to know nothing
How much does he know? He doesn't know anything.Double Indemnity · 1944 — 第 17 / 21 章 · 4'30" · B2
Lola Tells Neff About the Nurse, Explained：gets his teeth into
Walter and Phyllis admit their crime has driven them apart, not together. Then Lola Dietrichson arrives at Neff's office with a story from six years earlier: her dying mother, an absent nurse, and 'a look in her eyes' that she has never forgotten. She comes to accuse Phyllis of murder.
あらすじ
Walter Neff and Phyllis meet in secret and realize the murder has pulled them apart. Days later, Lola Dietrichson comes to Neff's office to talk about her father's death. She recounts a night six years ago when her mother lay sick, the nurse was missing, and a single look told her something terrible had happened.
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gets his teeth intodies downpulling us apartpneumonia
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このシーンの表現
gets his teeth into
to become stubbornly absorbed in something
Walter warns Phyllis that Keyes will not drop a lead once he grabs it.
Give him a hard puzzle and he really gets his teeth into it.
このシーンの他の表現
- dies down
to fade and become calm
- pulling us apart
to drive people away from each other
- pneumonia
a serious lung infection
- talked myself out of
to convince yourself to drop an idea
- get away with
to escape blame or punishment
このシーンのメモ一覧
83 行のセリフに 28 件のメモ
nasty gut feelings
It's those stinking hunches of his.rotten, annoying — A casual way to call something annoying.
It's those stinking hunches of his.to meet up with each other
Not if we're careful. Not if we don't see each other for a while.to fade and become calm
Walter tells Phyllis to wait until the scandal dies down.
How long a while? Until this dies down.to become stubbornly absorbed in something
Walter warns Phyllis that Keyes will not drop a lead once he grabs it.
Once he gets his teeth into something, he never lets go.time clause: Once means as soon as, and habits take the present tense.
Once he gets his teeth into something, he never lets go.The h in his often drops after gets.
Once he gets his teeth into something, he never lets go.to have someone followed
He'll investigate you, have you shadowed.Have you blends into hav-yuh in fast speech.
He'll investigate you, have you shadowed.no longer as before
But not of Keyes. I'm afraid of us. We're not the same anymore.Afraid of links smoothly into one sound.
But not of Keyes. I'm afraid of us. We're not the same anymore.to drive people away from each other
Phyllis sees that the very act meant to unite them is separating them.
We did it so we could be together, but instead of that it's pulling us apart.be quiet, rudely — Blunt and rude, even between lovers.
Shut up, baby.to recall who someone is
Don't you remember me? Yes. Yes, of course.a short amount of time
Could I talk with you just a few minutes?to have no one else around
Somewhere where we could be alone?ill with a disease
It was winter and very cold. My mother was very sick with pneumonia.not to be present
The nurse wasn't in the room.as fast as possible
I ran and covered my mother up as quickly as I could.to convince yourself to drop an idea
Lola admits she argued herself out of believing her stepmother did it.
and I kind of talked myself out of the idea she could have done anything like that.appositive clause: The clause spells out exactly what the idea was.
and I kind of talked myself out of the idea she could have done anything like that.to be logical or reasonable
You're not making sense, Miss Dietrichson. Your father fell off a train.to hate intensely — Stronger and more formal than hate.
I loathe her because she did it. She did it for the money.to escape blame or punishment
Lola vows her stepmother will not escape this time because she will speak out.
She's not going to get away with it this time, because I'm going to speak up.to state your view openly
She's not going to get away with it this time, because I'm going to speak up.a small flat
I got myself a little apartment in Hollywood.the isolation of a small room
Four walls, and you just sit and look at them?「Lola Tells Neff About the Nurse」を読み解く
What's really going on
The first half is the aftermath the lovers never planned for. Phyllis wants to wait for the scandal to die down; Walter knows Keyes, who, 'once he gets his teeth into something, he never lets go.' The real confession, though, is Walter's: 'But not of Keyes. I'm afraid of us. We're not the same anymore.' They committed murder to be together and now can barely stand each other. Then Lola arrives to reopen an older wound. Her account of the nurse standing in the doorway with a look she can't forget is her way of accusing Phyllis of killing her mother too. Walter, the guilty man, is now the one who must calm the accuser and keep the story from spreading, all while realizing that the woman he killed for may be a serial poisoner. 'She's not going to get away with it this time,' Lola insists, and Walter has every reason to fear she's right.
Theme
BetrayalLola accuses her stepmother of murdering her mother years earlier, framing the new death as part of a pattern.
GuiltWalter confesses that the crime has pulled the lovers apart, leaving him afraid not of Keyes but of what they have become.
このチャプターで学べること
- A hunch is a feeling you can't yet prove
- Die down means fade gradually
- Get away with is escape the blame
- Getting your teeth into it means total focus
発音のポイント
- gets his teeth — The h in his often drops after gets.
- have you shadowed — Have you blends into hav-yuh in fast speech.
- afraid of us — Afraid of links smoothly into one sound.
Once he gets his teeth into something, he never lets go.Walter's warning about Keyes: once the investigator latches onto a case, he will not drop it, however careful the killers are.
We did it so we could be together, but instead of that it's pulling us apart.Walter admits the murder has produced the opposite of its purpose, driving the lovers further from each other.
I loathe her because she did it. She did it for the money.Lola states her belief that Phyllis murdered her father for the insurance money, naming the motive plainly.
But not of Keyes. I'm afraid of us. We're not the same anymore.Walter distinguishes fear of discovery from the deeper fear that the crime has changed the couple beyond repair.
このシーンについての質問
Why are Walter and Phyllis staying apart?
Keyes is investigating the Dietrichson case, so Walter wants them to keep their distance until the scandal dies down and there is nothing left to connect them.
Who is Lola, and why does she come to Neff's office?
Lola is Dietrichson's daughter. She asks to speak with Walter alone and tells him she believes her father was murdered.
What happened on the night Lola's mother died?
Lola found her sick mother delirious, the covers on the floor and the windows open, with the nurse missing. Two days later her mother was dead.
Why does Lola think Phyllis killed her father?
She saw Phyllis pinning a black veil onto a hat before his death, and the look in her eyes, the same one she remembers from her mother's death, convinced her.
What does "gets his teeth into" mean here?
It describes someone who latches onto a problem and refuses to drop it. Walter uses it for Keyes, who will keep investigating until he finds the truth.
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次のチャプター · 第 18 章like a hawkKeyes Explains the Dietrichson Murder
第 1 章for my moneyWalter Meets Phyllis
第 2 章a honey of aNeff Flirts With Phyllis
第 3 章tie knots in one's stomachKeyes Busts Garlopis's Fake Claim
第 4 章worried sickPhyllis Pitches Accident Insurance
第 5 章knock someone offPhyllis Proposes Killing Her Husband
第 6 章a red-hot pokerPhyllis Returns in the Rain
第 7 章get ideasPhyllis Tells Walter Her Story
第 8 章crook the houseNeff's Roulette Wheel Speech
第 9 章at a crackNeff Fools Dietrichson Into Signing
第 10 章take it or leave itWalter Drives Lola to Nino
第 11 章accidentally on purposeWalter Meets Phyllis at the Market
第 12 章shaking like a leafKeyes Offers Neff the Claims Job
第 13 章back inWalter Builds His Alibi
第 14 章got the ballNorton Says It Wasn't an Accident
第 15 章a leg to stand onNorton Questions the Widow
第 16 章through the wringerKeyes Suspects the Beneficiary
再生中 · 第 17 章gets his teeth intoLola Tells Neff About the Nurse
第 18 章like a hawkKeyes Explains the Dietrichson Murder
第 19 章come apart at the seamsKeyes Exposes the Impersonation
第 20 章hang on to your hatKeyes Blames the Wrong Man
第 21 章brushed offWalter Confronts Phyllis第 17 / 21 章 · 残り約 13 分