meet only for a moment
Captain Wentworth and I met briefly yesterday.Persuasion · 2007 — 第 3 / 7 章 · 2'27" · B2
Wentworth on Firmness of Character, Explained：firmness of character
Someone comes home, finds other people in the house, and answers with praise for worthy and careful hands. Marriage talk follows. A man just paid off jokes that any woman from fifteen to thirty will do, then turns earnest: "what I desire above all in a wife is firmness of character."
あらすじ
Miss Elliot comes home and meets Captain Wentworth. Told that finding the others in the house must be very bad, the reply calls the house worthy and careful hands. The room hears that Benwick's fiancée died while he was at the Cape, and that the fortune came too late. A man paid off and ashore says he will settle, and that a wife must have firmness of character.
注目の表現
worthy and careful handsfeebleness of purposea sore trialpaid off
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このシーンの表現
firmness of character
a steady, decided character
After the joke about any woman, he names firmness of character as the real requirement.
What I admire in her is firmness of character.
このシーンの他の表現
- worthy and careful hands
safe and attentive keeping
- feebleness of purpose
a will too weak to hold
- a sore trial
a painful ordeal
- paid off
discharged and ashore
- open to persuasion
easily talked into changing
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30 行のセリフに 17 件のメモ
kept by capable, attentive people
No, not at all, Admiral. I'm happy to know that the house is in such worthy and careful hands.wait for the next posting
He's settled for now at LYme with our good friend James Benwick -who's awaiting a new command. -How exciting.regret being the one to say it
I'm sorry to have to tell you that she died last summer while Benwick was out at the Cape.fronted object: Five years is moved forward so the length of the wait hits first.
Five years they waited for a fortune to satisfy her family.too late to mend
Now he has it, of course, but too late. Much too late.a painful ordeal
Long separations are called a sore trial to both parties.
A frigate at wartime is no place for a woman and the long separations are a sore trial to both parties.nothing worse than
How true. There is nothing so bad as a separation.discharged and ashore
Someone says they are now paid off and ashore, and at last resolved to settle down.
But now I'm paid off and ashore, Sophy, you'll be delighted to hear that I'm, at last, resolved to settle down.navy discharge — Sailor talk; use a plainer word in a formal introduction.
But now I'm paid off and ashore, Sophy, you'll be delighted to hear that I'm, at last, resolved to settle down.an unwise marriage
No, no, I'm quite ready to make a foolish match with any woman between 1 5 and 30.a steady, decided character
After the joke about any woman, he names firmness of character as the real requirement.
what I desire above all in a wife is firmness of character.Keep of light and close to firmness.
what I desire above all in a wife is firmness of character.a will too weak to hold
The line sets feebleness of purpose next to timidity, both things the speaker cannot abide.
I cannot abide timidity or feebleness of purpose.easily talked into changing
A weak spirit is one that persuasion can swing either way.
A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.relative clause: Which defines the weak spirit as one persuasion can swing either way.
A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.Let way run into a light and, without three separate beats.
A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.「Wentworth on Firmness of Character」を読み解く
What's really going on
Miss Elliot is told that finding other people in her own house must be very bad for her. The reply is that the house is in "worthy and careful hands." Benwick and Harville's sister waited five years for a fortune to satisfy her family. She died last summer while he was out at the Cape. "Now he has it, of course, but too late." A man just paid off says he will settle. The first offer is a joke: any woman between fifteen and thirty, a little beauty, a few smiles, a compliment to the navy. "But if I am to speak in earnest" drops the joke. Above all he wants "firmness of character," a woman who knows her own mind. He will not abide timidity or "feebleness of purpose." A weak spirit "always open to persuasion," first one way and then the other, "can never be relied upon." This is a standard for a wife, not praise for anyone in the room.
Theme
MarriageHe jokes that almost any woman will do, then says a wife must above all have firmness of character.
TrustA weak spirit, open to persuasion and swaying one way then the other, is called something that can never be relied upon.
発音のポイント
- firmness of — Keep of light and close to firmness.
- one way and — Let way run into a light and, without three separate beats.
what I desire above all in a wife is firmness of character.The joke about any woman from fifteen to thirty is over. Spoken in earnest, this is his real requirement: a wife whose mind stays her own.
A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.He has just refused timidity and feebleness of purpose. Here a person who can be talked one way, then the other, is someone he will not rely on.
このシーンについての質問
Why does he offer to marry any woman between fifteen and thirty?
He has said he is paid off and ashore and at last resolved to settle. Asked if he has anyone in mind, he says no, and calls it a foolish match: a little beauty, a few smiles, and a compliment to the navy, and he shall be lost. Another line asks what right a humble sailor has to expect any better.
Why bring up firmness of character after that joke?
The talk changes on "But if I am to speak in earnest." What he desires above all in a wife is firmness of character, a woman who knows her own mind. He cannot abide timidity or feebleness of purpose.
What kind of person can never be relied upon here?
A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other. The line just before refuses timidity and feebleness of purpose.
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