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Whatever Works · 2009 — 第 4 / 16 章 · 5'01" · B2

Boris's Runaway Tells Her Past, Explained：spare me the details

Melodie won't leave Boris's apartment, and he can't quite throw her out. "I made love before I was married," she confesses, narrating her small-town past in cheerful detail while Boris recoils in disgust. What looks like a clash of manners is really him losing his last excuse for solitude.

あらすじ

In his cramped New York apartment, Boris Yellnikoff can't get rid of Melodie, the runaway he let sleep on his couch. Two friends gossip about how he got conned into housing her. Later Melodie recounts her first love and asks whether he wants to be buried or cremated, then watches Fred Astaire with him after a nightmare.

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注目の表現

prolongwind upspare me the detailsshow someone around

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このシーンの表現

spare me the details

don't tell me the specifics

As Melody starts her love story, Boris waves it off with spare me the details.

Spare me the details and just tell me the result.

このシーンの他の表現

  • prolong

    make something last longer

  • wind up

    end up in a place or state

  • show someone around

    give someone a tour

  • a morbid fear

    an unhealthy, excessive fear

  • get the hell out of here

    leave this place right now

このシーンのメモ一覧

85 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

表現 · B1wind up doing something

end up in a place or state

Melody warns that if he throws her out she will wind up on the street, and it will be his fault.

And if you throw me out and I wind up an Asian prostitute, that's gonna be on your conscience.
文法 · B1if you throw me out and I wind up an Asian prostitute

conditional clause: The if-clause sets up a hypothetical, and the main clause assigns the blame.

And if you throw me out and I wind up an Asian prostitute, that's gonna be on your conscience.
発音wind up an

Link wind up an so it sounds like win-da-pan.

And if you throw me out and I wind up an Asian prostitute, that's gonna be on your conscience.
スラング · C1imbecile

a foolish person — A bookish insult, used with people you know.

I give up. Sleep on the couch, imbecile.
文法 · B1too tired to prolong this brutal exchange

too...to construction: Too tired to prolong means the tiredness makes continuing impossible.

I'm too tired to prolong this brutal exchange between a bedraggled microbe and a Nobel-level thinker.
発音tired to

The d in tired to often becomes a quick flap.

I'm too tired to prolong this brutal exchange between a bedraggled microbe and a Nobel-level thinker.
表現 · B1freshen up

wash and tidy up

I'm just gonna use the little girl's to freshen up, and then I'm gonna go right to sleep.
スラング · B1goddamn

a swear for emphasis — A swear; keep it out of polite company.

It's Boris Yellnikoff! You call me Muggeridge one more time, I'm gonna throw you out the goddamn window.
表現 · B1get settled somewhere

become established

He got conned into letting some little runaway bed down in his apartment while she looks for a job and gets settled.
表現 · B1show someone around

give someone a tour

The friends gossip that Melody has never seen New York and wants Boris to show her around.

Apparently she's never been to New York before and she's asked him if he would show her around.
表現 · B1bring someone up

raise a child

My mom brought me up to believe that the good Lord has a plan that we're all a part of.
表現 · B2make love

have sex

I made love before I was married.
表現 · B2spare someone something

save someone from something

All right, okay, spare me the details, all right.
表現 · C1double on an instrument

also play another instrument

I mean, if you think you're a genius, he can double on the drums.
表現 · B2go steady with someone

date someone exclusively

Betty Jo Cleary, this girl he was going steady with.
スラング · C1cretin

a very stupid person — A heavy insult; keep it private.

- I think I want to be cremated. - All right, will you shut up, cretin?
表現 · B2night sweats

sweating during sleep

Night sweats. I get them.
表現 · B2a morbid fear of something

an unhealthy, excessive fear

Waking in a sweat, Boris blames AIDS, then admits a morbid fear of the dark, and the switched-off night-light.

I used to think it was AIDS, but it's just that I have a morbid fear of the dark - and you turned my night-light off! - Oh, I'm sorry.
文法 · B1I used to think it was AIDS

used to construction: Used to think marks a past belief that no longer holds.

I used to think it was AIDS, but it's just that I have a morbid fear of the dark - and you turned my night-light off! - Oh, I'm sorry.
表現 · C1the abyss

a bottomless void

- I saw the abyss. - Don't worry, we'll watch something else.
発音get the hell

Hell takes the heaviest stress, and out of blurs into outta.

There, that's it, okay? Can we get the hell out of here?
スラング · B2the hell

an intensifier in crude speech — Crude emphasis; avoid it in formal talk.

There, that's it, okay? Can we get the hell out of here?

「Boris's Runaway Tells Her Past」を読み解く

What's really going on

For all his Nobel-level contempt, Boris is the one who keeps letting Melodie stay, and her chatter is quietly dismantling him. She tells him "I made love before I was married" as if confessing a sin, sure her family would find it "just unforgivable" — but she describes it as the most natural thing in the world. Boris calls her story "the most disgusting story I've ever heard," yet he gives up the fight, lets her sleep on the couch, and afterward it is he who wakes sweating and screaming about "the abyss," terrified of the dark. The runaway with no shame turns out calmer than the genius who prides himself on seeing through everything.

Theme

AbsurdityA Nobel physicist shelters a runaway and ends up more frightened of the dark than she is of hell.
FaithMelodie was raised to see premarital sex as an unforgivable sin, yet insists it felt like the most natural thing in the world.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Melody treats a scandal as a sweet memory.
  • Boris ends every confession with a verdict.
  • The nightmare scene swaps argument for care.

発音のポイント

  • wind up an — Link wind up an so it sounds like win-da-pan.
  • tired to — The d in tired to often becomes a quick flap.
  • get the hell — Hell takes the heaviest stress, and out of blurs into outta.
And if you throw me out and I wind up an Asian prostitute, that's gonna be on your conscience.

Melodie's parting shot: if Boris kicks her out and she ends up working the streets, she wants him to feel responsible for it.

I'm too tired to prolong this brutal exchange between a bedraggled microbe and a Nobel-level thinker.

Boris's weary insult: he calls their fight a pointless battle between a scruffy nobody and a Nobel-level genius like himself, and says he is too tired to continue.

Yeah. You touch that dial, I'll unwind your head with my bare hands.

Boris's threat: touch the TV dial and he will twist her head off with his bare hands — a comic menace over something as trivial as the television.

He was so sweet and sensitive, and he caught the biggest catfish in Plaquemines County.

Melodie's way of praising her first love: he was sweet and sensitive, and in her eyes a champion because he caught the biggest catfish in the county.

That is the most disgusting story I've ever heard.

Boris's verdict on Melodie's romantic story — he finds her cheerful account of losing her virginity revolting rather than sweet.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Boris let Melodie stay if she annoys him so much?

He threatens to throw her out but never follows through, and even tells her to sleep on the couch. His bluster is a pose: he claims he gave up, then keeps feeding her, looking out for her, and eventually sightseeing with her.

Is Melodie ashamed of losing her virginity?

No. She calls it a sin only because that is how her mother raised her, then describes the night as beautiful and "the most natural thing in the world." She tells the story warmly, not with guilt.

What is Boris so afraid of at night?

He wakes in a sweat, jokes that he used to think it was AIDS, and admits he has a morbid fear of the dark. He even says he "saw the abyss," and blames Melodie for switching off his night-light.

Who is Bobby Klaxon?

The guitar player Melodie lost her virginity to back home. She remembers him as a pretty boy who could also play drums and once caught the biggest catfish in Plaquemines County.

Why does Boris say "the little girl's" for the bathroom?

"The little girl's" is an old-fashioned, kidding way of saying the ladies' room. He says it because Melodie is going to freshen up, then mock-politely adds, "Don't forget to tip the attendant."

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