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You Can't Take It with You · 1938 — 第 3 / 27 章 · 3'38" · B1

A Day in the Sycamore House, Explained：like hotcakes

The Sycamore house runs on everyone's private obsession: Essie makes candy, Penny writes plays, Paul builds fireworks, and Ed plays music. Donald grumbles about being put to work, and Grandpa comes home with strangers, asking, "How's my foot? Is that all I get?"

あらすじ

The Sycamore household is a collection of hobbies rather than a family routine. Essie makes candy but wants to dance, Paul and DePinna test homemade fireworks, Penny writes a play, and Ed loses himself in music. Donald complains about being ordered around, and Grandpa arrives with a crowd of strangers for dinner.

Family dinnersSmall talkComplainingTeasingParent & childB1mediumamericanClean
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depend onkeep uplike hotcakesborn tired

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このシーンの表現

like hotcakes

very fast

Paul is sure his new firecrackers will be grabbed up as fast as hotcakes.

The new phones sold like hotcakes on the first day.

このシーンの他の表現

  • depend on

    hinge on

  • keep up

    continue like this

  • born tired

    lazy by nature

  • just because

    simply because

  • on relief

    living on welfare

このシーンのメモ一覧

55 行のセリフに 31 件のメモ

表現 · A2I guess so

I suppose so

Guess so.
表現 · A2bring someone home

take home

I wonder how many folks Grandpa's gonna bring home for dinner tonight.
発音gonna bring

Gonna is the weak form of going to and links to the next verb.

I wonder how many folks Grandpa's gonna bring home for dinner tonight.
表現 · A2depend on something

hinge on

Nobody can guess how many guests Grandpa will bring; it all hinges on whether he takes a walk in a park.

I don't know. It all depends on whether he goes walking in a park.
文法 · B1whether he goes walking

whether-clause: The whether-clause is the object of depends on, naming the open question.

I don't know. It all depends on whether he goes walking in a park.
表現 · A2be ready for something

prepared for

Well, let him bring 'em. I'll be ready for them.
表現 · A2a bunch of something

a lot of

Well, Ed went out and got a bunch of new orders.
表現 · B1keep up

continue like this

Essie's candy business keeps growing, so her mother jokes that she will be opening a store.

If this keeps up, you'll be opening a store.
表現 · B1make up something

produce quickly

Look, Penny, we can make up a lot of these before the Fourth of July and sell them for 10 cents a string. Watch.
表現 · B1go for something

love

I tell you, the kids will go for those like hotcakes.
表現 · A2too near something

too close to

Mr. Sycamore, I'm afraid we've got the powder chamber too near the balloon.
スラング · B2ain't done nothing

haven't done a thing — Nonstandard speech; keep it out of formal writing.

I ain't done nothing, but I'm sure tired.
文法 · B1You was

nonstandard agreement: Standard English says you were; the mismatched was marks uneducated speech here.

Yeah, you always tired. From what? You was born tired.
スラング · B1You was

you were, nonstandard — Nonstandard; it marks uneducated speech in a character.

Yeah, you always tired. From what? You was born tired.
表現 · A2in time to do something

just in time

Here, take this, you're just in time enough to set the table.
表現 · A2set the table

lay the table

Here, take this, you're just in time enough to set the table.
表現 · B1just because ...

simply because

Then one of the pair is asked to do the other's work and protests that being engaged is no reason.

I don't see why I got to do your work just because we're engaged.
表現 · B2be on relief

living on welfare

Donald says he hardly goes anywhere because he lives on relief money, without apology.

No, I don't go no place much. I'm on relief.
文法 · B1don't go no place

double negative: Standard English uses any place; the double negative marks dialectal speech.

No, I don't go no place much. I'm on relief.
スラング · B1no place

anywhere, double negative — Nonstandard; in careful speech say anywhere.

No, I don't go no place much. I'm on relief.
スラング · B1whiz

a natural talent — Casual praise; fine among friends.

- I'm calling it Love Dreams. - Boy, you're a whiz.
表現 · B1ring in one's ears

keep echoing

Ed says a tune has been ringing in his ears all day and cannot wait to play it.

Wait 'til you listen to this tune. It's been ringing in my ears all day.
発音ringing in my

Link ringing and in, and keep in my very light.

Wait 'til you listen to this tune. It's been ringing in my ears all day.
発音gonna like

Gonna weakens, and like this often runs together.

This is sure a beauty. I think you gonna like this hymn.
スラング · B2do-jigger

thingamajig — A made-up word for something you cannot name.

Let me turn the little do-jigger on here.
表現 · A2a lot of something

plenty of

Got a lot of you in it.
表現 · B1should have done something

should have gone

Well, you should have been there. Everybody should have been there.
表現 · B1there must have been ...

there were probably

There must have been two acres.
発音must have been

Must have often contracts to must've in speech.

There must have been two acres.
表現 · B1ought to do something

should

If you want to hear a good speech, you ought to hear Father Divine.
文法 · B1you ought to hear

ought to: Ought to gives advice and is a little more formal than should.

If you want to hear a good speech, you ought to hear Father Divine.

「A Day in the Sycamore House」を読み解く

What's really going on

The chapter is the film's idea of happiness, shown rather than argued. Nobody in the Sycamore house has money or status, and nobody is in a hurry; they simply do what they enjoy, all at once, in the same room. The one sour note comes from Donald, who asks why he has to work for Essie "just because we're engaged," and it is telling that even the complaint is about being made to do something he did not choose. Grandpa's line, "How's my foot? Is that all I get?" is the household's whole philosophy in miniature: people are not their usefulness. Set against the Kirby office, this is the film's real argument about how to live.

Theme

Family loveThe Sycamores' home runs on shared freedom rather than discipline, and everyone is allowed their own passion.
PhilosophyThe chapter contrasts doing what you love with the money and status that drive the rest of the film.

このチャプターで学べること

  • The warm chaos of the house is carried by overlapping small talk.
  • Like hotcakes turns a sales guess into a vivid promise.
  • Donald's double negatives show how class is marked in speech.
  • Grandpa's return matters more to the family than any chore.

発音のポイント

  • gonna bring — Gonna is the weak form of going to and links to the next verb.
  • ringing in my — Link ringing and in, and keep in my very light.
  • gonna like — Gonna weakens, and like this often runs together.
  • must have been — Must have often contracts to must've in speech.
I tell you, the kids will go for those like hotcakes.

Paul's confidence in the fireworks, a salesman's line delivered by a hobbyist.

I don't see why I got to do your work just because we're engaged.

Donald's complaint, the one voice in the house that wants an ordinary set of rules.

Yeah, you always tired. From what? You was born tired.

The teasing that passes for conversation here, affectionate and completely unserious.

If you want to hear a good speech, you ought to hear Father Divine.

Grandpa turning graduation talk into a recommendation, with no sense of occasion at all.

このシーンについての質問

What does everyone in the house do?

Essie makes candy but wants to be a dancer, Penny writes plays, Paul and DePinna build fireworks, and Ed plays music. Nobody has a conventional job.

Why is Donald annoyed?

He is asked to set the table and complains that being engaged should not mean doing Essie's work. He is the one character who wants normal rules.

Why does Grandpa bring strangers home?

He collects people he meets around the city and invites them to dinner, which is why the family never knows how many guests to expect.

What does Grandpa say about his foot?

When someone asks about his foot, he is annoyed that it is all they ask about, and answers, "Is that all I get?" It is his way of refusing to be reduced to his ailment.

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