in your place
Say, I wouldn't dig so deep if I were you.Rear Window · 1954 — 第 2 / 13 章 · 4'57" · B2
Stella Warns Jeff, Then Talks Marriage, Explained：call the whole thing off
Stella, Jeff's nurse, treats his window-watching as a crime in progress and his refusal to marry Lisa as a symptom. "I got a nose for trouble," she says, and she means both: the neighbors and Jeff's love life are, to her, the same problem.
あらすじ
In his New York apartment, Jeff is stuck in a wheelchair with a broken leg, watching his neighbors through the window. His nurse Stella arrives, scolds him for being a 'Peeping Tom,' and insists trouble is coming. Then the talk turns to Lisa, the woman Jeff keeps refusing to marry.
注目の表現
a nose for troubleunder the guncall the whole thing offhalf a brain
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このシーンの表現
call the whole thing off
cancel everything
Jeff tells Stella the honest move is to cancel the whole relationship.
They called the whole thing off at the last minute.
このシーンの他の表現
- a nose for trouble
a knack for sensing trouble
- under the gun
under pressure
- half a brain
a bit of common sense
- rarefied atmosphere
an elite, exclusive world
- Peeping Tom
a peeping voyeur
このシーンのメモ一覧
87 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ
If I weakens into a blur, and were almost disappears.
Say, I wouldn't dig so deep if I were you.why not do
Why don't you shut up?well, I must say — A folksy Southern expression, usually playful.
I do declare.did in the past
You know, in the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.a whole breed of
Oh, dear. We've become a race of Peeping Toms.for a difference
What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.subject clause: The what-clause is the subject, and is introduces what that thing is.
What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.The t in ought to often drops, so it sounds like awta.
What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.a small amount of
How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?a feel for something
I got a nose for trouble. Can smell it ten miles away.no connection with
You know, Stella, in economics, a kidney ailment has no relationship to the stock market.start doing over time
First you smash your leg, then you get to looking out the window, see things you shouldn't see. Trouble.a group of
I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits.be glad to get
Right now I'd welcome trouble, you know.are you serious — Casual and clipped; fine with friends, not in formal talk.
You kidding?shows up
Every man's ready for marriage when the right girl comes along.relative clause: The who-clause describes the man, adding a mocking condition.
And Lisa Fremont is the right girl for any man with half a brain who can get one eye open.parenthetical: The aside as you might say softens the phrase, and the sentence works without it.
Some of the world's happiest marriages have started "under the gun", as you might say.tour the globe
Can you imagine her traveling around the world with a camera bum who never has more than a week's salary in the bank?a broke photographer — Self-mocking or dismissive slang; keep it informal.
Can you imagine her traveling around the world with a camera bum who never has more than a week's salary in the bank?ready to
I need a woman who's willing to... Hold it.cancel everything
Jeff tells Stella the honest move is to cancel the whole relationship.
So the honest thing for me to do is just call the whole thing off.another person
Let her find somebody else.time clause: The when-clause sets the situation, and the main clause states what should follow.
When a man and a woman see each other and like each other, they ought to come together, wham,Come and together link up, the m sliding into the t.
When a man and a woman see each other and like each other, they ought to come together, wham,「Stella Warns Jeff, Then Talks Marriage」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene looks like two people killing time while a bandage gets changed, but it's really about the two things Jeff refuses to face. Stella is the film's voice of common sense: she treats his spying as criminal, his love life as a diagnosable condition. When she says "I got a nose for trouble. Can smell it ten miles away," she isn't only talking about the neighbors. Every line she aims at his voyeurism also lands on his refusal to commit: he watches other people's lives because he won't start one of his own. His excuse — that Lisa is "too perfect" and belongs to a "rarefied atmosphere" — is a way of saying he's afraid to be measured against her. Stella calls that exactly what it is.
Theme
MarriageJeff lists everything right about Lisa and still won't marry her, so the talk becomes about his fear, not her flaws.
IdentityStella names him a 'Peeping Tom'; watching other lives is how Jeff avoids living his own.
このチャプターで学べること
- Stella's jokes carry real warnings.
- The class gap is the real obstacle to the marriage.
- Under the gun frames love as a deadline.
- A nurse's plain sense cuts through Jeff's excuses.
発音のポイント
- if I were you — If I weakens into a blur, and were almost disappears.
- ought to — The t in ought to often drops, so it sounds like awta.
- come together — Come and together link up, the m sliding into the t.
What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.Stella's homespun advice: instead of spying on others, people should turn the gaze on themselves. It is aimed straight at Jeff.
Every man's ready for marriage when the right girl comes along.Her answer to Jeff's claim that he is not ready — readiness comes with the right person, she argues, not with timing.
People with sense belong wherever they're put.A defense of adaptability: sensible people fit in anywhere, used to push back on Jeff's idea that Lisa belongs only to Park Avenue.
I got a nose for trouble. Can smell it ten miles away.Stella's boast about her intuition, warning that trouble is heading Jeff's way — and hinting at both the neighbors and his love life.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Stella call Jeff a Peeping Tom?
Because he spends his days watching the neighbors through his window. She warns him that New York State sentences a Peeping Tom to six months in the workhouse.
Why won't Jeff marry Lisa?
He says she's too perfect, too sophisticated and belongs to a 'rarefied atmosphere' of Park Avenue, while he's a photographer who never has more than a week's salary.
What does Stella think of Jeff's excuses?
She doesn't buy them. She jokes about her 'nose for trouble' and answers his reasons with lines like 'People with sense belong wherever they're put.'
What is Stella's job?
She's an insurance-company nurse who visits Jeff to change his bandage and check his temperature. She mentions once nursing a General Motors director.
Does Jeff plan to break up with Lisa?
He says 'the honest thing' is to 'call the whole thing off' and let her find somebody else, though Stella mocks the idea of him delivering such a speech.
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再生中 · 第 2 章call the whole thing offStella Warns Jeff, Then Talks Marriage
第 3 章seen better daysLisa Brings Dinner to Jeff
第 4 章in the palm of your handJeff and Lisa Argue About His Life
第 5 章run out onJeff and Stella Watch the Neighbors
第 6 章cut upJeff Ignores Lisa to Spy on Thorwald
第 7 章jump at the chanceJeff Calls Doyle About a Murder
第 8 章knee-deep inDoyle Won't Search Thorwald's Apartment
第 9 章live out of somethingJeff Spots the Missing Handbag
第 10 章a fairy taleDoyle Dismisses Lisa's Clue
第 11 章love thy neighborThe Neighbor's Dog Is Killed
第 12 章since when ...?Jeff Spots the Disturbed Flower Bed
第 13 章louse up somethingLisa Gets Arrested at Thorwald's第 2 / 13 章 · 残り約 42 分