看“肖申克的救赎”台词学英语：第24讲

-Andy: My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know. Like a closed book.

closed: 合着的

我妻子曾说过我是个很难理解的人，像本合着的书。

Complained about it all the time. She was beautiful. God, I loved her. I didn't know how to show it, that's all.

complain: 抱怨 all the time: 一直

她经常这样抱怨，她很漂亮。上帝，我爱她。只是我不知道如何表达我的感情。

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.

trigger: (枪的)扳机 drive away: 赶走，驱散

我杀了她，Red。虽然不是我开的枪，但是我把她赶走的。她是因我而死的，因为我对她的态度。

-Red: That don't make you a murderer. Bad husband, maybe. Feel bad about it if you want, but you didn't pull the trigger.

murderer: 谋杀犯

那不能判你谋杀的，只能说是坏丈夫。你可以为此难过，但枪不是你开的。

-Andy: No, I didn't. Somebody else did. And I wound up in here.

wind up: 使卷入

不是我杀的，是别人干的，我在这里做了替死鬼。

Bad luck, I guess. It floats around. It's got to land on somebody. It was my turn, that's all.

guess: 〈美国口语〉认为 float: 散播 land on: 强迫…接受

运气不好，我想。霉运到处漂浮，总要有人承受的，刚巧轮到我罢了。

I was in the path of the tornado.

path: 路线 tornado: 飓风

我刚好碰上了它。

I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has. Think you'll ever get out of here?

expect: 期望 storm: 暴风雨 as long as: 和…一样长

我只是没有想到会这么久。想过你有一天能出去吗?

-Red: Me? Yeah. One day,

我?有。有一天。

when I got a long, white beard and two or three marbles rolling around upstairs.

beard: 胡须 marbles: 〈俚语〉(常做复数)理智 roll around: 流逝

到我头发花白，头昏眼花的时候。

-Andy: I tell you where I'd go. Zihuatanejo.

Zihuatanejo.: 【在墨西哥，太平洋中的一个小地方】「根据Andy后来的解释」

我告诉你，我会到哪里去。圣哈塔尼奥。

-Red: Say what?

什么?

-Andy: Zihuatanejo. It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?

Pacific Ocean: 太平洋 Mexican: 墨西哥人

圣哈塔尼奥，在墨西哥。太平洋中的一个小地方。你知道墨西哥人怎么形容太平洋的?

They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life.

memory: 记忆 the rest of: …的其余部分

他们说那里是没有记忆的地方，那就是我想渡过余生的地方

A warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel, right on the beach.

beach: 海滩

一个没有记忆的温暖地方，开间小旅馆，就在沙滩边上。

Buy some worthless old boat and fix it up new. Take my guests out charter fishing.

worthless: 无价值的 fix up: 〈口语〉修缮 charter: 包租的 fishing: 钓鱼

买艘不值钱的旧船回来，把它翻新，载着我的客人出海钓鱼。

-Red: Zihuatanejo.

圣哈塔尼奥。

-Andy: In a place like that, I could use a man that knows how to get things.

在那种地方，我需要个能找到东西的人。

-Red: I don't think I could make it on the outside. I been in here most of my life. I'm an institutional man now.

make it: 〈口语〉获得成功 institutional: 规格化的

我觉得外面的社会可能不适合我，我的大半生都在这里渡过，我已经是这里的一部分了。

Just like Brooks was.

就像Brooks那样。

-Andy: You underestimate yourself.

underestimate: 低估

你看轻了你自己。

-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…

Yellow Pages: 〈美国英语〉黄页(电话号码簿的一部分，专载厂商、公司等电话用户的名称及号码，按行业划分排列，并附有分类广告)

我不这样看。在此我能供应物品给你，但是在外面你只需要电话簿黄页分类。

Hell, I wouldn't know where to begin. Pacific Ocean? Shit. Scare me to death, something that big.

hell: 地狱【表示咒骂】 scare: 惊吓

我不知道如何开始。太平洋?狗屁，那么大的地方会吓死我的。

-Andy: Not me. I didn't shoot my wife, and I didn't shoot her lover.

shoot: 射死 lover: 情夫

我不怕，我没开枪杀我妻子，我也没开枪杀她的情人。

Whatever mistakes I made, I've paid for them and then some.

mistake: 错误 pay for: 偿还

不论我犯了什么错，我都已补偿了。

That hotel, that boat. I don't think that's too much to ask.

一间旅馆和一条船，我要的并不太多。