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映画 - 【ベンジャミン・バトン 数奇な人生 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)】英語

Overview

  • Director: David Fincher
  • Writers: Eric Roth (screenplay), Eric Roth (story)
  • Stars: Brad Pitt(Benjamin Button), Cate Blanchett(Daisy), Tilda Swinton(Elizabeth Abbott), Taraji P. Henson(Queenie), Jared Harris(Captain Mike)

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単語・例文

  • medication : 薬、薬物療法
    Synonyms : medicine, drug, cure, remedy, prescription, medicament

    CAROLINE : Do you want more medication, Mother? The doctor said you can have all you want.
    A friend told me she never had a chance to say goodbye to her mother.
    (grateful to have the chance)
    I wanted to thank you, Mother, for bringing me into this world. For raising me so well. I wanted to tell you how much you've meant to me. I'm going to miss you so much...

  • 「Do you mind」の例文

    DOROTHY BAKER : Do you mind if I make myself a call? I've got somebody watching my little boy.
    CAROLINE : No, please go call...

  • cataracts : 白内障、arthritis : 関節炎、ossified : 硬直化された

    DOCTOR ROSE : ... He's nearly blind from cataracts... I'm not sure he can hear... His bones indicate severe arthritis... His skin has lost all elasticity... His hands and feet are ossified... He has all the deterioration, the infirmities, not of a newborn, but of a man well in his eighties on the way to his grave... QUEENIE : You mean to say he's dying?
    DOCTOR ROSE : Of old age. His body is failing him before his life's begun.

  • one way or another : いずれいにせよ、何かと

    BENJAMIN BUTTON : Somedays I feel like I'm different from the day before...
    QUEENIE : Everybody feels different about themselves one way or another. We're all goin' the same way, just taking different roads to get there...
    You're on your own road, Benjamin.

  • break one's cherry : to take or lose one's virginity、ここのcherryはcherry boyのそれ。

    THE WOMAN : Captain Mike, we're ready for you and your friend...
    CAPT. MIKE : Let's go old timer... Break your cherry... This one's on me...

  • refit : 再装備(改造)する、to make or be made ready for use again by repairing
    Synonyms : repair, fix, restore, renew, mend, renovate, patch up, put back together, restore to working order

    BENJAMIN BUTTON'S (V.O.) : Captain Mike had contracted for three years with Moran Brothers Tug and Salvage...
    The old ship had been refitted with a diesel engine, and a new sea winch... We went around Florida and up the Atlantic seaboard...

  • 「I don't mean to be rude」の例文

    ELIZABETH ABBOTT : You're a seaman? I don't mean to be rude...but aren't you rather old to be working on a boat?
    BENJAMIN : There's no age limit... as long as you can do the work...

  • 「take one's place : ~と交代する」の例文

    DAISY : I spoke to Queenie... she told me you were in the war... somewhere at sea... I was so worried about you...
    BENJAMIN : (simply) I'm okay.
    BENJAMIN BUTTON'S (V.0.) : When I had left she was a girl... and a woman had taken her place...

  • collision course : 衝突コース、a course of a moving object that will lead to a collision if it continues unchanged
    by accident / by design : 偶然 / 計画的に、必然

    BENJAMIN BUTTON'S (V.0.) : Sometimes we are on a collision course and we just don't know it...
    Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it...

  • 「I wish I could」の例文

    CAROLINE (CONT'D) : They're all addressed to me... They're from all sorts of places...
    (And she realizes...)
    They're for my birthday.
    (reading)
    1970... "I wish I could have kissed you goodnight."
    (reading, another one)
    "Happy Birthday, you're five. I wish I could have taken you to your first day of school."
    (reading on)
    "Happy Birthday six-year-old. I wish I could be there to teach you how to play the piano..."
    11... ..."Told you not to chase some boy..."
    13... "Held you when you had a broken heart..."
    1983... I was fifteen.
    "I wish I could have been your father. Nothing I ever did will replace that..."

  • BENJAMIN BUTTON'S (V.O.) : ...What I think is, it's never too late...or, in my case, too early, to be whoever you want to be...
    There's no time limit, start anytime you want...change or stay the same...there aren't any rules...We can make the best or worst of it...
    I hope you make the best...
    I hope you see things that startle you. Feel things you never felt before.
    I hope you meet people who have a different point of view.
    I hope you challenge yourself.
    I hope you stumble, and pick yourself up.
    I hope you live the life you wanted to...
    and if you haven't, I hope you start all over again.

  • autistic : 自閉症

    THE MAN : He was in very poor health... he was taken to the hospital...
    He doesn't seem to know who or where he is... He's very confused...
    The doctors who looked at him think he may be autistic.
    QUEENIE'S DAUGHTER : I told Mr. Hernandez about Benjamin bein' one of us. I told him if he needs a place to stay...
    it's alright... he can stay here... he is blood after all...