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- Top one? - Right on top, yeah.Rear Window · 1954 — 第 12 / 13 章 · 2'15" · B2
Jeff Spots the Disturbed Flower Bed, Explained：since when ...?
Comparing two-week-old photographs through a viewer, Jeff notices that Thorwald's flower bed has changed: the zinnias are shorter, as if something was dug up and replanted. "Since when do flowers grow shorter in two weeks?" He is sure there is something buried there.
あらすじ
Jeff sorts through photos he took of the courtyard two weeks earlier and compares them with what he sees now through his viewer. Something in Thorwald's garden has changed: two yellow zinnias are shorter than before. He concludes that the soil was dug up and something is buried in the flower bed — most likely the knife and saw.
注目の表現
leg artsniff aroundsince when ...?scarcely
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このシーンの表現
since when ...?
when did that ever happen
Jeff uses the question to force the contradiction: flowers never shrink.
Since when do you cook dinner on Fridays?
このシーンの他の表現
- leg art
cheesecake photos
- sniff around
nose about
- scarcely
almost not
- dig something up
unearth
- get into something
enter
このシーンのメモ一覧
43 行のセリフに 28 件のメモ
aged X weeks
Now, these are about two weeks old.cheesecake photos — Dated photo-world slang; avoid in formal writing.
I hope I took something else besides leg art. Now which one...if I am not mistaken
There's something, and if I'm right, I think I've solved a murder.Link I've and solved; the 've is barely voiced.
There's something, and if I'm right, I think I've solved a murder.have a look
Here, now you take a look. Tell me what you see.What you can blur into whaddaya.
Here, now you take a look. Tell me what you see.remove it
Now look again. Now take it down. You see?a photo of
But it's just a picture of the backyard, that's all.a key difference
One important change. One important change.nose about
Lisa recalls the dog sniffing near the bed, and Jeff corrects her: the dog was digging.
You mean where the dog was sniffing around?the same height as
Look, right? Those two yellow zinnias on this end aren't as tall as they were.as ... as comparison: The as ... as comparison links now to two weeks ago, with tall left understood.
Look, right? Those two yellow zinnias on this end aren't as tall as they were.become shorter
Now, since when do flowers grow shorter in two weeks?rhetorical since when: The since when question is rhetorical, denying that such a thing can happen.
Now, since when do flowers grow shorter in two weeks?interred there
There's something buried there.hung around a place
You haven't spent much time around cemeteries, have you?negative adverb scarcely: Scarcely means almost not, stressing how impossible the fit would be.
Mr. Thorwald could scarcely put his wife's body in a plot of ground about one foot square.upright
Unless, of course, he put her in standing on end, and then he wouldn't need a knife and saw.everywhere in
No, my idea is she's scattered all over town.strewn about — Blunt and gruesome; not for polite talk.
No, my idea is she's scattered all over town.return it to its place
Those flowers have been taken out and put back in.unearth
Jeff plans to go over after dark and dig up whatever is buried.
Let's wait till it gets a little darker, and I'll go over there and dig them up.Link till it together and soften the ts in gets.
Let's wait till it gets a little darker, and I'll go over there and dig them up.get yourself badly hurt — A joking, exaggerated warning between friends.
You'll go? You won't dig anything up and get your neck broken.not ... until: Not ... until means the call will not happen before the body is produced.
We're not gonna call Doyle until I can produce Mrs. Thorwald's body.Gonna is reduced; the stress falls on call.
We're not gonna call Doyle until I can produce Mrs. Thorwald's body.work out how
What we've got to do is find a way to get into that apartment.「Jeff Spots the Disturbed Flower Bed」を読み解く
What's really going on
The whole murder case now rests on gardening. Jeff lines up old photographs against the live view and finds one detail that doesn't obey the laws of nature: flowers don't shrink. "Since when do flowers grow shorter in two weeks?" From there he reasons backward — if the bed was dug up and replanted, whatever Thorwald buried there is either evidence or a body. Stella, ever practical, punctures the drama by pointing out that a man could hardly fit a body into a foot-square plot. But Jeff isn't claiming a neat burial; he's claiming a hiding place, and that is enough to make him want to dig it up. His line about Doyle — 'We're not gonna call Doyle until I can produce Mrs. Thorwald's body' — shows he knows how thin his case still is.
Theme
SecretsJeff reads a tiny change in a flower bed as proof that Thorwald is hiding something underground.
JusticeJeff wants hard evidence before calling the police, insisting he must produce the body first.
このチャプターで学べること
- A shrunken flower bed is proof enough for a photographer's eye.
- Jeff reasons with images, not with witnesses.
- Stella's common sense keeps the theory from floating away.
- Planning the dig shows how far Jeff will go.
発音のポイント
- I've solved — Link I've and solved; the 've is barely voiced.
- what you — What you can blur into whaddaya.
- till it gets — Link till it together and soften the ts in gets.
- gonna call — Gonna is reduced; the stress falls on call.
Now, since when do flowers grow shorter in two weeks?Jeff's rhetorical question makes the point that plants don't shrink — so the flower bed must have been disturbed.
There's something, and if I'm right, I think I've solved a murder.He tells Lisa he has found a meaningful detail and, if his reading is correct, has cracked the case.
We're not gonna call Doyle until I can produce Mrs. Thorwald's body.Jeff refuses to involve the police until he has hard evidence, because a theory alone won't convince the detective.
You haven't spent much time around cemeteries, have you?Stella's dry jab that Jeff doesn't understand burials, questioning his idea of a body hidden in the flower bed.
このシーンについての質問
What clue does Jeff find in the flower bed?
The yellow zinnias in Thorwald's bed are shorter than they were two weeks earlier. Since flowers don't shrink, Jeff concludes the soil was dug up and something was buried there.
Why does Jeff think the dog was killed?
The dog had been digging in the flower bed. Jeff believes Thorwald killed it to stop it from uncovering whatever he had buried there.
What does 'since when' mean here?
It's a rhetorical question meaning 'that shouldn't be possible.' Jeff uses it to argue that flowers can't get shorter, so the bed must have been disturbed.
Why won't Jeff call Detective Doyle yet?
Because he has only a theory, not proof. He says they won't call Doyle until he can produce Mrs. Thorwald's body, so they plan to dig up the flower bed first.
Who is Stella and what does she think?
Stella is Jeff's nurse. She doubts his theory, joking that Thorwald could scarcely fit his wife's body into a foot-square plot of ground.
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第 1 章go up in smokeJeff Argues with His Editor
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
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第 13 章louse up somethingLisa Gets Arrested at Thorwald's第 12 / 13 章 · 残り約 3 分