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The Dawn Wall · 2017 — 第 3 / 24 章 · 3'28" · B2

Climbers Taken Hostage in Kyrgyzstan, Explained：sitting ducks

An expedition to Kyrgyzstan turns into a nightmare when gunmen shoot at the portaledges. Rappelling down, the four climbers become hostages "caught up in this battle between these rebels and the Kyrgyz military." There is no heroism here, only the terror of people who can neither run nor fight.

あらすじ

Four young climbers fly into the Kara-Su Valley for the adventure of a lifetime. A week and a half in, sleeping in portaledges a thousand feet up the wall, they wake to gunfire. They rappel down and are met by heavily armed men, taken to their own ransacked base camp, and told to hide it. Only then does it hit them: they are hostages.

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charter a helicoptersitting ducksheavily armedcaught up in

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このシーンの表現

sitting ducks

helpless targets

Bullets hit between their ledges; high on the wall they can neither hide nor flee.

Parked there, the trucks were sitting ducks for thieves.

このシーンの他の表現

  • charter a helicopter

    rent a helicopter for private use

  • heavily armed

    carrying many weapons

  • caught up in

    trapped inside something bigger

  • the craziest spots

    the wildest hiding places

  • set in

    begin and start to take hold

このシーンのメモ一覧

53 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

表現 · A2get invited to do something

be asked to join

And then we got invited to go on a big adventure trip.
表現 · B1a paradise for someone

an ideal place for a group

We'd seen pictures from friends that had been there, and it looked like a paradise for climbers.
表現 · B2come about

come into being

And this amazing opportunity came about for me to shoot an expedition with Beth and Tommy and Jason.
表現 · A2in the middle of something

in the midst of something

out in the middle of this adventure with this girl that I was totally in love with.
発音can't run away

The t in can't drops and run away links together.

And you can't run away. You can't do anything.
スラング · B2ducks

easy targets — Only idiomatic inside sitting duck.

We're just sitting ducks up here.
表現 · B2rappel down

descend on a rope

We rappelled down to the ground.
文法 · B2We're encountered by

misused passive: The present passive is used for a past event; standard English says we were met by.

We're encountered by four guys, heavily armed.
スラング · A2guys

men, a group — Informal for a group of people; formal writing prefers men.

We're encountered by four guys, heavily armed.
表現 · B2splay something around

spread out around

A lot of our food was splayed around the meadow.
表現 · B1it hits someone

someone suddenly realises

And so suddenly, it hits us, we're hostages right now.
発音it hits us

Hits and us link, sounding almost like one word.

And so suddenly, it hits us, we're hostages right now.
表現 · B1point something at someone

aim something at someone

The rebels start pointing their guns at us, yelling, "Hide!"
表現 · B1shoot someone in the head

fire a bullet into someone's head

And they just shot him in the head.
文法 · B1as tight as he could

as...as possible: As...as someone can means to the greatest degree that person is able.

I just remember shaking uncontrollably and Tommy just holding me as tight as he could.
表現 · B2die down

fade and quieten

Once it's dark, the gunfire dies down.
表現 · A2have no idea

not know at all

We had no idea where we were going.
発音had no idea

The three words run together with a glide before idea.

We had no idea where we were going.
表現 · B1through the night

all night long

We would hike through the night,
スラング · B1craziest

wildest — Hyperbolic and casual, fine with friends.

They hid us in the craziest spots.
文法 · B2so that we wouldn't be seen by the military

purpose clause: So that introduces the purpose, with a passive verb inside the clause.

Burying us in holes in the ground so that we wouldn't be seen by the military.
表現 · A2go on

continue, last

This went on for six days.
表現 · B2waste away

grow weaker and thinner

You know, we're sort of just wasting away.

「Climbers Taken Hostage in Kyrgyzstan」を読み解く

What's really going on

The dream adventure inverts in a single morning. The same climbers who felt they were in paradise now hang on a wall with bullets crossing between their tents, and the detail that lands hardest is not the gunfire but the helplessness: "And you can't run away. You can't do anything." What follows is stranger than a war film — they are made to hide their own camp, then marched through the mountains for six days, burying themselves in holes to evade the military. Beth remembers "shaking uncontrollably and Tommy just holding me as tight as he could," and somewhere in that sentence is the film's real subject. Long before El Capitan, these two already knew what it means to hold on to each other in a place where you cannot escape.

Theme

SurvivalFour climbers held at gunpoint survive by staying hidden and holding on until the ordeal ends.
CourageWith no way to run or fight, the only strength available is keeping calm and keeping each other close.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Paradise and ambush can share the same valley.
  • Helplessness is being high up with nowhere to go.
  • War arrives for civilians without a reason.
  • Slow hunger is a quieter danger than gunfire.

発音のポイント

  • can't run away — The t in can't drops and run away links together.
  • it hits us — Hits and us link, sounding almost like one word.
  • had no idea — The three words run together with a glide before idea.
We're just sitting ducks up here.

Trapped on the wall with nothing to hide behind, they can only wait to be shot at.

And you can't run away. You can't do anything.

The essence of the hostage situation: total helplessness, with no option but to wait.

I just remember shaking uncontrollably and Tommy just holding me as tight as he could.

Terror and comfort in one image, and the first sign of the bond the film keeps returning to.

And so suddenly, it hits us, we're hostages right now.

The moment denial ends and the climbers understand they are captives.

We were caught up in this battle between these rebels and the Kyrgyz military.

They are not targets or participants, only people unlucky enough to be in the middle.

We had no idea where we were going.

A forced march into the unknown, stripped of any control over what happens next.

You know, we're sort of just wasting away.

Days of hunger and cold described plainly, as the body slowly gives out.

このシーンについての質問

Why were the climbers taken hostage?

They were simply in the wrong place. The rebels wanted to hide from the Kyrgyz military, so they seized the foreigners camped nearby and kept them moving for six days.

Did the captors treat them violently?

The climbers were marched through mountains, buried in holes and given almost no food, and they witnessed a captive being shot. The threat of being killed next hung over everything.

Who is telling this story?

One of the four, a photographer who came to shoot the expedition. The account is first-person, which is why details like the bullets between the tents land so hard.

What does 'sitting ducks' mean?

It means people who are completely exposed and cannot defend themselves, like ducks sitting still for a hunter. Here it describes climbers trapped on a wall under gunfire.

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