United 93 · 2006 — 第 15 / 17 章 · 2'39" · B1

The News Spreads Through the Cabin, Explained:one after the other

With no screens in front of them, the people on United 93 trade information by voice: "Two planes hit the World Trade Center." Some doubt it, some pass it back down the cabin, and the reports grow until someone asks the question nobody wants to answer, whether their own plane is one of them.

あらすじ

Aboard United 93, with no live news, the news arrives by word of mouth. A passenger hears from his wife that two planes hit the World Trade Center, and the message is passed back through the cabin. People question it, repeat it, and then a report of an explosion at the Pentagon pushes the fear higher.

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注目の表現

make sensecall backone after the otherprop planes

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このシーンの表現

one after the other

in succession

A passenger retells the two impacts as Airplanes, one after the other, hit the World Trade Center.

The emails arrived one after the other all morning.

このシーンの他の表現

  • make sense

    be logical

  • call back

    phone again later

  • prop planes

    planes with propellers

  • explosion

    a blast

  • on the news

    reported in the news

このシーンのメモ一覧

60 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

発音handle the

In handle the the d and th often drop, so the words run together.

...can handle the emergency situation.
表現 · B1know about something

have news about

Does anybody know about the pilot yet?
表現 · A2there was something

something happened

My wife says that there was an explosion at the World Trade Center.
表現 · A2tell someone something

inform someone

Tell the stewardesses two planes hit the World Trade Center.
表現 · B1pass something back

send something along

Someone pass that back.
スラング · A2Just a second

one moment — Casual for holding on; use one moment please formally.

Just a second. Right.
表現 · B1make sense

be logical

Hearing that two planes hit the towers, someone answers It doesn't make sense.

It doesn't make sense. Are you sure you heard that right?
表現 · B1hear something right

hear correctly

It doesn't make sense. Are you sure you heard that right?
文法 · B1Are you sure you heard that right

embedded clause: You heard that right is the clause under are you sure, asking whether the hearing was correct.

It doesn't make sense. Are you sure you heard that right?
スラング · A2guys

you all — Casual address; use everyone in formal settings.

Where are you guys hearing this?
表現 · A2up there

further up front

Somebody from up there said it. Ask up there.
表現 · A2take someone back

lead someone back

Sandy, take her back, take her back.
表現 · B1one after the other

in succession

A passenger retells the two impacts as Airplanes, one after the other, hit the World Trade Center.

One after the other hit the World Trade Center.
発音one after the other

One after the other links across words, with after the sounding joined.

Airplanes, one after the other, hit the World Trade Center.
表現 · A2come from somewhere

originate from

Where did they come from?
表現 · B1be on line with someone

in a call with someone

I'm on line with my wife.
文法 · A2Is that right

confirmation question: Is that right checks back on information just heard, like asking whether it is true.

Two planes hit the World Trade Center. Is that right?
表現 · B2prop planes

planes with propellers

Unwilling to believe big airliners hit the towers, someone asks if they were prop planes.

Do they mean prop planes?
表現 · A2talk to someone

speak with someone

I just talked to my wife. Two planes have hit the World Trade Center.
発音talked to

In talked to the k and t often drop, so it sounds like talk-to.

I just talked to my wife. Two planes have hit the World Trade Center.
表現 · B2have been hijacked

were seized by force

There are five jets that have been hijacked.
文法 · B1that have been hijacked

relative clause: The that-clause modifies five jets and uses present perfect passive to mark them as already seized.

There are five jets that have been hijacked.
表現 · B1that's all we know

the limit of our knowledge

Just tell them that. That's all we know.

「The News Spreads Through the Cabin」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is about information without authority. Nobody in the cabin has a screen, so every fact arrives secondhand - from a wife on the phone, from a passenger who heard it from someone further up, from the news someone else is watching. The film lets the same sentence repeat until it becomes true: "Two planes hit the World Trade Center." What follows is not panic so much as disbelief and checking: "It doesn't make sense. Are you sure you heard that right?" Then the reports escalate - an explosion at the Pentagon, five hijacked jets - and the passengers begin to do the terrible arithmetic, asking whether their own plane is among them. The word-spreading is ordinary human behavior, and that is what makes it land.

Theme

TrustWith no screens, every fact arrives secondhand, and passengers have to decide whether to believe what is passed down the cabin.
Death & griefThe reports of the attacks accumulate, and ordinary people absorb the scale of the loss as it reaches their own row.

このチャプターで学べること

  • In a crisis, a quote from family can outweigh a broadcast.
  • Correcting one word, fire to explosion, changes the stakes.
  • Rumor travels faster down an aisle than any official word.
  • Asking if you are the sixth is how fear does arithmetic.

発音のポイント

  • handle the — In handle the the d and th often drop, so the words run together.
  • one after the other — One after the other links across words, with after the sounding joined.
  • talked to — In talked to the k and t often drop, so it sounds like talk-to.
My wife says that there was an explosion at the World Trade Center.

The first version of the news to reach the cabin, passed on from a phone call: an explosion at the World Trade Center.

It doesn't make sense. Are you sure you heard that right?

A listener refuses the news at first, questioning whether it was heard correctly before accepting it.

It's two airplanes. It's not a bomb.

A correction spreading through the plane: the cause is aircraft, not a bomb, as people try to get the facts straight.

Airplanes, one after the other, hit the World Trade Center.

The repeated core of the story - plane after plane hitting the towers - phrased as the cabin keeps retelling it.

Are we one of them, or are we the sixth?

The passengers turn the news on themselves, wondering whether their own flight is one of the hijacked planes.

An explosion at the Pentagon. Not a fire, an explosion.

The news escalates to Washington, and the speaker stresses that it was an explosion, not merely a fire.

このシーンについての質問

How does the news reach the passengers on United 93?

By word of mouth. People call family from the plane, and those who hear something pass it back through the cabin, so the same sentences are repeated from row to row.

What does 'one after the other' mean here?

It means one immediately following another. When passengers say the planes hit the towers one after the other, they are describing two separate strikes in quick succession.

Why do some passengers doubt the news at first?

Because it arrives secondhand and sounds impossible. Someone asks whether it was heard correctly, and others wonder if the planes were small prop planes rather than airliners.

What news makes the passengers panic more?

The report of an explosion at the Pentagon, followed by word that five planes have been hijacked. That is when the cabin starts to wonder whether their own flight is involved.

Why does one passenger ask 'are we the sixth'?

Because the reports mention several hijacked planes, and the passengers begin to suspect that their flight is another one. It is the moment the attack stops being about other people.

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