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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943 — 第 28 / 30 章 · 4'24" · B2

Candy's Broadcast Is Cancelled, Explained：ill-timed

A general arrives to give a wartime broadcast and is told, with careful courtesy, that the authorities find it "a little ill-timed" and would rather postpone it. Under the soft wording is a cancellation: his views on the retreat are not to be heard, and someone else's talk goes out instead.

あらすじ

At a broadcasting house, staff try to stop a general entering, then lead him to a deep room. Told the broadcast is in trouble, he says he is used to trouble and has been a soldier all his life. He then hears that the authorities find it ill-timed and want it postponed. At home it is cancelled at the last minute, beside a War Office letter and bad news.

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For the love of Gielgudhad that pleasureused to troubleill-timed

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このシーンの表現

ill-timed

badly timed

The executive hides the cancellation behind the word authorities and calls the broadcast ill-timed.

His remark was ill-timed and landed badly.

このシーンの他の表現

  • For the love of Gielgud

    a theatrical twist on an oath

  • had that pleasure

    we have not met yet

  • used to trouble

    familiar with trouble

  • on earth

    emphasis in questions

  • at the last minute

    at the very end

このシーンのメモ一覧

72 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ

表現 · A2go and do something

go and stop him

For the love of Gielgud, go and stop him.
発音love of

Link love and of so the v runs into the vowel.

For the love of Gielgud, go and stop him.
文法 · B1If you let him put one whisker in the studio

conditional: A present-tense if-clause with a future main clause states a threat that will follow at once.

If you let him put one whisker in the studio, you are out.
表現 · A2plenty of time

there is ample time

- Plenty of time. - Excuse me, miss.
スラング · A2shut up

be quiet — A blunt way to silence someone, fine between friends but rude elsewhere.

Oh, shut up.
表現 · B2a regular warren

a maze of rooms

- A regular warren, eh? - Yes.
スラング · A2Phew

a sigh of relief — A small sound of relief after something tense passes.

Phew.
表現 · B2snug quarters

cosy little rooms

Very snug quarters you've got here. And deep.
文法 · B2Very snug quarters you've got here

fronting: Fronting the phrase turns a plain compliment into an exclamation of emphasis.

Very snug quarters you've got here. And deep.
表現 · A2at the moment

right now

I don't think I'll light this at the moment.
表現 · B1have trouble with something

meeting some difficulty

General, I'm afraid we've been having some trouble about your broadcast.
文法 · B2we've been having

present perfect continuous: Have been having stresses an ongoing stretch of trouble that reaches into the present.

General, I'm afraid we've been having some trouble about your broadcast.
発音used to

Used to reduces to a quick yoos-ta.

Well, I'm used to trouble. I'm a soldier.
表現 · B1in times of ...

during wartime

Well, General, you know in times of war...
表現 · B2make the necessary enquiries

ask the proper channels

I'll make the necessary enquiries through the War Office.
発音on earth

Run on and earth together with the stress on earth.

What on earth can have happened?
スラング · B2cannae

cannot, in Scots — A Scots form of cannot; recognise it, do not copy it.

- Murdoch, do you think he's had an accident? - I cannae think.
表現 · B1mustn't find someone here

must not be discovered here

Where can I go? The General mustn't find me here.
表現 · B1at the last minute

at the very end

Told the broadcast died at the last minute, the General sighs to Angela that the rush was wasted.

Cancelled at the last minute. Pity we hurried as we did, Angela.
表現 · A1this afternoon

today in the afternoon

There's a War Office letter, sir. It came this afternoon.
表現 · A1bad news

unwelcome tidings

Oh, yes, bad news.

「Candy's Broadcast Is Cancelled」を読み解く

What's really going on

The courtesy is the point. Nobody says the speech is wrong. They call it "a little ill-timed and might be better postponed," which lets an institution stop a man without a direct fight. When the excuse turns to wartime, the answer is "Don't talk to me about war," and a whole life gets stacked against the man opposite: a soldier for forty-four years, a soldier when the other was a baby, a soldier "before you were born." The rant is not about a lawyer's former job. It is about who may speak on a retreat the country is still living through. The apology, "I know it's not you," admits the decision comes from above. At home the broadcast itself confirms the rest: the slot has been filled, "Cancelled at the last minute," while the news turns to France and a new prime minister. Soft words at the studio, and a war that will not wait for his account.

Theme

PrideHe meets a polite cancellation by reciting a lifetime as a soldier, as if long service should have kept him the microphone.
PowerThe authorities never debate his views. They call the broadcast ill-timed, and by evening someone else is on the air.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Authorities can hide who really cancelled the plan.
  • I'm used to trouble turns a hardship excuse aside.
  • Ill-timed means the moment, not the words, is wrong.
  • At the last minute almost always carries frustration.

発音のポイント

  • love of — Link love and of so the v runs into the vowel.
  • used to — Used to reduces to a quick yoos-ta.
  • on earth — Run on and earth together with the stress on earth.
For the love of Gielgud, go and stop him.

A panicked order to stop the general before he enters the studio. The oath twists a familiar curse around an actor's name, and the next line makes the cost plain.

Well, I'm used to trouble. I'm a soldier.

He shrugs off the warning that his broadcast is in trouble. Being a soldier, he claims, means trouble is already normal for him.

And I was a soldier when you were a baby.

He uses the other man's age as an insult. The point is service: he was already in uniform while the person postponing him was still a child.

Don't talk to me about war.

He shuts down the excuse that wartime makes the talk awkward. From a man who has served for forty-four years, it means: do not explain this war to me.

このシーンについての質問

Why is the general's broadcast postponed?

The man he meets says the authorities think the talk is a little ill-timed and might be better postponed. Nobody attacks the speech itself. He had been asked to give his views on the retreat, and those views are kept off the air.

Why does he keep saying he was a soldier?

The other man says he was a lawyer. The reply stacks a life against that answer: a soldier through the college years, a soldier when the other was a baby, a soldier before he was born. Long service is the claim to be heard.

Is the man in the office the one who cancels it?

He is uncomfortable, not triumphant. He apologises, says he knows it is not the general's doing, and talks about the authorities rather than his own view. The decision sits above that room, which is why the War Office comes up before the night is over.

What do they find once the general is home?

Someone who read the speech already expected a cancellation, and the announcer brings on J. B. Priestley. Someone then says it was cancelled at the last minute. A War Office letter has come that afternoon, and the room hears that Reynaud has resigned and Petain is prime minister.

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