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 marblesrolling 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.
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(yè)（電話）查號(hào)簿（美國(guó)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
非常口語化的表達(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！）
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.