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The Trip · 2011 — 第 19 / 20 章 · 4'50" · B2

Hiring Divers for the Gesture, Explained：if push came to shove

Something has gone into a river, and the talk is about whether to get it back. Scuba divers are offered in the same breath as a shrug: the gesture matters more than the rescue. "No, the family's more important." An East End boast, a week of putting up with it, and a strong cup of tea sit beside that choice.

あらすじ

Someone talks through a loss in a river: if push came to shove, scuba divers could retrieve whatever went in, but the gesture is what matters. Family is called the more important thing. A childhood in the East End is set against someone else's start, someone has put up with this all week, and a cup of tea is called a substantial brew after Four Weddings and a Funeral.

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put something in perspectiveif push came to shoveblow the doors offa substantial brew

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このシーンの表現

if push came to shove

if the situation becomes truly serious

史蒂夫半开玩笑地论证自己会为家庭放弃奖项，说真到了那一步，他还能雇潜水队把奖杯捞回来。

If push comes to shove, we can sell the car.

このシーンの他の表現

  • put something in perspective

    to make you see what really matters

  • blow the doors off

    to do something with explosive, irrepressible energy

  • a substantial brew

    a strong, hearty cup of tea

このシーンのメモ一覧

103 行のセリフに 34 件のメモ

文法 · B2The most important thing to me is that

superlative plus that-clause

The most important thing to me is that I have...
表現 · A2anything like thatThat's more important than any work, any award, anything like that.
文法 · B1more important than any work

comparative with than

That's more important than any work, any award, anything like that.
表現 · C1put something in perspective

to make you see what really matters

That actually puts everything in perspective.
発音puts everything in perspective

liaison

That actually puts everything in perspective.
表現 · B2exchange something for somethingIf you could exchange them for knowing your children would live a happy, long...
表現 · C1if push comes to shove

if the situation becomes truly serious

a river, if push came to shove, I could hire a team of scuba divers to retrieve them, but, you know, the gesture is the important thing.
表現 · B1a choice between A and BI mean, if it was a choice between winning an award and my child being healthy,
表現 · B1recover from somethingan illness the child would recover from but would have some discomfort.
文法 · B2the child would recover from

preposition stranding

an illness the child would recover from but would have some discomfort.
表現 · C1up the stakesLet me up the stakes.
表現 · B2Academy Award winnerMeanwhile, "Academy Award winner, Steve Coogan."
表現 · B2glimpse the real someoneAh, now we glimpse the real man.
表現 · B2think something throughI'm thinking about it. I was thinking it through.
表現 · B1a place to grow upLovely place to grow up, you know?
スラング · B2me dadThis is Bernard, me dad. This is Rob.
表現 · B2off the tellyRob Brydon off the telly.
スラング · B2a bonnie lassOoh, and a daughter. She's a bonnie lass.
表現 · B1on occasionsWell, on occasions.
スラング · B2CrikeyCrikey. Crikey. Crikey. Gosh. This is excellent.
表現 · B2a substantial brew

a strong, hearty cup of tea

I've been to Four Weddings and a Funeral recently, and I've not had, gosh, quite such a substantial brew.
表現 · B2quit while you're aheadQuit while you're ahead, you know?
発音Quit while you're ahead

weak form

Quit while you're ahead, you know?
表現 · B2the quiet oneYeah, you were always the quiet one, weren't you?
表現 · B2in one's own little worldWell, I was in my own little world, you know, sort of, you know, escape.
表現 · A2as a kidI used to daydream constantly as a kid, you know,
文法 · B1I used to daydream constantly

used to for past habits

I used to daydream constantly as a kid, you know,
表現 · B2quite withdrawnI was quite withdrawn also.
表現 · C1blow the doors off

to do something with explosive, irrepressible energy

I, on the other hand, grew up in the East End of London, and all I ever wanted to do was blow the bloody doors off.
文法 · C1all I ever wanted to do was blow

pseudo-cleft with all

I, on the other hand, grew up in the East End of London, and all I ever wanted to do was blow the bloody doors off.
表現 · B1put up with somethingI've had to put up with this all week.
発音put up with

liaison

I've had to put up with this all week.
表現 · A2why don't you do somethingListen, why don't you stop for lunch?
表現 · B2push onWell, we should push on, really.

「Hiring Divers for the Gesture」を読み解く

What's really going on

The river offer is a boast that cancels itself. Scuba divers could retrieve whatever went in, "if push came to shove," but the same breath says the gesture is the important thing. Being seen to care is the point. "No, the family's more important" refuses the bigger show and picks the smaller loyalty. "That actually puts everything in perspective" is the verdict: the divers, the loss, and the family have been resized, and family wins. The East End line pushes the other direction. "I, on the other hand, grew up in the East End of London, and all I ever wanted to do was blow the bloody doors off." That is appetite, not a plan. Beside it sits "I've had to put up with this all week." Four Weddings and a Funeral did not produce "quite such a substantial brew." Grand claims keep shrinking into a gesture, a family, or a strong brew, and nobody has to settle which one matters most.

Theme

Family loveA offered river rescue is waved aside with "No, the family's more important," so the stunt shrinks to a gesture.
PrideWanting to blow the doors off, and hiring divers that may never be used, are both shows of appetite.

このチャプターで学べること

  • If push came to shove as a last resort
  • Up the stakes as raising the bet
  • Quit while you're ahead as a stop rule

発音のポイント

  • puts everything in perspective — liaison
  • Quit while you're ahead — weak form
  • put up with — liaison
I, on the other hand, grew up in the East End of London, and all I ever wanted to do was blow the bloody doors off.

A self-portrait in this talk: an East End childhood remembered as a hunger to make a huge noise, not to stay quiet.

No, the family's more important.

Said against a bigger offer. Family, not the gesture or the spectacle, is what should win.

I've had to put up with this all week.

A plain complaint that whatever "this" is has already lasted the whole week.

I've been to Four Weddings and a Funeral recently, and I've not had, gosh, quite such a substantial brew.

The film is only the setup. The surprise is the tea: even a recent Four Weddings did not match this cup.

このシーンについての質問

Why bring up a team of scuba divers at all?

The speaker says the divers could retrieve what went into the river if push came to shove, and in the same breath adds that the gesture is the important thing. The team is the size of the offer. Actually going in the water is beside the point.

What does "blow the bloody doors off" mean here?

It is the life the speaker claims to have wanted: not a quiet path, but an East End appetite for a huge smash. In this conversation it works as a self-portrait and a boast, not as a plan to damage a door.

Why does someone say the family is more important?

It closes a choice. Set beside the river gesture and the line about perspective, it refuses the grander performance and names family as the thing that should reset the scale.

Why compare the tea with Four Weddings and a Funeral?

A recent viewing of that film is the benchmark, and the cup still wins. The joke treats a substantial brew as more memorable than a famous night out, which shrinks the talk down to something you can actually taste.

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