Sabrina · 1954 — 第 3 / 18 章 · 2'07" · B1

Sabrina's Soufflé Gives Her Away, Explained:lost your touch

The cooking exam is a cover story. A teacher praises a baron — "you have not lost your touch" — then turns to Sabrina and reads her fallen soufflé as a confession: "you are unhappily in love." Meanwhile, back home, her father tries to pretend she's over David, and nobody believes him.

あらすじ

At Sabrina's cooking school in Paris, the class presents soufflés for inspection. The instructor sizes up each one — "too low," "too pale," "so-so" — and praises an older student: "My dear Baron, you have not lost your touch." Then he stops at Sabrina, whose soufflé never rose, and names the real problem.

Small talkTalking to the bossComplimentingExplainingTeacher & studentB1slowamericanClean
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I beg your pardonget over itgayexaggerating

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このシーンの表現

lost your touch

lost your skill

After the demonstration, someone flatters the teacher that his skill has not faded at all.

Have you lost your touch, or are you just tired?

このシーンの他の表現

  • I beg your pardon

    excuse me, what did you say

  • get over it

    recover from it

  • gay

    cheerful, lively (old sense)

  • exaggerating

    overstating it

  • so-so

    neither good nor bad

このシーンのメモ一覧

29 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ

表現 · A2hear from someone

get news from someone

What do you hear from your daughter, Fairchild?
表現 · A2the cooking school

the school for cooks

I mean, she loves the cooking school, sir.
発音loves the

The is reduced in mid-sentence; keep it light.

I mean, she loves the cooking school, sir.
表現 · A2get over something

recover from it

Fairchild softens the confession at once, insisting the girl will get over it.

But she'll get over it.
文法 · A2she'll get over it

future with will: Will plus a bare verb predicts the future; 'll is its spoken form.

But she'll get over it.
表現 · B1in the summer breeze

a light summer wind

like two butterflies dancing the waltz in the summer breeze.
発音five seconds

The v in five often drops, giving fie-seconds.

You have five seconds, four seconds, three seconds, two seconds, one second!
表現 · A2too pale

not enough color

Too pale.
スラング · A2So-so

just average — Casual verdict; too loose for formal settings.

So-so.
表現 · B1lose your touch

lost your skill

After the demonstration, someone flatters the teacher that his skill has not faded at all.

My dear Baron, you have not lost your touch.
表現 · A2what happened

what went on

- I don't know what happened. - I will tell you what happened.
表現 · A2turn on something

switch the oven on

The teacher names the real cause at once: she forgot to turn on the oven.

You forgot to turn on the oven.
表現 · A2for a long time

for quite a while

I've been watching you for a long time, mademoiselle.
スラング · B1mademoiselle

miss (French address) — A French borrowing, playful or formal; odd with strangers.

I've been watching you for a long time, mademoiselle.
表現 · B1be elsewhere

somewhere else

Your mind has not been on the cooking. Your mind has been elsewhere.
文法 · B1Your mind has not been on the cooking

present perfect: Has been links the past to now: the distraction has lasted a while.

Your mind has not been on the cooking. Your mind has been elsewhere.
表現 · A2be in love

in a romantic state

You're in love.
発音You're in

Link You're and in so it sounds like your-in.

You're in love.
表現 · B2go a step further

push the point further

Having said she is in love, the teacher asks leave to push one step further and adds the painful part.

And I will venture to go a step further, you are unhappily in love.
文法 · B2I will venture to go a step further

parenthetical remark: The clause sits before the verdict and asks leave to say something bold.

And I will venture to go a step further, you are unhappily in love.
表現 · A2does it show

is it visible

- Does it show? - Very clearly.

「Sabrina's Soufflé Gives Her Away」を読み解く

What's really going on

The soufflé is the whole trick of the scene. The instructor never asks Sabrina a personal question; he reads her dessert and delivers a verdict: "Your mind has not been on the cooking. Your mind has been elsewhere." Then he goes further — "you are unhappily in love" — and she can only ask, "Does it show?" The exam format lets him say, under the cover of grading, what nobody in her family will say out loud. Back at the Larrabee house, the same subject is handled with euphemism: Fairchild reports that his daughter "still loves him," then hurriedly corrects it to the cooking school. The contrast is the point — Paris names the feeling, the family talks around it.

Theme

RomanceA failed dessert exposes a love the family keeps dodging — the kitchen says out loud what home won't.
HeartbreakSabrina's soufflé collapses, and the instructor reads it as proof she's unhappily in love, not simply lovesick.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A failed souffle can read like a confession.
  • Fairchild softens the truth every time Linus asks.
  • The teacher pushes his guess one careful step further.

発音のポイント

  • loves the — The is reduced in mid-sentence; keep it light.
  • five seconds — The v in five often drops, giving fie-seconds.
  • You're in — Link You're and in so it sounds like your-in.
- She still loves him. - I beg your pardon?

Fairchild slips and says his daughter still loves David, then pretends he meant the cooking school. "I beg your pardon?" is the polite, startled "what did you say?"

You have five seconds, four seconds, three seconds, two seconds, one second!

The instructor runs a dramatic countdown, turning a cooking exam into a race — five, four, three, two, one — before the soufflés go in.

My dear Baron, you have not lost your touch.

A compliment to an older student: the Baron can still cook. "Lost your touch" means a skill has gone rusty, so "not lost your touch" is high praise.

You forgot to turn on the oven.

Blunt diagnosis: the student's soufflé failed because the oven was never switched on. No excuses, just the missing step.

I've been watching you for a long time, mademoiselle.

The instructor has been quietly studying Sabrina the whole time — she's been distracted, and he's about to say why.

And I will venture to go a step further, you are unhappily in love.

He pushes his guess one step beyond "you're in love": it's unhappy love. "Go a step further" means to add a bolder claim.

このシーンについての質問

How does the instructor know Sabrina is in love?

He's watched her for weeks. Her mind isn't on the cooking, and her soufflé failed because she forgot the oven — the tell is distraction, not the dessert itself.

Why does Fairchild say his daughter loves the cooking school?

He first lets slip that she still loves David, then catches himself in front of his employer. Saying she loves the cooking school is a quick save, and it doesn't fool anyone.

Why did Sabrina's soufflé fail?

She forgot to turn on the oven. The instructor names it plainly, but he treats the failure as a symptom: her attention was elsewhere, on someone she can't stop thinking about.

Is Sabrina happily or unhappily in love, according to the instructor?

Unhappily. He says a woman happily in love burns her soufflé, but Sabrina's never rose at all — so he concludes she's in love and that it's going badly.

Does the Baron pass the exam?

Yes. His soufflé is the one the instructor calls "superb," and he's told he hasn't lost his touch — the class veteran who still has it.

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