relative clause: A relative clause, with that omitted, describes the peace they once shared.
Can these tightly-knit neighborhoods ever return to the peace they shared together only 24 hours ago?Belfast · 2021 — 第 2 / 14 章 · 3'19" · B2
Belfast Builds the Barricades, Explained：none of your business
With the riots barely over, Buddy's neighbours heap paving stones, pallets and a washing machine into a barricade before the mob can return. 'The police aren't going to protect us, so we have to do it ourselves,' one man says. Then a checkpoint stops a woman trying to fetch her husband home, and the questions get personal.
あらすじ
After a night of rioting, the men of Buddy's street build a barricade to keep the mob out, joking as they work. A woman refuses to let her children play outside until it is safe. Later, at the checkpoint, a wife crossing to bring her husband home is challenged about where he has been.
注目の表現
barricadenone of your businessbloodyglad to hear it
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このシーンの表現
none of your business
not your concern, mind your own
A woman refuses to answer a nosy question at the checkpoint, sharply.
How much I earn is none of your business.
このシーンの他の表現
- barricade
a barrier blocking a street
- bloody
a mild but rude British swear word
- glad to hear it
a polite, slightly formal acknowledgement
- nip into
to go in quickly for a moment
- as welcome as
accepted exactly like everyone else
このシーンのメモ一覧
72 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ
to put a structure up
Look, we need to get this barricade up before those kids come back, okay?to return
Look, we need to get this barricade up before those kids come back, okay?to allow someone to return
We're not gonna let them back here again.accepted just like everyone else
You're as welcome on this street as any of us.to handle it without help
The police aren't going to protect us, so we have to do it ourselves.a warm term of address — British casual address; too familiar for formal talk.
Watch yourself getting up there, love.to go in quickly for a moment
A workman says he will slip into the house for his tools and come right back.
I've just got to nip into the house and get my tools.to keep clear of something
Get them kids to stay away from them sharp edges.to finish a task
Come on, let's get this all done.hoping to achieve something
The likeliest move is to bring troops into Belfast in the hope of avoiding further clashes between rioters and police, particularly the B-Specials.to confine someone indoors
You can't keep us in our houses!Do you often reduces to one juh sound.
Where do you think you're going, love?at the moment you most need help
Not with you in your hour of need?slightly wrong or unfair
-That's a bit off, isn't it? -He works away in England.participial phrase: The participial phrase describes the groups behind the violence.
And has he joined any of these groups making all this mess in your street?to be completely unaware of it
He knew nothing about the whole bloody thing.a polite, slightly formal acknowledgement
The questioner closes the exchange with formal politeness after her answer.
Glad to hear it, madam.Link the words: nearly-had-you run together.
They nearly had you there, Steve McQueen.yes, in Irish and Scottish speech — An informal yes; not for written formal English.
Aye.「Belfast Builds the Barricades」を読み解く
What's really going on
The barricade is the film's clearest image of a community drawing a line. The men work with grim cheer, but their talk gives the game away: 'The police aren't going to protect us, so we have to do it ourselves.' This is self-defence framed as civic duty, and it hardens into something uglier at the checkpoint, where a woman's private life becomes public business. Her 'None of your bloody business' is less rudeness than a refusal to be interrogated, and the neighbour's 'That's a bit off, isn't it?' shows how quickly a shared street turns into a border. What the scene quietly notices is that the same people who comfort Paddy ('You're as welcome on this street as any of us') also decide who gets stopped and questioned. Belfast keeps both truths in the same frame without picking a side.
Theme
SurvivalNeighbours build barricades and mount a checkpoint because they believe no one else will keep them safe.
IdentityA warm welcome for Paddy sits beside a checkpoint that decides which neighbours get questioned.
このチャプターで学べること
- A barricade is a rough street barrier
- None of your business shuts down nosy questions
- Glad to hear it politely ends an exchange
- Reporters use long formal clauses
発音のポイント
- do you — Do you often reduces to one juh sound.
- nearly had you — Link the words: nearly-had-you run together.
You're as welcome on this street as any of us.Said to reassure Paddy, a neighbour treated with suspicion: the street counts him as one of its own. It is the warmest line here, and it sits next to the checkpoint that treats others as outsiders.
The police aren't going to protect us, so we have to do it ourselves.The men's reason for arming their street: the authorities cannot or will not help, so the community must defend itself. It justifies the barricade and predicts the division hardening around it.
They nearly had you there, Steve McQueen.A playground-style taunt aimed at someone who just slipped through: being called Steve McQueen, the star of daring escapes, turns a tense moment into kids' play.
I don't want you out here until it's all safe again.A mother's warning to Buddy and the other children: stay inside while the street is dangerous. It marks the cost of the night, childhood confined until safety returns.
このシーンについての質問
Why do the neighbours build a barricade?
After the riots, they expect the mob to return. One man says the police will not protect them, so they have to do it themselves — the barricade is their substitute for authority.
Why is the woman at the checkpoint so guarded about her husband?
The men ask where he has been, and she takes it as an accusation that he took part in the rioting. She insists he knew nothing about it and only came home to see his family.
Did the woman's husband join the groups causing the trouble?
She says he did not: 'He knew nothing about the whole bloody thing.' The men cannot disprove it and let it go with 'Glad to hear it,' which sounds polite but keeps the suspicion alive.
What does 'a bit off' mean here?
It means unfair or not quite right — the speaker is saying it is poor form that the husband was not around when his wife needed him. It is a gentle British way of criticising.
Who is 'Steve McQueen' in this scene?
Not the real actor. It is a teasing nickname for a boy who just dodged the men at the checkpoint, comparing his escape to the film star known for daring getaways.
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第 4 章double-bluffBilly Clanton Threatens the Family
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第 7 章benefit of the doubtBuddy Learns to Game the Odds
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第 10 章bet the houseThe Family Debates Moving to Australia
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第 12 章money's a bit tightGrandpa Tells Buddy Who He Is
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