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Witness for the Prosecution · 1957 — 第 1 / 27 章 · 4'10" · B2

Sir Wilfrid Goes Home, Explained：put it in mothballs

The great barrister Sir Wilfrid returns from the hospital to a hero's welcome and instantly wants none of it. He bickers with his nurse, snaps at his staff, and threatens to check himself back in. "Any more sentimentality around here, I shall go back to the hospital!" Under the grouchiness is a man quietly pleased to be home.

あらすじ

After a long hospital stay, Sir Wilfrid is driven home by his nurse, Miss Plimsoll, and greeted by his clerks and Carter, his chief clerk. He grumbles about the fuss, brushes off any sentiment, and inspects his chambers, where he finds that everything has been packed away.

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注目の表現

roll upweighs a tonyour old self againunbecoming

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このシーンの表現

put it in mothballs

store away, suspend

When Carter says they have put his things in mothballs, Sir Wilfrid fears he is being shelved for good.

They put it in mothballs when demand fell.

このシーンの他の表現

  • roll up

    close by rolling; shut up

  • weighs a ton

    is extremely heavy

  • your old self again

    back to your normal self

  • unbecoming

    not fitting or proper

  • breaking down our doors

    people are crowding in

このシーンのメモ一覧

46 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ

表現 · A2a bit of something

a small amount of something

What a beautiful day. I've been hoping for a bit of sun for our homecoming.
発音a bit of

Link a bit of so it sounds like one word.

What a beautiful day. I've been hoping for a bit of sun for our homecoming.
表現 · B1it's worth doing something

deserves the effort

It's worth having the fog just to appreciate the sunshine. Is there a draught?
発音Is there a

Is there a often blurs into one quick burst of sound.

It's worth having the fog just to appreciate the sunshine. Is there a draught?
表現 · A2roll something up

close by rolling; shut up

The nurse offers to roll up the car window; he snaps back that she should roll up her mouth.

- Shall I roll up the window? - Roll up your mouth. You talk too much.
文法 · B2If I'd known how much you talked I'd never have

third conditional: A third conditional imagines a different past and its imagined result.

If I'd known how much you talked I'd never have come out of my coma.
表現 · B1weigh a ton

is extremely heavy

Getting out of the car, he complains that his cane weighs a ton, really grumbling about being treated as an invalid.

- This thing weighs a ton. - Now, now.
表現 · B2be flat on one's back

bedridden

We've been flat on our back for two months, we'd better be careful.
発音flat on our

The t links into on while our weakens to almost nothing.

We've been flat on our back for two months, we'd better be careful.
表現 · A2live and work somewhere

reside and work

Lovely, lovely. It must be perfectly lovely to live and work in the Inns of Court.
表現 · B1become engaged

get engaged

I was in attendance for his appendectomy and we became engaged as soon as he could sit up.
表現 · A2teeny-weeny something

very tiny

Teeny-weeny steps, now. Remember we had a teeny-weeny heart attack.
発音teeny-weeny

Stress the first syllable of each word: TEENy-WEEny.

Teeny-weeny steps, now. Remember we had a teeny-weeny heart attack.
スラング · A2Teeny-weeny

tiny, baby-talk — Baby talk; fine with children, patronizing to adults.

Teeny-weeny steps, now. Remember we had a teeny-weeny heart attack.
表現 · B2in one's own time

outside working hours

Very touching. You can recite it after office hours in your own time.
表現 · B2be one's old self again

back to your normal self

Carter says he is simply glad to see Sir Wilfrid back to his old self again.

Nothing. I'm just happy that you're your old self again.
文法 · C1Any more sentimentality around here

fronted condition: The condition is fronted without if, so the threat lands faster.

Any more sentimentality around here, I shall go back to the hospital!
文法 · C1conduct unbecoming a cardiac patient

postposed adjective phrase: The adjective phrase follows the noun it describes, a formal written pattern.

They won't take him back. He wasn't really discharged, you know, he was expelled for conduct unbecoming a cardiac patient.
スラング · B2blabbermouth

a talkative person — A playful insult among friends; avoid it in formal talk.

Put these in water, blabbermouth! Come on in, Carter.
表現 · A2miss something so much

to such a degree

But I never knew I could miss anything so much.
スラング · C1buzzard

an old crank — Mock-insult for a cranky old friend; too rude for strangers.

- Missed you too, you musty old buzzard. - Oh, thank you, sir.
表現 · C1cart someone off

haul someone away

I'm not a religious man, but when they carted you off, I went out and lit a candle.
表現 · B2make an objection

raise an objection

First time I rose to make an objection, my wig fell off. Where's my wig?
表現 · C2break down someone's doors

people are crowding in

Carter reassures him that solicitors have been breaking down their doors, meaning work is pouring in.

Of course. The solicitors have been breaking down our doors.
表現 · B2deprive someone of something

take something away

Doctors! They've deprived me of alcohol, tobacco, female companionship.
発音deprived me of

The d in deprived often drops before me.

Doctors! They've deprived me of alcohol, tobacco, female companionship.
表現 · B1might as well do something

no better option

Might as well get a bigger box, more mothballs, put me away too.

「Sir Wilfrid Goes Home」を読み解く

What's really going on

Sir Wilfrid's homecoming introduces the film's hero before the drama: a brilliant, impossible old man who cannot bear to be fussed over. The nurse's small tyrannies and his refusal of the welcome party are a running joke, but they also show the energy he has been missing. His chambers have been packed away while he was ill, and he bristles at being treated as finished — he snaps, "Any more sentimentality around here, I shall go back to the hospital!" Then, quieter, he admits, "But I never knew I could miss anything so much." Carter's boast that solicitors are breaking down their doors is both flattery and a careful limit: the great criminal lawyer is offered only civil cases. He is already itching to work again, and the film lets us feel how much the coming trial will mean to him.

Theme

IdentityA famous lawyer is packed away like an old coat and has to prove he is still himself, not a retired man.
PrideSir Wilfrid refuses the hero's welcome and any sentiment, insisting on returning to work on his own terms.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Mock complaint can carry real affection.
  • One verb can turn a window into an insult.
  • Mothballs mean storage, not surrender.
  • Legal wit often hides behind good manners.

発音のポイント

  • a bit of — Link a bit of so it sounds like one word.
  • Is there a — Is there a often blurs into one quick burst of sound.
  • flat on our — The t links into on while our weakens to almost nothing.
  • teeny-weeny — Stress the first syllable of each word: TEENy-WEEny.
I'm not a religious man, but when they carted you off, I went out and lit a candle.

Carter's way of saying he feared for Sir Wilfrid's life, told as a joke about lighting a candle.

If I'd known how much you talked I'd never have come out of my coma.

Sir Wilfrid's first volley at his nurse, mock-regret about recovering, which sets their bickering tone.

But I never knew I could miss anything so much.

The line under the grouchiness: he loves his chambers, and his gruffness hides how much coming back means.

Any more sentimentality around here, I shall go back to the hospital!

His threat to retreat from any display of feeling, a joke that also warns everyone to treat him as normal.

このシーンについての質問

Why is Sir Wilfrid so rude to everyone after coming home?

He hates emotional fuss and being treated as fragile after his heart attack. The rudeness is his way of insisting that he is back to his old self and ready to work.

Who is Carter?

Sir Wilfrid's chief clerk, who has kept the chambers running and guarded his wig while he was ill. He greets him warmly and brings him cases to consider.

Why won't Carter give Sir Wilfrid a criminal case?

He says the doctors have forbidden it and offers divorce, tax and insurance work instead. Sir Wilfrid insists those are not worthwhile, which sets up the murder case to come.

Why is the office packed away in mothballs?

While Sir Wilfrid was hospitalized, no one expected him to practise again, so everything was stored. Finding it that way is what stings him and pushes him to demand real work.

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