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Beaches · 1988 — 第 23 / 30 章 · 2'33" · B1

CC Tells Victoria a Bedtime Story, Explained：untell

CC is telling her daughter a fairy tale while running on empty. The story slips into a wish for sleep — "a deep, deep sleep for at least eight hours, I hope" — and then the exhaustion turns sharp: she won't host Victoria's friend and tells her to "untell" her. "I don't know about you, but I am exhausted."

あらすじ

CC puts Victoria to bed with a story about a princess and a wizard, joking that the wizard gives the princess a deep sleep for at least eight hours — which is what CC wants for herself. Tired and sick with the flu, she then refuses to let Victoria invite a friend, telling her to "untell" her, and snaps that she does not want to care for other people's children.

Parents & kidsComplainingSaying noParent & childB1slowamericanClean
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cannot resista deep, deep sleepI don't know about you, butuntell

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このシーンの表現

untell

to take back what you said

Victoria has already invited her friend, so the mother invents a word to take it back.

I can't untell her now; she has already bought a ticket.

このシーンの他の表現

  • cannot resist

    to be unable to fight off

  • a deep, deep sleep

    a very heavy sleep

  • I don't know about you, but

    speaking for myself

  • take care of

    to look after

  • play with

    to play together with

このシーンのメモ一覧

36 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

表現 · A2very smart

quite clever

She's very smart.
文法 · B2for I am

causal for: The conjunction for gives a reason and sounds like storybook narration.

I do not fear the Wizard of Evil for I am Princess Opgel, and even he cannot resist my powers.
発音in bed yet

Link in and bed; keep yet light at the end.

Victoria Cecilia, are you in bed yet?
表現 · A2show up

to appear

The Wizard of Evil shows up unexpectedly, and he grabs the princess.
表現 · A2at least + number

no fewer than

He puts her into a deep, deep sleep for at least eight hours, I hope.
表現 · A2school is out

the school term has ended

Just 1 0 more days till school's out.
発音till school's out

Till reduces to /tl/; school's out runs together.

Just 1 0 more days till school's out.
表現 · A2can't wait

to be eager

You know what? I can't wait, too.
発音don't know about

The t in don't weakens and know about links up.

I don't know about you, but I am exhausted.
表現 · A2time for + noun

the moment for something

Pouncer, Pouncer The wonder cat I'm so glad you're not a rat Or a bat or too fat Pouncer, Pouncer the wonder cat Victoria, it's time for dinner.
表現 · A2great advice

very good counsel

Dear Favorite Lawyer, that was great advice you gave me.
表現 · B2hold out for something

to refuse to give in

I held out, and they had to outbid two other record companies to keep me.
表現 · B2outbid someone

to offer more than a rival

I held out, and they had to outbid two other record companies to keep me.
表現 · B1the last week in + month

the final week of a month

You can invite Melissa the last week in August, but not before.
文法 · B1but not before

ellipsis: The words in August are dropped after but not before.

You can invite Melissa the last week in August, but not before.
表現 · A2the whole + period

the entire period

But I thought she could stay the whole month. I already told her.
表現 · B2can't shake a cold/flu

to be unable to get rid of an illness

I can't shake this flu. I'm tired.
表現 · B1since someone was born

for one's whole life

The same children you've played with every summer since you were born,
文法 · B2you've played with every summer

relative clause: A relative clause without that or whom describes the same children.

The same children you've played with every summer since you were born,
表現 · B1the ones who ...

those people who

the ones who live there.
表現 · B1just so + adj

extremely so

I'm sorry, puss. I'm just so tired.
スラング · A2puss

a fond pet name — A warm pet name for a child or cat; not formal.

I'm sorry, puss. I'm just so tired.

「CC Tells Victoria a Bedtime Story」を読み解く

What's really going on

The bedtime story is doing two jobs at once. On the surface it is a mother settling her child; underneath, CC is writing herself into the fantasy — the princess who cannot be resisted, the deep sleep she longs for. The fatigue is not a mood but a fact: "I can't shake this flu. I'm tired." When Victoria pushes for a summer plan, CC's patience gives out, and she answers with a made-up word that says everything about her limits: "Then 'untell' her." She is trying to protect her energy, but the line she draws — "I don't want to spend my time taking care of other people's children" — lands on her own daughter as rejection. The letter to her lawyer friend, boasting that she "held out" and forced companies to outbid each other, is the other half of the day: the career she cannot stop tending while her home life runs down.

Theme

ParenthoodCC's illness and ambition leave her snapping at Victoria and refusing to host her friend, while she still calls her "puss" and says good night.
LonelinessEven in the bedtime routine CC is half-elsewhere, escaping into fantasy and into a career letter she writes late at night.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Take care of means look after someone.
  • School's out marks the start of the holidays.
  • Untell is a playful word for taking back what you said.

発音のポイント

  • in bed yet — Link in and bed; keep yet light at the end.
  • till school's out — Till reduces to /tl/; school's out runs together.
  • don't know about — The t in don't weakens and know about links up.
I don't want to spend my time taking care of other people's children.

CC's excuse to refuse Victoria's friend, which cruelly lumps the guest in with the children she is too tired to host.

I don't know about you, but I am exhausted.

The bedtime line that reveals the real state of the house: affection on the surface, exhaustion underneath.

But who will I play with?

Victoria's simple question, showing what CC's decision costs her daughter — a summer with no friend to share it with.

I'm sorry, puss. I'm just so tired.

CC's apology to Victoria, owning that her harshness comes from exhaustion rather than from wanting to hurt her.

このシーンについての質問

What does "untell" mean?

It is a made-up verb built from tell with un-, meaning to take back or undo something you have said. CC tells Victoria to untell her friend that the invite is off.

Why is CC so short with Victoria?

She is sick with the flu and exhausted, and she does not want extra work. She refuses the friend's visit and snaps that she will not care for other people's children.

What does CC want from the bedtime story?

She jokes that the wizard gives the princess a deep, deep sleep for at least eight hours — the rest she wishes she could get herself. The fairy tale doubles as her own plea for sleep.

What has CC been doing with her career?

She writes to her lawyer friend that she held out and made three record companies outbid each other to keep her. It is a reminder of the professional wins that cost her time at home.

Why does Victoria ask who she will play with?

CC has canceled her friend's month-long visit. Victoria assumes the other children will fill in, but she is really asking why her plan was undone.

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