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Manhattan · 1979 — 第 18 / 23 章 · 3'02" · B1

Isaac Tells Tracy About Someone Else, Explained：in the same ballpark

Isaac tells Tracy that they should stop seeing each other, and when she asks why, he explains that she is too attached. She answers that she is not attached, she is in love with him. He then confesses that he loves somebody else, and the scene turns into the two of them managing her tears.

あらすじ

Isaac tells Tracy that they should not keep seeing each other. She wants a reason, and he gives her one that insults her: she is getting too attached. She corrects him, saying the feeling is love, not attachment, and he finally admits the real reason, that he has met someone older. The rest of the scene is Tracy crying and Isaac trying, badly, to comfort her.

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注目の表現

in love withopen upin the same ballparktemporary fling

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このシーンの表現

in the same ballpark

roughly comparable

Pressed about the other woman's age, Isaac says she is roughly in his own age range.

Both offers are in the same ballpark.

このシーンの他の表現

  • in love with

    romantically in love with

  • open up

    unlock or reveal

  • temporary fling

    a short casual affair

  • precocious

    mature beyond one's age

  • feel guilty about

    feel bad about

このシーンのメモ一覧

48 行のセリフに 29 件のメモ

表現 · A2play the harmonica

play the harmonica

I don't play the harmonica, but it's an incredible... harmonica is what it is.
表現 · B2throw something away on someone

waste on someone

Tracy, you're throwing away an enormous amount of real affection on the wrong person.
表現 · B1the wrong person

the wrong one

Tracy, you're throwing away an enormous amount of real affection on the wrong person.
発音away an

Away and an link into a single smooth sound.

Tracy, you're throwing away an enormous amount of real affection on the wrong person.
表現 · B1keep seeing someone

keep dating

Listen, I don't... I don't think we should keep seeing each other.
表現 · B2get hung up on someone

becoming obsessed with

Because I think you're getting too hung up on me, you know?
スラング · B2hung up on

obsessed with — Casual for being unable to let someone go.

Because I think you're getting too hung up on me, you know?
発音hung up on

Hung up on runs together as one rushed phrase.

I'm not hung up on you. I'm in love with you.
表現 · B1we've been over this

we discussed this

You can't be in love with me. We've been over this.
表現 · B1what something means

what love is

You're a kid. You don't know what love means. I don't know what it means.
スラング · B1the hell

on earth — Adds force in casual speech; too rough for formal settings.

Nobody knows what the hell's going on.
表現 · A2care about someone

care for someone

We have laughs together. I care about you.
表現 · B2by the time someone does something

when the time comes

By the time you're 21, you'll have a dozen relationships, believe me, far more passionate than this one.
表現 · A2a dozen something

about twelve

By the time you're 21, you'll have a dozen relationships, believe me, far more passionate than this one.
文法 · B2By the time you're 21

time clause: By the time introduces a deadline clause that pairs with a future main verb.

By the time you're 21, you'll have a dozen relationships, believe me, far more passionate than this one.
表現 · B2be supposed to be

was meant to be

This was supposed to be a temporary fling. You know that.
表現 · B2a temporary fling

a short casual affair

Isaac reminds Tracy the affair was meant to be temporary, using the old deal to dodge blame.

This was supposed to be a temporary fling. You know that.
表現 · A2look like someone

resemble

You look like one of those barefoot kids from Bolivia who needs foster parents.
文法 · B1who needs foster parents

relative clause: The who-clause describes which kids he means and sharpens the image.

You look like one of those barefoot kids from Bolivia who needs foster parents.
表現 · C1in the same ballpark

roughly comparable

Pressed about the other woman's age, Isaac says she is roughly in his own age range.

Not as old as I am, but in the same general ballpark as me.
スラング · A2Gee

wow — An old-fashioned exclamation, now slightly dated.

Gee, now I don't feel so good.
表現 · B2to someone's advantage

in one's favor

You state it like it's to my advantage, when it's you that wants to get out of it.
表現 · B2get out of something

escape from it

You state it like it's to my advantage, when it's you that wants to get out of it.
文法 · B2it's you that wants to get out of it

cleft sentence: The it's you that cleft throws the blame back onto the other person.

You state it like it's to my advantage, when it's you that wants to get out of it.
発音hearing in

Hearing in links, with in reduced to a light sound.

I'm 42. My hair's falling out. I'm starting to lose some hearing in my right ear.
表現 · B1like someone better than someone

prefer someone

I can't believe that you met somebody that you like better than me.
表現 · B1feel guilty about something

feel bad about

Tracy asks why she should feel guilty, throwing Isaac's blame back at him.

Why should I feel guilty about this?
表現 · A2go out with someone

date someone

I've always encouraged you to go out with guys more your own age.
表現 · A2someone's own age

the same age as you

I've always encouraged you to go out with guys more your own age.

「Isaac Tells Tracy About Someone Else」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is a breakup where the person doing the breaking up keeps asking to be understood. Isaac begins with a general statement about not seeing each other, moves to the diagnosis that Tracy is too attached, and only then admits the truth, "I love somebody else." Each version makes him look slightly better and her slightly worse, which is the pattern Tracy calls out: "You state it like it's to my advantage, when it's you that wants to get out of it." His answer is not an argument but a list of his own decay, his age, his thinning hair, his bad ear, as if his problems should soften the blow. What makes the scene hard to watch is how well she sees him. She is seventeen and reads the whole thing correctly, while he keeps offering her an older man's excuses.

Theme

HeartbreakThe breakup is delivered in installments, each one a little more honest and a little more painful for Tracy.
RomanceIsaac ends the affair by describing his own decline, asking her to accept it as a kindness rather than a choice.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A breakup often hides behind advice about the other person.
  • Age becomes the safest excuse when feelings are unequal.
  • The truth lands only when it names someone else.
  • Leave me alone ends the scene more finally than goodbye.

発音のポイント

  • away an — Away and an link into a single smooth sound.
  • hung up on — Hung up on runs together as one rushed phrase.
  • hearing in — Hearing in links, with in reduced to a light sound.
I'm not hung up on you. I'm in love with you.

Tracy's correction: she is not obsessing over him, she is in love, and she wants him to hear the difference.

The truth is that I love somebody else.

The plain confession he has been circling, which ends the argument and changes the subject of the whole scene.

You state it like it's to my advantage, when it's you that wants to get out of it.

Her sharp summary of his method: he dresses up his own exit as something that helps her.

I'm 42. My hair's falling out. I'm starting to lose some hearing in my right ear.

His attempt to make the breakup easier by listing his age and his failing body, which is really about himself.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Isaac end things with Tracy?

He says she is getting too attached, but the real reason comes out later: he has met someone else, closer to his own age. The relationship was never meant to be permanent.

Why does Tracy say she is not hung up on him?

She is correcting his word for her feelings. He calls it attachment; she insists it is love, and she wants him to admit the difference before he leaves.

Why does Isaac list his age and his health?

He is trying to make the breakup sound like common sense. By pointing to his thinning hair and bad ear, he asks her to accept that he is not worth holding on to.

What does "in the same ballpark" mean?

It means roughly the same range or level. Isaac uses it to say the woman he has met is around his own age, not much younger.

How does the scene end?

With Tracy crying and asking Isaac to leave her alone. He keeps trying to comfort her, but she will not let him, and the scene stops there.

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