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Oppenheimer · 2023 — 第 6 / 28 章 · 1'49" · B2

Oppenheimer Names Los Alamos, Explained：wring your neck

Two brothers argue through the night—one has joined the Party, the other only wants him to be careful—until the fight turns into a memory of childhood and a map. "I won't live my life afraid to make a mistake," one insists, and by morning they have climbed the mesa they love. Its name becomes the chapter's title.

あらすじ

Visiting his brother Frank, Oppenheimer meets his new wife and then argues with him about Communism: Frank has joined the Party, and Oppenheimer wants him to be more cautious. They fight, reconcile, talk about the dark stars Oppenheimer studies, and the next day ride out to the mesa that will give Los Alamos its name.

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wring your necklet upthe common manthe whole point

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このシーンの表現

wring your neck

真想掐死你（表达气愤的夸张说法）

弗兰克劝哥哥对入党一事保持谨慎，奥本海默用这句气话回敬，嘴上凶，关系却近。

If you touch my notes again, I'll wring your neck.

このシーンの他の表現

  • let up

    （雨、风、疼痛、势头）减弱，停下来

  • the common man

    普通人；平民百姓

  • the whole point

    重点就在这里；关键就在于此

このシーンのメモ一覧

38 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ

表現 · A2see if ...I'm gonna go see if there's any stars.
発音see if

liaison

I'm gonna go see if there's any stars.
表現 · B1good enough for someoneAll your talk about the common man, but Jackie's not good enough for you, hmm?
表現 · B2join the PartyWe join the Party and you can't
文法 · B2We join the Party and you

imperative and

We join the Party and you can't
文法 · B2supposed to be your thing

be supposed to

Is that because that's supposed to be your thing?
表現 · B2join the PartyI haven't joined the Party, Frank.
表現 · B2convince someoneAnd I don't think she should have convinced you to either.
表現 · B2be cautiousI'm your brother, Frank, and I want you to be cautious.
表現 · C1wring someone's neckAnd I want to wring your neck.
発音wring your neck

elision

And I want to wring your neck.
表現 · B2afraid to do somethingI won't live my life afraid to make a mistake.
文法 · B1afraid to make a mistake

adjective + to do

I won't live my life afraid to make a mistake.
表現 · B2dark starsI feel like I could see one of those dark stars that you're working on.
表現 · B2the whole pointYou can't. That's the whole point.
発音the whole point

liaison

You can't. That's the whole point.
表現 · B2a hole in spaceIt's like a kind of hole in space.
文法 · B2a kind of hole in space

a kind of

It's like a kind of hole in space.
スラング · B1shittyYes. He just has a shitty brother.
表現 · A2one's favorite placeThat mesa we saw today, one of my favorite places in the world.

「Oppenheimer Names Los Alamos」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene quietly separates two kinds of risk. The argument is political on its surface—the Party, the faculty, the caution of an older brother—but the emotional line is about how to live: "I won't live my life afraid to make a mistake." Oppenheimer says it to defend his brother and, in the same breath, to define himself, because the same nerve will carry him toward the bomb and later cost him his clearance. The fight ends not with a winner but with a detour into physics, where the black hole is described as "a kind of hole in space." Then the camera follows them up the mesa they have loved since childhood, and the film lets a name be born in an ordinary moment, as if that were how history always happens.

Theme

Family conflictTwo brothers clash over politics and caution before finding their way back to common ground.
CourageOne refuses to live in fear of mistakes, a stance that defines his choices through the film.

発音のポイント

  • see if — liaison
  • wring your neck — elision
  • the whole point — liaison
All your talk about the common man, but Jackie's not good enough for you, hmm?

A jab that calls out the gap between his ideals about ordinary people and how he treats his brother's wife.

I won't live my life afraid to make a mistake.

A declaration of nerve: he refuses to let fear of error decide how he lives.

You can't. That's the whole point.

The dark star is invisible by definition, which is exactly what makes it worth studying.

It's like a kind of hole in space.

A plain-language image for the idea that will become the black hole.

このシーンについての質問

Who is Frank and why are they arguing?

Frank is Oppenheimer's brother, who has joined the Communist Party. Oppenheimer wants him to be cautious, and Frank resents his disapproval and contradictions.

What does "I want to wring your neck" mean here?

It is a joking threat between brothers, an exaggerated way of saying he is furious, not a real threat of violence.

What are the dark stars Oppenheimer talks about?

He describes them as stars whose gravity swallows light, like a hole in space, an early way of talking about what would later be called black holes.

Why does the scene end at the mesa?

The two brothers ride up a mesa Oppenheimer loves, and its name, Los Alamos, becomes the name of the secret lab site.

How does the argument end?

They cool off and move on rather than settle it: the fight gives way to talk about the dark stars, and then to the trip up the mesa the next day.

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