看“肖申克的救贖”臺詞學英語：第20講

-Tommy: Come on, old boys. Moving like molasses! Making me look bad.

molasses: 糖漿

快點，老家伙們，慢得跟糖漿一樣!我干著急。

-Red: We liked him immediately.

immediately: 立即

我們馬上就喜歡上他了。

-Tommy: I'm backing out the door and I got the TV like this.

我從后門出來，像這樣捧著電視機。

A big old thing. I couldn't see shit. Then I hear this voice. Freeze, kid, hands in the air.

freeze: 站住不動

一件大的老家伙，我都看不到了，然后我聽到這個聲音，別動，舉起手來!

I was standing there, holding onto that TV. Finally the voice says: You hear what I said, boy? I say, “ Yes, sir. I did.

我站在那里，捧著電視機，他又說：”你聽到我說的嗎?“，我說，”是的，先生。“

But if I drop this, you get me on destruction of property too.”

destruction: 毀壞 property: 財產(chǎn)

但我掉落東西，你會告我毀壞他人財物。

-Heywood: You done some stretch in Cashman, right?

stretch: 一段時間【在這里指服刑一段時間】 cashman: 【根據(jù)電影，這是Tommy之前服刑的一個監(jiān)獄】

你曾在卡士文服刑，是嗎?

-Tommy: Yeah, that was an easy piece of time, let me tell you. Weekend furloughs. Work programs. Not like here.

furlough: 休假 program: 擬…計劃

是的，那兒要好過得多，周末有休假，工作也很有計劃，不像這里。

Sounds like you done time all over in New England.

看來你在新英格蘭都呆在車里。

-Tommy: I've been in and out since I was 13. Name it, chances are I've been there.

我十三歲出道，哪里都去過。說說看，也許我也去過那里。

-Andy: Perhaps you should try a new profession. What I mean is you're not a very good thief. You should try something else.

profession: 職業(yè)

也許你應轉(zhuǎn)行了。我是說，你不是個一流的小偷，你該試試別的。

-Tommy: Yeah, what the hell you know about it, Capone? What are you in for?

是嗎?你以為你懂這個?你怎會進來的?

-Andy: Me? A lawyer fucked me. Everybody's innocent in here. Don't you know that?

fuck: 欺騙 innocent: 無辜的

我嗎?律師坑了我。這兒所有人都是無辜的，你不知道嗎?

-Red: “As it turned out, Tommy had himself a young wife and a new baby girl.”

turn out:: 證明是

“后來知道，Tommy竟然有妻子和剛出生的女兒。”

“Maybe he thought of them on the streets, or his child growing up not knowing her daddy.”

“也許他想到她們在街上流蕩，孩子長大卻不知道父親是誰。”

“Whatever it was something lit a fire under that boy's ass.”

whatever: 不管怎樣 light a fire: 點火 ass: 臀部

“不管為什么，總之，他竟努力起來了。”

-Tommy: Thought I might try for my high school equivalency.

equivalency: 等效性(相當物)【在此理解為與高校文憑相當水平的文憑】

我想考取高校文憑。

Hear you helped a couple of fellas with that.

fella: 〈俚語〉小伙子

聽說你已經(jīng)幫了很多人了。

-Andy: I don't waste time with losers, Tommy.

loser: 失敗者

我不會在失敗者身上浪費時間的。

-Tommy: I ain't no goddamn loser.

ain't=am not，are not goddamn: 討厭的

我再也不是失敗者了。

-Andy: You mean that?

mean: 想要

你當真?

-Tommy: Yeah.

是。

-Andy: You really mean that?

你真的是認真的?

-Tommy: Yes, sir, I do.

是的，先生，絕對是真的。

-Andy: Good. Because if we do this, we do it all the way, a hundred percent, nothing half-assed.

all the way: 自始至終 half-assed: 沒有完整計劃的

好，因為我們要做就要有始有終，絕對不能半途而廢。

-Tommy: Thing is, see…I don't read so good.

問題是……我識字不多。

-Andy: Well. You don't read so well. We'll get to that.

好吧，你不識字，就這樣，我們就由它開始。

-Red: “So Andy took Tommy under his wing.”

“就這樣，Andy開始給Tommy上課。”

“Started walking him through his ABC's.”

ABC: 基本要素

“從最基礎的字母開始教。”

“Tommy took to it pretty well too. Boy found brains he never knew he had.”

“Tommy學得很快，從不知道自己的聰明。”

“Before long, Andy started him on his course requirements. He really liked the kid.”

before long: 不久 requirement: 要求，需要

“沒過多久，Andy開始教他課程內(nèi)容。他很喜歡這個孩子。”

“Gave him a thrill to help a youngster crawl off the shit heap.”

thrill: 興奮 youngster: 年輕人 crawl: 費力的前行 heap: 大量

“幫一個孩子上進讓他很快樂。”

“But that wasn't the only reason. Prison time is slow time.”

“但那不是唯一的原因，監(jiān)獄里的日子很緩慢。”

“So you do what you can to keep going. Some fellas collect stamps.”

stamp: 郵票 collect stamp: 收集郵票

“要用某些事情來消磨時間，有人收集郵票。”

“Others build matchstick houses. Andy built a library.”

matchstick: 火柴

“有人收集火柴盒，Andy建起了圖書館。”

“Now he needed a new project. Tommy was it.”

project: 計劃

“現(xiàn)在他需要新的計劃，那就是Tommy。”

“It was the same reason he spent years shaping and polishing those rocks.”

shape: 塑造 polish: 擦亮，磨光

“那和他多年來雕磨石頭的原因一樣。”

“The same reason he hung his fantasy girlies on the wall. In prison, a man will do most anything to keep his mind occupied.”

fantasy: 幻想 girlie: 少女 occupy: 占據(jù)

“也如同他把美女的畫像掛在墻上的原因。在監(jiān)獄里，一個人不能讓心里空著。”

“By 1966, right about the time Tommy was getting ready to take his exams, it was lovely Raquel.”

“在1966年，Tommy剛要參加考試的時候，可愛的Raquel出現(xiàn)了。”

-Andy: Time. Well?

時間到，好了嗎?