看“肖申克的救贖”臺(tái)詞學(xué)英語(yǔ)：第11講

then he laughed and actually shook Andy's hand.

傻笑著和Andy握手。

-Heywood: My ass! Shook his hand.

my ass: 去你的

老天!和他握手。

-Brooks: I tell you, I near soiled myself!

soil: 玷污

我告訴你們，我感到……

All he needed was a suit and tie and a jiggly hula gal on his desk…

tie: 領(lǐng)帶 jiggly: [美國(guó)俚語(yǔ)]勾起情欲的 hula:【草裙舞】 gal: [口語(yǔ)] =girl

他若穿上那套衣服

he'd have been “Mr. Dufresne,” if you please.

他就會(huì)變成Dufresne先生的了。

-Red: Making a few friends?

又交上新朋友了?

-Andy: I wouldn't say “friends.”

我不認(rèn)為是朋友，

I'm a convicted murderer who provides sound financial planning.

convicted: 已被判刑的 financial: 財(cái)政的

我是一個(gè)能提供準(zhǔn)確財(cái)政計(jì)劃的謀殺犯。

It's a wonderful pet to have.

pet: 寵物

只是某人不錯(cuò)的仆人。

-Red: Got you out of the laundry, though.

laundry: 洗衣房

至少可以令你離開(kāi)洗衣房。

-Andy: It might do more than that. How about expanding the library.

expand: 擴(kuò)充

可能不是那么簡(jiǎn)單的，我打算擴(kuò)大圖書(shū)館，

Get some new books.

找點(diǎn)新書(shū)。

-Man: If you ask for something, ask for a pool table.

pool table: 桌球臺(tái)

還是找張臺(tái)球桌吧。

-Heywood: How do you expect to do that?

你打算怎么做，

I mean… get new books in here, “Mr. Dufresne, if you please.”

我是說(shuō)，怎么得到新書(shū)，向誰(shuí)請(qǐng)求。

-Andy: I'll ask the warden for funds.

warden: 典獄長(zhǎng) fund: 資助

我會(huì)向典獄長(zhǎng)要錢(qián)。

-Brooks: Six wardens have been through here in my tenure,

tenure: 占有期

噢，孩子，孩子，我經(jīng)歷了六個(gè)典獄長(zhǎng)，

and I've learned… one immutable, universal truth:

immutable: 不變的

懂得了一條，一個(gè)事實(shí)，宇宙真理：

Not one born whose asshole… wouldn't pucker up tighter than a snare drum when you ask for funds.

asshole:傻瓜 pucker up: 縮攏 tight: 緊的，牢固的 snare: 陷阱

那個(gè)人還沒(méi)有生出來(lái)，你向他們提出定遭拒絕的。

-Norton: The budget's stretched thin as it is.

stretch: 過(guò)度利用 budget: 預(yù)算

預(yù)算不夠用。

-Andy: I see. Maybe I could write the state senate and request funds from them.

senate: 議院

我知道。或許我寫(xiě)信向參議員提出。

-Norton: They have only three ways to spend the taxpayers' money for prisons:

taxpayer: 納稅人

只有三種情況能動(dòng)納稅人的錢(qián)：

More walls, more bars, more guards.

多建圍墻、多建牢房和增加監(jiān)獄。

-Andy: I'd like to try, with permission. A letter a week.

若你批準(zhǔn)，我想嘗試一下，每周一封信。

They can't ignore me forever.

ignore: 忽視

他們不能永不理會(huì)。

-Norton: Sure can. But you write your letters if it makes you happy.

當(dāng)然能夠。如果你寫(xiě)著高興那就寫(xiě)吧。

I'll even mail them for you. How's that?

我來(lái)替你寄出，怎樣?

-Red: “So Andy started writing a letter a week… just like he said. And like Norton said…”

“就這樣，Andy開(kāi)始每周寫(xiě)一封信，就像他說(shuō)得那樣。但如Norton所說(shuō)”

“… Andy got no answers. The following April, he did tax returns for half the guards at Shaw shank.”

“一直都無(wú)回覆。過(guò)了四月，Andy已幫半數(shù)獄警們報(bào)稅。”

“Year after that, he did them all… including the warden's. ”

“后來(lái)，全都找他幫忙了，連典獄長(zhǎng)納稅務(wù)都由他處理。”

“Year after that, they rescheduled the intramural season…”

reschedule: 重新排定…日程 intramural: 單位內(nèi)部的

“后來(lái)，他們安排，”

“… to coincide with tax season. The guards on the opposing teams all remembered to bring their W-2s.”

coincide: 符合 opposing tea : 比賽雙方

“球隊(duì)在稅季中比賽。所有的球隊(duì)都帶著報(bào)稅表。”

-Andy: issued you a gun, but you paid for it.

Issue: 配給

所以Moresby監(jiān)獄……配給你一支槍?zhuān)阕约焊跺X(qián)。

-Man: Right. The holster too.

holster:手槍皮套

對(duì)，連手槍皮套也是。

-Andy: That's tax-deductible. You can write that off.

tax-deductible: 可免稅的

那可以減免稅款，你可把它記下來(lái)。

-Red: Yes, sir! Andy was a regular cottage industry.

cottage industry: 家庭作坊 cottage: 家庭式的

是的!Andy就像一個(gè)正常的會(huì)計(jì)師。

yle=? a-i?? ?? eight:normal'>章，回，篇 verse: 詩(shī)節(jié)

約瑟福音第八章第十二節(jié)。

-Norton: I hear you're good with numbers. How nice. Man should have a skill.

我聽(tīng)說(shuō)你精通數(shù)學(xué)，不錯(cuò)，總得有一技之長(zhǎng)。

-Hadley: Explain this.

這個(gè)你怎么解釋。