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Before Sunrise · 1995 — 第 16 / 21 章 · 2'55" · B1

The Fake Phone Call in Vienna, Explained：fall for someone

In Vienna, she pretends to call her best friend in Paris, making the ringing sound herself and letting her companion answer as the friend. Under the joke, she admits she got off the train with a man she just met and names the exact moment: "I think that's when I fell for him."

あらすじ

In Vienna, a woman announces she is going to call her best friend in Paris about lunch in eight hours. She makes the ringing sound herself, tells her companion to pick up, and then performs the conversation. She admits she met a man on the train and got off with him, then describes when she fell for him.

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注目の表現

for laughscouldn't help itpass throughfall for someone

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このシーンの表現

fall for someone

start to love someone

She traces her feeling back to his ghost story in the lounge car and says that was when she fell for him.

You can fall for someone in a single afternoon.

このシーンの他の表現

  • for laughs

    just for fun

  • couldn't help it

    could not stop oneself

  • pass through

    stay briefly on the way

  • convince someone

    persuade someone to do something

  • scared to death

    extremely frightened

このシーンのメモ一覧

47 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ

表現 · B1be supposed to do something

be expected to have lunch with

Okay. Now I'm gonna call my best friend in Paris, who I'm supposed to have lunch with in eight hours.
文法 · B1who I'm supposed to have lunch with

relative clause: The relative clause identifies the friend she is supposed to have lunch with.

Okay. Now I'm gonna call my best friend in Paris, who I'm supposed to have lunch with in eight hours.
表現 · B2just for laughs

just for fun

After a few French greetings, she suggests talking in English and frames it as just for laughs; the reason she gives is that she has been working on her English.

I-I've been workin' on my English recently. You wanna talk in English? Just for laughs?
表現 · B1make it for + event

be able to attend lunch

- Yeah, okay. That's a good idea. - (laughs) Um, I don't think I'm gonna be able to make it for lunch today. I'm sorry.
文法 · B2I don't think I'm gonna be able to make it

negative raising: The negation is felt in the following clause: I think I won't be able to make it.

- Yeah, okay. That's a good idea. - (laughs) Um, I don't think I'm gonna be able to make it for lunch today. I'm sorry.
表現 · B1meet someone on the train

meet a man on the train

I — I met a guy on the train, and I got off with him in Vienna.
発音off with him

Let the final sound of off slide into with; keep him light.

I — I met a guy on the train, and I got off with him in Vienna.
スラング · A2guy

man; guy — Common in casual talk; use man in formal contexts.

I — I met a guy on the train, and I got off with him in Vienna.
表現 · B2pass through a place

stay briefly while traveling

No, no, no, no. He's passing through here too. He's American.
発音Why'd you

The d in Why'd is easy to lose; keep the question quick.

Why'd you get off the train with him?
表現 · B1convince someone

persuade someone to do something

Asked why she got off the train with him, she first says he convinced her; to convince someone is to persuade them, not force them.

Well, he convinced me.
表現 · B1can't help it

could not stop oneself

After describing how sweet he was, she uses I couldn't help it to explain getting off the train as something she could not resist.

He was so sweet, I couldn't help it.
文法 · B2seeing his great-grandmother's ghost

participial phrase: The participle phrase describes what the little boy was seeing.

and he begin to talk about him as a little boy seeing his great-grandmother's ghost.
スラング · B1kind of

somewhat — A casual hedge; rare in formal writing.

He's kind of tall and he's a little clumsy.
表現 · B2feel someone's eyes on you

sense someone watching you

I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.
表現 · B1look away

turn your eyes aside

I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.
発音look away

Link the k sound into away instead of pausing between words.

I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.
表現 · B2as something goes on

as the night continued

As the night went on, I began to like him more and more.
表現 · B1more and more

increasingly

As the night went on, I began to like him more and more.
表現 · B1be scared of someone

frightened by me

But I'm afraid he's scared of me.
表現 · B2feel that way about someone

think of me that way

I just hope he doesn't feel that way about me.
文法 · B2I could really hurt

omitted relative pronoun: A relative pronoun is left out after person, so the clause reads more tightly.

The only person I could really hurt is myself.
表現 · B2have/get a good feeling about something

have a positive hunch

I've known you a long time, and I got a good feeling.
発音got a good

In fast speech, the t in got a can tap and blend; keep it light.

I've known you a long time, and I got a good feeling.
表現 · A2see someone again

meet him again

You gonna see him again?
表現 · B1have/haven't talked about something yet

have not discussed it yet

We haven't talked about that yet.

「The Fake Phone Call in Vienna」を読み解く

What's really going on

The lunch is a pretext. By turning the call into a game—she supplies the ringing, he supplies the friend—the conversation lets her say things a normal conversation would make too direct. She keeps offering small evidence: "He was so sweet, I couldn't help it," then the ghost story, then "I think that's when I fell for him." When she worries that he now sees her as "this manipulative, mean woman," the joke stops being only a joke. The reply she gets—"I think he's crazy about you"—answers the fear she voiced, but not the question she leaves hanging: whether they will see each other again.

Theme

RomanceA pretend phone call lets two people talk about attraction at a safe distance, turning a private feeling into a shared joke.
TrustShe fears one story has changed how he sees her, and reassurance from the other end of the line cannot settle it.

発音のポイント

  • off with him — Let the final sound of off slide into with; keep him light.
  • Why'd you — The d in Why'd is easy to lose; keep the question quick.
  • look away — Link the k sound into away instead of pausing between words.
  • got a good — In fast speech, the t in got a can tap and blend; keep it light.
I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.

She likes the feeling of him watching her exactly when she is not looking, a small sign that his attention is on her.

As the night went on, I began to like him more and more.

Her attraction grew gradually through the night rather than all at once; the line describes feelings that accumulate.

The only person I could really hurt is myself.

She insists she is not a danger to others, only to herself, answering the fear that he now sees her as cruel.

I think that's when I fell for him.

She names the precise moment her interest became attraction, and describes it as something that happened to her.

He was so sweet, I couldn't help it.

She presents her decision as irresistible, crediting his sweetness instead of her own choice to get off the train.

このシーンについての質問

Why does she cancel lunch with her friend?

In the pretend call she says she met a man on the train and got off with him in Vienna, so she will not be in Paris for lunch in eight hours.

Why does she switch to English during the call?

She says she has been working on her English and asks if they can talk in English, "just for laughs." The rest of the call stays in English.

Why did she get off the train with him?

She first says he convinced her, then admits she was ready to get off the train after talking with him a short while, and that he was so sweet she couldn't help it.

Why does she think he is scared of her, and what does the friend say?

She says she told him a story about a woman who kills her ex-boyfriend, so she assumes he sees her as manipulative and mean. The friend answers that he is not scared and is crazy about her.

What made her fall for him?

She says it happened in the lounge car, when he talked about himself as a little boy seeing his great-grandmother's ghost: "I think that's when I fell for him."

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