Enola Holmes · 2020 — 第 9 / 12 章 · 3'14" · B2

Enola at Miss Harrison's School, Explained:fend for oneself

Miss Harrison welcomes her new pupils and tells them what they are for: "You are here to be made into young ladies." The lesson is obedience — how to laugh, walk and speak — and when she speaks to Enola alone, the kindness is just as controlled as the rules.

あらすじ

Enola Holmes is delivered to Miss Harrison's finishing school, where girls are taught to obey. The headmistress lectures them on becoming acceptable wives and responsible mothers, and warns Enola to live up to the Holmes name. Speaking to Enola alone, she recalls being a friend of Eudoria and claims she would never leave a girl to fend for herself.

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注目の表現

fend for oneselflive up to somethingkeep something lockedcould do with something

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このシーンの表現

fend for oneself

to take care of oneself alone

校长嘴上说绝不会抛下学生,话里却点出让学生自己讨生活这件事。

At eighteen he had to fend for himself.

このシーンの他の表現

  • live up to something

    to reach a standard or expectation

  • keep something locked

    to keep something in a locked state

  • could do with something

    to need or benefit from something

このシーンのメモ一覧

58 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

表現 · B1no matterYou've missed supper, but no matter. You could do with losing a pound or two.
表現 · B2could do with something

to need or benefit from something

You've missed supper, but no matter. You could do with losing a pound or two.
発音could do with

weak form

You've missed supper, but no matter. You could do with losing a pound or two.
表現 · B2come to mean somethingis coming to mean something in this country.
表現 · B2live up to something

to reach a standard or expectation

At this school you'll be given a chance to live up to it.
文法 · B2given a chance to live up to it

passive with infinitive

At this school you'll be given a chance to live up to it.
発音live up to it

liaison

At this school you'll be given a chance to live up to it.
発音closing your mouth

liaison

But I... And you can begin by closing your mouth.
表現 · B2be made into somethingYou are here to be made into young ladies.
表現 · B2have the potential to do somethingYou all have the potential
表現 · B1most of alland most of all untrained.
表現 · B1follow the path
文法 · C1so shall we you

inversion with so

so shall we you.
表現 · A2make someone happyIt's because I want to make people happy.
表現 · B2live a full lifeI want you to live a full and vibrant life.
表現 · B1prepare someone for something
表現 · C1fend for oneself

to take care of oneself alone

and leave you to fend for yourself.
表現 · B2have one's reasonsMy mother had her reasons.
表現 · A2for a whileWe were friends for a while.
文法 · C1never truly cared for anything except her own unusual ideas

never ... except ...

表現 · B1keep something locked

to keep something in a locked state

表現 · A2sleep wellSleep well, Enola.

「Enola at Miss Harrison's School」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is an introduction to the film's idea of obedience as a system. Miss Harrison frames the school as kindness — "I want you to live a full and vibrant life" — but every detail is control: the girls are told how to laugh, how to walk, and that a door "will always be kept locked." Her speech to Enola is a warning dressed as care. She says she would never leave a girl "to fend for yourself," which quietly admits that being left alone is the thing these girls fear. When she speaks of Eudoria as "a peculiar little thing" who cared only for her own ideas, she is offering Enola a choice: become respectable, or end up like her mother. The closing promise, "You'll thank me one day," is the classic line of someone certain they know a girl's future better than she does.

Theme

PowerMiss Harrison runs the school as a system of control, deciding how the girls should look, speak and think.
IdentityEnola is pressured to fit a respectable mould, while her mother is held up as a warning of what happens to women who refuse.

このチャプターで学べること

  • 'live up to' carries more than its dictionary gloss.
  • 'could do with' changes the pressure of the reply.
  • The surrounding lines set the social temperature.

発音のポイント

  • could do with — weak form
  • live up to it — liaison
  • closing your mouth — liaison
My mother had her reasons.

Enola's defence of Eudoria: she refuses to accept the headmistress's version of why her mother left.

She never truly cared for anything except her own unusual ideas.

Harrison's judgement on Eudoria, meant to make her sound selfish and warn Enola off the same path.

We were friends for a while.

Harrison claims a past closeness to Eudoria, positioning herself as someone who understands the family.

You'll thank me one day when you're happily married with a pair of strapping boys.

The headmistress's closing promise: she is certain that Enola's future happiness lies in marriage and sons.

このシーンについての質問

Why is Enola sent to Miss Harrison's school?

Mycroft, her guardian, decides she needs to be turned into a proper young lady. The school's whole purpose is to make girls obedient and marriageable.

Why does Miss Harrison mention Enola's mother?

She wants to warn Enola. By calling Eudoria peculiar and selfish, she suggests that resisting the rules leads to a lonely, disreputable life.

Is Miss Harrison kind to Enola?

Her manner is soft, but her words are control. She offers care and respectability while locking doors and setting rules, so the kindness is part of the discipline.

What is the point of the laughing and walking lessons?

They train the girls to be acceptable rather than natural. Laughing politely and walking a certain way are small habits that add up to obedience.

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