How you doing drops are and runs together as one phrase.
- Hey, what's happening? - Hey, not much. How you doing?Slacker · 1990 — 第 14 / 22 章 · 2'39" · B1
From Jack Ruby's Dogs to Car Talk, Explained：work out
Two friends catch up: one has almost finished a set of JFK memorial booklets and has been reading up on Jack Ruby, down to the dachshund he took everywhere. Then the talk slides into engines, sockets and a 383 bore kit, the way it always does here.
あらすじ
Two friends meet and compare notes. One is collecting JFK memorial booklets and shares what he has learned about Jack Ruby, including the marksman's past and his beloved dachshund. The conversation then drifts into car engines, borrowed sockets and a rebuilt 383, before one of them offers the other a free ride.
注目の表現
hit manicingdachshundshit
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このシーンの表現
work out
succeed or get sorted
Talking about the Pontiac build, he says the tripower linkage never worked out.
The new setup never worked out, so we went back to stock.
このシーンの他の表現
- hit man
a hired killer
- icing
killing, in gangster slang
- dachshund
a long-bodied, short-legged dog
- shit
a common swear word
- mess with
tinker with; bother
このシーンのメモ一覧
49 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ
a commemorative booklet
Oh, pretty good. I just located this wonderfulJ.F.K. memorial booklet.the complete collection
Yeah, just one more and I'll have the whole set.the final one
- All right. - The last one's theJackie Kennedy issue...happening
So, what else has been going on?discover
Oh, well, I did find out some really startling information aboutJack Ruby.object clause: The how-clause is the object of knew, standing in for that in casual speech.
I always knew all that stuff how he had been a hit man for the mob in Chicago...when quite young
and how he was icing people at a pretty young age, but, uh...killing, in slang — Gangster slang; never joke with it.
and how he was icing people at a pretty young age, but, uh...deeply interested in
He was fascinated with his dogs.carry along
He had this one dachshund named Sheba that he just took with him everywhere.relative clause: The that-clause describes the dog he carried everywhere.
He had this one dachshund named Sheba that he just took with him everywhere.act toward someone as if
- He treated her like his wife.The g in poppin' drops and links straight into freeze.
- That Chevy still poppin' freeze plugs?a common swear — Casual swearing; never in polite speech.
Shit. No way. It is blowin' power valves though.lent me
Here's those sockets you loaned me.another person
Yeah, I loaned them to somebody else though.high-dome pistons
Yeah, I got the pop-up pistons.drilled wider
- Had the block bored over 30. - Yeah.causative have: Have the block bored means he had someone bore the block wider.
- Had the block bored over 30. - Yeah.a large engine block
- It's practically a big block now. - You mill the heads?The g in messin' drops and with weakens to a soft th.
Yeah, I didn't feel like messin' with the - I didn't feel like messin' with those headers.succeed or get sorted
Talking about the Pontiac build, he says the tripower linkage never worked out.
Yeah, the tripower linkage never worked out on that Goat.nickname for a Pontiac GTO — Car-fan slang; outsiders may not get it.
Yeah, the tripower linkage never worked out on that Goat.a Texas-flavored exclamation — Southern US slang; sounds put on elsewhere.
- Shit, howdy. - Good carburetors.quite neat
- Yep. Well, that's pretty clean. - Thanks.a lift at no cost
Heading out for parts, he offers a free ride to whoever comes along.
- I'm going. Free ride. - Okay.「From Jack Ruby's Dogs to Car Talk」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is two men talking past each other in the most companionable way. One wants to share his latest obsession — Jack Ruby — and the detail that has really landed is the dog: "He was fascinated with his dogs." The other is happy to listen to the parts he can follow. Then, with no transition at all, they are deep in engine talk: pop-up pistons, a block bored over thirty, a rebuilt crankshaft. The film treats both subjects the same, and that is the joke: a mob killer's dachshund and a 383 bore kit get exactly the same level of enthusiasm. Their closeness shows in the small business of returned sockets — "Yeah, I loaned them to somebody else though." — and in the offer of a free ride at the end. Nobody changes the subject because it needs changing; it changes because that is how these friends talk.
Theme
FriendshipThe two men share obsessions without judgment, moving easily from conspiracy to car parts and back.
Dark humorA killer's affection for his dachshund is discussed as casually as engine specs, with no comment.
このチャプターで学べること
- Two conversations can share a room without ever meeting.
- Petty collecting details can say more than the collection.
- Car jargon marks who belongs to which tribe here.
- Gangster slang makes violence sound routine.
発音のポイント
- How you doing — How you doing drops are and runs together as one phrase.
- poppin' freeze — The g in poppin' drops and links straight into freeze.
- messin' with — The g in messin' drops and with weakens to a soft th.
Yeah, just one more and I'll have the whole set.His satisfaction at nearly completing a collection of Kennedy memorial booklets, which is the thing he is proudest of.
He was fascinated with his dogs.The turn in the story about Jack Ruby: his obsession with his pets is offered as a surprising new fact.
Yeah, I loaned them to somebody else though.His casual admission that he passed on the borrowed sockets, said as if it were nothing.
He had this one dachshund named Sheba that he just took with him everywhere.The specific detail that sticks: the dog went with the killer to the jail basement.
このシーンについての質問
What is one of the men collecting?
He is collecting JFK memorial booklets called His Life, His Words, His Deeds. He says he only needs the Jackie Kennedy issue to have the whole set.
What does he say about Jack Ruby's dogs?
He says Ruby was fascinated with his dogs, and owned a dachshund named Sheba that he took everywhere, including the jail basement.
Why do they start talking about cars?
The conversation simply drifts there, as it would between friends: they discuss engines, carburettors, sockets and a rebuilt 383, and it is as absorbing to them as the conspiracy talk.
What does one of them offer at the end?
He says he is leaving and offers the other a free ride, which the man accepts.
What does "hit man" mean?
It means a professional killer, someone paid to murder people. He uses it about Jack Ruby's past with the mob.
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