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Blue Jay · 2016 — 第 6 / 18 章 · 3'47" · B2

Jim and Amanda Find Romance Novels, Explained：have a field day

What starts as a joke about a mother's stash of romance novels turns into a memory game about the two of them. "Don't pretend you're all above this," one teases, and for a moment the old letters, Wuthering Heights, and the people they used to be are all back on the table.

あらすじ

In a late mother's house, two people go through a shelf of romance novels and start teasing each other about the past. One of them reads a steamy passage out loud, the joke turns awkward when a mother is mentioned, and the talk drifts from old love letters to how many books a person could ever finish before they die.

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注目の表現

have a field daylet's face itabove thissacrilegious

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このシーンの表現

have a field day

enjoy or exploit it fully

Jim jokes that they would have had great fun with the whole collection.

We would have a field day with this box of old photos.

このシーンの他の表現

  • let's face it

    let us be honest

  • above this

    acting too good for it

  • sacrilegious

    disrespectful to something sacred

  • get rid of

    dispose of, remove

  • all relative

    it depends on context

このシーンのメモ一覧

63 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · A2romance novel(s)

romance novels

This is a very serious collection of romance novels.
発音collection of

Collection of blends into one run of sound.

This is a very serious collection of romance novels.
文法 · B2could not have been

modal perfect: It speculates negatively about the past: it cannot always have been here.

This could not have been here...
表現 · A2start collecting something

begin collecting

When we were spending all that time I think there were some I think she really started collecting -when I left and I wasn't here to... -Yeah...
表現 · B2in one's heyday

in one's prime hay-day is a misspelling of heyday, one's prime

Well, I mean let's face it, in your hay-day you were pretty...
表現 · A2pretty + adjective

fairly romantic

You were pretty romantic.
スラング · A2pretty

fairly, quite — softens an adjective in casual talk

You were pretty romantic.
表現 · B1make someone do something

forced me to read it

When you read wuthering heights and you made me read it and you sent me that...
表現 · B1a big difference

a huge difference

There's a very big difference.
表現 · B1point out something

call attention to

I would like to point out between this lovely array of books and the great work of art and literature that is wuthering heights.
文法 · B2that is wuthering heights

relative clause: The that-clause names which work of art he means.

I would like to point out between this lovely array of books and the great work of art and literature that is wuthering heights.
表現 · B2no comparison between A and B

no comparison at all

I'm sorry there's no comparison between this and wuthering heights.
発音there's no

There's is reduced and glides straight into no.

I'm sorry there's no comparison between this and wuthering heights.
表現 · A2think about something

consider, recall

I don't want to think about my mother reading it.
表現 · B1get rid of something

dispose of, remove

Amanda stares at the wall of books, wondering how to get rid of them.

I've been staring at these books I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of them why?
表現 · B1figure out something

work out, solve

I've been staring at these books I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of them why?
発音figure out

The t in out can flap, sounding like a soft d.

I've been staring at these books I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of them why?
表現 · B2the math of something

the arithmetic behind it here math means the arithmetic of how many are left

That's a weird thing, you know the math of that.
表現 · C1not to be X, but ...

not to sound grim

Not to be morbid but just a thing.
表現 · B1Do you mind if ...?

would you mind if

Can I... do you mind if I go out side? I have to make a phone call.
表現 · A2make a phone call

place a call

Can I... do you mind if I go out side? I have to make a phone call.
表現 · B1mean to do something

intended to

I know, I'm sorry. I meant to call you, yeah.
表現 · A2stay in

stay home

I think we're just gonna stay in.
スラング · A2gonna

going to — very casual; use going to in writing

I think we're just gonna stay in.
表現 · A2say that again

repeat that

Wait, can you just say that again I didn't hear you.

「Jim and Amanda Find Romance Novels」を読み解く

What's really going on

The romance novels become a stand-in for everything the two of them left behind. They joke about the books being trashy, but the real subject is their own past, and it surfaces when one of them remembers, "You called me heathcliff and you called your self Catherine." That line is not really about the novel; it is the pet names from their old letters, the doomed couple they once cast themselves as. The comedy keeps slipping into grief and time: the wish not to picture a mother reading these books, the plan to get rid of them, and the mortality math about eight hundred books that nobody could finish before they die. What sounds like a bit lands as a quiet reminder that they are not the kids in those letters anymore.

Theme

MemoryOld letters, Wuthering Heights, and a mother's romance novels turn the room into a museum of the life they almost had.
RomanceThe trashy paperbacks they mock are the genre that once mapped their own teenage love story.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Field day means enjoying or exploiting something to the full.
  • Get rid of is the everyday phrase for removing or throwing things out.
  • The minute signals that something happened right away.
  • Morbid humor lets them talk about death without going dark.

発音のポイント

  • collection of — Collection of blends into one run of sound.
  • there's no — There's is reduced and glides straight into no.
  • figure out — The t in out can flap, sounding like a soft d.
This is a very serious collection of romance novels.

A mock-serious reaction to the shelf of paperbacks: they're treating a pile of trashy romance novels as if it were an impressive archive.

You called me heathcliff and you called your self Catherine.

One of them recalls the pet names from their old love letters, borrowed from Wuthering Heights — the doomed couple they cast themselves as.

Don't pretend you're all above this.

A teasing accusation: stop acting as if you're too good for these romance novels when you clearly know them just as well.

I don't want to think about my mother reading it.

After a steamy passage is read aloud, the joke turns awkward: the book belongs to a mother, and imagining her reading it is too much.

For some reason wanted to read all of these books I wouldn't be able to finish all of these books before I died.

The mortality math: even if you wanted to read every book here, there would never be enough time — a joke that lands as something heavier.

You know it's all relative, I think.

A shrug that puts the morbid thought in perspective: age, time, and what's a lot all depend on what you compare them to.

The minute I got there she sent me right out to get some food.

On the phone outside, someone describes arriving and being sent straight out for food — ordinary family business breaking into the reunion.

このシーンについての質問

Why do they keep coming back to the romance novels?

The books are a mother's, but they're also a doorway into the characters' own past. Mocking the trashy paperbacks lets them talk about the letters, Wuthering Heights, and the people they used to be without saying it directly.

What does "have a field day" mean here?

It means to enjoy something thoroughly or make the most of it. They're saying that if their younger selves had this shelf, they would have spent hours joking about it.

Why does the conversation suddenly turn to death and time?

The books spark it: staring at hundreds of them, one of them does the math and realizes there aren't enough years left to read them all. The morbid joke is how the scene admits the years that have already passed.

What is the book passage that gets read out loud?

It's a deliberately cheesy romance paperback, the kind with a character named Justin. Reading it aloud is part of the joke: the prose is so bad that it becomes the perfect thing to tease each other with.

Does the mood change after the phone call?

Yes. Until then the scene is almost giddy. Once someone steps outside to call home, the reunion starts tilting back toward the real lives waiting outside the house, and the evening begins to close.

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