It wasn't German gin

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MARTINS: This is where he vanished.

CALLOWAY: I see.

MARTINS: I suppose you don't believe me.

CALLOWAY: No.

MARTINS: Look...I tell you, you don't think I'm blind, do you?

CALLOWAY: Yes. Where were you when you saw him first?

MARTINS: Fifty yards right down there.

CALLOWAY: Which side of the road?

MARTINS: I was on that side, the shadow was on that side, and no turnings on either side.

CALLOWAY: How about the doorway?

MARTINS: I tell you I heard him running ahead of me.

CALLOWAY: Yes, yes, yes, and then he vanished out there, I suppose with a puff of smoke and like a clap of... It wasn't the German gin.

 

 

Harry を見たというMartins の言葉を信じようとしないCalloway,

下水道の入口のドアを開けて

It wasn't the German gin.

tお言います。

日本語字幕は｢ドイツの･････｣ですが

ここの意味を理解するには推理力、ジョークを理解する力･････が必要です。

Calloway ははじめMartins の言葉を信じていなかったのですが、下水道の入り口のドアを開けて、Harryがそこから逃げた事がわかり、Martins の言ったことが本当であるとがわかります。

すなわち

It wasn't the German gin.

は｢アルコール度の強い German gin を飲んだ(酔っ払った)上での戯言ではなかった｣

という意味です。

 

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