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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943 — 第 27 / 30 章 · 4'31" · B1

Candy's Night Drive With Angela, Explained：a bit of an outsider

In the den, Candy shows a photograph that looks exactly like Edith, and then, driving through the blackout, he and his new driver make small talk. "It's not as bad as it looks, sir," she says of the night driving, and the easy talk reveals more about both of them than either intends.

あらすじ

Candy shows a visitor a photograph of a woman who looks strikingly like Edith, and says he and his wife grew old together. Later, on a drive through the wartime blackout, he chats with his new driver, Angela Cannon, about her life before the war and how she came to work for him.

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Mind ifthe warden of this districtold darlinga bit of an outsider

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このシーンの表現

a bit of an outsider

somewhat out of place

Angela says being picked from seven hundred makes her feel slightly out of place among the others.

Working nights made me a bit of an outsider on the team.

このシーンの他の表現

  • Mind if

    do you mind if

  • the warden of this district

    the local civil defence head

  • old darling

    lovable old thing

  • under control

    being managed well

  • you must not forget

    remember this fact

このシーンのメモ一覧

66 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

表現 · B1mind someone asking

allow me to ask

You don't mind me asking you... but you loved her?
表現 · A2must not forget

do remember

But you must not forget, I saw Edith 31 years later than you.
表現 · B1grow old together

age side by side

We grew old together.
表現 · B1have a joke about something

shared a private joke

She always knew why I used to come back here. We had a joke about it.
表現 · B2an awful gap

a painful emptiness

It'd be an awful gap without her.
表現 · A2be under control

being managed well

As they part, Clive tells his friend not to worry; everything is under control.

Don't worry about anything. It's under control.
表現 · A2stay behind

remain here

Thank you, sir, but I'm staying behind to look after things here.
文法 · B1to drive in the blackout

dummy it: The opening it is a placeholder; the real subject is the to-drive phrase at the end.

It must be very difficult to drive in the blackout.
表現 · B1not as bad as it looks

better than it seems

It's not as bad as it looks, sir.
文法 · B1not as bad as it looks

as ... as: The as ... as frame compares the reality with the appearance, negated here to reassure.

It's not as bad as it looks, sir.
発音as bad as

Run as bad as together as one smooth unit.

It's not as bad as it looks, sir.
表現 · A2before the war

in prewar days

No, sir. I never drove before the war.
スラング · C1the Bentley boys

wealthy Bentley set — A nickname for rich young Bentley drivers; playful, not polite address.

First-rate. He's one of the Bentley boys.
スラング · B2flat feet

flat feet; unfit to serve — A joking reference to flat feet, once used to mean someone unfit for service.

Just now he walks on his two flat feet.
表現 · A2mind if I do something

do you mind if

Angela wants to race the coming blackout and asks the General's permission in a relaxed, polite way.

- Mind if we try and beat the light, sir? - No, not at all.
発音Mind if we

Link Mind if we into a single quick phrase.

- Mind if we try and beat the light, sir? - No, not at all.
表現 · B1such an old darling

lovable old thing

Angela describes the General as an old darling, affectionate rather than disrespectful.

Of course. Who wouldn't? He's such an old darling.
文法 · B2could have done

past modal perfect: Could have done points to an exaggerated past possibility that never actually happened.

I could have done a handstand when he asked for me.
スラング · B2For crying out loud

mild exasperation — A mild, old-fashioned outburst of irritation, fine among friends but not in formal talk.

For crying out loud, look at that light. He ought to be reported.
表現 · B2a bit of an outsider

somewhat out of place

Angela says being picked from seven hundred makes her feel slightly out of place among the others.

Makes me a bit of an outsider.
表現 · A2call me [name]

use the name Johnny

I think it stinks. My friends call me Johnny.
発音think it

The k in think almost vanishes before it.

I think it stinks. My friends call me Johnny.
表現 · B1one of these days

someday soon

- I'd like to see your boyfriend one of these days. - Me too.

「Candy's Night Drive With Angela」を読み解く

What's really going on

The chapter does two things at once: it keeps Candy's grief in view and then lets a new acquaintance lighten it. The photograph of a woman who looks like Edith brings back the old love, and his plain wish that the room would be empty without her is answered by the reply that nothing matters because it is 'under control.' In the car, the mood lifts. Angela's chatter about modelling, her boyfriend, and being chosen out of seven hundred girls is cheerful and ordinary, and her line that she 'could have done a handstand' when she was picked shows how lightly she wears her luck. Candy, listening, is for a moment not the General but an old darling being driven home. The film gives him this small comfort just before the larger losses begin.

Theme

Death & griefCandy's mourning for his late wife stays under the surface: the photograph, the empty room, and his quiet admission that it would be an awful gap without her.
GenerationsThe drive pairs the old general with a young working woman, and their easy chat crosses class and age without ever becoming solemn.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Mind if asks permission without sounding stiff.
  • Not as bad as it looks talks someone out of a worry.
  • One of these days leaves a plan comfortably open.
  • Small talk can flatten rank faster than any order.

発音のポイント

  • as bad as — Run as bad as together as one smooth unit.
  • Mind if we — Link Mind if we into a single quick phrase.
  • think it — The k in think almost vanishes before it.
It must be terrible to lose someone very dear to you in a foreign country.

The driver's sincere sympathy for the general's loss abroad, which he answers by correcting the geography and, indirectly, the idea that grief belongs to a place.

I could have done a handstand when he asked for me.

Angela's way of saying how happy she was to be chosen: she nearly turned cartwheels, which makes her luck sound like a child's joy.

It's not as bad as it looks, sir.

Her calm answer about driving in the blackout: she plays down the danger and the difficulty, which tells us more about her nerve than any boast would.

I think it stinks. My friends call me Johnny.

Angela's blunt verdict on her own name and her preference for a boyish nickname: she refuses the pretty image others want for her and chooses her own.

このシーンについての質問

Who is the woman in the photograph?

Candy's late wife, whom he says looked exactly like Edith. The picture hangs in his den, and the resemblance is what draws his visitor's attention.

What does "a bit of an outsider" mean?

It means someone who does not quite belong, who stands slightly apart from a group. Angela uses the odds of her selection to joke that she is the odd one out.

Where did Angela work before the war?

She was a photographic model, which she describes as not bad but hard on the feet. Her boyfriend taught her to drive, and he is now a private in training.

What does Candy say about losing his wife abroad?

He corrects the assumption that it was a foreign country, insisting Jamaica does not count as foreign. The remark quietly shows how he resists the sentimental version of his own loss.

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