The Third Man · 1949 — 第 11 / 17 章 · 3'58" · B1

Martins Tells Anna to Love Again, Explained:look in

While Anna rehearses a comedy, Martins keeps her company and they talk about the Harry they remember: the boy who could fix anything. He means to comfort her — 'You'll fall in love again' — but she cuts him off: 'Don't you see I don't want to?' The evening ends when they go to meet the porter and find him murdered.

あらすじ

Martins visits Anna while she rehearses a play. They talk about Harry, and Martins recalls the boy who could fix anything and taught him card tricks. He tries to comfort her by saying she will fall in love again, but Anna refuses the idea. On their way to see the porter, they discover he has been murdered.

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このシーンの表現

look in

drop by briefly

At her flat Anna recalls that Harry used to drop by around six, calm but fond.

I'll look in on my neighbour after work.

このシーンの他の表現

  • make sense

    be coherent or reasonable

  • crib

    a cheat sheet

  • go through

    go over again

  • get into trouble

    get in trouble

  • fall in love

    start to feel love

このシーンのメモ一覧

79 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ

表現 · B1go through something (again)

go over again

Anna, weary, asks whether they must go through the whole thing again; Need we is a faintly formal British question.

Need we go through it all again?
文法 · B2Need we

modal inversion: Need we is a formal inversion meaning do we need to, and it sounds tired.

Need we go through it all again?
表現 · A2manage by oneself

cope on one's own

I can manage by myself. You busy?
発音used to

Blend used to into a weak yoosta sound.

He used to look in around 6:00.
文法 · B1I've been

present perfect: The present perfect marks a state that has lasted up to now, not a single moment.

I've been frightened. I've been alone without friends and money.
表現 · B1anything like this

anything of this kind

But I've never known anything like this.
表現 · B1not make much sense

not be very coherent

Oh, we didn't make much sense. We drank too much.
表現 · B1make something seem like something

make something appear a certain way

He just made everything seem like such, uh... fun.
発音made everything

Link made and everything without a pause.

He just made everything seem like such, uh... fun.
表現 · A2fix something

repair or sort out anything

I suppose so. He could fix anything.
表現 · B1put something up

raise something artificially

How to put your temperature up before exam. The best crib.
スラング · B1crib

a cheat sheet — British school slang; not for formal speech.

How to put your temperature up before exam. The best crib.
文法 · B2people like me who came from Czechoslovakia

relative clause: The who-clause specifies which people: those like me from Czechoslovakia.

He heard the Russians were repatriating people like me who came from Czechoslovakia.
表現 · B2the three-card trick

a card con game

When he was 14, he taught me the three-card trick.
表現 · A2grow up

become an adult

The world grew up around him, that's all.
発音Don't you

In fast speech don't you can blur into doncha.

Don't you see I don't want to?
表現 · A2a couple of something

a few minutes

What's the hurry? Can't we talk quietly for a couple of minutes?
表現 · B1find oneself something

get oneself a girlfriend

You know, you ought to find yourself a girl.
表現 · A2get into trouble

get in trouble

Outside Harry's building Anna whispers to Martins that they must not get into any more trouble.

Let's not get into any more trouble.
スラング · B1Kaputt

done for; broken — A German loanword; keep it out of formal English.

Kaputt.

「Martins Tells Anna to Love Again」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is where affection and grief speak past each other. Martins offers company and stories, recalling a Harry who 'could fix anything,' but the memory keeps sliding into the truth about him: the boyish cleverness that later became forgery and crime. His attempt at comfort — 'You'll fall in love again' — is the wrong kindness, because it asks Anna to move on from the only thing holding her together. Her answer is not grief alone but refusal: 'Don't you see I don't want to?' She has already said she never wants to, and her talk of Harry builds the same picture from the other side — 'The world grew up around him, that's all.' The scene ends by turning tenderness into dread, as the porter they are about to meet is found murdered.

Theme

Death & griefAnna refuses the comfort Martins offers, insisting she does not want to fall in love again or forget the man she lost.
MemoryHarry is rebuilt through remembered details, from the boy who fixed anything to the man the world outgrew.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A habit in the past tense can still ache in the present.
  • Comfort can sound like control when it decides for someone.
  • Repeating a dead man's phrase keeps him in the room.
  • Anna corrects his name to keep her distance.

発音のポイント

  • used to — Blend used to into a weak yoosta sound.
  • made everything — Link made and everything without a pause.
  • Don't you — In fast speech don't you can blur into doncha.
I've been frightened. I've been alone without friends and money.

Anna names what the loss has cost her: not only grief but isolation and poverty, the practical loneliness that Harry's death has left behind.

The world grew up around him, that's all.

Her verdict on Harry: he never changed while everyone else did, so his refusal to grow up became a kind of doom rather than innocence.

You'll fall in love again.

Martins' well-meant attempt to comfort her, and the wrong thing to say: it treats her love as something replaceable.

Don't you see I don't want to?

Anna's answer, which rejects comfort as a kind of betrayal: moving on would mean giving up the one thing she still has of Harry.

It was just what he used to say.

The echo that stings: Martins' line sounds like Harry's old patter, making the attempt to console feel borrowed and hollow.

You know, you ought to find yourself a girl.

A teasing remark that doubles as advice, deflecting the painful conversation into lightness after the quarrel about the porter.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Martins visit Anna?

Because he wants her company and they both need to talk about Harry. He is lonely in Vienna, and she is the one person who shared the friend he came to find.

Why does Anna refuse to believe she'll love again?

Because she does not want to move on. She says she never wants to, making her loyalty to Harry's memory a deliberate choice rather than a passing grief.

Why does 'You'll fall in love again' upset Anna?

Because it treats her love as replaceable. She hears the comfort as a suggestion that Harry can be forgotten, which is exactly what she refuses to do.

Who is the porter, and what happens to him?

He is the man who worked at Anna's building and was a witness to Harry's death. When Martins and Anna go to meet him, they find he has been murdered.

What does 'look in' mean here?

It means to visit briefly or drop by. Anna says Harry used to look in around six o'clock, describing his old habit of stopping by her place without much ceremony.

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