The Shawshank Redemption 肖申克的救赎（六）
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ANDY: My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know. Like a closed book. Complained about it all the time. She's beautiful. God, I loved her. But I just didn't know how to show it, that's all. I killed her, Red. I didn't pull the trigger. But I drove her away. That's why she died. Because of me, the way I am. RED: That doesn't make you a murderer. Bad husband, maybe. Felt bad about it if you want to. But you didn't pull the trigger. ANDY: No. I didn't. Somebody else did, and I wound up in here. Bad luck, I guess. RED: Yeah. ANDY: It floats around. Has to land on somebody. It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the tornado. I didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has. You think you'll ever get out of here? RED: Me? Yeah. One day when I got a long, white beard and two or three marbles rolling around upstairs. They'll let me out. ANDY: Tell you where I'd go. Zihuatanejo. RED: Zihua...? ANDY: Zihuatanejo. It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel right on the beach. Buy some worthless old boat and fix it up new. Take my guests out charter fishing. RED: Zihuatanejo? ANDY: In a place like that, I could use a man that knows how to get things. RED: I don't think I could make it on the outside, Andy. I've been in here most of my life. I'm an institutional man now. Just like Brooks was. ANDY: Well, you underestimate yourself. RED: I don't think so. In here I'm the guy who can get things for you, sure, but outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. Hell, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Pacific Ocean? Shit! About to scare me to death, somethin' that big. ANDY: Not me. I didn't shoot my wife and I didn't shoot her lover, and whatever mistakes I made I've paid for them and then some. That hotel, that boat... I don't think that's too much to ask. RED: I don't think you ought' a be doing this to yourself, Andy! This is shitty pipe dreams! I mean Mexico's in the way the hell down there, and you're in here, and that's the way it is! ANDY: Yeah, right. That's the way it is. It's down there, and I'm in here. I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living... or get busy dying. 妙词佳句，活学活用 1. tornado 龙卷风。这里表示“事情的旋涡”。与这个词一类的词汇有以下几个： 2. two or three marbles rolling around upstairs 意思是go crazy in brain/head。英文中有个短语lose one's marbles，意思就是 go crazy in brain/head。Red这里说two or three marbles rolling around upstairs是活用了lose one's marbles这个短语。 3. charter “包租”的意思，既可以做动词，也可以做名词。租船，包机，包车，都可以用这个词。 4. Yellow Pages a volume or section of a telephone directory that lists business services, or products alphabetically according to field. 黄页（电话）查号簿（美国按行业、职业分类的部分常用黄色纸）。 5. scare me to death “吓得要命”的意思，和中文的表达是不是很相似？动词的过去分词+to death 表示“非常……，……要命”，例如： 6. pipe dream 非常口语化的表达，意思是：（鸦片鬼的）幻想，白日做梦，想入非非的计划。 |
