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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943 — 第 21 / 30 章 · 3'40" · B2

Barbara Lists 50 Reasons to Marry Candy, Explained：fire away

Candy and Barbara trade reasons and questions until she answers the one he keeps asking: "I'm marrying you for 50 different reasons, and they all mean that's how I imagined my future husband." Later, at a ball, Candy confesses to the bishop how he first saw her — as one nurse among seventy.

あらすじ

Candy courts Barbara, asking her again and again why she is so sure. After a joke about being twenty years older and a soldier, he invites her question with "Fire away," and she answers with a list: she is marrying him for fifty reasons, all of which add up to her future husband. Later, at a ball, Candy tells the bishop how he first noticed her in Flanders.

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このシーンの表現

fire away

go ahead and ask

Barbara asks to put a question first, and Candy hands her the floor at once.

If you have any questions, fire away.

このシーンの他の表現

  • drive at

    what you really mean

  • wriggle

    squirm or dodge

  • tender

    hopefully tender to eat

  • make a confession

    admit something openly

  • men of peace

    people who seek peace

このシーンのメモ一覧

47 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

発音You'd never

Reduce You'd to a quick /juːd/; here it stands for you had.

You'd never seen me before.
表現 · A2speak to someone

talk to me

You never even spoke to me then.
表現 · A2be so sure about something

be that certain

How could you be so sure?
発音could you

Link could and you into one run: coul-jou.

How could you be so sure?
表現 · A2ask someone a question

put a question to you

Can I ask you a question first?
表現 · B1fire away

go ahead and ask

Barbara asks to put a question first, and Candy hands her the floor at once.

All right. Fire away.
表現 · A2X years older than someone

twenty years your senior

I'm 20 years older than you are, and I'm a soldier.
文法 · B1older than you are

comparative clause: Than is followed by a full clause, which sharpens the contrast between the two people.

I'm 20 years older than you are, and I'm a soldier.
表現 · A2once before

on one earlier occasion

You asked me that once before, and I told you.
表現 · A2hear something again

listen to it once more

I'm asking you again, because I want to hear it again.
文法 · A2because I want to hear it again

reason clause: The because-clause carries the real reason, so the sentence lands on it.

I'm asking you again, because I want to hear it again.
発音hear it again

Join hear and it into hea-rit, then glide into again.

I'm asking you again, because I want to hear it again.
表現 · B1see the world

travel and gain experience

I'm marrying you because I want to join the Army and see the world.
表現 · B1watch someone do something

observe you doing it

I'm marrying you because I love watching you play polo.
文法 · B2that's how I imagined my future husband

predicative clause: The that's-how clause works as the predicate and gathers all fifty reasons into one.

I'm marrying you for 50 different reasons, and they all mean that's how I imagined my future husband.
表現 · A2someone's future husband/wife

the woman I would marry

That's how I imagined my future wife.
表現 · B2the final appeal

the last call to come Not a legal appeal; the gong's last call to lunch.

Oh, the gong's the final appeal.
表現 · B1in conclusion

to sum up

And now, in conclusion, I...
表現 · B2a man of peace

people who seek peace

The bishop praises the war heroes but calls his own kind men of peace, drawing a polite line.

We members of the Church Militant can admire the heroes of the war, but in our hearts we are men of peace.
表現 · B1glad to have met someone

pleased to have met you

And so I am glad to have met you for the first time, as I did, sir, on a simple and heart-warming occasion, rather than at some military ceremonial.
表現 · B1make a confession

admit something openly

Candy stands before the bishop to make a confession, which turns out to be a courtship story.

My Lord Bishop, I want to make a confession.
表現 · A2find out

discover the fact

I never knew her name, but I found out that most of the nurses came from Yorkshire, and the West Riding.
表現 · B2drive at something

what you really mean

After circling the point, Candy asks the bishop whether he follows what he is really driving at.

' You understand who I'm driving at, I suppose? What I mean?

「Barbara Lists 50 Reasons to Marry Candy」を読み解く

What's really going on

The chapter is about how a marriage is actually made: not by one great declaration but by repetition and play. Candy keeps asking the same question, and Barbara keeps giving the same answer, and both of them enjoy it — "I'm asking you again, because I want to hear it again." Her list of fifty reasons is a joke with a plain truth inside it, and his reply, "That's how I imagined my future wife," meets it exactly. Later, at the ball, the tone shifts. The bishop praises Candy for being a man "whose heart is in the right place," and Candy answers with a confession about seeing Barbara once in Flanders, then engineering a ball just to find her again. What looked like romance turns out to have been a campaign — and the scene lets both readings stand.

Theme

RomanceThe scene is courtship as a running joke: a question asked again for the pleasure of the answer, and fifty reasons that mean one thing.
MarriageCandy explains not the romance but the plan behind it: a wartime glimpse, a charity ball, and a wife found on purpose.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A yes can sound like an enlistment order.
  • Fire away hands the floor over in two words.
  • Drive at asks what someone really means.
  • Wriggling is dodging, not dancing.

発音のポイント

  • You'd never — Reduce You'd to a quick /juːd/; here it stands for you had.
  • could you — Link could and you into one run: coul-jou.
  • hear it again — Join hear and it into hea-rit, then glide into again.
I'm marrying you because I want to join the Army and see the world.

One of Barbara's joking reasons: she treats the marriage as a ticket to adventure, which is both a tease and a kind of truth.

I'm asking you again, because I want to hear it again.

The heart of their exchange: the question and answer are repeated because both of them want to keep the moment going.

"There is a man whose heart is in the right place."

The bishop's praise of Candy, which the scene lets us hear as sincere, and also as the kind of thing said at a charity ball.

I'm marrying you for 50 different reasons, and they all mean that's how I imagined my future husband.

Barbara's answer in full: the many reasons are a joke, but the point is plain — he is exactly the husband she pictured for herself.

I first saw Barbara in Flanders on the last night of the war.

Candy's confession to the bishop: he saw her only once, a nurse among many, and set about finding her again.

That's how I imagined my future wife.

Candy's matching answer, which completes the exchange: they each turn out to be exactly what the other pictured.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Candy ask the same question twice?

Because he wants to hear the answer. As Barbara says, she asks him again "because I want to hear it again" — for the two of them, the repetition is part of the pleasure.

What does "Fire away" mean, and why does it matter here?

It is an invitation to speak freely, like "go ahead." Candy uses it to hand the conversation to Barbara, which is what lets her deliver her list of reasons.

What is Candy's confession to the bishop?

That he first saw Barbara in Flanders on the last night of the war, as one of seventy nurses, and that he never learned her name. He then found a way to find her again.

How did Candy find Barbara after the war?

Through patience and planning. He learned most of the nurses came from Yorkshire and the West Riding, and he arranged the charity ball that finally brings them together.

Is the bishop a matchmaker or just a guest?

He is a guest praising Candy's good heart at the ball, and he has no idea he is being told the story of a courtship. Candy uses the speech as cover for his confession.

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