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Belfast · 2021 — 第 6 / 14 章 · 2'35" · B2

Buddy's School Crush, Explained：what's yours is mine

The teacher reads out this week's test rankings, and Buddy lands bronze. But the real subject is the girl in his class: she glances at him, then runs off with the other girls. "When I grow up, I want to marry her," he tells his grandfather, dead serious.

あらすじ

At school, the teacher announces the weekly test rankings: Billy Clanton Junior is bottom with 17%, while Buddy takes bronze and Catherine takes gold again. Walking home, Buddy talks about Catherine with his grandfather — she only looks at him in class, where talking is banned, and spends break with the other girls.

TeasingParents & kidsTeasingConfessingParent & childB2fastbritish
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Sisypheanfellabloodysmash your face in

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このシーンの表現

what's yours is mine

a joke about sharing everything

Granny hands over sweet money and jokes that everything belongs to everyone.

In this flat, what's yours is mine and the coffee is definitely shared.

このシーンの他の表現

  • Sisyphean

    endless and futile

  • fella

    a man or boy, casually

  • bloody

    a mild British swear word

  • smash your face in

    to punch someone hard

  • a wee bit

    a little bit

このシーンのメモ一覧

48 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · A2times tables

the multiplication tables

Well, I'm pleased to say your times tables were a lot more impressive to hear than your test scores were to read.
発音times tables

Times tables runs together; the s slides into the t.

Well, I'm pleased to say your times tables were a lot more impressive to hear than your test scores were to read.
表現 · B1the whole point of something

the main purpose of

The whole point of these weekly tests is to monitor your progress.
表現 · B2the seat of learning

the place of learning

The best will sit directly by my desk, the seat of learning,
表現 · A2the rest of something

the remaining ones

and the rest of you will view your Sisyphean struggles from the distance you have imposed upon yourself by a lack of application.
表現 · B1a lack of something

not enough of something

and the rest of you will view your Sisyphean struggles from the distance you have imposed upon yourself by a lack of application.
文法 · B2the distance you have imposed upon yourself

relative clause: A relative clause with the pronoun dropped describes the distance they chose.

and the rest of you will view your Sisyphean struggles from the distance you have imposed upon yourself by a lack of application.
表現 · B1yet again

once more

And, of course, in silver again, we have Ron, and Catherine with the gold yet again this week.
表現 · B1show interest in someone

to seem interested

The wee girl still showing some interest, yeah?
表現 · A2not allowed to do something

not permitted to

She looks at me sometimes, but we're not allowed to talk in the class, so I can't say anything.
文法 · B1we're not allowed to talk in the class

passive voice: The passive not allowed to shifts attention from the speaker to the rule.

She looks at me sometimes, but we're not allowed to talk in the class, so I can't say anything.
発音not allowed to

The to in allowed to weakens to a soft tuh.

She looks at me sometimes, but we're not allowed to talk in the class, so I can't say anything.
スラング · A2Anyways

anyway, casually — Spoken filler to change topic; write anyway in prose.

Anyways, I think she loves that other fella.
表現 · B1over the years

across the years

Your granny's become less mysterious over the years.
表現 · A2grow up

to become an adult

When I grow up, I want to marry her.
発音grow up

Grow up links into one sound, grow-wup.

When I grow up, I want to marry her.
表現 · A2it sounds like ...

it seems that

Yeah, sounds like you really like her.
表現 · B1do your research

to have checked the facts

Oh, you've done your research.
表現 · A2on one's way home

while going home

I pass it every day on my way home.
表現 · B1a wee bit

a little bit

Buddy jokes that a slightly sillier girl would already be his.

If she were a wee bit more stupid like me, we'd be sitting together by now.
文法 · B2If she were a wee bit more stupid

subjunctive: The were plus would pattern signals an imagined, contrary-to-fact condition.

If she were a wee bit more stupid like me, we'd be sitting together by now.
表現 · A2shout at someone

to yell at someone

I don't want your mommy shouting at me because you're late.
スラング · A2Cheerio

bye, in British speech — A breezy goodbye, common in Britain and Ireland.

-Cheerio, son. -Cheerio.
表現 · B2what's yours is mine

a joke about sharing everything

Granny hands over sweet money and jokes that everything belongs to everyone.

I'm always saying to your man there what's yours is mine and what's mine's me own.
表現 · A2find out

to discover

Try and find out how that wee girl thinks.

「Buddy's School Crush」を読み解く

What's really going on

The rankings give Buddy a rare public win, but the scene keeps pulling away from the classroom to what he actually cares about: Catherine. He watches for her at every turn and even knows her address — "It's Reynolds Drive, four houses in from the right, the one with the wonky eight." The adult's teasing ("Women are very mysterious") is gentle, and Buddy answers with a threat that gets the biggest laugh. Under the comedy is a child taking love completely seriously: "When I grow up, I want to marry her." He thinks his only problem is that she is too clever and he too "stupid," and he imagines that being a wee bit dumber would put them side by side. The threepenny bit and Granny's joke about what's yours is mine show the family humouring him without ever talking him out of it.

Theme

Coming of ageBuddy's first crush and his blunt plan to marry her show how seriously a child treats love long before he understands it.
Family loveGranny and the grandfather tease Buddy about Catherine but never dismiss him; the threepenny bit is affection, not judgment.

このチャプターで学べること

  • fella is a casual word for a man
  • a wee bit softens any adjective
  • bloody is a mild British swear
  • not allowed to states a rule

発音のポイント

  • times tables — Times tables runs together; the s slides into the t.
  • not allowed to — The to in allowed to weakens to a soft tuh.
  • grow up — Grow up links into one sound, grow-wup.
When I grow up, I want to marry her.

Buddy's matter-of-fact declaration of intent. It is funny because he is a schoolboy, but he means it completely, and the adults treat it with care.

She looks at me sometimes, but we're not allowed to talk in the class, so I can't say anything.

His whole romance is built on stolen glances and rules. It explains both his hope and his helplessness: he has no way to reach her.

If she were a wee bit more stupid like me, we'd be sitting together by now.

A child's logic for why they are not together: he blames the gap in their cleverness rather than their shyness. It is self-deprecating and fond at once.

I try to look in, but she never sees me.

The quiet ache at the centre of the crush. He passes her house daily and is never noticed, which is why the adults' teasing stays kind.

このシーンについての質問

Why is Buddy worried he is too stupid for Catherine?

He thinks their whole problem is brains. He says if she were a wee bit more stupid like me, we'd be sitting together by now — meaning she is too clever and he is not, so they never pair up.

What does Buddy's family think of his crush?

They tease him gently and never tell him he is wrong. The grandfather calls women mysterious, another voice jokes about women smashing his face in, and Granny tells him to go and find out how the girl thinks.

Who is the girl Buddy wants to marry?

It is Catherine, the girl in his class. She wins the gold in the weekly tests, and Buddy watches her and knows where she lives, on Reynolds Drive.

Why does Granny give Buddy the threepenny bit?

It is affection, not charity. She slips him the coin for a sweet, cheerfully fends off his objection that his da says she can't afford it, and both the gift and the joke show how close they are.

What does "Sisyphean" mean in the teacher's speech?

It describes a task that never ends and feels pointless, from the Greek myth of Sisyphus. The teacher uses it to mock the students who do badly because they do not try.

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