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Sabrina · 1954 — 第 5 / 18 章 · 4'59" · B2

David Confronts Linus Over the Merger, Explained：wheels are in motion

The merger isn't a love story — it's a supply chain. David accuses his brother of trading him away for sugar cane: "I'm supposed to be offered up as a human sacrifice on the altar of industrial progress, is that it?" Linus doesn't argue; he just shows off the plastic, and lets the wedding date do the talking.

あらすじ

David pushes past Miss McCardle to see his brother. Linus is in a meeting about the plastics deal and won't be interrupted — not even by a family matter. Unimpressed, David brings up the newspaper item about him and Elizabeth Tyson, and Linus turns the talk to plastic samples: scratch-proof, flame-proof, and strong enough to stand on.

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have my ordersmake up your mindsettle downmake sense

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このシーンの表現

wheels are in motion

the process has started

Hearing that every division is ready, David realizes the plan is already running without him.

Once the contract is signed, the wheels are in motion.

このシーンの他の表現

  • have my orders

    I am following orders

  • make up your mind

    decide finally

  • settle down

    start a stable life

  • make sense

    add up logically

  • got to do with

    have to do with

このシーンのメモ一覧

82 行のセリフに 31 件のメモ

表現 · B1have one's orders

I am following orders

David insists on entering, and the secretary blocks him by saying she is only following orders.

I'm sorry, Mr David. I have my orders.
表現 · B1the plastics deal

the plastics business

He's working with the lawyers on the plastics deal.
表現 · B2use something as a battering ram

something used to smash a door

Miss McCardle, are you gonna press that button, or do I have to take you up in my arms and break that door down using you as a battering ram?
スラング · A2gonna

going to — Spoken reduction; avoid it in writing.

Miss McCardle, are you gonna press that button, or do I have to take you up in my arms and break that door down using you as a battering ram?
表現 · B1stand up against something

withstand

Say, I wonder how this would stand up against a bazooka.
スラング · A2Say

say, hey — A spoken opener used to start a new thought.

Say, I wonder how this would stand up against a bazooka.
表現 · B1if you don't mind

if that is all right

To get back to my problem, if you don't mind.
表現 · B1have no intention of doing something

do not plan to

I have no intention of marrying Elizabeth Tyson.
表現 · B1have had it

have had enough

Look, Linus, I've been married before. I've had it. I've had it three times.
表現 · B1settle down

start a stable life

Handing over the sugar plastic, Linus says the family finally approves because David will settle down.

But this is the first time the family approves, because for once you're gonna settle down and do something constructive. Taste it.
表現 · B1have to do with something

be connected to something

Wait a minute. This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the Tysons own the largest holdings of sugar cane in Puerto Rico, would it?
発音wouldn't have

The t in wouldn't drops and have reduces to av.

Wait a minute. This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the Tysons own the largest holdings of sugar cane in Puerto Rico, would it?
表現 · B1make sense

add up logically

Putting sugar, formula and wedding news together, David sees the scheme and says it all makes sense.

It's all beginning to make sense.
表現 · B2a human sacrifice

a person offered up

Mr Tyson owns the sugar cane, you own the formula for the plastics, and I'm supposed to be offered up as a human sacrifice on the altar of industrial progress, is that it?
文法 · B1I'm supposed to be offered up as a human sacrifice

be supposed to: Be supposed to marks what is arranged for him, and the tone drips with sarcasm.

Mr Tyson owns the sugar cane, you own the formula for the plastics, and I'm supposed to be offered up as a human sacrifice on the altar of industrial progress, is that it?
文法 · B2As if the son of the hot dog dynasty were being offered in marriage

as if clause: The were after as if shows the comparison is imagined, not real.

You make it sound so vulgar, David. As if the son of the hot dog dynasty were being offered in marriage to the daughter of the mustard king.
表現 · B2narrow-minded

small-minded

That's very narrow-minded of you, David.
表現 · B1propose to someone

ask her to marry you

Sooner or later you're going to propose to her anyway.
発音going to

In speech going to blurs into gonna.

Sooner or later you're going to propose to her anyway.
表現 · B1an old maid

an unmarried woman

What's so funny? You want to die an old maid?
文法 · B2If making money were all there was to business, it'd hardly be worthwhile going to the office

second conditional: An unreal present condition: were in the if-clause and would in the main clause.

If making money were all there was to business, it'd hardly be worthwhile going to the office.
表現 · B2a by-product of something

a side effect

Money is the by-product.
表現 · B1a dirty word

a taboo term

- What's the main objective, power? - That's become a dirty word.
表現 · B1go into a business

enter a line of work

You're going into plastics now. What will that prove?
表現 · B1be in business

up and running

Factories go up, machines are brought in, a harbour is dug, and you're in business.
表現 · B2feel like a heel

feel guilty and small

After Linus paints the cost of refusing, David says he is being made to feel like a heel.

Now you make me feel like a heel. If I don't marry Elizabeth, some kid's going to be running around Puerto Rico barefoot - with cavities in his teeth. - Look at this stuff.
スラング · B1heel

a cad — Casual insult; keep it away from bosses and elders.

Now you make me feel like a heel. If I don't marry Elizabeth, some kid's going to be running around Puerto Rico barefoot - with cavities in his teeth. - Look at this stuff.
表現 · B2the wheels are in motion

the process has started

Hearing that every division is ready, David realizes the plan is already running without him.

You mean the wheels are in motion already?
表現 · B1take someone's word for it

accept it without proof

- Linus, I'll take your word for it. - Up you go.
発音take your

Link take your so it sounds like tay-kyor.

- Linus, I'll take your word for it. - Up you go.
表現 · B1get in on something

join in on it

Some plastic, eh? We're planning on a summer wedding so we can get in on this year's sugar crop.

「David Confronts Linus Over the Merger」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is a business negotiation wearing a family argument's clothes. David thinks he's there to fight about a wedding; Linus keeps answering with product. He shows a plastic that "doesn't burn, doesn't scorch, doesn't melt," stages a weight test with the secretaries, and only then mentions "a summer wedding so we can get in on this year's sugar crop." David finally names the trade — "Mr Tyson owns the sugar cane, you own the formula for the plastics" — and Linus half-admits it with a joke about a hot dog dynasty marrying a mustard king. What stings is the last line, delivered flat: "I think you're going to be very happy, David." Linus isn't asking. He's already signed.

Theme

MoneyThe marriage is presented as industrial strategy: sugar cane plus a plastics formula, with David as the thing being traded.
PowerLinus never raises his voice; he answers a personal protest with samples and blueprints, and the deal is already done.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A wedding here is a business move dressed as romance.
  • Linus argues with slogans, not facts.
  • The closing blessing is the sharpest line in the room.

発音のポイント

  • wouldn't have — The t in wouldn't drops and have reduces to av.
  • going to — In speech going to blurs into gonna.
  • take your — Link take your so it sounds like tay-kyor.
Mr Tyson owns the sugar cane, you own the formula for the plastics, and I'm supposed to be offered up as a human sacrifice on the altar of industrial progress, is that it?

David spells out the trade: the Tysons' sugar cane for the Larrabee plastics formula, with himself as the offering. "Human sacrifice" is bitter and theatrical — he sees the wedding as a business ritual.

You make it sound so vulgar, David. As if the son of the hot dog dynasty were being offered in marriage to the daughter of the mustard king.

Linus mocks David's outrage by making both dynasties sound petty — a hot dog family marrying a mustard family. Every merger looks vulgar if you strip away the romance.

Money is the by-product.

Linus's answer to what business is for: money isn't the goal, it's what's left over once the work is done. The claim sounds noble and self-serving at once.

I have no intention of marrying Elizabeth Tyson.

David's flat refusal. It lands right after he coolly asks Linus for a light, which is what makes the timing so needling.

If making money were all there was to business, it'd hardly be worthwhile going to the office.

Linus says business isn't just profit — otherwise there'd be no reason to show up. It's his defense of ambition as something bigger than money.

What's wrong with the kind of an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?

His version of why the work matters: the same drive behind a plastics plant builds libraries, hospitals and ballparks for people who had nothing.

This is my home. No wife would ever understand it.

Linus calls the office his home and says no wife would understand it — a line that makes the company sound like the only relationship he wants.

このシーンについての質問

Why is David so angry about the Elizabeth Tyson marriage?

He's being pushed into it for business reasons. The Tysons own sugar cane, the Larrabees want the plastics deal, and David sees himself as the payment — hence "human sacrifice."

Did Linus arrange the marriage without telling David?

Effectively. David hasn't proposed and Elizabeth hasn't accepted, but Linus says he already proposed and Mr Tyson accepted, and the wedding is planned around the sugar crop.

Why does Linus mention the sugar crop?

It reveals the real deadline. The summer wedding is timed to the harvest so the Larrabees can profit from this year's cane — proof the marriage is part of the business plan.

Is David really going to marry Elizabeth Tyson?

The scene ends with Linus assuming so — he even toasts David's future happiness. David never gets a real chance to refuse, because the plans are already in motion.

Who is Miss McCardle?

Linus's secretary. She blocks David at the door ("I have my orders"), takes Linus's calls, and later brings in the secretaries for the plastic weight test.

麗しのサブリナ · 全 18 章

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