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Night and the City · 1950 — 第 12 / 19 章 · 4'09" · B2

Hoskins Confronts Harry Over the Bill, Explained：hear me out

Harry has been dodging the bill for weeks, and the hotel manager finally corners him. "I was rather under the impression that you've been deliberately avoiding me," Hoskins says, before demanding 287 pounds in cash and threatening to seize his belongings.

あらすじ

At his gym, Harry is warned by Kristo not to betray his father. Then the manager of the Royal Tudor Hotel arrives to collect an unpaid bill: three suites, three weeks, not a penny paid. Hoskins gives Harry until the end of the day to settle 287 pounds in cash or lose his belongings and the rooms.

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hear me outunder the impressionto datein its entirety

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このシーンの表現

hear me out

listen until the end

As Hoskins lists the debts, Harry cuts in and asks him not to interrupt.

Just hear me out before you decide.

このシーンの他の表現

  • under the impression

    believe something is true

  • to date

    up until now

  • in its entirety

    as a whole

  • be somebody

    become an important person

  • spiv

    a petty crook

このシーンのメモ一覧

61 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · B1believe in someone

trust someone

You've made my father believe in you, but I know you.
表現 · B1have been meaning to do something

have intended to

I'm very glad you dropped in. I've been meaning to speak to you.
表現 · B1drop in on someone

visit casually

I'm very glad you dropped in. I've been meaning to speak to you.
発音dropped in

The d in dropped links into in and almost disappears.

I'm very glad you dropped in. I've been meaning to speak to you.
表現 · B2be under the impression that

believe something is true

Hoskins politely hints that he believed Harry had been dodging him on purpose.

Indeed? I was rather under the impression that you've been deliberately avoiding me.
発音under the impression

Under and the run together, with the reduced to a weak form.

Indeed? I was rather under the impression that you've been deliberately avoiding me.
表現 · C1a trifle + adjective

slightly strange

I must confess I find this whole situation a trifle bizarre.
表現 · B2hear someone out

listen until the end

As Hoskins lists the debts, Harry cuts in and asks him not to interrupt.

Please have to courtesy to hear me out, sir.
文法 · B2how you managed it

embedded question: The embedded question keeps normal word order, so it is how you managed it, not how did you manage it.

Now, I do not quite understand how you managed it, I suppose I never shall,
文法 · B1succeeded in obtaining

gerund after preposition: After succeed in, English needs the -ing form, because in takes a gerund, not an infinitive.

but you have succeeded in obtaining from my inefficient staff two suites, two, mark you,
表現 · B1to date

up until now

Hoskins states the record flatly: up to now, not a single penny has been paid.

- And to date, not one penny's been paid. - Well, you see, Mr. Hoskins...
発音not one penny's

Not one runs together, and the ending of penny's tends to drop.

- And to date, not one penny's been paid. - Well, you see, Mr. Hoskins...
表現 · B1settle a bill

pay what is owed

You will settle this bill, Mr. Fabian, for 287 pounds six and three pence in its entirety and in cash, or else I shall be forced to turn you and your associates out of your rooms at once.
表現 · C1in its entirety

as a whole

Hoskins demands the whole sum in cash, and in its entirety leaves no room for part payment.

You will settle this bill, Mr. Fabian, for 287 pounds six and three pence in its entirety and in cash, or else I shall be forced to turn you and your associates out of your rooms at once.
スラング · A2quid

a pound in money — British and casual; write pound in formal text.

You measly eight-quid-a-week bookkeeper, do you know who I just threw out of here? Do you know who I am?
スラング · B2measly

pathetically small — Informal and dismissive; used of sums that seem insultingly small.

You measly eight-quid-a-week bookkeeper, do you know who I just threw out of here? Do you know who I am?
表現 · B2a cheap spiv

a small-time crook

You are a cheap spiv!
スラング · B2spiv

a petty crook — Dated British slang and an insult; keep it out of polite talk.

You are a cheap spiv!
表現 · B1every penny of it

the whole amount

You'll get your money, every penny of it.
表現 · B2a chance to be somebody

a shot at importance

All my life, Mr. Hoskins, I've fought and I waited for a chance to be somebody.
表現 · B1give someone a break

this single chance

Just give me this one break, and I promise you... I promise on my life...
表現 · C1less comfortable quarters

less pleasant lodgings

I shall then inform the police, and I rather fancy you'll find yourself in slightly less comfortable quarters.
文法 · C1I rather fancy

British understatement: Here rather fancy means I rather suspect, a dry threat wrapped in polite understatement.

I shall then inform the police, and I rather fancy you'll find yourself in slightly less comfortable quarters.
表現 · B1come through

succeed in the end

Great stroke of luck. My connection came through.
表現 · A2make it + time

set the time as four

Harry first says three, then changes the time to four, sounding unsure of his own plan.

No... No, Helen, make it four o'clock.

「Hoskins Confronts Harry Over the Bill」を読み解く

What's really going on

The bill is a class humiliation dressed up as bookkeeping. Hoskins has the numbers and the manners of an institution behind him, and he uses both: he calls the unpaid stay "this whole situation a trifle bizarre" and asks with cold politeness, "I was rather under the impression that you've been deliberately avoiding me." Harry answers the way he always does, by inflating himself. He threatens the manager with his new importance—"Do you know who I am?"—and is met with "You are a cheap spiv." Then comes the other Harry: the man who admits "I haven't got a penny" and pleads for "this one break." For all his scheming, he is a tenant who cannot pay his rent, and the room he cannot afford is exactly where his whole plan is built.

Theme

ClassA hotel manager with institutional manners humiliates a hustler who cannot pay, reducing him from a self-styled big shot to a beggar.
AmbitionHarry's dream of being somebody is exposed as fragile: one unpaid bill and a manager's threat can take his partner and everything else.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A manager can threaten a guest without ever raising his voice.
  • Harry's big monologue buys sympathy, not time.
  • The licence he brags about does not exist yet.
  • Understatement can carry a threat better than shouting.

発音のポイント

  • dropped in — The d in dropped links into in and almost disappears.
  • under the impression — Under and the run together, with the reduced to a weak form.
  • not one penny's — Not one runs together, and the ending of penny's tends to drop.
Born a hustler, you will die a hustler.

Kristo's verdict on Harry: he sees a man who cannot change, and warns him that the same instincts will destroy him.

All my life, Mr. Hoskins, I've fought and I waited for a chance to be somebody.

Harry's plea in its plainest form: he frames his whole life as a struggle for status, hoping the manager will spare him one more day.

You'll get your money, every penny of it.

Harry's promise to settle the debt, made without any way to pay. It is a pledge he cannot keep, and both men know it.

Indeed? I was rather under the impression that you've been deliberately avoiding me.

Hoskins's polite accusation: he never says Harry is hiding, he says he was only under that impression, which is harder to answer.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Hoskins come to Harry in person?

The bill has gone unpaid for three weeks and his secretary has tried seven times to reach Harry by phone. Coming in person is his way of making sure the matter cannot be dodged again.

Who is Kristo warning Harry about?

His own father, Gregorius. Harry has won the old man's belief, and Kristo is afraid Harry will betray that trust with crooked wrestling.

Is Harry really broke?

He admits it: he says he has not got a penny and built the whole setup on 50 pounds. What he has is other people's belief in him, not cash.

What does 'spiv' mean here?

It is British slang for a petty crook who lives by dodges and small rackets. Calling Harry a cheap spiv is Hoskins's blunt answer to his 'Do you know who I am?'

What does Harry want on the phone at the end?

He is trying to keep a deal alive. He claims the license has come through, then admits he has not got it, and asks to move the meeting to four o'clock.

Night and the City · 全 19 章

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