看“肖申克的救赎”台词学英语：第17讲

I send it out into the real world, and when it comes back…

我把钱送到外面，等它们回来的时候……

-Red: Clean as a virgin's honey pot, huh?

virgin: 处女 honey: 心爱的

纯洁得就像个处女?

- Andy: Cleaner. By the time Norton retires, I'll have made him a millionaire.

retire: 退休 millionaire: 百万富翁

像洗衣机，到Norton退休的时候，我已让他成为百万富翁了。

-Red: If they ever catch on, he'll wind up in here wearing a number himself.

wind up: 使卷入

如果被他们抓住的话，他将在自己的监狱穿上这样的号码服。

-Andy: I thought you had more faith in me than that.

faith: 信任

看来你对我没有信心。

-Red: I know you're good, but all that paper leaves a trail.

leave a trail: 留下痕迹

我知道你很能干，但是总会蛛丝马迹留下。

Now anybody gets curious, FBI, IRS, whatever. It'll lead to somebody.

curious: 好奇的 FBI: 美国联邦调查局 IRS: 美国国税局

只要有人想细查，FBI，国税局，不管怎样，总会有人被牵扯。

-Andy: Sure it is, but not to me, and certainly not to the warden.

certainly: 当然

是的，但不会是我，也不会是典狱长。

-Red: All right, who?

那会是谁?

-Andy: Randall Stevens.

Randall Stevens。

-Red: Who?

谁?

-Andy: The “silent” silent partner. He's the guilty one, the man with the bank accounts.

silent: 沉默的 partner: 搭档 guilty: 有罪的 bank accounts: 银行账户

从不出声的拍档，他是帐户的持有者，他才有罪。

It's where the filtering process starts. They trace anything, it'll just lead to him.

filter: 过滤 process: 过程 trace: 追踪 lead to: 导致

他那里是过滤黑钱过程的起点，不管他们如何调查，都只会查到他。

-Red: But who is he?

他是什么人?

-Andy: He's a phantom, an apparition. Second cousin to Harvey the Rabbit.

phantom: 幽灵 apparition: 幽灵

他是一个幻影，幽灵，是兔子哈维的第二个表弟。

I conjured him out of thin air. He doesn't exist, except on paper.

conjure: 变戏法

我凭空造出他来，他只存在于文件中罢了。

-Red: You can't just make a person up.

make up: 虚构

你不能只这么捏造一个人。

-Andy: Sure you can, if you know how the system works. It's amazing what you can accomplish by mail.

system: 体制 amazing: 令人惊异的 accomplish: 完成 mail: 邮政

当然可以，如果你知道我们社会体制的漏洞。吃惊的是邮政就能帮你做到。

Mr. Stevens has a birth certificate, driver's license, Social Security.

certificate: 证明书 license: 执照 social security: 社会保障

Stevens先生有出生证明书，驾驶执照和社会编号。

-Red: You're shitting me.

你在说笑。

-Andy: If they trace any accounts, they'll wind up chasing a figment of my imagination.

trace: 追踪 chase: 追捕 figment: 虚构的东西 imagination: 想象

他们追查帐户的话，只是在追查，我幻想出来的人。

-Red: Well, I'll be damned! Did I say you were good? Shit, you are Rembrandt.

damn: 该死的 Rembrandt: 伦勃朗(1606~1669，荷兰画家)

喔，该死!我没说过你很能干吗?该死，你简直是伦勃朗。

-Andy: The funny thing is on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow.

straight: 正直的 arrow: 箭

有趣的是，在外面，我是个诚实的人，正直得像杆直箭。

I had to come to prison to be a crook.

crook: 骗子

变成骗子就不得不到监狱里来。

-Red: Ever bother you?

bother: 使担心

你担心过吗?

-Andy: I don't run the scams. I just process the profits .A fine line, maybe.

scam: 诡计 process: 处理 profit: 利润

我没参与，我只是处理收益。一条好的分界线，也许吧。

But I also built that library and used it to help guys get their high school diploma.

guy: 家伙 diploma: 文凭

不过我也建起了图书馆，来帮助囚犯取得高中文凭。

Why do you think he lets me do all that?

你可知他会何会让我做所有这些?

-Red: Keep you happy and doing the laundry. Money instead of sheets.

laundry: 洗衣 instead of: 而不是… sheets: 被单

让你开心，好帮他“清洗”，洗的是钱而非床单。

-Andy: Well, I work cheap. That's the tradeoff.

tradeoff: 交易

让我工作轻松，那是交易。

-Red: “Tommy Williams came to Shawshank in 1965 on a two-year stretch for B and E.”

for B and E: 【breaking and entering】[Red的下一句话解释]

“Tommy Williams 1965年到肖申克监狱服刑，因非法入室行窃，被判两年监禁。”

“That's breaking and entering to you.”

“那是对私人的非法入侵。”

“Cops caught him sneaking TV sets out the back door of a JC Penney.”

sneak: 偷偷摸摸

“警察在Penney家后门抓到，他在电视旁鬼鬼祟祟的。”

“Young punk. Mr. Rock 'n' Roll cocky as hell.”

punk: 朋克 cocky: 自大的 as hell: 非常地

“年轻的朋克， ”摇滚“先生，过于自大。”