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Deathtrap · 1982 — 第 15 / 30 章 · 3'03" · B2

Helga Predicts the Deathtrap, Explained：skeptical about

Helga reads the room and does not soften it: "There's death in this room." She calls it a deathtrap, describes a young man in boots who comes as a friend and attacks, and insists she is certain about that much. Sidney is unnerved and, for a moment, a believer.

あらすじ

Helga, the psychic neighbour, senses danger the moment she sits down. She says there is death in the room, calls the place a deathtrap, and describes a young man in boots who will come as a friend and then attack. She also mentions a name, Colonna, that neither Sidney nor Myra recognizes.

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このシーンの表現

skeptical about

doubting something

Sidney, who never believed in psychics, changes his tune after what he has just seen.

She is skeptical about the new plan.

このシーンの他の表現

  • watch out for

    be careful of

  • since childhood

    from a young age

  • take dinner with

    have dinner with someone

  • invites death

    attracts death

  • such a feeling

    a feeling like this

このシーンのメモ一覧

41 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ

表現 · A2there's danger here

danger is present

There's danger here. Much danger to you and to you.
文法 · A2There's death

existential there: The existential there states that death is present in the room.

There's death in this room.
発音death in

Link death and in so they run together.

There's death in this room.
表現 · C1invite something

attracts death

Helga describes a presence in the house that invites death and carries it, her words growing darker.

Something that invites death, that carries death.
文法 · B2Something that invites death

relative clause: The that-clause describes something that invites and carries death.

Something that invites death, that carries death.
表現 · A2a man in boots

the man wearing boots

Man in boots. Young man.
表現 · A2watch out for someone

be careful of

Helga warns Sidney in a low voice that the young man in boots will attack him in this room.

Watch out for him. Here in this room he attacks you.
発音Watch out for

Link watch and out so they sound like one word.

Watch out for him. Here in this room he attacks you.
スラング · A2Ja

yes in German — Helga's German yes; it colors her accent.

-He attacks me? -Ja, with one of those.
表現 · B1come as a friend

in the role of a friend

Comes as friend to help you, to ....
表現 · A2work with someone

collaborate with you

To work with you, but attacks.
表現 · B1talk of something

speaks about

He sits in this chair and he talks of two people.
表現 · A2be used again

used once more

Dagger is used again by woman because of play.
表現 · A2because of something

due to the play

Dagger is used again by woman because of play.
表現 · B2be skeptical about something

doubting something

Sidney, who never believed in psychics, changes his tune after what he has just seen.

I've always been skeptical about ESP, but after this ....
文法 · B1I've always been skeptical

present perfect: Have always been marks a state lasting up to now, not a single past moment.

I've always been skeptical about ESP, but after this ....
スラング · C1ESP

extrasensory perception — Jargon for psychic ability; everyday speech says psychic powers.

I've always been skeptical about ESP, but after this ....
表現 · B1such a + noun

a feeling like this

Helga says she has not felt this way in years, as if she were twenty again, excited yet uneasy.

Tonight, not in many years have I had such a feeling.
文法 · C1not in many years have I had

inversion: The negative phrase moves to the front, so have comes before I.

Tonight, not in many years have I had such a feeling.
表現 · A2this gift

this talent

Have you always had this gift?
表現 · A2since childhood

from a young age

Sidney asks if she has had the gift since childhood, and she says especially then, a little proud.

-Ever since childhood? -Especially in childhood.
表現 · B1wrap presents

wrap gifts

My parents didn't wrap Christmas presents.
表現 · A2waste paper

using paper needlessly

Why wasting paper?
文法 · A2Would you like

polite offer: Would you like makes an offer softer and more polite than do you want.

Would you like that drink now? I'd very much like to talk to you.
発音Would you

In fast speech would you blurs into wud-ja.

Would you like that drink now? I'd very much like to talk to you.
表現 · B1take dinner with someone

dine with me

But you will come and take dinner with me sometime?

「Helga Predicts the Deathtrap」を読み解く

What's really going on

The prophecy is uncanny and useless at the same time, which is what makes it land. Helga names the scene's real history, 'There's death in this room,' and sketches its next turn, a young man in boots who comes as a friend and attacks, without ever getting the details right: the name she gives, Colonna, means nothing to the Bruhls. Sidney hides behind his professional distance, 'I've always been skeptical about ESP,' yet he cannot stop praising her gift. Read one way, the scene is a ghost story; read another, it is a writer watching a stranger describe his own plot back to him.

Theme

DeceptionA stranger describes the murder and the plot to come without knowing she is doing it, right in front of the killer.
PhilosophyThe scene sits between belief and doubt: Sidney mocks ESP and then cannot explain what he has just heard.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Helga's prophecy works by piling up small, blurry details.
  • Sidney hides behind research while her words get under his skin.
  • The deathtrap idea turns the play itself into a threat.

発音のポイント

  • death in — Link death and in so they run together.
  • Watch out for — Link watch and out so they sound like one word.
  • Would you — In fast speech would you blurs into wud-ja.
There's death in this room.

Helga's reading of the room where the murder happened, delivered as plain fact rather than a warning.

Watch out for him. Here in this room he attacks you.

Her warning about a young man she cannot name, pointing at the exact spot where the attack happened.

I've always been skeptical about ESP, but after this ....

Sidney admits the reading has shaken him, even as he holds on to his disbelief in the next breath.

And the man in boots attacks you. Of these two things I'm certain.

She sorts her visions into certain and confused, and this is the one she stakes her reputation on.

Tonight, not in many years have I had such a feeling.

Helga describes the strength of her own reading, comparing the night to the vividness of youth.

このシーンについての質問

What exactly does Helga predict?

That the room holds death and a thing that invites death, that a young man in boots will come as a friend and attack, and that a dagger will be used again by a woman because of a play.

Who are Smith and Colonna?

Helga mentions the name Colonna as if it means something, but neither Sidney nor Myra recognizes it. It becomes one of the details she cannot explain.

Why does Sidney suddenly believe in ESP?

Because Helga has described the crime and the visitor who is coming, and he cannot see how she could know. He admits he is no longer so sure of his skepticism.

What does Helga mean by a man in boots?

She sees a young man who comes to work with Sidney as a friend, then turns and attacks him in the room. She cannot name him, only describe him.

デストラップ・死の罠 · 全 30 章

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