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The Trip · 2011 — 第 14 / 20 章 · 6'12" · B2

Shushed on the B Roads, Explained：don't come running to me

On the surface they are picking a route: avoid the A roads, thread the B roads, demist the windows. Underneath, one of them is performing the hills and the other has had enough. "I never thought you'd tell me to shush" is the tell. The line that only a brook gets to babble is not about water.

あらすじ

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon sit in a fogged-up car, sorting a route that stays off the A roads. One stretch of talk is a long list of B roads. Another is verse about waters rolling from mountain springs, plus "I never thought you'd tell me to shush." A line about a broken leg and mountain rescue keeps the trip from turning literary.

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the thing about ... isin a manner of speakingdon't come running to meA roads

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このシーンの表現

don't come running to me

a joke that plays on the literal and figurative senses

罗布要去爬危险的山坡，同伴拿他打趣，用一句老话半警告半开玩笑地把他噎了回去。

Break the rules if you like, but do not come running to me afterwards.

このシーンの他の表現

  • the thing about ... is

    used to introduce your view on something

  • in a manner of speaking

    in a way; so to speak

  • A roads

    major roads in the British road numbering system

このシーンのメモ一覧

104 行のセリフに 28 件のメモ

表現 · B1if you ever want to do somethingI can... you know, if you ever want to see the Bronte sisters' house, it's not so far.
表現 · A2not so farI can... you know, if you ever want to see the Bronte sisters' house, it's not so far.
表現 · A2take someone thereIf you want to go visit, I'll take you there.
表現 · B1as you get olderHave you noticed as you get older, older women seem more attractive to you?
文法 · B1older women seem more attractive to you

comparative for a change in degree

Have you noticed as you get older, older women seem more attractive to you?
表現 · B1in generalWomen in general.
表現 · B1A roads

major roads in the British road numbering system

I thought we'd try and avoid the A roads, right, and go up the B6255 to Hawes, right, and then cut down through Oughtershaw, Yockenthwaite, Buckden, down the B6160 through Kettlewell, then the B6265 through Grassington to Pateley Bridge, then up to Ramsgill from there, right?
表現 · B1cut down through somewhereI thought we'd try and avoid the A roads, right, and go up the B6255 to Hawes, right, and then cut down through Oughtershaw, Yockenthwaite, Buckden, down the B6160 through Kettlewell, then the B6265 through Grassington to Pateley Bridge, then up to Ramsgill from there, right?
スラング · B1sat navCan we use the sat nav tomorrow?
表現 · B2the thing about something isThe thing about sat nav is, you don't where you're...
表現 · B1the quickest wayYeah, but it gets you there the quickest way.
発音gets you there

liaison

Yeah, but it gets you there the quickest way.
表現 · B2a knight of oldI'm like a knight, a knight of old, wandering the land...
表現 · B2in a manner of speaking

in a way; so to speak

In a manner of speaking.
発音manner of speaking

liaison

In a manner of speaking.
表現 · B1de-mist somethingI'm just gonna de-mist the windows, Rob, if that's all right with you.
表現 · B1if that's all right with youI'm just gonna de-mist the windows, Rob, if that's all right with you.
発音de-mist the windows

weak form

I'm just gonna de-mist the windows, Rob, if that's all right with you.
表現 · A2all the timeI don't want to listen to you all the time.
文法 · B2I'd rather you didn't explain

would rather + clause for preference

Yeah, and I'd rather you didn't explain.
スラング · B2ChristChrist.
表現 · B1spoil itYou're spoiling it. You're spoiling it.
表現 · B1in that voiceWhy do you have to do it in that voice?
表現 · B2secure footingYou've just got to make sure you've got secure footing.
文法 · B1just got to make sure

have got to for obligation

You've just got to make sure you've got secure footing.
表現 · B2a fluttery heartI sometimes get, like, a fluttery heart, like, an arrhythmic heartbeat, and I've got it now.
表現 · B1mountain rescueYeah, if it gets to three, then mountain rescue.
表現 · A2for a whileHave you been here, around this area for a while, or...

「Shushed on the B Roads」を読み解く

What's really going on

The route talk only sounds practical. A long list of B roads fills the drive. "The thing about sat nav is" never has to be finished. A machine would pick the quickest way and cancel the detour. The detour is the point. The verse is that performance. "and again I hear these waters rolling from their mountain springs with soft inland murmur" turns a fogged-up car into a reading. "I ramble through the hills and occasionally at dinner parties" confesses the habit and dresses it up. "I never thought you'd tell me to shush" is what it sounds like when the dressing fails. "The only thing that babbles is a brook" answers the poem and the man together. Water may murmur. A person talking over it may not. "If you break your leg, don't come running to me" takes the same refusal into the body and names mountain rescue. This stretch of road is about who is allowed to keep talking.

Theme

FriendshipTwo friends share a fogged-up car, and the shush, the brook line, and the broken leg are how they handle each other's noise.
SatireMountain-spring verse is cut down by a brook allowed to babble, and the cultured ramble becomes the joke.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Come running as impossible help-seeking
  • About the journey as a route excuse
  • Mountain rescue as a real threshold

発音のポイント

  • gets you there — liaison
  • manner of speaking — liaison
  • de-mist the windows — weak form
I ramble through the hills and occasionally at dinner parties.

He makes two kinds of rambling into one habit: wandering the hills, and talking too long at dinner. Charm is the defense.

I never thought you'd tell me to shush.

Being told to stop actually stings. He expected a listener, and the shush is a small, public no.

The only thing that babbles is a brook.

The comeback to all the murmuring. Brooks babble; people do not. It flatters the water and tells the speaker he has gone on too long.

and again I hear these waters rolling from their mountain springs with soft inland murmur.

Verse about mountain water, spoken in the car, giving the springs more solemnity than a detour needs.

このシーンについての質問

Why does the shush bother him so much?

"I never thought you'd tell me to shush" is surprise, not a bit about silence. He was offering the talk as part of the trip, and a companion treated it as noise. The sting is how small the word is.

Is the shush unfair?

It is blunt. The brook line is the fairer version of the same complaint. "The only thing that babbles is a brook" lets the landscape keep its sound and tells a person he does not get that license. One of them will not stop performing. The other will not pretend to enjoy it.

Why mention a broken leg and mountain rescue?

"If you break your leg, don't come running to me" needs the hills to be funny. Help out here would be mountain rescue, and the line refuses the job before anyone asks. You can do the view. You cannot make it my problem.

What is the real argument in skipping the A roads?

Scenery is only the surface. Staying off the A roads keeps the quickest way out of the car, so the drive can still be narrated. "The thing about sat nav is" aims at a machine that would end that pleasure by solving the route.

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