M*A*S*H · 1970 — 第 7 / 22 章 · 2'51" · B2

Hot Lips Lectures Hawkeye in the Mess, Explained:a sight for sore eyes

A chief nurse sits down with a captain and starts correcting him: the nurses on his shift, the nickname everyone uses, the informality of it all. He answers with insults wrapped in courtesy. "You put me right off my fresh fried lobster," he says, then finishes with a verdict on her.

あらすじ

A new chief nurse joins Captain Pierce at his table and begins listing her objections: she has watched the nurses on his shift, and she dislikes that enlisted men call him by his nickname. Pierce parries the criticism with wisecracks, then delivers his verdict on her.

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注目の表現

a sight for sore eyesknow his way aroundflipped his wigput me off

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このシーンの表現

a sight for sore eyes

a welcome sight

As soon as the major sits down, Hawkeye greets her with a flirty welcome that deflates her formality.

After a long week, you are a sight for sore eyes.

このシーンの他の表現

  • know his way around

    be skilled at something

  • flipped his wig

    lost his mind (slang)

  • put me off

    make someone lose interest

  • come off it

    don't give me that

  • regular army clown

    a total army fool

このシーンのメモ一覧

40 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

表現 · A1come from somewhere

originate from

Where do you come from?
スラング · A2will ya

won't you — A casual tag; use please in formal talk.

Ho-Jon, you bring me some ketchup, will ya?
表現 · B2more informed than someone

sarcastic: you think you know best

The major implies she knows better, and Hawkeye agrees in words while mocking her in tone.

Naturally, your own opinion is more informed than mine.
表現 · A2just great

simply excellent

Well, I'll tell you. I think they're fine. I think they're just great.
表現 · B1what do you expect

what did you think

Of course. What'd you expect? [ All Chattering ]
表現 · A2get rid of something

remove something

Sponge stick. Get rid ofthe line for me.
表現 · B1pay the bill

settled the bill

Syngman Rhee paid the light bill.
表現 · B1far from + 形容词

not satisfied at all

Well, Major Burns is far from satisfied. That doesn't surprise me.
表現 · B1be out of one's head

out of one's mind

He has flipped his wig, that he's out of his head, that he's a lousy surgeon.
スラング · B1lousy

bad, poor — Casual put-down; say poor in formal speech.

He has flipped his wig, that he's out of his head, that he's a lousy surgeon.
表現 · B1on the contrary

quite the opposite

Oh, on the contrary, I have observed that Major Burns...
表現 · B1address someone as something

call someone by a name

I've also noticed that nurses as well as enlisted men address you as "Hawkeye."
表現 · B2be inconsistent with something

not in line with

Well, that kind of informality is inconsistent with maximum efficiency...
発音come off it

Link off and it so they run together.

in a military organization. Oh, come off it, Major.
発音put me right off

The stress on right signals a total loss of appetite.

You put me right off my fresh fried lobster, do you realize that?
表現 · B1put something away

consume or store

I'm going to go back to my bed, I'm gonna put away the best part
スラング · A2gonna

going to — Spoken form; keep it out of writing.

I'm going to go back to my bed, I'm gonna put away the best part
表現 · B2under normal circumstances

normally, ordinarily

of a bottle of scotch, and under normal circumstances— you being normally what I would call a very attractive woman— I would have invited you back to share my little bed with me, and you might possibly have come.
文法 · B2would have invited

past unreal conditional: Would have invited imagines an outcome the situation ruled out.

of a bottle of scotch, and under normal circumstances— you being normally what I would call a very attractive woman— I would have invited you back to share my little bed with me, and you might possibly have come.
発音what we call

What we weakens and blurs into a single beat.

I mean, you're what we call a regular army clown.
スラング · B1clown

a ridiculous person — Playful or cutting depending on tone.

I mean, you're what we call a regular army clown.
文法 · B2could have reached

modal perfect: Could have reached expresses disbelief that such a man got that far.

I wonder how a degenerated person like that could have reached...
表現 · B2a position of responsibility

a job with authority

a position of responsibility in the Army Medical Corps.

「Hot Lips Lectures Hawkeye in the Mess」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is a power struggle fought with manners. She is a major; he is a captain who lets everyone call him Hawkeye, and she treats that informality as a discipline problem: "that kind of informality is inconsistent with maximum efficiency in a military organization." He refuses to be corrected, and his weapon is mock courtesy. Frank Burns comes up as a professional argument, but the real subject is authority — who gets to set the tone of the unit. Pierce's answer is to make her absurd: "You put me right off my fresh fried lobster," he complains, as if her lecture were merely bad table company, before landing on "a regular army clown." The comedy works because the insult sounds almost friendly, and because he never raises his voice. She came to put him in his place and leaves as the punchline.

Theme

PowerA major tries to correct a popular captain, and he answers by turning her into the joke.
PrideBoth defend their status: her rank and rules, his easy popularity with the staff.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Politeness can be the sharpest insult in English.
  • He never raises his voice, yet wins the argument.
  • Labels like army clown sting because they sound almost kind.
  • Dinner details make the refusal feel casual, not cruel.

発音のポイント

  • come off it — Link off and it so they run together.
  • put me right off — The stress on right signals a total loss of appetite.
  • what we call — What we weakens and blurs into a single beat.
Naturally, your own opinion is more informed than mine.

A sarcastic concession: he pretends to defer to her view while making clear he thinks it is worthless.

Frank Burns does not know his way around an operating theater.

A blunt charge that Burns is out of his depth in surgery, not merely unliked.

He does not know his way around a body.

The criticism sharpens: it is not just the room, it is basic surgery he cannot manage.

He has flipped his wig, that he's out of his head, that he's a lousy surgeon.

Three escalating charges: Burns has lost his mind and is, on top of it, bad at the job.

You put me right off my fresh fried lobster, do you realize that?

He turns an argument into an insult about appetite: her company has ruined his meal.

I mean, you're what we call a regular army clown.

The closing verdict: she is a joke, a type the army produces, not a serious officer.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Hot Lips object to Hawkeye being called Hawkeye?

She sees the nickname as a discipline problem. In her view, enlisted men and nurses using a first-name-style tag for an officer is inconsistent with the efficiency a military organisation needs, so she raises it as a formal complaint.

What is Hawkeye's complaint about the lobster?

It is a joke used as an insult. By saying her lecture ruined his fresh fried lobster, he dismisses her authority as nothing more than bad company at a meal. The food is beside the point.

Why does Hawkeye call Hot Lips a clown?

Because she has spent the scene correcting him about nurses, nicknames and regulations. Calling her an army clown is his way of saying that her rule-obsession is comic rather than serious, and it ends the exchange on his terms.

Is Hot Lips right about Frank Burns?

The film keeps it one-sided: the surgeons treat Burns as incompetent, and the praise of him as a "good military surgeon" sounds like faint, backhanded defence. His unsuitability is a running joke, so the criticism lands.

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