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The End of the Tour · 2015 — 第 12 / 17 章 · 4'02" · B2

Wallace Tells Lipsky to Stay Away, Explained：come on to someone

After a night of movies and small talk, David Foster Wallace confronts David Lipsky in private, accusing him of hitting on Betsy: 'I saw you hitting on Betsy.' He insists she stop talking to the journalist and warns him to 'stay away from her,' while Lipsky argues it was only about the story.

あらすじ

Late in the tour, Wallace, Lipsky and friends watch a movie and chat about bad films. Betsy offers Lipsky her e-mail in case he has questions about Wallace in graduate school. Once the two men are alone, Wallace accuses Lipsky of flirting with Betsy and tells him to stay away, a charge Lipsky denies.

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注目の表現

hate his gutshit on someonecome on to someonethe basic offense

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このシーンの表現

come on to someone

make a pass at someone

Wallace asks for the bare minimum: do not make a pass at Betsy in front of him.

He came on to her at the party.

このシーンの他の表現

  • hate his guts

    despise someone

  • hit on someone

    flirt with someone

  • the basic offense

    the main charge

  • get involved with someone

    start a relationship with someone

  • stay away from someone

    keep your distance from someone

このシーンのメモ一覧

79 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ

表現 · B1have got to be kidding me

you cannot be serious

- Horrible. - You have got to be kidding me.
文法 · B1have got to be

have got to: Have got to equals must, and here it carries disbelief rather than obligation.

- Horrible. - You have got to be kidding me.
発音got to be

Got to be collapses into gotta be in fast speech.

- Horrible. - You have got to be kidding me.
スラング · B1kidding

joking — Spoken for disbelief; fine in most casual talk.

- Horrible. - You have got to be kidding me.
表現 · B2have a heart

show some mercy

The group argues over the film's ending, and one plea for mercy keeps the fight playful.

No, he did not. Have a heart.
スラング · B2Jesus Christ

an exclamation of shock — An exclamation that can offend religious listeners.

With Sandra Bernhard? Ah, Jesus Christ!
表現 · C1hate someone's guts

despise someone

Recalling an old classmate, Wallace admits he despised the man, with comic bluntness.

I hated his guts so much.
スラング · B2guts

insides, in an idiom — Fixed in this idiom; casual and vivid.

I hated his guts so much.
表現 · B1something or anything

a drink or the like

Hey, wait. Does anyone want drinks or anything?
表現 · C1the basic offense

the main charge

Wallace jokes that being popular while he was not was the classmate's whole crime.

And I was not. That was the basic offense. Look at him now.
表現 · B2one of the greats

among the best ever

Um, no. It's one of the greats. And Hedy Lamarr is fascinating.
表現 · C1frequency hopping

a radio signaling method

She invented, uh... She invented frequency hopping.
文法 · B2what Dave was like in grad school

noun clause: The what-clause is the object of about and keeps statement order, not question order.

Hey, I was wondering. When I get back to New York, if I have any questions about what Dave was like in grad school or something, can I e-mail you?
表現 · B1out of the tap

from the faucet

- So, do you drink out of the tap? - Yes.
表現 · B2hit on someone

flirt with someone

Alone with Lipsky, Wallace says flatly that he saw him flirting with Betsy.

I saw you hitting on Betsy.
文法 · B2The least you could do is

superlative subject: The least you could do is plus a bare verb states the bare minimum you expect.

The least you could do is show me the respect...
表現 · B1in front of someone

in someone's presence

of not coming on to her right in front of me.
表現 · C1come on to someone

make a pass at someone

Wallace asks for the bare minimum: do not make a pass at Betsy in front of him.

of not coming on to her right in front of me.
発音in front of

In front of blurs into a single run of sound.

of not coming on to her right in front of me.
表現 · B2get involved with someone

start a relationship with someone

Lipsky defends himself by asking why he would bother with someone who lives in another city.

And why would I want to get involved with somebody who lives in Saint Paul?
表現 · A2stay away from someone

keep your distance from someone

Wallace ends with a short, firm warning to keep his distance from Betsy.

Stay away from her, okay?
発音Stay away

Stay away links into one unit, stay-away.

Stay away from her, okay?
表現 · C1a gross exaggeration

a wild overstatement

Asked what he missed, one man gets two opposite answers and mocks the drama with a formal phrase.

Everything. Nothing. Everything? That seems like a gross exaggeration.
スラング · B2gross

extreme, blatant — Used in speech and writing for an extreme degree.

Everything. Nothing. Everything? That seems like a gross exaggeration.

「Wallace Tells Lipsky to Stay Away」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene turns a friendly evening into the loudest argument of the trip, and it is not really about Betsy. For days Wallace has watched Lipsky move through his world — his friends, his town, his past — and the e-mail exchange is the moment it becomes personal. His accusation is blunt: 'I saw you hitting on Betsy,' followed by the line that gives the scene its title, 'stay away from her.' Lipsky defends himself as a professional gathering background, but his answer — 'I don't know. You're already involved with somebody who lives in Los Angeles' — puts the real subject on the table: both men are tangled up with women they cannot be honest with. Wallace's reply is not an argument but a request to be decent, 'Be a good guy.' The fight is about who gets to be part of whose life, and who only passes through.

Theme

FriendshipWallace treats Lipsky's interest in Betsy as a betrayal of the access and trust he has been given.
BetrayalThe e-mail exchange turns a professional favor into a personal line that Wallace says has been crossed.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Asking for an e-mail reads as flirting to a jealous eye.
  • Hit on and come on to both describe making a pass.
  • The warning is short because the trust is already gone.
  • Stay away from someone is a line, not a suggestion.

発音のポイント

  • got to be — Got to be collapses into gotta be in fast speech.
  • in front of — In front of blurs into a single run of sound.
  • Stay away — Stay away links into one unit, stay-away.
And I was not. That was the basic offense. Look at him now.

Wallace's deadpan account of why he hated a popular classmate: the man's only crime was being cool while Wallace was not.

The least you could do is show me the respect...

Wallace's demand, left unfinished, that Lipsky at least not flirt with Betsy in front of him.

I don't know. You're already involved with somebody who lives in Los Angeles.

Lipsky's counterpunch, pointing out that Wallace too is involved with someone far away, in Los Angeles.

I don't want her talking to you.

Wallace's plain first demand, before he tells Lipsky outright to stay away from Betsy.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Wallace tell Lipsky to stay away from Betsy?

He sees Lipsky getting Betsy's e-mail and accuses him of hitting on her. Wallace and Betsy dated in graduate school, so he takes it as a personal betrayal rather than a professional move.

Did Lipsky actually flirt with Betsy?

Lipsky insists he only wanted her e-mail in case he had questions about the story. Wallace does not buy it, pointing out that Lipsky got her address right in front of him.

Why does Wallace end the argument by telling Lipsky to 'Be a good guy'?

It is his closing request after the fight: stop treating the people around him as sources. Wallace wants Lipsky to act decently toward Betsy rather than just professionally.

What does 'hate his guts' mean?

It is a strong way of saying you hate someone completely. Wallace uses it about a popular college classmate whose only offense was being well liked.

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