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The Dawn Wall · 2017 — 第 2 / 24 章 · 3'21" · B2

Tommy Caldwell Wins Snowbird, Explained：head over heels

Before he was a legend, Tommy Caldwell was a scrawny teenager who tagged along to watch a climbing comp and accidentally entered it. "So all of a sudden, Tommy went from nobody at all to winner of Snowbird," a friend recalls. The win changes his life — and then he meets Beth, a climber as obsessed as he is.

あらすじ

At sixteen, Tommy Caldwell drives to Snowbird, Utah, to watch the Snowbird Invitational and collect autographs. He enters the open Citizens' Comp the day before, wins it, and is invited into the World Invitational, where he is the only climber to finish the route. Overnight he goes from unknown kid to Snowbird champion, and later meets Beth, the girl who becomes the love of his life.

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このシーンの表現

head over heels

deeply in love

The narration uses it to say Tommy fell completely for Beth.

She's head over heels for the guy she met on holiday.

このシーンの他の表現

  • scrawny

    very thin and bony

  • dream up

    invent something on the fly

  • lost it

    lose control of your feelings

  • caught my attention

    make someone take notice

  • live and breathe something

    be totally devoted to something

このシーンのメモ一覧

50 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ

表現 · A2a climbing competition

a climbing contest

This big climbing competition.
表現 · A2get an autograph

ask for signatures

We thought we'd drive over there and watch the comp and get some autographs.
発音thought we'd

The t in thought often drops and we'd fuses into one sound.

We thought we'd drive over there and watch the comp and get some autographs.
スラング · A2comp

competition — Spoken short form; use the full word in writing.

We thought we'd drive over there and watch the comp and get some autographs.
表現 · A2show up

turn up, appear

And the day before the big competition, they had a Citizens' Comp that anybody who shows up can enter.
文法 · B2I don't know if this was an official policy or just something they dreamt up on the spot

noun clause: The if-clause is the object of know, and or joins two possibilities inside it.

And I don't know if this was an official policy or just something they dreamt up on the spot, but they asked Tommy if he wanted to enter the World Invitational the next day.
発音don't know if

Don't know runs together, and if is usually reduced.

And I don't know if this was an official policy or just something they dreamt up on the spot, but they asked Tommy if he wanted to enter the World Invitational the next day.
表現 · B1test one's skills

put one's skills to the test

Expert climbers will test their skills against a man-made 120-foot wall.
表現 · A2hear of someone

know of someone

Nobody had ever heard of me.
スラング · B1scrawny

skinny — Casual for a skinny person; avoid it for adults.

I was just this scrawny little kid.
文法 · B1as he goes climbing up this thing

time clause: As marks an action happening at the same time as another.

I was videoing Tommy as he goes climbing up this thing.
表現 · B1get past something

make it beyond something

He got past the final roof.
表現 · B1all of a sudden

suddenly

So all of a sudden, Tommy went from nobody at all to winner of Snowbird
発音all of a sudden

All of a blurs into one run of sound.

So all of a sudden, Tommy went from nobody at all to winner of Snowbird
表現 · B1change someone's life

transform someone's life

It changed his whole life.
表現 · A2grow up

become an adult

But he didn't grow up the way most of us do.
表現 · B1a series of something

a number of things in sequence

I was doing this series of competitions, and I met this girl, Beth.
表現 · B2an endearing smile

a charming smile

Tommy just had this really big, goofy, endearing grin.
スラング · B1goofy

silly in a lovable way — Friendly and playful; not a real insult.

Tommy just had this really big, goofy, endearing grin.
表現 · B1the ... version of someone

a female counterpart

Tommy's this climbing savant, and then he meets Beth, the female version of himself.
文法 · B2the female version of himself

appositive: The phrase sits in apposition to Beth, defining who she is.

Tommy's this climbing savant, and then he meets Beth, the female version of himself.
表現 · A2find out

discover, learn

I found out she was going to Yosemite, so I followed her out there.
表現 · B1end up doing something

turn out to do something

We ended up climbing a big wall together.
表現 · B1head to toe

with feet toward the other's head

You sleep head to toe. There's just more room that way.

「Tommy Caldwell Wins Snowbird」を読み解く

What's really going on

The chapter is about the making of an obsession. Tommy is introduced as "this scrawny little kid" that no one has heard of, and the win is presented less as a triumph than as the moment a life locks into place. "So all of a sudden, Tommy went from nobody at all to winner of Snowbird," the narration says, and the real point is what the victory costs him: a normal adolescence, girlfriends, a social life. Then Beth appears, and for the first time the thing he loves is not a wall but a person. The love story is told in his own voice, plainly and without embarrassment — "I just hadn't been in love before, and I just fell hardcore, right off the bat" — which is why it lands. The film keeps insisting that climbing is not the opposite of intimacy; it is the language he and Beth both speak.

Theme

Coming of ageA teenage outsider wins a competition that transforms his life and sets the course of everything that follows.
RomanceTommy meets Beth, a climber like himself, and falls head over heels for the first time.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A walk-on win can rewrite a whole life.
  • Falling in love and falling off a climb share the same vocabulary.
  • Two people who live and breathe one thing find each other.
  • The brother's camera work matters more than the broadcast.

発音のポイント

  • thought we'd — The t in thought often drops and we'd fuses into one sound.
  • don't know if — Don't know runs together, and if is usually reduced.
  • all of a sudden — All of a blurs into one run of sound.
So all of a sudden, Tommy went from nobody at all to winner of Snowbird

The turn the whole story hangs on: in a single day a kid nobody knows becomes a champion, and his life will never be ordinary again.

I just hadn't been in love before, and I just fell hardcore, right off the bat.

Tommy's plain account of first love: no experience, no caution, just complete and immediate devotion.

But he didn't grow up the way most of us do.

A quiet warning that the price of early success was a childhood spent climbing instead of being a teenager.

Tommy's this climbing savant, and then he meets Beth, the female version of himself.

A friend's summary of the romance: the perfect match is someone who lives and breathes the same obsession.

Nobody had ever heard of me.

Tommy's own memory of being a nobody at the competition, the baseline against which the victory is measured.

I was doing this series of competitions, and I met this girl, Beth.

The quiet shift from climbing fame to love: the tour that built his career is also where he meets Beth.

このシーンについての質問

Why did Tommy enter the Snowbird competition?

He and a friend drove to Snowbird just to watch and collect autographs, but the Citizens' Comp was open to anyone, so he signed up and ended up winning his first-ever competition.

How did winning at Snowbird change Tommy's life?

It turned him from an unknown sixteen-year-old into a recognized young climber and set him on the path that leads to the rest of the film. The narration calls it the moment his whole life changed.

Who is Beth, and why does she matter?

Beth is a climber Tommy meets during a series of competitions, and the two are described as mirror images of each other. She is the first person he falls in love with, and the romance shapes the second half of the chapter.

What does 'head over heels' mean?

It means completely in love, so absorbed in someone that you are almost upside down. Tommy uses the feeling to describe meeting Beth.

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