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ANDY: My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know. Like a closed book. Complained about it all the time. She's beautiful. God, I loved her. But I just didn't know how to show it, that's all. 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.

RED: That doesn't make you a murderer. Bad husband, maybe. Felt bad about it if you want to. But you didn't pull the trigger.

ANDY: No. I didn't. Somebody else did, and I wound up in here. Bad luck, I guess.

RED: Yeah.

ANDY: It floats around. Has to land on somebody. It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the tornado. I didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has. You think you'll ever get out of here?

RED: Me? Yeah. One day when I got a long, white beard and two or three marbles rolling around upstairs. They'll let me out.

ANDY: Tell you where I'd go. Zihuatanejo.

RED: Zihua...?

ANDY: Zihuatanejo. It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel right on the beach. Buy some worthless old boat and fix it up new. Take my guests out charter fishing.

RED: Zihuatanejo?

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

RED: I don't think I could make it on the outside, Andy. I've been in here most of my life. I'm an institutional man now. Just like Brooks was.

ANDY: Well, you underestimate yourself.

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. Hell, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Pacific Ocean? Shit! About to scare me to death, somethin' that big.

ANDY: Not me. I didn't shoot my wife and I didn't shoot her lover, and whatever mistakes I made I've paid for them and then some. That hotel, that boat... I don't think that's too much to ask.

RED: I don't think you ought' a be doing this to yourself, Andy! This is shitty pipe dreams! I mean Mexico's in the way the hell down there, and you're in here, and that's the way it is!

ANDY: Yeah, right. That's the way it is. It's down there, and I'm in here. I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living... or get busy dying.

妙詞佳句，活學(xué)活用

1. tornado

龍卷風(fēng)。這里表示“事情的旋渦”。與這個(gè)詞一類的詞匯有以下幾個(gè)：
whirlwind 旋風(fēng)
hurricane 颶風(fēng)
typhoon 臺(tái)風(fēng)
大家不妨把這一組詞放在一起比較記憶。

2. two or three marbles rolling around upstairs

意思是go crazy in brain/head。英文中有個(gè)短語lose one's marbles，意思就是 go crazy in brain/head。Red這里說two or three marbles rolling around upstairs是活用了lose one's marbles這個(gè)短語。

3. charter

“包租”的意思，既可以做動(dòng)詞，也可以做名詞。租船，包機(jī)，包車，都可以用這個(gè)詞。
如：charter flights 包機(jī)
a chartered boat 一條租來的船

4. Yellow Pages

a volume or section of a telephone directory that lists business services, or products alphabetically according to field. 黃頁（電話）查號(hào)簿（美國按行業(yè)、職業(yè)分類的部分常用黃色紙）。

5. scare me to death

“嚇得要命”的意思，和中文的表達(dá)是不是很相似？動(dòng)詞的過去分詞+to death 表示“非?！?，……要命”，例如：
I was worried to death. 我擔(dān)心得要死。
I was scared to death. 我嚇得要死。
I was bored to death. 無聊死了。

6. pipe dream

非?？谡Z化的表達(dá)，意思是：（鴉片鬼的）幻想，白日做夢(mèng)，想入非非的計(jì)劃。
pipe有一個(gè)意思是“煙斗”，在這個(gè)詞組里引申為“鴉片”或者“毒品”，這種表達(dá)很形象。比如我們可以說 Stop dreaming that pipe dream that you will become a millionaire someday without hard work!（別成天幻想著不費(fèi)勁將來就能成為百萬富翁?。?

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