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The Third Man · 1949 — 第 6 / 17 章 · 3'40" · B1

Martins Learns About the Third Man, Explained：up to no good

In Anna's flat, Martins presses the porter about how Lime died and learns there were three men at the accident: Kurtz, the Romanian, and "a third man" nobody can identify. Karl refuses to be drawn in — "I have no evidence. I saw nothing, I said nothing." — and everyone tells Martins to drop it.

あらすじ

At Anna Schmidt's flat, Holly Martins questions the porter Karl about the night Lime died. Karl lets slip that three men carried the body — Baron Kurtz, a Romanian, and a third man he never identified. He insists he saw nothing and gives no evidence, while Anna and Karl both urge Martins to leave Vienna.

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注目の表現

mixed up ingive evidenceup to no goodmake it your business

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このシーンの表現

up to no good

scheming or doing something shady

The porter recalls his wife warning him that Martins was up to no good, which he brushed off as gossip.

The kids were up to no good behind the garage.

このシーンの他の表現

  • mixed up in

    dragged into something

  • give evidence

    testify formally

  • make it your business

    refuse to stay uninvolved

  • look someone up

    seek someone out

  • just anybody

    an utterly ordinary person

このシーンのメモ一覧

54 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

発音couldn't have been

Link couldn't have into one blurred block, like couldn't've.

Ah, alive! He couldn't have been alive, not with his head in the way it was.
文法 · A2I was told that

passive voice: I was told that hides the source, shifting focus to the information itself.

I was told that he did not die at once.
文法 · B2how could he have talked

counterfactual question: How could he have talked questions an impossible past action, implying it never happened.

If he was killed at once, how could he have talked about me and this lady here after he was dead?
表現 · C1at the inquest

at the death inquiry

Why didn't you say all this at the inquest?
表現 · B1be/get mixed up in something

dragged into something

On the stairs the porter admits he skipped the inquest, afraid of being dragged into trouble.

Uh, it's better not to be mixed up in things like this.
表現 · B2give evidence

testify formally

The porter says he was not the only one who skipped testifying, hinting that others stayed away too.

I was not the only one who did not give evidence.
文法 · B1the only one who

relative clause: The who-clause defines exactly which person the speaker means.

I was not the only one who did not give evidence.
表現 · A2help someone to do something

assist in carrying

Three men helped to carry your friend to the statue.
表現 · A2come later

arrived afterwards

He came later, after they carried him to the Josef statue.
表現 · B1might have been something

could possibly have been

He... He might have been just anybody.
文法 · B1might have been

modal perfect: Might have been marks an uncertain guess about the past.

He... He might have been just anybody.
表現 · A2someone didn't answer

no one responded

- Who was that? - I don't know. They didn't answer.
表現 · B1tell your story to someone

give your account

You've got to tell your story to the police.
発音got to tell

Got to often swallows its t and sounds like gotta.

You've got to tell your story to the police.
スラング · B1nonsense

rubbish, absurd talk — Blunt dismissal; fine with friends, rude to a superior.

It's nonsense! It is all nonsense! It was an accident.
表現 · B2should have done something

ought to have done it

I should have listened to my wife.
表現 · B1be up to no good

scheming or doing something shady

The porter recalls his wife warning him that Martins was up to no good, which he brushed off as gossip.

She said you were up to no good. Gossip.
表現 · B2take something to someone

bring your proof to someone

Suppose I take your evidence to the police?
スラング · A2hold on

wait a moment — A casual way to stop someone mid-sentence; too blunt for formal settings.

Now, hold on.
表現 · B1saw nothing, said nothing

witnessed and told nothing

I have no evidence. I saw nothing, I said nothing.
表現 · B2make something your business

refuse to stay uninvolved

The porter calls it none of his business, and Martins fires back that he should make it his business.

- It's not my business. - Well, make it your business.
表現 · B1look someone up

seek someone out

Before leaving, Martins asks whether he can come and find the porter again if he learns anything.

Well, if I do find out something, can I look you up again?
発音look you up

Run look and you together so it sounds like loo-kyou.

Well, if I do find out something, can I look you up again?

「Martins Learns About the Third Man」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is the hinge of the film: a private chat that turns a death into a mystery. Martins cannot let a detail go — "how could he have talked about me and this lady here after he was dead?" — and his persistence works, because Karl's careful account cracks and produces the line the whole film is named for: a third man carried the body, and nobody saw his face. Karl's refusal — "I have no evidence. I saw nothing, I said nothing." — is the ordinary person's survival strategy in a city where knowing too much is dangerous, and the scene sets it against Martins' stubborn curiosity. The offhand description of the stranger as "just anybody" is quietly the point: evil here has no distinguishing features.

Theme

SecretsA careless phrase — a third man nobody can describe — cracks the official story open and sets the whole search in motion.
TrustKarl will not trust the police or Martins with what he saw, choosing silence because getting involved is what ruins people here.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A porter's fear is louder than his words.
  • Three carriers become a mystery in one sentence.
  • The excuse 'not my business' gets turned against him.
  • A death inquiry is not the same as a trial.

発音のポイント

  • couldn't have been — Link couldn't have into one blurred block, like couldn't've.
  • got to tell — Got to often swallows its t and sounds like gotta.
  • look you up — Run look and you together so it sounds like loo-kyou.
Three men helped to carry your friend to the statue.

The detail that creates the mystery: the body was carried by three men, not the two the official account admits, and one of them is the third man.

I should have listened to my wife.

Karl's regret, and a side-light on his marriage: his wife warned him that helping Martins would only bring trouble.

It's nonsense! It is all nonsense! It was an accident.

Karl's panicky denial: he insists the death was a simple accident, repeating the word to shut down Martins' questions.

I have no evidence. I saw nothing, I said nothing.

The refusal to testify in one breath: he claims to know nothing and to have said nothing, which is how people stay safe in this city.

You only saw a dead man with three men carrying him.

Martins' point restated: the porter has no proof, only an impression of a body and the men around it.

If he was killed at once, how could he have talked about me and this lady here after he was dead?

Martins' central puzzle: if Lime died instantly, how could he have spoken about Martins and Anna afterwards, which means the story cannot be true.

このシーンについての質問

What is the third man's significance?

He is the witness nobody can identify. Two men carried Lime's body and Kurtz was nearby, but a third man was there too, and his existence suggests the death was not an accident.

Why does Karl refuse to talk to the police?

Because he is afraid of getting involved. He says it is better not to be mixed up in such things, and that he saw and said nothing, which is how he survives in occupied Vienna.

What does "inquest" mean?

An inquest is an official inquiry into a death. Martins asks Karl why he did not tell his story at the inquest, since his account would have changed the verdict.

Why does Martins suspect the death was not an accident?

Because he was told Lime did not die at once. If Lime spoke after the crash, someone must have been with him, which fits the report of a third man at the scene.

What do Anna and Karl want Martins to do?

They want him to stop asking questions and leave Vienna. Anna tells him he must not bring the porter again, and Karl tells him to go home before he gets mixed up in it.

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