wait on the numbers.

How does Andy respond to Vashti's pep talk?

He agrees with her — "you're right" — and reasons that today is hardly any different from yesterday, and not as bad as the day he was first diagnosed.

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