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Front of the Class · 2008 — 第 5 / 17 章 · 5'04" · B2

Brad Refuses to Hide, Explained：face something head-on

At a support group meant to help, Brad hears only surrender — parents telling him that school is a waste of time and that he should hide. He pushes back: "You're supposed to just hide away for the rest of your life?" What he takes away is a rule for living, not comfort.

あらすじ

Brad's mother takes him to a support group, expecting it to help. Instead, the parents there have given up: they say school is a waste of time and that the children should stay hidden. Brad decides he will not live that way and takes away a philosophy: face adversity head-on.

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このシーンの表現

face something head-on

meet a problem directly

After the support group, Brad settles on a creed: to face his adversity head-on instead of hiding.

She faced the problem head-on.

このシーンの他の表現

  • a waste of time

    not worth the time

  • upfront

    open and direct

  • so much for

    that idea is finished

  • stress out

    get very anxious

  • fat chance

    very unlikely

このシーンのメモ一覧

107 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ

表現 · B1the right to do something

the legal freedom to do something

The Americans with Disabilities Act gives us the right to do anything or go anyplace that we want to.
文法 · B2the right to do anything

infinitive as modifier: The infinitive to do anything modifies the right: the freedom to act.

The Americans with Disabilities Act gives us the right to do anything or go anyplace that we want to.
文法 · B1when people are yelling at you

time clause: The when-clause sets the situation in which the law stops mattering.

That law doesn't mean anything when people are yelling at you to shut up.
表現 · B1be out of work

unemployed

The adults were out of work; the kids stayed at home.
表現 · B1be a waste of time

not worth the time

At the support group a parent calls school a waste of time, dismissing what Brad values most.

School's a waste of time for them.
表現 · A2the rest of something

what remains of something

You're supposed to just hide away for the rest of your life?
文法 · B1You're supposed to

be supposed to: Be supposed to marks an expectation; here it turns into a protesting question.

You're supposed to just hide away for the rest of your life?
表現 · B2live by something

follow a principle in life

It's difficult to imagine that, at the age of 12, I would find a genuine philosophy to live by.
表現 · B2face something head-on

meet a problem directly

After the support group, Brad settles on a creed: to face his adversity head-on instead of hiding.

To always face my adversity head-on.
文法 · B2to have been very successful

perfect infinitive: The perfect infinitive points to success that happened before now.

You seem to have been very successful in spite of your Tourette's.
発音spite of

Spite of links up, sounding like spi-dov.

You seem to have been very successful in spite of your Tourette's.
表現 · A2let someone know

tell you later

I'll let you know.Thanks.
表現 · B2so much for something

that idea is finished

After another vague rejection Brad mocks his own plan with so much for being upfront.

So much for being upfront.
発音hide it

The d in hide it flaps, joining the two words.

It was like, you know, I was trying to hide it.
表現 · B1stress out

get very anxious

When Brad second-guesses the interview, Ron tells him the real problem is that he is stressing out.

Okay, that's a negative.No, the negative is you got to stop stressing out.
表現 · B2set someone up

arrange a date for me

Will you stop trying to set me up? Wha! Wha!
表現 · B1be on a job hunt

search for a job

So, Ron tells me that you're on a big job hunt.
表現 · A2be a sports fan

someone who loves sports

So you are really a sports fan?
スラング · B1Big-time

really, very much — Casual intensifier; fine between friends.

Ah, yes. Big-time. Okay.
スラング · B1the pros

professional players — Sports slang for the professional leagues.

Yep. I played a lot in college, but I'm not good enough for the pros.
スラング · A2Yep

yes, casually — Casual yes; keep it out of writing.

Yep. I played a lot in college, but I'm not good enough for the pros.
表現 · B2be a lifelong ambition

a goal for life

And it's a lifelong ambition.
表現 · B2a look of + feeling

an envious expression

When a stranger keeps staring, Brad renames the look as envy, defusing it with self-mockery.

It's a look of envy.
表現 · A2go well

turn out fine

So, that must have gone well, huh?
発音must have

Must have usually reduces to must've.

So, that must have gone well, huh?
表現 · B1ask someone out

invite someone on a date

After the game Ron presses Brad on whether he asked the woman out again.

Did you ask her out again?

「Brad Refuses to Hide」を読み解く

What's really going on

Everything around Brad is a lesson in what happens when you give up. The support group is full of parents who have accepted their children's isolation, and the law he invokes offers no comfort: "That law doesn't mean anything when people are yelling at you to shut up." So he chooses the opposite of surrender — "I knew one thing: I didn't want to be like them" — and turns it into a rule he can carry: "To always face my adversity head-on." Later, when being upfront at an interview still ends in silence — "So much for being upfront" — he does not hide; he simply changes tactics. The ballpark scene shows the same instinct in lighter form, as he jokes that a stranger's stare is a look of envy. His philosophy is not optimism; it is refusal.

Theme

CourageBrad refuses the support group's surrender and chooses to face his condition openly instead of hiding it.
IdentityHe defines himself as someone who faces adversity, not as a victim of Tourette's, and keeps that rule through rejection.

このチャプターで学べること

  • The support group shows Brad the life he refuses.
  • He tests honesty in one interview and hiding in the next.
  • A date turns his tics into easy banter.
  • His creed is stated in six plain words.

発音のポイント

  • spite of — Spite of links up, sounding like spi-dov.
  • hide it — The d in hide it flaps, joining the two words.
  • must have — Must have usually reduces to must've.
You're supposed to just hide away for the rest of your life?

Brad's challenge to the group's advice: he refuses the idea that a person with Tourette's should disappear from public life.

It's difficult to imagine that, at the age of 12, I would find a genuine philosophy to live by.

His reflection that the support group, meant to help, instead handed him his life's rule at twelve years old.

I knew one thing: I didn't want to be like them.

The lesson he takes from the adults who have given up: whatever he does, he will not copy their surrender.

That law doesn't mean anything when people are yelling at you to shut up.

The law on the books gives him rights, but he has learned that real acceptance depends on people, not on paper.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Brad reject the support group?

Because everyone there has accepted a life of hiding. He sees their advice as surrender and decides he would rather face his Tourette's head-on than disappear.

What does "fat chance" mean?

It means there is almost no chance at all, said sarcastically. It dismisses the idea of a set-up date, as if to say, that is not happening.

Why does Brad decide to be upfront in his next interview?

After the support group, he decides to get his Tourette's out of the way first and then show his teaching ideas, so the interview is about his ability rather than a surprise.

What does Brad learn from being upfront?

That it is not enough on its own. One interview ends politely but with no offer — "So much for being upfront" — so he keeps adjusting his approach instead of quitting.

What is the joke about the look of envy?

A stranger keeps staring at Brad, and instead of taking offence he says the man looks envious, as if he wished he could make the same noises. It turns a hostile stare into humour.

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