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The Wolf of Wall Street · 2013 — 第 3 / 30 章 · 3'42" · B1

Black Monday Crushes Jordan's Career, Explained：the ins and outs

Jordan's first day as a broker lands on Black Monday, and the crash wipes out his firm before he has made a single trade. He is let go, then starts cold-calling anyone who will listen. Through it all he keeps telling his wife one promise: "You're gonna be a millionaire."

あらすじ

Fresh out of training, Jordan reports for his first day as a licensed broker on October 19, 1987 — the day the market collapses. He watches the floor panic, loses his job when the firm shuts down, and begins the humbling search for work, arguing with his wife about money and looking for any sign that will take him in.

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the ins and outsMaster of the Universedirty laundrypawn something

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このシーンの表現

the ins and outs

the details of how it works

While earning little, Jordan spends six months learning the ins and outs of Wall Street.

It took me a month to learn the ins and outs of the new system.

このシーンの他の表現

  • Master of the Universe

    ironic title for a finance hotshot

  • dirty laundry

    private scandals or secrets

  • pawn something

    hand over as collateral for cash

  • work your way up

    rise gradually through effort

このシーンのメモ一覧

70 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

表現 · B2the common denominator

the shared factor

We're the common denominator.
表現 · A2keep it up

keep going

Keep it up for me.
表現 · B2the ins and outs of something

the details of how it works

While earning little, Jordan spends six months learning the ins and outs of Wall Street.

The next six months, I got to know the ins and outs of Wall Street.
表現 · A2get to know something

become familiar with

The next six months, I got to know the ins and outs of Wall Street.
文法 · B1I got to know the ins and outs

get to structure: Got to know means gradually came to know, not permission to know.

The next six months, I got to know the ins and outs of Wall Street.
発音got to know

Got to blurs into gotta in fast speech.

The next six months, I got to know the ins and outs of Wall Street.
表現 · B2shit money

terrible pay

Earning shit money as I geared up to take my Series 7.
スラング · B1fuckers

bastards — Casual anger; never say it in formal settings.

Oh, fuckers.
表現 · B1make a fortune

get rich

Then I was a licensed broker at last, ready to make my fortune.
スラング · B2took a shit

messed up badly — Very crude; only in private rants.

No, I don't know. Some fucking country in Europe took a shit.
発音market's solid

Market's solid links together, with the contraction reduced.

Our market's solid.
表現 · A2make a big mistake

make a serious error

I think you're making a big mistake.
表現 · A2answer the phone

pick up a call

Trust me, do not answer the phone.
発音do not answer

Both do and not are stressed to harden the warning.

Trust me, do not answer the phone.
表現 · C1dirty laundry

private scandals or secrets

During the crash, Jordan is warned that many callers want his dirty laundry.

A lot of people are gonna be calling you, trying to get your dirty laundry.
表現 · A2what's going on

what is happening

We don't know what's going on here.
スラング · B1shitty

terrible — Common in complaints; use awful in writing.

My first shitty day as a broker.
表現 · B1pawn something

hand over as collateral for cash

With Jordan out of work, his wife offers to pawn her engagement ring if they must.

We could pawn my engagement ring if we needed to.
文法 · B1if we needed to

conditional clause: The if-clause leaves out the verb: if we needed to pawn it.

We could pawn my engagement ring if we needed to.
表現 · B1stock boy

a store's stock clerk

Stock boy. What do you think?
表現 · B1work one's way up

rise gradually through effort

Jordan suggests starting as a stock boy; his wife says in sales you work your way up.

It's sales. You work your way up,
文法 · B1that nobody's hiring stockbrokers right now

noun clause: The that-clause is the object of understand: the fact he should accept.

You understand that nobody's hiring stockbrokers right now?
表現 · A2so what

why does that matter

It's in Long Island. So what?

「Black Monday Crushes Jordan's Career」を読み解く

What's really going on

The crash is not really the subject; the subject is what Jordan does when the ladder he just climbed is yanked away. On the floor he is told to stay calm and sell nothing, then fired within weeks anyway — the market does not care how hard he worked to learn it. At home the stakes shrink to a ring and a promise: his wife offers to pawn her engagement ring, and he refuses, insisting, as always, "You're gonna be a millionaire." That refusal is the whole character in miniature — vanity, hustle, and a refusal to accept a smaller life. The chapter ends the way it begins: Jordan is looking for an opening, and when he finds one, it is not on Wall Street at all.

Theme

AmbitionJordan's dream outruns the market; even after the crash he refuses to accept a smaller life.
MoneyBlack Monday turns paper wealth to nothing, and the family talk shifts from fortunes to pawning a ring.

このチャプターで学べること

  • The crash makes his self-crowning title instantly ironic.
  • She offers her ring before she offers advice.
  • Want ads turn a dead career into the next chapter.
  • The scene trades bravado for quiet married support.

発音のポイント

  • got to know — Got to blurs into gotta in fast speech.
  • market's solid — Market's solid links together, with the contraction reduced.
  • do not answer — Both do and not are stressed to harden the warning.
You're gonna be a millionaire.

Jordan's standing promise to his wife, repeated even when he has just lost everything; it is hope, self-hype, and denial in one line.

I think you're making a big mistake.

Someone warns Jordan against a decision he is about to make — a polite way of saying he is about to wreck himself.

You understand that nobody's hiring stockbrokers right now?

The blunt reality check: the crash has killed the market for his job, so his identity as a broker is suddenly worthless.

My first shitty day as a broker.

Jordan frames the crash as a personal first — his introduction to losing, told with the swagger he keeps even when humiliated.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Jordan lose his job so quickly after Black Monday?

The crash was worse than a bad day; it shut down firms. Jordan had just qualified as a broker, and L.F. Rothschild could not keep staff, so he was out within weeks.

Who offers to pawn an engagement ring, and why?

Jordan's wife offers it so they have money while he looks for work. He refuses, insisting he will still make them rich — a promise he has repeated before.

What does "dirty laundry" mean when Jordan is warned about phone calls?

It means private, embarrassing secrets. The warning is that reporters or rivals will call trying to dig up anything damaging about him or his firm.

Why does Jordan end up looking for work in Long Island?

Wall Street is not hiring after the crash. The only sign advertising for stockbrokers is at a small firm in Long Island, so that is where his next chance is.

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