The Proposal · 2009 — 第 11 / 14 章 · 3'42" · B1

Annie Gives Margaret the Heirloom Dress, Explained:burst into tears

A dress fitting on the surface: Annie pins an old gown while the women joke about the fit. Underneath, the fake engagement starts to feel real. A family heirloom is handed over, and one line — "I want you to have it" — turns a business arrangement into something honest. Margaret, there to keep a lie alive, can't hold back tears.

あらすじ

Annie, the family's best tailor, is fitting Margaret for a dress her own mother made by hand. It turns out to be a wedding heirloom that Annie's great-grandfather gave his bride, a Russian man marrying a Tlingit woman against the odds. Annie tells that story, then offers Margaret the dress and asks her to take it.

Small talkComforting a friendComfortingExplainingB1mediumamerican
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注目の表現

stay togetherhead downtake no for an answerpart of your lives

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  1. ❝ 独白The great-grandparents’ marriage5 行練習ページ ↗
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このシーンの表現

stay together

remain together or keep a relationship going

安妮讲起曾祖父母的故事:他来自俄罗斯,她是特林吉特人,当年结婚要得到部落里每个人的同意,几乎被拆散。孙女追问:那他们后来是怎么一直在一起的?

Even when things got hard, they chose to stay together.

このシーンの他の表現

  • head down

    go or travel in a particular direction, especially toward somewhere

  • take no for an answer

    to accept a refusal and give up

  • part of your lives

    still involved in the lives of others

このシーンのメモ一覧

56 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · B1have to focusWe need Margaret.
表現 · B1a business dealWe need Margaret.
表現 · B1a little roughWe need Margaret.
表現 · B1a curious oneWe need Margaret.
表現 · B2give thanksWe need Margaret.
表現 · B2bring people togetherWe need Margaret.
表現 · C2be abundantly fertileWe need Margaret.
表現 · A2dance with someoneWe need Margaret.
表現 · B1follow and learnWe need Margaret.
表現 · B1Feel the rhythmWe need Margaret.
表現 · B2whatever comes to youWe need Margaret.
表現 · C1use your vowelsWe need Margaret.
表現 · B2make an impression on someoneWe need Margaret.
表現 · B2bring people togetherWe need Margaret.
表現 · B2be charged upWe need Margaret.
表現 · C1a godforsaken placeWe need Margaret.
表現 · B1figure something outWe need Margaret.
表現 · B1catch upWe need Margaret.
文法 · B1I can figure this out

can for ability

We need Margaret.
文法 · B2Whatever comes to you

nominal clause

We need Margaret.
文法 · C1just as she brought you and Andrew together

manner clause

We need Margaret.
発音this out

liaison

We need Margaret.
発音charged up

liaison

We need Margaret.
発音pick it

elision

We need Margaret.
スラング · C1BallsWe need Margaret.

「Annie Gives Margaret the Heirloom Dress」を読み解く

What's really going on

What looks like a light, chatty fitting is where the film quietly changes gear. The dress isn't about clothes: it carries the history of a marriage that almost didn't happen, and one line describes that stubborn bride — "wouldn't take no for an answer." Suddenly Margaret, who is only pretending to be engaged, is being welcomed into that history for real. The comic beats — hunting down the fit of the dress, a joke that it's "like an Easter egg hunt" — keep things warm, but the gift turns into a test of who Margaret actually is. And the offer comes: "I want you to have it," and the lie the whole trip rests on becomes the one thing she can't answer.

Theme

Family loveA grandmother passes an heirloom to a woman who isn't family yet, treating her as if she already belongs.
GenerationsThe dress links three generations, and its story of a mixed marriage repeats in Margaret's own uncertain match.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Use steal someone away to invite someone playfully.
  • Recognize knocked up as informal slang for pregnant.
  • Use take no for an answer for determined persistence.
  • Catch the reassuring tone of not to worry.

発音のポイント

  • this out — liaison
  • charged up — liaison
  • pick it — elision
OK I can figure this out I m an intelligent woman

She talks herself through a problem, insisting she's smart enough to handle it on her own.

Oh my God God I hate nature I hate it

A blunt, comic complaint: she can't stand being outdoors or roughing it in the wild.

This is a business deal This is just a business deal

She keeps repeating it to convince herself the marriage arrangement is purely practical, not personal.

Whatever you do is what shall be

A laid-back blessing, roughly "whatever you choose will be fine," said to let someone decide for themselves.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Annie give Margaret the family dress?

She has decided Margaret belongs in the family. The dress was handed down from her own great-grandmother, and giving it away treats the engagement as real — which is exactly what unsettles Margaret.

What does "knocked up" mean here?

It's old-fashioned slang for being pregnant. Annie mentions she was pregnant when she first wore the dress, her joking explanation for why it now fits Margaret oddly.

Why does Margaret get so emotional during the fitting?

She came to Sitka to fake an engagement and get a visa, not to be taken in as family. Being handed a real heirloom makes the kindness hard to accept and the lie harder to keep.

Is Annie's family story connected to Margaret?

Annie points out that her great-grandmother was a lot like Margaret — tough and unwilling to take no for an answer — quietly drawing a parallel between that marriage and Margaret's own situation.

What is the story behind the dress?

It was made by Annie's mother and given by her great-grandfather to his bride. He was Russian, she was Tlingit, and their marriage needed the whole tribe's approval and almost fell apart.

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