Want to reduces to wanna before discuss.
You wanna discuss decorating with me?Can You Ever Forgive Me? · 2018 — 第 8 / 14 章 · 3'04" · B2
Lee Takes In a Beaten Jack, Explained：street smarts
Jack turns up at Lee's apartment bruised and homeless, and she lets him sleep on her couch. At dinner she pushes a steak on him while he blames his luck: "Do not underestimate sparkly blue eyes and a little bit of street smarts." It looks like friendship; it is also two con artists measuring each other.
あらすじ
Jack arrives at Lee's apartment beaten and with nowhere to stay, so she lets him sleep on her couch. They go out for dinner, where Lee insists he order the steak he wanted, and Jack brags that his blue eyes and street smarts are what keep him afloat in New York.
注目の表現
get away with somethingget intostreet smartsgo a long way
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このシーンの表現
street smarts
practical street sense
Jack credits his survival to blue eyes and a little practical cunning learned on the street.
Street smarts matter more than grades in this job.
このシーンの他の表現
- get away with something
escape blame or punishment
- get into
enter a place
- go a long way
be very effective
- medium-rare
cooked slightly pink
- figure it out
work it out
このシーンのメモ一覧
55 行のセリフに 31 件のメモ
attack someone
Who beat you up?my own mistake
It's my own fault.escape blame or punishment
Nursing his bruises, Jack recalls how he used to slip out of trouble, and how it stopped working.
I used to get away with so much.enter a place
Jack explains his night outside: no keys, no way into his own apartment.
I couldn't find my keys, I couldn't get into my apartment.the aforementioned
And where is said apartment?sleep on a sofa
You can sleep on my couch.ready to order food
Are you ready to order?the same thing
I'll have the same, thanks.going to — Everyday speech; avoid it in formal writing.
He's gonna have the steak.came for the purpose of
'Cause we came here to get you a steak.manage to survive
How've you gotten by as long as you have?comparison: The comparison omits the repeated verb, meaning for as long as you actually have.
How've you gotten by as long as you have?How've you is reduced to something like how-vya.
How've you gotten by as long as you have?negative imperative: Do not plus a verb forms a firm negative command, here a playful warning.
Do not underestimate sparkly blue eyes...a small amount of
and a little bit of street smarts.practical street sense — Praise for practical cunning; informal.
and a little bit of street smarts.be very effective
Jack sums up his survival kit: charm and street sense carry you far in a city like this.
They go a long way in this city.push beyond one's limits
Although I may have stretched my limits recently.the real plan
I mean, what was the actual plan?work it out
Asked about any plan, Jack admits he had none and simply worked things out as he went.
I imagined I'd figure it out as I went along, and for the most part, I have.mostly, generally
Jack admits he had no plan, then adds that for the most part he did manage, saving face.
I imagined I'd figure it out as I went along, and for the most part, I have.time clause: The as-clause shows he worked things out gradually rather than by plan.
I imagined I'd figure it out as I went along, and for the most part, I have.no regrets
I certainly have no regrets.a gift for
You mean, why don't I have some brilliant talent for copying like you do?emphasis phrase: I'll have you know announces a fact with mock seriousness, often defensively.
I'll have you know, I'm a better Dorothy Parker than Dorothy Parker.I'll have you runs together almost like a single word.
I'll have you know, I'm a better Dorothy Parker than Dorothy Parker.a cheap rundown lodging
When Jack puts his feet on the couch, Lee snaps that her place is no cheap lodging.
This is not a flop house.a cheap lodging — Dismissive; used of a squalid place to sleep.
This is not a flop house.a crude intensifier — Very crude; keep it out of polite talk.
That is fucking old. What's that in cat years?visit the office
Ms. Israel, I was wondering if you could come in tomorrow?「Lee Takes In a Beaten Jack」を読み解く
What's really going on
Jack has been beaten up and has no place to sleep, and Lee — who insists she does not care — puts him on her couch and buys him dinner. Their talk drifts from survival to self-invention. Lee asks how he has managed so long, and Jack answers with the line he lives by: "Do not underestimate sparkly blue eyes and a little bit of street smarts. They go a long way in this city." The charm is real, but so is the risk. When the conversation turns to copying and one of them says "I'm a better Dorothy Parker than Dorothy Parker," the film's subject finally says itself out loud: forging a voice is a kind of talent, and a dangerous one.
Theme
FriendshipLee and Jack trade insults and favors, and the couch and the steak mark the odd, mutual care between them.
SurvivalBoth are broke and improvising; Jack credits blue eyes and street smarts, Lee steals and forges to stay afloat.
このチャプターで学べること
- Charm and street sense are a kind of currency in the city.
- Old luck runs out, and the past tense says so.
- Ordering for someone else is a small display of power.
- Calling forgery a talent is how Lee defends herself.
発音のポイント
- wanna discuss — Want to reduces to wanna before discuss.
- How've you — How've you is reduced to something like how-vya.
- I'll have you — I'll have you runs together almost like a single word.
I'll have you know, I'm a better Dorothy Parker than Dorothy Parker.A boast about the forgeries: the copies are so good that the imitator claims to out-Parker Parker herself.
I used to get away with so much.Jack looks back on a life of small scams he was never caught for — half nostalgia, half a warning that his luck is running out.
They go a long way in this city.Charm and street smarts, Jack says, will carry you far in New York — his whole philosophy of getting by on nerve.
I certainly have no regrets.Jack claims to regret nothing about his drifting life; it is the kind of line that sounds freer than it is.
That is fucking old. What's that in cat years?Jack's blunt joke about Lee's twelve-year-old cat — crude affection, the way these two talk to each other.
このシーンについての質問
Why is Jack sleeping on Lee's couch?
He has been beaten up and lost access to his apartment — his story about the addresses does not add up — so a reluctant Lee offers him the couch.
Why does Lee order the steak for Jack?
Jack first orders a cheap burger, so Lee overrules him and orders the steak he said he wanted, then picks the T-bone herself — she pays attention even while she grumbles.
How does Jack say he has survived so long?
He credits his looks and his nerve: blue eyes and street smarts. He admits he may have stretched his limits lately, which is why he got beaten.
Is Lee the one doing the copying?
Yes. She is the forger in the partnership, and she bristles at the word 'copying,' insisting she is a better Dorothy Parker than Dorothy Parker.
Who calls Lee at the end of the scene?
Paul from Armada Books, asking whether she can come in tomorrow — an invitation that sets up the next step in her dealings.
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第 1 章a dead giveawayLee Meets Jack Hock
第 2 章play the gameLee Asks to Be Paid in Cash
第 3 章Spill the beansLee Tells Jack Her Secret
第 4 章caustic witLee Confesses Her Forgeries to Jack
第 5 章do your homeworkLee Learns About Fake Signatures
第 6 章a real museum pieceLee Forges Dorothy Parker Letters
第 7 章the real thingLee Meets Anna at the Bar
再生中 · 第 8 章street smartsLee Takes In a Beaten Jack
第 9 章wear a wireAlan Uses the FBI to Extort Lee
第 10 章talk someone off the ledgeLee Visits Her Ex Elaine
第 11 章freeze someone outLee Tells Jack They're Not Friends
第 12 章turn over a new leafLee Refuses to Apologize at Sentencing
第 13 章too much of a cowardLee Is Sentenced to Probation
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