should already know
The officer scolds Murdoch for losing the road he is meant to know by heart.
Damn it, Murdoch, you're supposed to know the road.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943 — 第 17 / 30 章 · 3'24" · B2
Officers Interrogate Ulan Prisoners, Explained：a sure sign
At a front-line command post, officers navigate the dark, deal with a broken telephone line, and receive a batch of Ulan prisoners taken from the river with a hundred pounds of dynamite. The talk turns to whether the Germans are starting to fight foul, and someone offers to carry the men's letters home.
あらすじ
On the Western Front, officers lose their way in the dark until Murdoch's nose finds the road. At the command post, the telephone line is down, prisoners are brought in, and the men debate whether the Germans are beginning to fight foul. Candy argues that cheating is a sure sign of weakness, and offers to take the soldiers' letters home.
注目の表現
supposed to knowan eye for lootget through tomind the leak
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このシーンの表現
a sure sign
a certain indicator
The major reads the prisoners' loosening tongues as proof the enemy is near breaking.
His silence was a sure sign he disagreed.
このシーンの他の表現
- supposed to know
should already know
- an eye for loot
a knack for spotting things
- get through to
reach someone by phone
- mind the leak
watch out for the leak
- arms
weapons, and also limbs
このシーンのメモ一覧
49 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ
You're reduces to a light /jə/ before the stressed supposed.
Damn it, Murdoch, you're supposed to know the road.during the day
I know it at night, sir. In the daytime it looks different.relative clause: A reduced relative clause: the horses that the sappers never buried.
Yes, sir. Yon's our road, sir. I can smell the two horses those sappers didnae bury.The t vanishes in didnae, so it runs as did-nae.
Yes, sir. Yon's our road, sir. I can smell the two horses those sappers didnae bury.a knack for spotting things
The officer teases van Zijl for always spotting the best things to pick up.
You've a marvellous eye for loot, van Zijl.the Germans — Wartime British slang for Germans; loaded and dated.
Off the Jerries. 11 of them brought in an hour ago.reach someone by phone
The officer wants to phone the transport officer downstream, but the line is dead.
Can we get through to the RTO at Dupuis-sur-Something?the phone line is dead
I'm afraid the line's down between us and Mile 14, sir. I can send a runner.keep a spot for someone
- What message, sir? - Tell him to hold a place on the leave train.shelling hard — Military jargon for heavy shelling, often stretched in jokes.
They're plastering the road between 1-7 and 1-9 with shrapnel.take care of someone
- Right. Someone look after Murdoch. - Nobby.watch out for the leak
A soldier adds a quick warning to watch out for the dripping roof as the officer leaves.
- Very good, sir. - Mind the leak, sir.interrogate them
- That's all I've got out of them so far. - I'd like to question them.catch or grab — British informal for catching someone or grabbing something.
- Not so lucky. - Where did you nab them?drifting along with the current
Floating down the river early this morning.I reckon
My guess is they were after the new pontoon bridge below St Mangy.predicative clause: The whole clause after My guess is names what the speaker is guessing.
My guess is they were after the new pontoon bridge below St Mangy.two days ago
They took one of our patrols prisoner the day before yesterday.captured a patrol
They took one of our patrols prisoner the day before yesterday.object clause: The that-clause is what is being suggested, and it carries the accusation.
Are you suggesting that our fellows talked?force them to speak
The Germans know how to make them talk.a certain indicator
The major reads the prisoners' loosening tongues as proof the enemy is near breaking.
Well, if they are, they're cracking, my dear chap. It's a sure sign.about to break — Casual for starting to break under pressure.
Well, if they are, they're cracking, my dear chap. It's a sure sign.play dirty
Nobody starts to fight foul till he sees he can't win any other way.Link the t of can't into win, then run into any.
Nobody starts to fight foul till he sees he can't win any other way.「Officers Interrogate Ulan Prisoners」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is a war chapter that behaves like a conversation in a club. Men who could die at any moment talk about roads, looted umbrellas, and a leave train; the prisoners are discussed as a curiosity. The moral argument is the film's real subject: "Nobody starts to fight foul till he sees he can't win any other way," which is both a shrewd observation and a comfort to officers who believe their enemy still observes the rules. The joke about Hindenburg's 'arms with honour' — "I admit he said nothing about her legs!" — turns the idea of fair play into a pun, and shows how easily honour talk slides into wit. Even the offer to carry letters home keeps the tone light while naming the danger everyone is living with.
Theme
DutyThe officers keep the machine running — roads, telephones, prisoners, letters home — even as the talk drifts toward death and fair play.
PhilosophyThe debate about fighting foul turns honour into a question: whether rules survive when one side is losing.
このチャプターで学べること
- Foul play is usually a confession that you are losing.
- A one-word pun can dismantle a noble claim instantly.
- Orders in this scene are clipped; the jokes are long and dry.
- 'A sure sign' claims more than a guess and less than proof.
発音のポイント
- you're supposed — You're reduces to a light /jə/ before the stressed supposed.
- didnae bury — The t vanishes in didnae, so it runs as did-nae.
- can't win any — Link the t of can't into win, then run into any.
Nobody starts to fight foul till he sees he can't win any other way.The scene's thesis about war: cheating arrives only when a side is losing, so dirty tactics are a sign of weakness rather than strength.
I admit he said nothing about her legs!The punchline of the Hindenburg joke: the German claim of honourable arms is turned into a pun on a woman's limbs, deflating the high talk.
I had a boom across, and netted them like salmon.The officer's proud account of the capture: a river boom and a net did the work, and he describes it like a day's fishing.
I know it at night, sir. In the daytime it looks different.Murdoch's defence for not recognising the road: he knows it in the dark, when it matters, but daylight changes everything.
The Germans know how to make them talk.A flat, grim answer to the suggestion that British soldiers gave away secrets: the implication is that anyone would talk under interrogation.
If any of you have any important letters or messages home, I'll take them.A practical kindness in the middle of the scene: the officer is leaving, and offers to carry the men's last words home.
このシーンについての質問
Why can't the line to the RTO be used?
The telephone line is down between the command post and Mile 14, so a runner has to be sent instead with the message about holding a place on the leave train.
How were the Ulan prisoners captured?
They were floating down the river early in the morning, and the officer had a boom stretched across the water, so they were netted like salmon. They had a hundred pounds of dynamite with them.
What are the prisoners suspected of planning?
Blowing up the new pontoon bridge below St Mangy. The question of how they knew about it leads to the darker suggestion that a captured British patrol talked.
What is the argument about German honour?
Someone reports Hindenburg saying Germany had used "her arms with honour," and Candy answers with the joke about her legs. His real point is that fighting foul is a sign the enemy is losing.
Why does Candy mention letters home?
Because he is about to leave. By offering to take any important letters or messages, he turns an ordinary errand into a last favour, and quietly admits that some of them may not come back.
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