present perfect: The present perfect asks about an open stretch of time up to now, not a finished moment.
Where have you been?Night and the City · 1950 — 第 1 / 19 章 · 4'52" · B2
Harry Pitches His Fuel Pill to Mary, Explained：come to your senses
Harry comes home after three days and pitches a new scheme: a pill that triples a car's mileage. He needs three hundred pounds, but Mary refuses to touch the money they have saved for a quiet future. What began as a joke turns into an argument about ambition and the life she wants.
あらすじ
Harry returns after three days away and immediately pitches a new business: a fuel pill called Fabian's Fuel Feed. He asks Mary for three hundred pounds to launch it, but she will not touch the savings meant for their marriage. He dreams of being somebody, while she asks only for a quiet life together.
注目の表現
no head for businessstick it outcome to your sensesin the gutter
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このシーンの表現
come to your senses
start thinking sensibly
Mary refuses to fund the scheme and keeps the money for the day Harry finally sees reason, angry and tender at once.
You'll come to your senses once the money runs out.
このシーンの他の表現
- no head for business
no talent for business
- stick it out
keep enduring it
- in the gutter
destitute or dead in the street
- get-rich-quick scheme
a plan promising fast money
このシーンのメモ一覧
90 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ
no news at all from someone
...and no word from you.Link word and from so the d slides into the f.
...and no word from you.flee to save oneself
Or hiding in some cellar, running for your life.be in difficulty
Harry, you're not in trouble again, are you?tag question: A tag question turns a statement into a worried check: right, are you?
Harry, you're not in trouble again, are you?as big as something
One pill the size of a baby's fingernail.participle clause: The opening participle clause sets a condition for the main clause that follows.
Dropped into the tank of your motorcar, it triples your mileage.no talent for business
Harry mocks the chemist who invented the pill but cannot see what he is sitting on.
But does he know what he's got? No! No head for business.put money behind something
You mean you want to back this?from this point onward
From here on, Duchess, it's a life of ease and plenty for you.fully under one's control Not literally on his palm; the chance is firmly within his grasp.
I've got it right here, in the palm of my hand!The t in got it often flaps or drops, sounding like god it.
I've got it right here, in the palm of my hand!start thinking sensibly
Mary refuses to fund the scheme and keeps the money for the day Harry finally sees reason, angry and tender at once.
The money's there for the day you come to your senses.keep enduring it
After Mary lists his failures, Harry insists he endures his degrading club job only for the day they can marry.
But I'm sticking it out, waiting for the day we can marry.a guaranteed success
- But this is different, it's a sure thing! - It's always different.fools, easy marks — Old British slang for easy marks; too rough for polite talk.
I'm through with mugs and spivs and dirt!black-market hustlers — Postwar British slang for petty black-market men; dated and mocking.
I'm through with mugs and spivs and dirt!Wanna swallows want to into one quick word.
I wanna be somebody.want to — Everyday speech only; keep it out of formal writing.
I wanna be somebody.stop keeping in touch with someone
Oh, Harry, how did ever lose track of them?become an important person
Oh, dear, don't you see, it isn't important just to be somebody.alongside someone
someone who wants nothing better than... than to live and work by your side.「Harry Pitches His Fuel Pill to Mary」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene sets up the whole film in one room. Harry is charming and impossible: he has been gone three days, he makes a joke of it, and within minutes he is selling Mary a scheme and asking for her savings. She is the only person who sees him clearly, and her line about the money is both a refusal and a diagnosis — "The money's there for the day you come to your senses." Harry's answer is the credo he will repeat until it destroys him: "That's what I want, and that's what I'll get." Mary's counter-argument is quieter and harder to argue with: being somebody matters less than being with somebody. The argument is not about the pill; it is about whether his ambition can ever include her.
Theme
AmbitionHarry's plan is one more get-rich-quick scheme, and his need to be somebody overrides every promise he has made to Mary.
MoneyThe argument is fought over a savings account, and the sum — three hundred pounds — is small enough to make the stakes clear.
このチャプターで学べること
- A three-day vanishing act is forgiven the moment he flashes a scheme.
- Mary's refusal is love disguised as a locked purse.
- Harry sells his pill the way he sells himself, with total belief.
- The gutter and the penthouse are one bad week apart.
発音のポイント
- word from — Link word and from so the d slides into the f.
- got it — The t in got it often flaps or drops, sounding like god it.
- wanna be — Wanna swallows want to into one quick word.
To London Town to see the Queen.Harry's joking answer to where he has been, a nursery rhyme that dodges the question entirely.
The money's there for the day you come to your senses.Mary's refusal and her hope in one sentence: the savings are not for his schemes but for the life he keeps promising and postponing.
I'm through with mugs and spivs and dirt!His declaration that the new venture will lift him out of the world of small-time crooks and cheap hustles he has always lived in.
That's what I want, and that's what I'll get.His credo, stated as fact rather than hope, which is exactly the confidence that keeps getting him into trouble.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Harry need three hundred pounds?
He wants to package and sell his fuel pill, Fabian's Fuel Feed, which he claims triples a car's mileage. The £300 is the capital to produce the first five thousand boxes.
Why does Mary refuse?
The money is the savings they have built for marriage, shilling by shilling. She calls his plan a mad get-rich-quick scheme and says the money is for the day he comes to his senses.
What has Harry been doing for three days?
He does not say. He jokes about going to London to see the Queen and dodges every question, which tells Mary he has been in trouble again.
What does Mary want from their future?
She wants an ordinary life together, running a grocer's or a tobacco shop, anything done in the light of day. She says the important thing is to be with somebody, not to be somebody.
What does Harry want to become?
He says he wants to be somebody, out of the garbage cans and into the higher brackets, a man with a future. His motto is that what he wants he will get.
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再生中 · 第 1 章come to your sensesHarry Pitches His Fuel Pill to Mary
第 2 章an artist without an artMary Borrows Money From Adam
第 3 章start off on the right footHarry Gets the Club Rules
第 4 章what do you knowHarry's Wallet Trick at the Club
第 5 章take it easyHarry Is Thrown Out of the Arena
第 6 章in the palm of my handHarry Pitches His Wrestling Plan
第 7 章with the best will in the worldHarry Tries to Borrow 200 Pounds
第 8 章talk down your noseMary Waits for Harry Outside
第 9 章go through the motionsHelen Gives Harry Two Hundred
第 10 章silent partnerHarry Makes Phil His Silent Partner
第 11 章get mixed up withKristo Tells Harry to Leave London
第 12 章hear me outHoskins Confronts Harry Over the Bill
第 13 章throw good money after badPhilip Withdraws from the Partnership
第 14 章turn tailHarry Buys The Strangler
第 15 章once and for allThe Strangler Crashes Harry's Gym
第 16 章the sharp edge of the knifePhilip Betrays Harry to Kristo
第 17 章a grudge fightThe Strangler Breaks Nikolas's Wrist
第 18 章in it for youKristo's Men Offer Mary £1,000
第 19 章struck offA Constable Voids the Club's Licence第 1 / 19 章 · 残り約 51 分