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Blue Jasmine · 2013 — 第 12 / 15 章 · 2'42" · C1

Jasmine Tells the Boys Her Story, Explained：swept me off my feet

A babysitting chat turns into a life story: a wealthy marriage, charity work, a husband whose success seemed too good to be true, and a breakdown. "But a cheat is a cheat" lands like a verdict, while the closing "I'm a new person" tries to close the door on everything before it.

あらすじ

A woman babysitting two boys turns a casual question about their mother into a monologue about her past: a wealthy marriage, charity work, infidelity, a breakdown, and treatment. The boys interject with blunt family gossip, and she keeps steering the story toward her own reinvention.

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注目の表現

make extra moneyswept me off my feetI won't say I dislikeEdison's Medicine

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このシーンの表現

swept me off my feet

charmed me completely

Telling the boys about Hal, she reduces their courtship to a song and a dizzy spell, trying to reclaim some dignity.

The way he remembered every tiny detail totally swept me off my feet.

このシーンの他の表現

  • make extra money

    earn a little on the side

  • I won't say I dislike

    a coy way of admitting you like it

  • Edison's Medicine

    a grim nickname for electroshock therapy

  • aboveboard

    honest and open

  • too good to be true

    suspiciously perfect

このシーンのメモ一覧

40 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ

表現 · A2Where do you think + 主语 + 动词?

Where do you think...?

Where do you think Mom is tonight?
表現 · A2get a date

have a date

Oh, she's got a date tonight.
表現 · B1wonder + wh-从句

wonder where...

Oh, that's cool. I wonder where she is.
発音gonna babysit you

Keep gonna light and quick; land the beat on babysit.

I'm gonna babysit you. I'm a good babysitter.
表現 · B1make extra money

earn a little on the side

She turns babysitting into a small lesson in self-reliance, with the tone of a wealthy woman handing down wisdom.

It's how you make extra money.
表現 · C1sweep someone off their feet

charmed me completely

Telling the boys about Hal, she reduces their courtship to a song and a dizzy spell, trying to reclaim some dignity.

And Hal, my husband, he swept me off my feet.
表現 · B1do something with one's life

make something of one's life

Yeah, but I always wanted to do something with my life.
表現 · B2go to a matinee

attend afternoon shows

I didn't just shop and lunch and go to matinees.
表現 · B2run a charity

run charities

You know, I ran charities for poor people and, you know, raised some money for museums and schools.
表現 · B1raise money for something

raised money for

You know, I ran charities for poor people and, you know, raised some money for museums and schools.
表現 · B2with X comes Y

with X comes Y

You know, with wealth comes responsibilities.
文法 · B2with wealth comes responsibilities

inversion: The normal order is responsibilities come with wealth; the inversion makes it sound like a proverb.

You know, with wealth comes responsibilities.
発音with wealth comes

Stress wealth and responsibilities; let comes pass quickly.

You know, with wealth comes responsibilities.
表現 · B2so-called + 名词

so-called friends

I wasn't just some mindless consumer like so many of my so-called friends.
表現 · B2count on something

depend on tips

Tip big, because you get good service and they count on tips.
表現 · C1come into wealth

inherit or acquire great wealth

You know, someday when you come into great wealth, you must remember to be generous.
スラング · B1got crazy

went crazy — Casual and blunt; avoid it when speaking to someone with mental illness.

Mom said you used to be okay, but you got crazy.
表現 · C1take to the streets

go out into the streets here: breakdown, not organized protest

Well, there's only so many traumas a person can withstand until they take to the streets and start screaming.
文法 · C1only so many traumas a person can withstand until they take to the streets

until-clause: The 'only so many X' frame sets a limit; the until-clause shows what happens once it breaks.

Well, there's only so many traumas a person can withstand until they take to the streets and start screaming.
表現 · C1get someone thinking straight

make you think clearly

Because they use electricity to get you thinking straight.
表現 · B2have a nervous breakdown

nervous breakdown

You know, I had nightmares and a nervous breakdown.
表現 · C1100-percent aboveboard

completely aboveboard literal 'on the table'; here, financially clean

Of course, you know, I probably did suspect that not everything Hal did was always 100-percent aboveboard.
表現 · B2too good to be true

suspiciously perfect

She laughs that Hal’s success was too smooth to be clean, using self-mockery to excuse herself and blame common sense.

Christ, I mean, you'd have to be an idiot not to think his phenomenal success was too good to be true. Heh, heh, heh.
文法 · C1you'd have to be an idiot not to think his phenomenal success was too good to be true

rhetorical conditional: The rhetorical conditional means only a fool would fail to see it, turning suspicion into common sense.

Christ, I mean, you'd have to be an idiot not to think his phenomenal success was too good to be true. Heh, heh, heh.
発音flipped out

Let the end of flipped slide into out as one burst.

And when he had other women, I just flipped out.
表現 · B2one thing led to another

one thing led to another

You know, and one thing led to another and...

「Jasmine Tells the Boys Her Story」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene works as a performance of respectability. The talk starts with a date and extra money, then slides into a defense of a life that no longer exists: charity work, museums, schools, and the line "with wealth comes responsibilities." The self-portrait is carefully edited. She admits she likes buying pretty clothes, but only after insisting she was not "some mindless consumer." When the boys repeat what their mother said, the mask slips into open talk of breakdown and "Edison's Medicine." The key turn is "But a cheat is a cheat": it sounds like a moral verdict, yet it also lets her place the blame outside herself. By "I'm a new person," she is asking to be seen as rewritten rather than exposed.

Theme

ClassCharity work, matinees, and "mindless consumer" talk turn money into a test of taste and moral worth.
IdentityThe final "I'm a new person" asks whether a new romance can cancel the person the monologue has just described.

発音のポイント

  • gonna babysit you — Keep gonna light and quick; land the beat on babysit.
  • with wealth comes — Stress wealth and responsibilities; let comes pass quickly.
  • flipped out — Let the end of flipped slide into out as one burst.
Well, there's only so many traumas a person can withstand until they take to the streets and start screaming.

There is a limit to how much trauma someone can absorb; past that point, public breakdown looks less like a choice than an overflow.

But a cheat is a cheat.

A neat moral formula: whatever the charm or success, dishonesty remains dishonesty.

You know, with wealth comes responsibilities.

Having money is framed as creating duties, not just privileges—her defense of her charity work and generosity.

I wasn't just some mindless consumer like so many of my so-called friends.

She distinguishes her own spending from empty consumption and distances herself from friends she now calls fake.

I met someone. I'm a new person.

The two short sentences link a new romance to a claimed reinvention, asking the listener to accept the break from her past.

このシーンについての質問

What does "Edison's Medicine" mean?

It is a dark nickname for electroshock treatment. The line explains it directly: "they use electricity to get you thinking straight." The joke makes the treatment sound like a brand name.

Why does the monologue keep bringing up charity and generosity?

It builds a self-portrait: "with wealth comes responsibilities," and she insists she was not "some mindless consumer." Charity and tipping let her present her money as a duty, not just privilege.

Why does the line "But a cheat is a cheat" land like a verdict?

It turns a messy betrayal into a clean verdict. After admitting she suspected not everything Hal did was "100-percent aboveboard," the line lets her condemn him without dwelling on her own part.

Is the speaker confessing or defending herself?

Both. She admits anxiety, nightmares, and a nervous breakdown, but frames them as the cost of what happened: "there's only so many traumas a person can withstand." The closing "I'm a new person" asks for a fresh judgment.

Why close with "I'm a new person"?

It is less a fact than a request: after calling her past "all history," she pairs a new romance with a new identity. The two short sentences want the listener to stop identifying her with the old story.

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