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The Third Man · 1949 — 第 13 / 17 章 · 2'35" · B2

Calloway Explains the Penicillin Racket, Explained：cap and bells

Calloway lectures Martins on the penicillin racket Harry Lime ran: stolen medicine diluted and sold to patients, leaving gangrene, dead mothers and damaged children. He cuts through Martins' outrage with evidence of his own: 'This isn't Santa Fe, I'm not a sheriff and you aren't a cowboy.' Then the projector shows the men behind it.

あらすじ

Calloway has Martins brought to police headquarters and tells him he has been blundering among Vienna's worst racketeers and is now wanted for murder. He explains the penicillin racket, then orders a slide show of the evidence, revealing that the ring was run by Harry Lime and that a man named Harbin, who helped steal the drugs, has disappeared.

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注目の表現

wanted forcap and bellsgo aroundborn to be

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  1. ❝ 独白Calloway's dressing-down4 行練習ページ ↗
  19. ❝ 独白The penicillin indictment6 行練習ページ ↗
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このシーンの表現

cap and bells

the jester's getup

Calloway mocks Martins for clowning all over Vienna, borrowing the image of a court jester.

He played the fool in cap and bells.

このシーンの他の表現

  • wanted for

    sought by police for

  • go around

    be enough for everyone

  • born to be

    destined by nature to be

  • one shred of evidence

    the smallest bit of proof

  • devoted reader

    a loyal reader

このシーンのメモ一覧

47 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ

表現 · A2go away

leave me alone

I told you to go away, Martins.
発音told you

In fast speech told you can blur into tolja.

I told you to go away, Martins.
表現 · B2blunder around

stumble about blindly

You've been blundering around with the worst bunch of racketeers in Vienna,
表現 · B2be wanted for something

sought by police for

Calloway coolly lists Martins's position: tied to Harry's friends and now wanted for murder.

your precious Harry's friends, and now you're wanted for murder.
表現 · B2drunk and disorderly

drunk and causing trouble

- Put down drunk and disorderly, too. - I have.
スラング · B2drunk and disorderly

drunk and causing a scene — A legal charge, also used half-jokingly.

- Put down drunk and disorderly, too. - I have.
表現 · B1be an amateur at something

a novice at something

I'm only a little fool. I'm an amateur at it. You're a professional.
表現 · B2be born to be something

destined by nature to be

Calloway flatly says Martins was born to be murdered while pushing the whisky at him.

You will. I don't want another murder in this case and you were born to be murdered, so you're going to hear the facts.
文法 · B2were born to be murdered

passive voice: The passive with an infinitive makes the death sound fated, not chosen.

You will. I don't want another murder in this case and you were born to be murdered, so you're going to hear the facts.
発音going to

Going to usually weakens to gonna in speech.

You will. I don't want another murder in this case and you were born to be murdered, so you're going to hear the facts.
表現 · B1enough to go around

enough for everyone

In Vienna, there hasn't been enough penicillin to go around.
表現 · B2make something go further

stretch something out

Stealing penicillin from the military hospitals, diluting it to make it go further and selling it to patients.
文法 · B2Stealing penicillin from the military hospitals

participial phrase: A list of participles with no main clause, working like a charge sheet.

Stealing penicillin from the military hospitals, diluting it to make it go further and selling it to patients.
発音diluting it

Link diluting and it without a gap.

Stealing penicillin from the military hospitals, diluting it to make it go further and selling it to patients.
文法 · B2too busy chasing

too...to structure: Too busy doing X to do Y means X keeps you from Y.

- Do you see what that means? - Are you too busy chasing a few tubes of penicillin to investigate a murder?
表現 · B2go off one's head

go mad

The unlucky ones went off their heads. You can see them now in the mental ward.
スラング · B2off their heads

out of their minds — British and blunt; never say it to a patient's family.

The unlucky ones went off their heads. You can see them now in the mental ward.
スラング · B2racket

an illegal racket — Gangster and police slang; avoid in formal prose.

That was the racket Harry Lime organised.
表現 · C1not one shred of evidence

the smallest bit of proof

Charged and defiant, Martins throws back that Calloway has not shown one shred of evidence.

Calloway, you haven't shown me one shred of evidence.
表現 · B1have a word with someone

a brief talk with

When the slide shows Harbin, Martins asks for a word with him, and Calloway agrees.

- Next, Paine. - I'd like a word with this orderly Harbin.
表現 · B2more like A than B

rather A than B

This is more like a mortuary than police headquarters.

「Calloway Explains the Penicillin Racket」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is Calloway's prosecution of Harry Lime, delivered as a lecture with a drink and a slide projector. He mocks Martins' western-hero fantasy — 'This isn't Santa Fe, I'm not a sheriff and you aren't a cowboy' — and then replaces it with the arithmetic of the racket: penicillin stolen from military hospitals, 'diluting it to make it go further,' sold to people who needed real medicine. The vilest detail is aimed at sentiment: the children who died were the lucky ones, because the unlucky ones went mad. Calloway is not only informing Martins; he is dismantling the friend he came to defend, and the file and lantern show are the tools. Martins resists, demanding 'one shred of evidence,' and the scene closes on him being handed exactly that — photos linking Lime, Harbin and the rest.

Theme

CorruptionCalloway lays out a racket in stolen and diluted medicine, showing how profit was made from patients who needed real penicillin.
BetrayalThe evidence turns Martins' friendship inside out, naming Harry Lime as the organiser of a racket that killed and damaged children.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A charge sheet can be spoken as a list of participles.
  • Self-mockery is a way to fight back without shouting.
  • One shred makes the absence of proof feel physical.
  • A jester image can cut deeper than an insult.

発音のポイント

  • told you — In fast speech told you can blur into tolja.
  • going to — Going to usually weakens to gonna in speech.
  • diluting it — Link diluting and it without a gap.
This isn't Santa Fe, I'm not a sheriff and you aren't a cowboy.

Calloway punctures Martins' western fantasy: Vienna is not a frontier town, and the writer is not the hero riding in to set it right.

I'm only a little fool. I'm an amateur at it. You're a professional.

Martins' bitter joke turns the insult back on Calloway: whatever he is, he is not the one paid to handle crime for a living.

You've been shaking your cap and bells all over town.

Calloway's image for Martins' behaviour: like a court jester, he has been making a public spectacle of himself for everyone to laugh at.

You will. I don't want another murder in this case and you were born to be murdered, so you're going to hear the facts.

Calloway's grim persuasion: he predicts Martins' death as a certainty, which is precisely why he insists on stating the case.

Calloway, you haven't shown me one shred of evidence.

Martins' refusal to accept the story without proof, the last defence of a man who does not want his friend to be guilty.

This is more like a mortuary than police headquarters.

Martins' sour verdict on the office, where the evidence displayed is a gallery of the dead and the ruined.

このシーンについての質問

Why is Martins wanted for murder?

Because he has been seen with the racketeers around Harry, and the police hold him responsible for a death connected to the case. Calloway uses the charge to force him to listen.

What was the penicillin racket?

Stolen penicillin from military hospitals was diluted so it could be sold in greater quantity. The weakened medicine left patients crippled or dead, and children insane, which is how Harry Lime made his money.

How does Calloway prove Harry's guilt?

By showing photographs and files. He names Harbin as the man who stole drugs for Lime, and produces evidence linking Harry to Kurtz and the racket.

Why does Martins demand evidence?

Because he does not want to believe his friend is guilty. He keeps insisting on proof even as Calloway describes children dying, refusing to convict Harry without hard facts.

What does 'one shred of evidence' mean?

It means the smallest amount of proof. Martins uses it to say Calloway has given him only accusations, not the evidence that would settle the question of Harry's guilt.

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