看“肖申克的救赎”台词学英语：第15讲

Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

dangerous: 危险的 drive: 迫使 insane: 疯狂的

希望是很危险的东西，希望会让人疯狂。

It's got no use on the inside. You'd better get used to that idea.

get used to: 弄惯(习惯于)

它在这儿没用，你最好习惯这想法。

-Andy: Like Brooks did?

就像Brooks?

-Police officer B: Sit down.

坐下。

Says here that you've served 30 years of a life sentence. You feel you've been rehabilitated?

serve: 服务 life sentence: 无期徒刑之判决 rehabilitate: 改造(罪犯等)

你因终身监禁在此三十年，觉得自己被改造了吗?

-Red: Oh, yes, sir. Without a doubt. I can honestly say I'm a changed man.

honestly: 诚实地 changed: 改变

是的，先生，毫无疑问。老实说我己改过。

No danger to society here. God's honest truth. Absolutely rehabilitated.

honest: 诚实的 truth: 事实 absolutely:　绝对地

我已不会危害社会，上帝可以作证，真的改变了。

( Rejected.)

“不合格”

-Red: Thirty years. Jesus, when you say it like that…

Jesus: 天哪

三十年，当你这样说时……

-Andy: You wonder where it went. I wonder where 10 years went.

wonder: 想知道

想过是怎样过的吗?我在想十年是怎样过去的。

Here. A little parole rejection present. Go ahead and open it. Went through one of your competitors.

go ahead: 着手 go through: 成交 competitor: 竞争者

这儿，这是庆祝你假释被拒绝的礼物，打来看看吧，跟你的竞争对手买的。

I hope you don't mind. I wanted it to be a surprise.

mind: 介意 surprise: 惊喜

别介意，我想让它给你一个惊喜。

-Red: It's very pretty. Andy. Thank you.

它真漂亮，谢谢你。

-Andy: You going to play it?

你会用它来吹奏吗?

-Red: No. Not right now. Roll in!

不，不会是现在，关上!

-Red: A new girl for your 10 year anniversary.

anniversary: 周年纪念(日)

这个新女孩给你纪念十周年，Andy。

-Police officer C: Lights out!

熄灯。

-Red: “Andy was as good as his word. He wrote two letters a week instead of one.”

as good as: 和…几乎一样(差不多)

“Andy说到做到，他每周写两封信。”

“In 1959, the state senate finally clued in to the fact they couldn't buy him off with just a $ 200 check.”

state senate: 州议员　clue in: 向某人提供情况　buy off:　收买 finally: 最后，最终

“1959年，州议员最后终于面对现实，那200元的支票起不了作用。”

“Appropriations Committee voted an annual payment of $500 just to shut him up.”

Appropriations Committee: 拨款委员会 payment: 付款，支付 shut up: 住口

“最后通过每年拨款500元来让他闭嘴。”

“And you'd be amazed how far Andy could stretch it.”

amazed: 吃惊的 stretch: 延伸

“随后Andy所说的令你感到更意外。”

“He made deals with book clubs, charity groups.”

make deal with: 与…达成交易 club: 俱乐部 charity group: 慈善团体

“他跟读书会和慈善机构谈。”

“He bought remaindered books by the pound.”

remaindered: 剩余的

“他用剩下来的钱来买书。”

-Heywood: Treasure Island. Robert Louis.

Treasure Island: 【著名的文学作家罗伯特·路易斯·斯蒂文森的作品】「an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of “pirates and buried gold”.—from Wikipedia」

《金银岛》，Robert Louis。

-Andy: Stevenson. Fiction, adventure. What's next?

fiction:科幻小说 adventure: 冒险

Stevenson。科幻类，冒险类。下一本是什么?

-Red: I got here Auto Repair and Soap Carving.

auto: 汽车 repair: 修理 soap: 肥皂 carving: 雕刻术

是汽车修理和肥皂雕刻技术。

-Andy: Trade skills and hobbies. Under “Educational,” behind you.

skill: 技巧，技能

技术与爱好，教育性那一栏。

-Heywood: Count of Monte Crisco.

Count of Monte Cristo: 【《基督山伯爵》(又称《基督山恩仇记》)是法国作家大仲马的杰出作品。Crisco 应为Cristo此处为Heywood误读】「an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, It is often considered to be Dumas' most popular work—from Wikipedia」

《基督山伯爵》

-Red: That's “Cristo,” you dumb shit.

那书不值一看

-Heywood: By Alexander, Dum-ass. Dumb ass.

作者是Alexander，什么……马，“草泥马”。

-Andy: Dumb ass? Dumas. I Know what that's about? You'd like it. It's about a prison break.

“草泥马”?是大仲马。知道那是什么故事吗?讲越狱的，你喜欢看的。

-Red: “We ought to file that under ”Educational“ too, oughtn't we? ”

file: 归档

“那我觉得应该发到”教育类“，对吧?”

“The rest of us did our best to pitch in when and where we could.”

pitch in: 做出贡献

“我们其余的随时尽可能帮忙。”

“By the year Kennedy was shot…”

“到了Kennedy遇刺那一年。”

“Andy had transformed a storage room smelling of turpentine into the best prison library in New England

transform into: 转变成 storage room: 储藏室 turpentine: 松节油

”Andy把一个充满松脂味的储藏间，变成了新英格兰州最好的的监狱图书馆，