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You Can't Take It with You · 1938 — 第 10 / 27 章 · 2'13" · B2

Alice Explains Her Family, Explained：as he pleases

After grace, Grandpa mentions that Alice is going to be married, and Alice explains her family to Kolenkhov. The story is that everyone simply does what he likes: Grandpa quit business because he was not having fun, and Penny writes plays because a typewriter arrived by mistake.

あらすじ

Grandpa says grace and mentions Alice's coming marriage. Then Alice explains the household to Kolenkhov: her grandfather walked out of his business one day and took up stamp collecting, her father builds fireworks because he never grew up, and her mother began writing plays because a typewriter was delivered by mistake.

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what would I do withoutgetting onas far as ... is concernedas he pleases

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このシーンの表現

as he pleases

whatever he likes

Kolenkhov marvels that everyone in the house does exactly as he pleases, with nobody stopping anyone.

He comes and goes as he pleases.

このシーンの他の表現

  • what would I do without

    how could I manage without

  • getting on

    getting along

  • as far as ... is concerned

    as for

  • appraise

    judge the value of

  • taken up

    started doing

このシーンのメモ一覧

36 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ

発音do without my

Do without my links across the words in fast speech.

My little Rheba, what would I do without my angel?
表現 · B1sew something on

attach by sewing

And would you sew on two little buttons on one of them?
表現 · A2here we are

so here we are

Well, sir. Here we are again.
表現 · A2pretty good

quite well

We've been getting on pretty good for quite a while now.
スラング · A2pretty good

quite well — Casual; in formal speech use quite good.

We've been getting on pretty good for quite a while now.
表現 · B2be much obliged

very grateful

We're certainly much obliged.
表現 · A1get married

marry

Looks like Alice is going to get married, and I think she'll be very happy, because we just met the boy you sent her and he looks fine.
表現 · B1keep one's health

stay healthy

Remember, all we ask is just to go along the way we are and keep our health.
表現 · B2leave something up to someone

let someone decide

As far as anything else is concerned, we leave that up to you.
文法 · B2As far as anything else is concerned

adverbial clause: The clause narrows the topic to everything else and hands it over to a higher power.

As far as anything else is concerned, we leave that up to you.
スラング · A2up to you

your call — Relaxed; in formal contexts say your decision.

As far as anything else is concerned, we leave that up to you.
表現 · B2might have done something

could have imagined

Living with them must be like living in a world that Walt Disney might have thought of.
文法 · B2that Walt Disney might have thought of

relative clause: The relative clause describes the world, crediting it to Walt Disney's imagination.

Living with them must be like living in a world that Walt Disney might have thought of.
表現 · A2have fun

enjoying oneself

He could have been a rich man, but he said he wasn't having any fun.
文法 · B2could have been

subjunctive: Could have been points to a possible past that never happened.

He could have been a rich man, but he said he wasn't having any fun.
発音could have been

Have reduces to a weak form here, not a stressed word.

He could have been a rich man, but he said he wasn't having any fun.
表現 · A2collect stamps

collect stamps

Then he started collecting stamps, because that's what he liked best.
表現 · A2get paid

earn money

You know, he gets paid just to appraise collections.
文法 · B1because he never grew up

reason clause: The because-clause gives the reason, delivered with a self-mocking shrug.

My dad, he makes fireworks because, well, because he never grew up, I guess.
スラング · A2I guess

I suppose — A hedge in speech; avoid it in formal writing.

My dad, he makes fireworks because, well, because he never grew up, I guess.
表現 · B2take up something

started doing

Hearing the typewriter arrived by mistake, Kolenkhov jokes that a plow would have turned Alice's mother into a farmer.

If it had been a plow, she'd have taken up farming?
文法 · B2If it had been a plow

third conditional: The if had been clause sets up a past that never happened, so the result is only imagined.

If it had been a plow, she'd have taken up farming?
表現 · B1be supposed to do something

expected to

This is making conversation, but weren't we supposed to go to the ballet?
発音supposed to

Supposed to sounds like suppose-to, with the d dropped.

This is making conversation, but weren't we supposed to go to the ballet?

「Alice Explains Her Family」を読み解く

What's really going on

The chapter explains, with affection, why the Sycamores are the way they are. Each story is a small refusal of the ordinary: Grandpa quit a business career because "he wasn't having any fun," and Penny became a playwright because of a delivery error. The film is not mocking them. The point is that none of these lives was planned, and all of them are happy. Kolenkhov's line, that living with them is like a world Walt Disney might have thought of, is both a joke and the highest praise in the film. Against the Kirby household, where everything is arranged, this is the alternative.

Theme

Family loveEach Sycamore's odd pursuit is explained as a choice freely made, and the family is proud of every one.
PhilosophyThe chapter argues that a life of doing what you enjoy beats a career built for money.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Alice describes her family without apologizing for it.
  • A mistaken delivery becomes a life's work.
  • Grandpa measures success by fun, not money.
  • The visitor finds the chaos wonderful rather than strange.

発音のポイント

  • do without my — Do without my links across the words in fast speech.
  • could have been — Have reduces to a weak form here, not a stressed word.
  • supposed to — Supposed to sounds like suppose-to, with the d dropped.
Living with them must be like living in a world that Walt Disney might have thought of.

Kolenkhov's description of the household, part joke and part admiration.

He could have been a rich man, but he said he wasn't having any fun.

The explanation for Grandpa's choice, which the family treats as obviously correct.

If it had been a plow, she'd have taken up farming?

The joke that sums up Penny's approach to life, and the family's answer is yes.

He started up in the elevator, turned 'round, came right down again and never went back.

The vivid image of Grandpa quitting, a whole life changed in one ride.

このシーンについての質問

Why did Grandpa leave his business?

He said he was not having any fun. He walked into the elevator one day, turned around, came back down, and never returned to the office.

Why does Penny write plays?

Because a typewriter was delivered to the house by mistake eight years earlier. Alice jokes that if it had been a plow, her mother would have taken up farming.

Why does Paul make fireworks?

Alice says it is because he never grew up. He builds them for the pleasure of it, not for money.

How does Kolenkhov describe the family?

He says living with them must be like a world Walt Disney might have imagined, because everyone does exactly as he pleases.

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