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Enola Holmes · 2020 — 第 7 / 12 章 · 3'47" · B1

Enola Meets the Dowager, Explained：lead someone astray

Disguised as a maid, Enola is caught snooping at Basilwether and brought before the Dowager, who tests her with polite menace. "That is what it is to be an ancestral landowner," the old woman says, turning privilege into an argument for an England that must never change.

あらすじ

At Basilwether Hall, Enola arrives disguised as a maid and is recognized by the Dowager, the family matriarch. The two women trade jabs: the Dowager questions her name and age and threatens to dismiss the gardener, while Enola admits she tied him up and knows jujutsu. The old woman ends by asking Enola to pass a message to her grandson.

InterrogationsPersuasionConfrontingAskingB1britishClean
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lead someone astraylet someone gooff you gobreadcrumb trail

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このシーンの表現

lead someone astray

to guide someone away from the right path

伊诺拉沿途留的线索其实是故意放的，为的是把追踪她的人引向错误方向。

Bad advice can lead a young investor astray.

このシーンの他の表現

  • let someone go

    to dismiss someone from a job

  • off you go

    a casual way to send someone off

  • breadcrumb trail

    a series of clues that lead somewhere

このシーンのメモ一覧

61 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ

表現 · B2lay one's plansSo this is where you laid your plans.
表現 · C1lead someone astray

to guide someone away from the right path

You were leading them astray.
表現 · B2follow the breadcrumb trail

a series of clues that lead somewhere

表現 · B2tickle someoneOh, you tickle me, Viscount Tewkesbury.
スラング · B2bloomingYou magnificent Marquess of blooming Basilwether.
表現 · B2give someone credit for somethingAnd you're a cleverer boy than I perhaps gave you credit for.
文法 · B2a cleverer boy than I perhaps gave you credit for

comparative with than

And you're a cleverer boy than I perhaps gave you credit for.
文法 · B1as stable as you think

as ... as comparison

WOMAN: It's not as stable as you think. [gasps]
表現 · B1care to do somethingWould you care to come down?
表現 · B1come byHe'll probably want to come by.
発音Twenty two

flap

Twenty two.
表現 · B1let someone go

to dismiss someone from a job

I'll have to let the gardener go for lending you his uniform.
表現 · B1tie someone upTied him up.
表現 · B1should I sayOr should I say missus?
表現 · B1my condolencesMy condolences, by the way.
文法 · B2these ideas of England are preserved

passive voice

It feels important that these ideas of England are preserved.
表現 · B1focus on somethingNever could focus on what was.
表現 · B2a great dealWill you tell him that I care about him a great deal?
発音about him

liaison

Will you tell him that I care about him a great deal?
表現 · A2off you go

a casual way to send someone off

Off you go.
発音Off you go

liaison

Off you go.

「Enola Meets the Dowager」を読み解く

What's really going on

Under the manners, this is a contest over inheritance and England itself. The Dowager is not fooled for a second — "I believe we've already met," she says, letting Enola know she has been recognized. Her talk of protecting the land is really a defence of a fixed order: "That is what it is to be an ancestral landowner." She contrasts her late son, who "was always about what could be," with her grandson, who she suspects is the same, framing change as a family failing. Yet her final request is tender and calculated at once: she asks Enola to tell the boy she cares for him "a great deal," keeping a claim on him even as she treats him as a threat to her world.

Theme

ClassThe Dowager's pride in the land turns privilege into duty and defends an unchanging order.
GenerationsShe pits her late son and her grandson, both new thinkers, against the world she means to preserve.

このチャプターで学べること

  • 'leading them astray' carries more than its dictionary gloss.
  • 'breadcrumb trail' changes the pressure of the reply.
  • The surrounding lines set the social temperature.

発音のポイント

  • Twenty two — flap
  • about him — liaison
  • Off you go — liaison
And you re a cleverer boy than I perhaps gave you credit for

A grudging admission that someone is sharper than expected; to give someone credit here means to acknowledge their ability.

will you tell him that I care about him a great deal

A warm-sounding request that doubles as a claim: she wants the boy to know she cares, on her own terms.

That is what it is to be an ancestral landowner

Her definition of nobility: inheriting land means protecting it, and she uses it to justify a fixed social order.

I suspect my grandson is the same

She links her grandson to her late son, both drawn to what could be rather than what is, as a quiet warning.

このシーンについての質問

Why does the Dowager recognize Enola right away?

She says they have already met, though Enola was dressed differently. As head of the family she clearly keeps track of who comes and goes at Basilwether, so the maid disguise does not fool her.

What does the Dowager mean by 'that is what it is to be an ancestral landowner'?

She means that owning inherited land comes with a duty to protect it and the old order. It is her way of saying that change threatens England and must be resisted.

Why does the Dowager ask Enola to deliver a message to her grandson?

She wants the boy to hear that she cares about him a great deal, which keeps an emotional hold on him even as she treats him as a rival for the inheritance.

What does Enola admit about the gardener?

That she forced him into helping, tied him up, and that she knows jujutsu, a martial art. She refuses to let the servant take the blame for lending her his uniform.

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