feel shame about
My dear, never let anyone tell you to be ashamed of your figure!The Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947 — 第 6 / 18 章 · 4'51" · B2
Lucy Tells the Captain About Edwin, Explained：as it is
The ghost of Captain Gregg storms in to find his monkey puzzle tree gone and picks a fight about roses, sailors, and mourning. "You were fond of him perhaps, but you didn't love him," he says of Lucy's dead husband, and the bickering turns into the first honest talk she has had about her marriage.
あらすじ
At Gull Cottage, Martha grumbles about mourning clothes while Lucy tries to cheer her. Captain Gregg appears, furious that his monkey puzzle tree has been cut down, and he and Lucy trade insults about roses, swearing, and her late husband. Prodded by his questions, Lucy admits she married Edwin at seventeen and was fond of him, but never loved him.
注目の表現
as it isearthlyat one's disposalfond of
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このシーンの表現
as it is
already, as things stand
Back in the parlor, the captain scolds Lucy for adding black to a life already grim.
The team is short-handed as it is, so we can't lose anyone else.
このシーンの他の表現
- earthly
worldly, down-to-earth
- at one's disposal
free for someone to use
- fond of
to like someone mildly
- off watches
hours off duty at sea
- sheets
a rope, not a sail
このシーンのメモ一覧
88 行のセリフに 28 件のメモ
the final one of
There! That's the last of them.myself — Dialect for myself; keep it out of formal speech.
Never held with mourning meself.cut up as firewood
I expect it's chopped for firewood by now.a mild old oath — An old-fashioned grumble, softer than swearing.
Hang it all, madam!by one's own hands
I planted that tree with me own two hands.Blur me own into one sound and soften the t in two.
I planted that tree with me own two hands.die from a plant disease
I hope the whole blasted bed dies of blight!fortunately
If you think that's ugly, it's a good thing you can't read me thoughts.damned — Mild cursing, dated and informal.
Blasted women!demand firmly
Captain Gregg, if you insist on haunting me, you might at least be more agreeable about it.if-clause: The if-clause sets the condition before the main request, softening it.
Captain Gregg, if you insist on haunting me, you might at least be more agreeable about it.forced to spend time together
I mean, if we're to be thrown together so much, life's too short to be forever barking at each other.be to do: Be to do marks what is arranged or fated to happen.
I mean, if we're to be thrown together so much, life's too short to be forever barking at each other.Link at and my so they run together.
I have an unlimited time at my disposal.dress as a mourner
I happen to have been wearing mourning for my husband.contrast clause: The but-clause overturns the mild fond of and carries the point.
Because it's true. You were fond of him perhaps, but you didn't love him.not lift a finger
I never raised a finger to help them.a mild curse — An old gentleman's curse, rarely heard now.
Seamen, confound it!a landsman, no sailor — Sailor slang for a landsman, teasing not cruel.
Sailor is a landlubber's word.an extension to
He came down to plan an addition to my father's library.never achieved anything
Poor Edwin. He never did anything.modal perfect: Couldn't have done denies a past possibility.
He couldn't have designed a house like this.a lot of
Plenty of time for reading in the off watches.a mild curse — Old-fashioned mild cursing; avoid with elders.
Sails, blast it all, madam!the good judgment to
Because they haven't the sense to stay ashore.difficult to picture
It's hard to imagine you being an ordinary anything.Run being an together; stress the first syllable of ordinary.
It's hard to imagine you being an ordinary anything.「Lucy Tells the Captain About Edwin」を読み解く
What's really going on
What looks like marital bickering between a ghost and his tenant is really two lonely people circling the same wound. Gregg needles Lucy about the mourning she wears and lands the blow precisely: "You were fond of him perhaps, but you didn't love him." She fires back that he is only jealous, and he counters that three women once mourned him. Both are defending themselves, but the fight is what makes honesty possible, and by the time Lucy admits she married at seventeen because a novel told her kisses in an orchard ended happily, the arguing has quietly become confession. Gregg, meanwhile, keeps correcting her land language, insisting on "seamen" over "sailors" and "sails" over "sheets": a man who has lost everything except the words that say who he was.
Theme
LonelinessTwo lonely people, one living and one dead, argue their way toward the first real conversation either has had in years.
MemoryLucy's account of marrying Edwin at seventeen shows how a childhood novel, not love, decided her life.
このチャプターで学べること
- The dress fight is really about grief and self-respect.
- Fond of and love sit at different depths of feeling.
- A ghost's endless time makes a widow's short life sting.
- Sea jargon becomes a running joke between them.
発音のポイント
- me own two — Blur me own into one sound and soften the t in two.
- at my — Link at and my so they run together.
- being an — Run being an together; stress the first syllable of ordinary.
I always say life's black enough as it is without dressing in it, too.Martha's argument against mourning clothes: life is already dark, so she sees no reason to add black clothing to it.
And you, madam, are enough to make a saint take to blasphemy!Gregg's half-insult, half-compliment: Lucy is so provoking that she could drive even a saint to curse.
I have an unlimited time at my disposal.Gregg's reminder that as a ghost he has endless time, unlike Lucy, whose life he has just called short.
Because it's true. You were fond of him perhaps, but you didn't love him.Gregg's blunt reading of Lucy's marriage: affection without love, said to her face and impossible to deny.
I don't know anything about the sea except that it is romantic.Lucy's romantic, landbound idea of the sea, which Gregg immediately corrects word by word.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Captain Gregg care so much about the monkey puzzle tree?
He planted it himself, by hand, in the garden of the house he designed. It is one of the few things he ever made on land, so cutting it down is like erasing him a second time.
Was Lucy really not in love with Edwin?
The film lets her admit it. She married at seventeen because a novel convinced her that being kissed meant living happily ever after. Gregg asks "He didn't beat you, did he?", and the answer is no; Edwin simply never measured up to the story.
Who are the three women Gregg mentions?
Women he says once wore mourning for him, and he insists he never lifted a finger to lead them on. Lucy reads it as boasting; Gregg treats it as proof he was not the seducer she assumes.
Why does Gregg insist on "seamen" instead of "sailors"?
He is a captain correcting a landlubber's vocabulary. To him "sailor" is a soft word from people who never worked a deck, while "seamen" is the trade's own term, and keeping the distinction keeps his identity intact.
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