enter something
- Now it's too late. - It isn't. Get in this desk.His Girl Friday · 1940 — 第 14 / 18 章 · 5'03" · B2
Earl Hides in the Press Room Desk, Explained：sitting pretty
The biggest manhunt in the city can't find Earl Williams because he's folded into a desk right under the reporters' noses. Hildy keeps the room calm and the mob at bay; Mollie, pushed too far, ends the questioning on her own terms — "You'll never find me now!" — and takes a window.
あらすじ
Earl Williams is hiding inside a roll-top desk in the press room while the reporters who are hunting him fill the room with phone calls and theories. Hildy works to send them away before anyone opens the desk. Mollie Malloy is cornered and questioned until she leaps from the window; then the desk is opened and Earl is found.
注目の表現
pull yourself togetherno harm in askinggot a hunchget rid of
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このシーンの表現
sitting pretty
in a good position
Earl stirs inside the desk, and Hildy tells him to stay quiet because he is sitting pretty.
With two job offers, she's sitting pretty right now.
このシーンの他の表現
- pull yourself together
calm down and get a grip
- no harm in asking
asking costs nothing
- got a hunch
have an intuition
- get rid of
dispose of, remove
- cover a story
report on a news event
このシーンのメモ一覧
109 行のセリフに 31 件のメモ
help someone out
We'll get you out in ten minutes.calm down and get a grip
Mollie is falling apart in the press room, and Hildy steadies her and tells her to pull herself together.
Pull yourself together. All right, here. Sit down.Link pull and yourself, softening the f.
Pull yourself together. All right, here. Sit down.have calls to make
- Don't kick the building down. - We got phone calls to make.up at this place
What's she doing up here?kid, buddy — An affectionate address for a younger person.
- How do you feel, kid? - Not so good.asking costs nothing
A reporter is turned down over the desk and shrugs it off, saying there is no harm in asking.
- Okay. Give me the desk. - No harm in asking.wait for money
- I thought you were gone. - I'm waiting for money from Walter.Run hold it a together like hol-di-ta.
Hold it a minute. This looks good.have an intuition
A reporter lowers his voice and shares an intuition that Williams is nowhere they have searched.
You know, I've got a hunch Williams...am not (nonstandard) — Nonstandard; avoid in writing.
...ain't anywhere they've been looking for him.loiter
Sure, sure, hanging around like a duck in a shooting gallery.slide downward
From the roof he could slide down the drainpipe.hypothetical if: The past tense in the if-clause marks an unlikely guess.
It'd be funny if he was in this building.dispose of, remove
The reporter notices Hildy wants them gone and calls it out: she is eager to get rid of them.
You seem pretty anxious to get rid of us.Link rid and of so it sounds like ri-dov.
You seem pretty anxious to get rid of us.beat others to a story — Newsroom slang for beating rivals to a story.
- Are you trying to scoop us? - Are you crazy? On my time?double negative for emphasis — Street speech; a double negative, not standard.
I didn't do nothing.confess honestly
- Come clean. - Let the girl alone. She's...dropped be: Spoken English drops are before supposed to.
Making us miss two trains, and you supposed to be married tomorrow.delaying — Casual; telling someone to stop delaying.
- Quit stalling. - She's got it balled up.keep something from someone
Who are you holding out on?discover
- Where's Williams? - Try and find out.isn't (nonstandard) — Sarcastic and nonstandard; not for formal use.
- Talk. - Ain't that funny?keep out of it
- I know what I'm doing. - Stay out of this.don't touch
- Hands off! - Where is he?in a good position
Earl stirs inside the desk, and Hildy tells him to stay quiet because he is sitting pretty.
Quiet. You're sitting pretty.relative clause: The who-clause describes which man she should not worry about.
How can you worry about a man who's resting in a police station?report on a news event
Hildy has filed the big Earl story for the paper and now announces she is leaving.
I covered your story for you, now I'm getting out.relative clause: The clause one can get married modifies days.
You drooling idiot, there are 365 days in a year one can get married.「Earl Hides in the Press Room Desk」を読み解く
What's really going on
The comedy and the cruelty sit in the same room. Reporters joke about drainpipes and skylights while the man they want is two feet away, and Hildy has to be both hostess and bodyguard, feeding lines like 'you're sitting pretty' to a fugitive crammed under a desk. The scene's real pivot is Mollie. When she says, "You wouldn't listen to me before, and now you want me to talk," she names the exact deal the press offers: attention only after it's too late. Her jump is the one thing in the sequence that can't be turned into copy, and the room keeps right on working — someone calls for an ambulance, someone else watches the desk. By the end, Walter is already bargaining over the wedding, which tells you where the story, and everyone in it, ranks.
Theme
Dark humorA fugitive is folded into a desk while reporters swap drainpipe theories right beside him, and the farce keeps running even as someone jumps.
LiesThe press hunts a man hidden inches away, and its only currency is the story — true or invented — that will sell the next edition.
このチャプターで学べること
- A desk becomes the safest and most dangerous place in the room.
- Reporters talk over each other, so idioms fly fast.
- Mollie's outburst flips the power in the room.
- The mother's arrival turns gossip into a public accusation.
発音のポイント
- Pull yourself — Link pull and yourself, softening the f.
- Hold it a — Run hold it a together like hol-di-ta.
- rid of — Link rid and of so it sounds like ri-dov.
Let them take me. What's the difference?The hidden man's exhaustion: he'd rather be caught than keep hiding. It's the closest the sequence comes to saying the game is not worth winning.
You wouldn't listen to me before, and now you want me to talk.Mollie's accusation against the press: they ignored her when it mattered and only want her words now that she's a story.
You drooling idiot, there are 365 days in a year one can get married.Walter's parting shot to Hildy: he dismisses her wedding plans as a scheduling problem, because in his world the paper always outranks the marriage.
Only this time it'll be true. You'll never find me now!Mollie's last line before the window. She offers them the true story they wanted, then makes sure it can never be printed.
Too lazy to go after the biggest story in years.Hildy needling the reporters to leave, arguing they're too comfortable to chase the manhunt they claim to care about.
このシーンについての質問
How does Earl Williams end up in the press room?
He came down from the roof and in through a window, then Hildy hid him in a roll-top desk. The reporters hunting him are searching everywhere except the room they're standing in.
Why does Mollie Malloy jump out the window?
The reporters corner and taunt her for a quote, and she refuses to be used. Her leap is both an escape and a final refusal to hand them a story.
Why do the reporters suspect Hildy?
She's too eager to clear the room and too calm about the search. They accuse her of trying to scoop them, since she has the most to gain from the capture.
What happens to Mrs. Baldwin?
She arrives demanding Bruce's money and starts calling the men murderers. She's bundled out and handed to Louie, with orders to keep her quiet and tell people she has the D.T.'s.
Why does Walter insult Hildy at the end?
She's leaving to free Bruce and get married, and Walter refuses to accept it. His crack about 365 possible wedding days is his way of saying the story comes first.
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第 1 章gum up the worksHildy Tells Walter She's Remarrying
第 2 章hard feelingsHildy Quits the Post
第 3 章take the wind out of someone's sailWalter Meets Bruce Baldwin
第 4 章kick the bucketWalter Schemes to Keep Hildy
第 5 章blood on your handsWalter Bets Bruce an Insurance Policy
第 6 章sour grapesBruce Names Hildy His Beneficiary
第 7 章give something six monthsHildy Interviews Earl Williams
第 8 章make a fool out of someoneMollie Rounds on the Reporters
第 9 章double-crossingHildy Tears Up Her Story
第 10 章go over the wallEarl Williams Escapes the Jail
第 11 章tear it out of someoneHildy Sells Her Scoop for $450
第 12 章a tissue of liesWalter Bribes the Governor's Messenger
第 13 章lay lowEarl Walks Into the Press Room
再生中 · 第 14 章sitting prettyEarl Hides in the Press Room Desk
第 15 章best interest at heartHildy Chooses the Story Over Bruce
第 16 章kid glovesWalter Double-Crosses Bensinger
第 17 章barking up the wrong treeHartwell Finds the Escape Gun
第 18 章whistle in the darkEarl Is Captured in the Desk第 14 / 18 章 · 残り約 19 分