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肖申克的救赎-1

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        RITA HAYWORTH AND SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
There‘s a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess - I‘m the guywho can get it for you. Tailor-made cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if you‘re partial to that, abottle of brandy to celebrate your son or daughter‘s high school graduation, or almostanything else ... within reason, that is. It wasn‘t always that way.
I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty, and I am one of the few people in ourhappy little family who is willing to own up to what he did. I committed murder. I put alarge insurance policy on my wife, who was three years older than I was, and then I fixedthe brakes of the Chevrolet coupe her father had given us as a wedding present. It workedout exactly as I had planned, except I hadn‘t planned on her stopping to pick up theneighbour woman and the neighbour woman‘s infant son on the way down Castle Hilland into town. The brakes let go and the car crashed through the bushes at the edge of thetown common, gathering2 speed. Bystanders said it must have been doing fifty or betterwhen it hit the base of the Civil War statue and burst into flames.
I also hadn‘t planned on getting caught, but caught I was. I got a season‘s pass into thisplace. Maine has no death penalty, but the district attorney saw to it that I was tried for allthree deaths and given three life sentences, to run one after the other. That fixed1 up anychance of parole I might have, for a long, long time. The judge called what I had done ‘ahideous, heinous4 crime‘, and it was, but it is also in the past now. You can look it up inthe yellowing files of the Castle Rock Call, where the big headlines announcing myconviction look sort of funny and antique next to the news of Hitler and Mussolini andFDR‘s alphabet soup agencies.
Have I rehabilitated5 myself, you ask? I don‘t know what that word means, at least as faras prisons and corrections go. I think it‘s a politician‘s word. It may have some othermeaning, and it may be that I will have a chance to find out, but that is the future ...
something cons6 teach themselves not to think about. I was young, good-looking, andfrom the poor side of town. I knocked up a pretty, sulky, headstrong girl who lived in oneof the fine old houses on Carbine Street. Her father was agreeable to the marriage if Iwould take a job in the optical company he owned and ‘work my way up‘. I found out thatwhat he really had in mind was keeping me in his house and under his thumb, like adisagreeable pet that has not quite been housebroken and which may bite. Enough hateeventually piled up to cause me to do what I did. Given a second chance I would not do itagain, but I‘m not sure that means I am rehabilitated.
Anyway, it‘s not me I want to tell you about; I want to tell you about a guy named AndyDufresne. But before I can tell you about Andy, I have to explain a few other things aboutmyself. It won‘t take long.
As I said, I‘ve been the guy who can get it for you here at Shawshank for damn near fortyyears. And that doesn‘t just mean contraband7 items like extra cigarettes or booze,although those items always top the list. But I‘ve gotten thousands of other items for mendoing time here, some of them perfectly8 legal yet hard to come by in a place whereyou‘ve supposedly been brought to be punished. There was one fellow who was in forraping a little girl and exposing himself to dozens of others; I got him three pieces of pinkVermont marble and he did three lovely sculptures out of them - a baby, a boy of abouttwelve, and a bearded young man. He called them The Three Ages of Jesus, and thosepieces of sculpture are now in the parlour of a man who used to be governor of this state.
Or here‘s a name you may remember if you grew up north of Massachusetts - RobertAlan Cote. In 1951 he tried to rob the First Mercantile Bank of Mechanic Falls, and thehold-up turned into a bloodbath - six dead in the end, two of them members of the gang,three of them hostages, one of them a young state cop who put his head up at the wrongtime and got a bullet in the eye. Cote had a penny collection. Naturally they weren‘t goingto let him have it in here, but with a little help from his mother and a middleman whoused to drive a laundry truck, I was able to get it to him. I told him, Bobby, you must becrazy, wanting to have a coin collection in a stone hotel full of thieves. He looked at meand smiled and said, I know where to keep them. They‘ll be safe enough. Don‘t youworry. And he was right. Bobby Cote died of a brain tumour9 in 1967, but that coincollection has never turned up.
I‘ve gotten men chocolates on Valentine‘s Day; I got three of those green milkshakes theyserve at McDonald‘s around St Paddy‘s Day for a crazy Irishman named O‘Malley; I evenarranged for a midnight showing of Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones for a partyof twenty men who had pooled their resources to rent the films ... although I ended updoing a week in solitary10 for that little escapade. It‘s the risk you run when you‘re the guywho can get it.
I‘ve gotten reference books and fuck-books, joke novelties like handbuzzers and itchingpowder, and on more than one occasion I‘ve seen that a long-timer has gotten a pair ofpanties from his wife or his girlfriend ... and I guess you‘ll know what guys in here dowith such items during the long nights when time draws out like a blade. I don‘t get allthose things gratis11, and for some items the price comes high. But I don‘t do it just for themoney; what good is money to me? I‘m never going to own a Cadillac car or fly off toJamaica for two weeks in February. I do it for the same reason that a good butcher willonly sell you fresh meat: I got a reputation and I want to keep it. The only two things Irefuse to handle are guns and heavy drugs. I won‘t help anyone kill himself or anyoneelse. I have enough killing12 on my mind to last me a lifetime.
Yeah, I‘m a regular Neiman-Marcus. And so when Andy Dufresne came to me in 1949and asked if I could smuggle13 Rita Hayworth into the prison for him, I said it would be noproblem at all. And it wasn‘t.
When Andy came to Shawshank in 1948, he was thirty years old. He was a short neatlittle man with sandy hair and small, clever hands. He wore gold-rimmed spectacles. Hisfingernails were always clipped, and they were always clean. That‘s a funny thing toremember about a man, I suppose, but it seems to sum Andy up for me. He always lookedas if he should have been wearing a tie. On the outside he had been a vice-president in thetrust department of a large Portland bank. Good work for a man as young as he was,especially when you consider how conservative most banks are ... and you have tomultiply that conservatism by ten when you get up into New England, where folks don‘tlike to trust a man with their money unless he‘s bald, limping, and constantly plucking athis pants to get his truss around straight Andy was in for murdering his wife and herlover.
As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read thatscripture the way those holy rollers on TV read the Book of Revelations. They were thevictims of judges with hearts of stone and balls to match, or incompetent16 lawyers, orpolice frame-ups, or bad luck. They read the scripture15, but you can see a differentscripture in their faces. Most cons are a low sort, no good to themselves or anyone else,and their worst luck was that their mothers carried them to term.
In all my years at Shawshank, there have been less than ten men whom I believed whenthey told me they were innocent Andy Dufresne was one of them, although I only becameconvinced of his innocence17 over a period of years. If I had been on the jury that heard hiscase in Portland Superior Court over six stormy weeks in 1947-48, I would have voted toconvict, too.
It was one hell of a case, all right; one of those juicy ones with all the right elements.
There was a beautiful girl with society connections (dead), a local sports figure (alsodead), and a prominent young businessman in the dock. There was this, plus all thescandal the newspapers could hint at. The prosecution18 had an open-and-shut case. Thetrial only lasted as long as it did because the DA was planning to run for the US House ofRepresentatives and he wanted John Q Public to get a good long look at his phiz. It was acrackerjack legal circus, with spectators getting in line at four in the morning, despite thesubzero temperatures, to assure themselves of a seat.
The facts of the prosecution‘s case that Andy never contested were these: That he had awife, Linda Collins Dufresne; that in June of 1947 she had expressed an interest inlearning the game of golf at the Falmouth Hills Country Club; that she did indeed takelessons for four months; that her instructor20 was the Falmouth Hills golf pro14, GlennQuentin; that in late August of 1947 Andy learned that Quentin and his wife had becomelovers; that Andy and Linda Dufresne argued bitterly on the afternoon of 10 September1947; that the subject of their argument was her infidelity.
He testified that Linda professed21 to be glad he knew; the sneaking22 around, she said, wasdistressing. She told Andy that she planned to obtain a Reno divorce. Andy told her hewould see her in hell before he would see her in Reno. She went off to spend the nightwith Quentin in Quentin‘s rented bungalow24 not far from the golf course. The nextmorning his cleaning woman found both of them dead in bed. Each had been shot fourtimes.
It was that last fact that mitigated25 more against Andy than any of the others. The DA withthe political aspirations26 made a great deal of it in his opening statement and his closingsummation. Andrew Dufresne, he said, was not a wronged husband seeking a hotbloodedrevenge against his cheating wife; that, the DA said, could be understood, if notcondoned. But this revenge had been of a much colder type. Consider! the DA thunderedat the jury. Four and four! Not six shots, but eight! He had fired the gun empty ... andthen stopped to reload so he could shoot each of them again! FOUR FOR HIM ANDFOUR FOR HER, the Portland Sun blared. The Boston Register dubbed27 him The Even-Steven Killer28.
A clerk from the Wise Pawnshop in Lewiston testified that he had sold a six-shot .38Police Special to Andrew Dufresne just two days before the double murder. A bartenderfrom the country club bar testified that Andy had come in around seven o‘clock on theevening of 10 September, had tossed off three straight whiskeys in a twenty-minuteperiod - when he got up from the bar-stool he told the bartender that he was going up toGlenn Quentin‘s house and he, the bartender, could ‘read about the rest of it in the papers‘.
Another clerk, this one from the Handy-Pik store a mile or so from Quentin‘s house, toldthe court that Dufresne had come in around quarter to nine on the same night. Hepurchased cigarettes, three quarts of beer, and some dish-towels. The county medicalexaminer testified that Quentin and the Dufresne woman had been killed between elevenp.m. and two a.m. on the night of 10-11 September. The detective from the AttorneyGeneral‘s office who had been in charge of the case testified that there was a turnout lessthan seventy yards from the bungalow, and that on the afternoon of 11 September, threepieces of evidence had been removed from that turnout: first item, two empty quartbottles of Narragansett Beer (with the defendant‘s fingerprints29 on them); the second item,twelve cigarette ends (all Kools, the defendant‘s brand); third item, a plaster moulage of aset of tyre tracks (exactly matching the tread-and-wear pattern of the tyres on thedefendant‘s 1947 Plymouth).
In the living room of Quentin‘s bungalow, four dishtowels had been found lying on thesofa. There were bullet-holes through them and powder-burns on them. The detectivetheorized (over the agonized30 objections of Andy‘s lawyer) that the murderer had wrappedthe towels around the muzzle31 of the murder-weapon to muffle32 the sound of the gunshots.
Andy Dufresne took the stand in his own defence and told his story calmly, coolly, anddispassionately. He said he had begun to hear distressing23 rumours33 about his wife andGlenn Quentin as early as the last week in July. In August he had become distressedenough to investigate a bit. On an evening when Linda was supposed to have goneshopping in Portland after her tennis lesson, Andy had followed her and Quentin toQuentin‘s one-storey rented house (inevitably dubbed ‘the love-nest‘ by the papers). Hehad parked in the turnout until Quentin drove her back to the country club where her carwas parked, about three hours later.
‘Do you mean to tell this court that your wife did not recognize your brand-new Plymouthsedan behind Quentin‘s car?‘ the DA asked him on cross-examination.
‘I swapped34 cars for the evening with a friend,‘ Andy said, and this cool admission of howwell-planned his investigation35 had been did him no good at all in the eyes of the jury.
After returning the friend‘s car and picking up his own, he had gone home. Linda hadbeen in bed, reading a book. He asked her how her trip to Portland had been. She repliedthat it had been fun, but she hadn‘t seen anything she liked well enough to buy. That‘swhen I knew for sure,‘ Andy told the breathless spectators. He spoke36 in the same calm,remote voice in which he delivered almost all of his testimony37.
‘What was your frame of mind in the seventeen days between then and the night yourwife was murdered?‘ Andy‘s lawyer asked him.
‘I was in great distress,‘ Andy said calmly, coldly. Like a man reciting a shopping list hesaid that he had considered suicide, and had even gone so far as to purchase a gun inLewiston on 8 September.
His lawyer then invited him to tell the jury what had happened after his wife left to meetGlenn Quentin on the night of the murders. Andy told them ... and the impression hemade was the worst possible.
I knew him for close to thirty years, and I can tell you he was the most self-possessedman I‘ve ever known. What was right with him he‘d only give you a little at a time. Whatwas wrong with him he kept bottled up inside. If he ever had a dark night of the soul, assome writer or other has called it, you would never know. He was the type of man who, ifhe had decided38 to commit suicide, would do it without leaving a note but not until hisaffairs had been put neatly39 in order. If he had cried on the witness stand, or if his voicehad thickened and grown hesitant, even if he had gotten yelling at that Washington-boundDistrict Attorney, I don‘t believe he would have gotten the life sentence he wound upwith. Even if he had‘ve he would have been out on parole by 1954. But he told his storylike a recording40 machine, seeming to say to the jury: this is it. Take it or leave it. Theyleft it.
He said he was drunk that night, that he‘d been more or less drunk since 24 August, andthat he was a man who didn‘t handle his liquor very well. Of course that by itself wouldhave been hard for any jury to swallow. They just couldn‘t see this coldly self-possessedyoung man in the neat double-breasted three-piece woollen suit ever getting falling-downdrunk over his wife‘s sleazy little affair with some small-town golf pro. I believed itbecause I had a chance to watch Andy that those six men and six women didn‘t have.
Andy Dufresne took just four drinks a year all the time I knew him. He would meet me inthe exercise yard every year about a week before his birthday and then again about twoweeks before Christmas. On each occasion he would arrange for a bottle of Jack19 Daniels.
He bought it the way most cons arrange to buy their stuff-the slave‘s wages they pay inhere, plus a little of his own. Up until 1965 what you got for your time was a dime41 anhour. In ‘65 they raised it all the way up to a quarter. My commission on liquor was and isten per cent, and when you add on that surcharge to the price of a fine sippin‘ whiskeylike the Black Jack, you get an idea of how many hours of Andy Dufresne‘s sweat in theprison laundry was going to buy his four drinks a year.
On the morning of his birthday, 20 September, he would have himself a big knock, andthen he‘d have another that night after lights out. The following day he‘d give the rest ofthe bottle back to me, and I would share it around. As for the other bottle, he dealthimself one drink Christmas night and another on New Year‘s Eve. Then that one wouldalso come to me with instructions to pass it on. Four drinks a year -and that is thebehaviour of a man who has been bitten hard by the bottle. Hard enough to draw blood.
He told the jury that on the night of the 10th he had been so drunk he could onlyremember what had happened in little isolated42 snatches. He had gotten drunk thatafternoon - ‘I took on a double helping43 of Dutch courage‘ is how he put it -before takingon Linda.
After she left to meet Quentin, he remembered deciding to confront them. On the way toQuentin‘s bungalow, he swung into the country club for a couple of quick ones. He couldnot, he said, remember telling the bartender he could ‘read about the rest of it in thepapers‘, or saying anything to him at all. He remembered buying beer in the Handy-Pik,but not the dishtowels. ‘Why would I want dishtowels?‘ he asked, and one of the papersreported that three of the lady jurors shuddered44.
Later, much later, he speculated to me about the clerk who had testified on the subject ofthose dishtoweis, and I think it‘i worth jotting45 down what he said. ‘Suppose that, duringtheir chmvmhn fur witnesses,‘ Andy said one day in the 晉wulio yard, ‘they stumble onthis fellow who sold me the beer that night. By then three days have gone by. The facts ofthe case have been broadsided in all the papers. Maybe they ganged up on the guy, five orsix cops, plus the dick from the attorney general‘s office, plus the DA‘s assistant. Memoryis a pretty subjective46 thing, Red. They could have started out with "Isn‘t it possible that hepurchased four or five dishtowels?" and worked their way up from there. If enoughpeople want you to remember something, that can be a pretty powerful persuader.‘I agreed that it could.
‘But there‘s one even more powerful,‘ Andy went on in that musing47 way of his. ‘I think it‘sat least possible that he convinced himself. It was the limelight. Reporters asking himquestions, his picture in the papers ... all topped, of course, by his star turn in court. I‘mnot saying that he deliberately48 falsified his story, or perjured49 himself. I think it‘s possiblethat lie could have passed a lie detector50 test with flying colours, or sworn on his mother‘ssacred name that I bought those dishtowels. But still ... memory is such a goddamsubjective thing.
‘I know this much: even though my own lawyer thought I had to be lying about half mystory, he never bought that business about the dishtowels. It‘s crazy on the face of it. Iwas pig-drunk, too drunk to have been thinking about muffling51 the gunshots. If I‘d doneit, I just would have let them rip.‘He went up to the turnout and parked there. He drank beer and smoked cigarettes. Hewatched the lights downstairs in Quentin‘s place go out. He watched a single light go onupstairs ... and fifteen minutes later he watched that one go out. He said he could guessthe rest.
‘Mr Dufresne, did you then go up to Glenn Quentin‘s house and kill the two of them?‘ hislawyer thundered.
‘No, I did not,‘ Andy answered. By midnight, he said, he was sobering up. He was alsofeeling the first signs of a bad hangover. He decided to go home and sleep it off and thinkabout the whole thing in a more adult fashion the next day. ‘At that time, as I drove home,I was beginning to think that the wisest course would be to simply let her go to Reno andget her divorce.‘‘Thank you, Mr Dufresne.‘The DA popped up.
‘You divorced her in the quickest way you could think of, didn‘t you? You divorced herwith a .38 revolver wrapped in dishtowels, didn‘t you?‘‘No sir, I did not,‘ Andy said calmly.
‘And then you shot her lover.‘‘No, sir.‘‘You mean you shot Quentin first?‘‘I mean I didn‘t shoot either one of them. I drank two quarts of beer and smoked howevermany cigarettes that the police found at the turnout. Then I drove home and went to bed.‘‘You told the jury that between 24 August and 10 September, you were feeling suicidal.‘‘Yes, sir.‘‘Suicidal enough to buy a revolver.‘‘Yes.‘‘Would it bother you overmuch, Mr Dufresne, if I told you that you do not seem to me tobe the suicidal type?‘‘No,‘ Andy said, ‘but you don‘t impress me as being terribly sensitive, and I doubt verymuch that, if I were feeling suicidal, I would take my problem to you.‘There was a slight tense titter in the courtroom at this, but it won him no points with thejury.
‘Did you take your .38 with you on the night of September?‘‘No; as I‘ve already testified -‘‘Oh, yes!‘ The DA smiled sarcastically52. ‘You threw it into the river, didn‘t you? The RoyalRiver. On the afternoon of 9 September.‘‘Yes, sir.‘‘One day before the murders.‘‘Yes, sir.‘That‘s convenient, isn‘t it?‘‘It‘s neither convenient nor inconvenient53. Only the truth.‘‘I believe you heard Lieutenant54 Mincher‘s testimony?‘ Mincher had been in charge of theparty which had dragged the stretch of the Royal near Pond Bridge, from which Andyhad testified he had thrown the gun. The police had not found it‘Yes, sir. You know I heard it.‘Then you heard him testify that they found no gun, although they dragged for three days.
That was rather convenient, too, wasn‘t it?‘‘Convenience aside, it‘s a fact that they didn‘t find the gun,‘ Andy responded calmly. ‘ButI should like to point out to both you and the jury that the Pond Road Bridge is very closeto where the Royal River empties into the Bay of Yarmouth. The current is strong. Thegun may have been carried out into the bay itself.‘‘And so no comparison can be made between the riflings on the bullets taken from thebloodstained corpses55 of your wife and Mr Glenn Quentin and the riflings on the barrel ofyour gun. That‘s correct, isn‘t it, Mr Dufresne?‘‘Yes.‘That‘s also rather convenient, isn‘t it?‘At that, according to the papers, Andy displayed one of the few slight emotional reactionshe allowed himself during the entire six-week period of the trial. A slight, bitter smilecrossed his face.
‘Since I am innocent of this crime, sir, and since I am telling the truth about throwing mygun into the river the day before the crime took place, then it seems to me decidedlyinconvenient that the gun was never found.‘The DA hammered at him for two days. He re-read the Handy-Pik clerk‘s testimonyabout the dishtowels to Andy. Andy repeated that he could not recall buying them, butadmitted that he also couldn‘t remember not buying them.
Was it true that Andy and Linda Dufresne had taken out a joint56 insurance policy in early1947? Yes, that was true. And if acquitted57, wasn‘t it true that Andy stood to gain $50,000in benefits? True. And wasn‘t it true that he had gone up to Glenn Quentin‘s house withmurder in his heart, and wasn‘t it also true that he had indeed committed murder twiceover? No, it was not true. Then what did he think had happened, since there had been nosigns of robbery?
‘I have no way of knowing that, sir,‘ Andy said quietly.
The case went to the jury at one p.m. on a snowy Wednesday afternoon. The twelvejurymen and women came back at three-thirty. The bailiff said they would have beenback earlier, but they had held off in order to enjoy a nice chicken dinner from Bentley‘sRestaurant at the county‘s expense. They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had thedeath penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring‘s crocuses poked59 theirheads out of the dirt.
The DA had asked him what he thought had happened, and Andy slipped the question -but he did have an idea, and I got it out of him late one evening in 1955. It had takenthose seven years for us to progress from nodding acquaintances to fairly close friends -but I never felt really close to Andy until 1960 or so, and I believe I was the only onewho ever did get really close to him. Both being long-timers, we were in the samecellblock from beginning to end, although I was halfway60 down the corridor from him.
‘What do I think?‘ He laughed - but there was no humour in the sound. ‘I think there was alot of bad luck floating around that night. More than could ever get together in the sameshort span of time again. I think it must have been some stranger, just passing through.
Maybe someone who had a flat tyre on that road after I went home. Maybe a burglar.
Maybe a psychopath. He killed them, that‘s all. And I‘m here.‘As simple as that. And he was condemned61 to spend the rest of his life in Shawshank - orthe part of it that mattered. Five years later he began to have parole hearings, and he wasturned down just as regular as clockwork in spite of being a model prisoner. Getting apass out of Shawshank when you‘ve got murder stamped on your admittance-slip is slowwork, as slow as a river eroding62 a rock. Seven men sit on the board, two more than atmost state prisons, and every one of those seven has an ass3 as hard as the water drawn63 upfrom a mineral-spring well You can‘t buy those guys, you can‘t no, you can‘t cry for them.
As far as the board concerned, money don‘t talk, and nobody walks. pc other reasons inAndy‘s case as well ... but that belongs a little further along in my story.
There was a trusty, name of Kendricks, who was into me for some pretty heavy moneyback in the fifties, and it was four years before he got it all paid off. Most of the interesthe paid me was information - in my line of work, you‘re dead if you can‘t find ways ofkeeping your ear to the ground. This Kendricks, for instance, had access to records I wasnever going to see running a stamper down in the goddam plate-shop.
Kendricks told me that the parole board vote was 7-0 against Andy Dufresne through1957,6-1 in ‘58, 7-0 again in ‘59, and 5-2 in ‘60. After that I don‘t know, but I do knowthat sixteen years later he was still in Cell 14 of Cellblock 5. By tben, 1976, he was fiftyeight.
They probably would have fatten64 big-hearted and let him out around 1983. Theygive you fife, and that‘s what they take - all of it that counts, anyway. Maybe they set youloose someday, but ... well, Listen: I knew this guy, Sherwood Bolton, his name was, andhe had this pigeon in his cell. From 1945 until 1953, when they let him out, he had thatpigeon. He wasn‘t any Birdman of Alcatraz; he just had this pigeon. Jake, he called him.
He set Jake free a day before he, Sherwood, that is, was to walk, and Jake flew away justas pretty as you could want. But about a week after Sherwood Bolton left our happy littlefamily, a friend of mine called me over to the west corner of the exercise yard, whereSherwood used to hang out, and my friend said: ‘Isn‘t that Jake, Red?‘ It was. That pigeonwas just as dead as a turd.
I remember the first time Andy Dufresne got in touch with me for something; I rememberlike it was yesterday. That wasn‘t the time he wanted Rita Hayworth, though. That camelater. In that summer of 1948 he came around for something else.
Most of my deals are done right there in the exercise yard, and that‘s where this one wentdown. Our yard is big, much bigger than most. It‘s a perfect square, ninety yards on aside. The north side is the outer wall, with a guardtower at either end. The guards up thereare armed with binoculars65 and riot guns. The main gate is in that north side. The truckloading-bays are on the south side of the yard. There are five of them. Shawshank is abusy place during the work-week - deliveries in, deliveries out. We have the license-platefactory, and a big industrial laundry that does all the prison wetwash, plus that of KitteryReceiving Hospital and the Eliot Sanatorium. There‘s also a big automotive garage wheremechanic inmates66 fix prison, state, and municipal vehicles - not to mention the privatecars of the screws, the administration officers ... and, on more than one occasion, those ofthe parole board.
The east side is a thick stone wall full of tiny slit67 windows. Cellblock 5 is on the otherside of that wail68. The west side is Administration and the infirmary. Shawshank has neverbeen as overcrowded as most prisons, and back in ‘48 it was only filled to something liketwo-thirds capacity, but at any given time there might be eighty to a hundred and twentycons on the yard - playing toss with a football or a baseball, shooting craps, jawing69 ateach other, making deals. On Sunday the place was even more crowded; on Sunday theplace would have looked like a country holiday ... if there had been any women.
It was on a Sunday that Andy first came to me. I had just finished talking to ElmoreArmitage, a fellow who often came in handy to me, about a radio when Andy walked up.
I knew who he was, of course; he had a reputation for being a snob70 and a cold fish.
People were saying he was marked for trouble already. One of the people saying so wasBogs Dismond, a bad man to have on your case. Andy had no cellmate, and I‘d heard thatwas just the way he wanted it, although the one-man cells in Cellblock 5 were only a littlebigger than coffins71. But I don‘t have to listen to rumours about a man when I can judgehim for myself.
‘Hello,‘ he said. ‘I‘m Andy Dufresne.‘ He offered his hand and I shook it. He wasn‘t a manto waste time being social; he got right to the point. ‘I understand that you‘re a man whoknows how to get things.‘I agreed that I was able to locate certain items from time to time,‘How do you do that?‘ Andy asked.
‘Sometimes,‘ I said, ‘things just seem to come into my hand. I can‘t explain it. Unless it‘sbecause I‘m Irish.‘He smiled a little at that. ‘I wonder if you could get me a rock hammer.‘‘What would that be, and why would you want it?‘Andy looked surprised. ‘Do you make motivations a part of your business?‘ With wordslike those I could understand how he had gotten a reputation for being the snobby72 sort,the kind of guy who likes to put on airs - but I sensed a tiny thread of humour in hisquestion.
I‘ll tell you,‘ I said. ‘If you wanted a toothbrush, I wouldn‘t ask questions. I‘d just quoteyou a price. Because a toothbrush, you see, is a non-lethal73 sort of a weapon.‘"You have strong feelings about lethal weapons?‘‘I do.‘An old friction-taped baseball flew towards us and he turned, cat-quick, and picked it outof the air. It was a move Frank Malzone would have been proud of. Andy flicked75 the bailback to where it had come from -just a quick and easy-looking flick74 of the wrist, but thatthrow had some mustard on it, just the same. I could see a lot of people were watching uswith one eye as they went about their business. Probably the guards in tile tower werewatching, too. I won‘t gild76 the lily; there are cons that swing weight in any prison, maybefour or five in a small one, maybe two or three dozen in a big one. At Shawshank I wasone of those with some weight, and what I thought of Andy Dufresne would have a lot todo with how his time went. He probably knew it too, but he wasn‘t kowtowing or suckingup to me, and I respected him for that.
‘Fair enough. Ill tell you what it is and why I want it A rock-hammer looks like aminiature pickaxe - about so long.‘ He held his hands about a foot apart, and that waswhen I first noticed how neatly kept his nails were. ‘It‘s got a small sharp pick on one endand a fiat77, blunt hammerhead on the other. I want it because I like rocks.‘‘Rocks,‘ I said.
‘Squat down here a minute,‘ he said.
I humoured him. We hunkered down on our haunches like Indians.
Andy took a handful of exercise yard dirt and began to sift78 it between his neat hands, so itemerged in a fine cloud. Small pebbles79 were left over, one or two sparkly, the rest dulland plain. One of the dull ones was quartz80, but it was only dull until you‘d rubbed itclean. Then it had a nice milky81 glow. Andy did the cleaning and then tossed it to me. Icaught it and named it.
‘Quartz, sure,‘ he said, ‘And look. Mica82. Shale83, silted84 granite85. Here‘s a piece of gradedlimestone, from when they cut this place out of the side of the hill.‘ He tossed them awayand dusted his hands. ‘I‘m a rockhound. At least... I was a rockhound. In my old life. I‘dlike to be one again, on a limited scale.‘‘Sunday expeditions in the exercise yard?‘ I asked, standing86 up. It was a silly idea, and yet... seeing that little piece of quartz had given my heart a funny tweak. I don‘t knowexactly why; just an association with the outside world, I suppose. You didn‘t think ofsuch things in terms of the yard. Quartz was something you picked out of a small, quickrunningstream.
‘Better to have Sunday expeditions here than no Sunday expeditions at all,‘ he said.
‘You could plant an item like that rock-hammer in somebody‘s skull,‘ I remarked.
‘I have no enemies here,‘ he said quietly.
‘No?‘ I smiled. ‘Wait awhile.‘‘If there‘s trouble, I can handle it without using a rock-hammer.‘‘Maybe you want to try an escape? Going under the wall? Because if you do -‘He laughed politely. When I saw the rock-hammer three weeks later, I understood why.
"You know,‘ I said, *if anyone sees you with it, they‘ll take it may. If tbey saw you with aspoon, they‘d take it away. i: you going to do, just sit down here in the yard and 3‘ away?‘"Oh, I believe I can do a lot better than that.‘I nodded. That part of it really wasn‘t my business, anyway. A man engages my servicesto get him something. Whether he can keep it or not after I get it is his business.
‘How much would an item like that go for?‘ I asked. I was Beginning to enjoy his quiet,low-key style. When you‘ve spent ten years in stir, as I had then, you can get awfullytired of the bellowers and the braggarts and the loud-mouths. Yes, I dink it would be fairto say I liked Andy from the first.
‘Eight dollars in any rock-and-gem shop,‘ he said, ‘but I realize that in a business likeyours you work on a cost-plus basis-‘‘Cost plus ten per cent is my going rate, but I have to go up some on a dangerous item.
For something like the gadget87 you‘re talking about, it takes a little more goose-grease toget the wheels turning. Let‘s say ten dollars.‘‘Ten it is‘I looked at him, smiling a little. ‘Have you got ten dollars?‘‘I do,‘ he said quietly.
A long time after, I discovered that he had better than five hundred. He had brought it inwith him. When they check you in at this hotel, one of the bellhops is obliged to bend youover and take a look up your works - but there are a lot of works, and, not to put too finea point on it, a man who is really determined88 can get a fairly large item quite a ways upthem - far enough to be out of sight, unless the bellhop you happen to draw is in the moodto pull on a rubber glove and go prospecting89.
That‘s fine,‘ I said. ‘You ought to know what I expect if you get caught with what I getyou.‘‘I suppose I should,‘ he said, and I could tell by the slight change in his grey eyes that heknew exactly what I was going to say. It was a slight lightening, a gleam of his specialironic humour.
‘If you get caught, you‘ll say you found it. That‘s about the long and short of it. They‘ll putyou in solitary for three or four weeks ... plus, of course, you‘ll lose your toy and you‘llget a black mark on your record. If you give them my name, you and I will never dobusiness again. Not for so much as a pair of shoelaces or a bag of Bugler90. And I‘ll sendsome fellows around to lump you up. I don‘t like violence, but you‘ll understand myposition. I can‘t allow it to get around that I can‘t handle myself. That would surely finishme.‘‘Yes. I suppose it would, I understand, and you don‘t need to worry.‘‘I never worry,‘ I said. ‘In a place like this there‘s no percentage in it.‘He nodded and walked away. Three days later he walked up beside me in the exerciseyard during the laundry‘s morning break. He didn‘t speak or even look my way, butpressed a picture of the Hon. Alexander Hamilton into my hand as neatly as a goodmagician does a card-trick. He was a man who adapted fast. I got him his rock-hammer. Ihad it in my cell for one night, and it was just as he described it It was no tool for escape(it would have taken a man just about six hundred years to tunnel under the wall usingthat rock-hammer, I figured), but I still felt some misgivings91. If you planted that pickaxeend in a man‘s head, he would surely never listen to Fibber McGee and Molly on theradio again. And Andy had already begun having trouble with the sisters. I hoped itwasn‘t them he was wanting the rock-hammer for.
In the end, I trusted my judgment92. Early the next morning, twenty minutes before thewake-up horn went off, I slipped the rock-hammer and a package of Camels to Ernie, theold trusty who swept the Cellblock 5 corridors until he was let free in 1956. He slipped itinto his tunic93 without a word, and I didn‘t see the rock-hammer again for seven years.
The following Sunday Andy walked over to me in the exercise yard again. He wasnothing to look at that day, I can :"il you. His lower lip was swelled94 up so big it lookedlike a summer sausage, his right eye was swollen95 half-shut, and 眅re was an uglywashboard scrape across one cheek. He was having his troubles with the sisters, all right,but he never mentioned them. ‘Thanks for the tool,‘ he said, and walked nray.
I watched him curiously96. He walked a few steps, saw in the dirt, bent58 over, and picked itup. It was a small rock. Prison fatigues97, except for those worn by mechanics when they‘reon the job, have no pockets. But there are ways to get around that. The little pebbledisappeared up Andy‘s sleeve and didn‘t come down. I admired that... and I admired him.
In spite of the problems he was having, he was going on with his life. There arethousands who don‘t or won‘t or can‘t, and plenty of them aren‘t in prison, either. And Inoticed that, although his face still looked as if a twister had happened to it, his handswere still neat and clean, the nails well-kept.
I didn‘t see much of him over the next six months; Andy spent a lot of that time insolitary.
A few words about the sisters.
In a lot of pens they are known as bull queers or jailhouse susies - just lately the term infashion is ‘killer queens‘. But in they were always the sisters. I don‘t know why, but otherthan the name I guess there was no difference.


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1 fixed JsKzzj     
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
参考例句:
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
2 gathering ChmxZ     
n.集会,聚会,聚集
参考例句:
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
3 ass qvyzK     
n.驴;傻瓜,蠢笨的人
参考例句:
  • He is not an ass as they make him.他不象大家猜想的那样笨。
  • An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden.驴能负重但不能超过它能力所负担的。
4 heinous 6QrzC     
adj.可憎的,十恶不赦的
参考例句:
  • They admitted to the most heinous crimes.他们承认了极其恶劣的罪行。
  • I do not want to meet that heinous person.我不想见那个十恶不赦的人。
5 rehabilitated 9f0df09d5d67098e9f9374ad9b9e4e75     
改造(罪犯等)( rehabilitate的过去式和过去分词 ); 使恢复正常生活; 使恢复原状; 修复
参考例句:
  • He has been rehabilitated in public esteem. 公众已恢复对他的敬重。
  • Young persons need to be, wherever possible, rehabilitated rather than punished. 未成年人需要受到尽可能的矫正而不是惩罚。
6 cons eec38a6d10735a91d1247a80b5e213a6     
n.欺骗,骗局( con的名词复数 )v.诈骗,哄骗( con的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • The pros and cons cancel out. 正反两种意见抵消。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • We should hear all the pros and cons of the matter before we make a decision. 我们在对这事做出决定之前,应该先听取正反两方面的意见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 contraband FZxy9     
n.违禁品,走私品
参考例句:
  • Most of the city markets were flooded with contraband goods.大多数的城市市场上都充斥着走私货。
  • The customs officers rummaged the ship suspected to have contraband goods.海关人员仔细搜查了一艘有走私嫌疑的海轮。
8 perfectly 8Mzxb     
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
9 tumour tumour     
n.(tumor)(肿)瘤,肿块
参考例句:
  • The surgeons operated on her for a tumour.外科医生为她施行了肿瘤切除手术。
  • The tumour constricts the nerves.肿瘤压迫神经。
10 solitary 7FUyx     
adj.孤独的,独立的,荒凉的;n.隐士
参考例句:
  • I am rather fond of a solitary stroll in the country.我颇喜欢在乡间独自徜徉。
  • The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.这座城堡巍然耸立在沙漠的边际,显得十分壮美。
11 gratis yfWxJ     
adj.免费的
参考例句:
  • David gives the first consultation gratis.戴维免费提供初次咨询。
  • The service was gratis to graduates.这项服务对毕业生是免费的。
12 killing kpBziQ     
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
参考例句:
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
13 smuggle 5FNzy     
vt.私运;vi.走私
参考例句:
  • Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
  • She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境,没有被逮捕。
14 pro tk3zvX     
n.赞成,赞成的意见,赞成者
参考例句:
  • The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
  • Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军?
15 scripture WZUx4     
n.经文,圣书,手稿;Scripture:(常用复数)《圣经》,《圣经》中的一段
参考例句:
  • The scripture states that God did not want us to be alone.圣经指出上帝并不是想让我们独身一人生活。
  • They invoked Hindu scripture to justify their position.他们援引印度教的经文为他们的立场辩护。
16 incompetent JcUzW     
adj.无能力的,不能胜任的
参考例句:
  • He is utterly incompetent at his job.他完全不能胜任他的工作。
  • He is incompetent at working with his hands.他动手能力不行。
17 innocence ZbizC     
n.无罪;天真;无害
参考例句:
  • There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
  • The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。
18 prosecution uBWyL     
n.起诉,告发,检举,执行,经营
参考例句:
  • The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
  • He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。
19 jack 53Hxp     
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
参考例句:
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
20 instructor D6GxY     
n.指导者,教员,教练
参考例句:
  • The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
  • The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。
21 professed 7151fdd4a4d35a0f09eaf7f0f3faf295     
公开声称的,伪称的,已立誓信教的
参考例句:
  • These, at least, were their professed reasons for pulling out of the deal. 至少这些是他们自称退出这宗交易的理由。
  • Her manner professed a gaiety that she did not feel. 她的神态显出一种她并未实际感受到的快乐。
22 sneaking iibzMu     
a.秘密的,不公开的
参考例句:
  • She had always had a sneaking affection for him. 以前她一直暗暗倾心于他。
  • She ducked the interviewers by sneaking out the back door. 她从后门偷偷溜走,躲开采访者。
23 distressing cuTz30     
a.使人痛苦的
参考例句:
  • All who saw the distressing scene revolted against it. 所有看到这种悲惨景象的人都对此感到难过。
  • It is distressing to see food being wasted like this. 这样浪费粮食令人痛心。
24 bungalow ccjys     
n.平房,周围有阳台的木造小平房
参考例句:
  • A bungalow does not have an upstairs.平房没有上层。
  • The old couple sold that large house and moved into a small bungalow.老两口卖掉了那幢大房子,搬进了小平房。
25 mitigated 11f6ba011e9341e258d534efd94f05b2     
v.减轻,缓和( mitigate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The cost of getting there is mitigated by Sydney's offer of a subsidy. 由于悉尼提供补助金,所以到那里的花费就减少了。 来自辞典例句
  • The living conditions were slightly mitigated. 居住条件稍有缓解。 来自辞典例句
26 aspirations a60ebedc36cdd304870aeab399069f9e     
强烈的愿望( aspiration的名词复数 ); 志向; 发送气音; 发 h 音
参考例句:
  • I didn't realize you had political aspirations. 我没有意识到你有政治上的抱负。
  • The new treaty embodies the aspirations of most nonaligned countries. 新条约体现了大多数不结盟国家的愿望。
27 dubbed dubbed     
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 );把…称为;配音;复制
参考例句:
  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的? 来自《简明英汉词典》
28 killer rpLziK     
n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者
参考例句:
  • Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
  • The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
29 fingerprints 9b456c81cc868e5bdf3958245615450b     
n.指纹( fingerprint的名词复数 )v.指纹( fingerprint的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • Everyone's fingerprints are unique. 每个人的指纹都是独一无二的。
  • They wore gloves so as not to leave any fingerprints behind (them). 他们戴着手套,以免留下指纹。 来自《简明英汉词典》
30 agonized Oz5zc6     
v.使(极度)痛苦,折磨( agonize的过去式和过去分词 );苦斗;苦苦思索;感到极度痛苦
参考例句:
  • All the time they agonized and prayed. 他们一直在忍受痛苦并且祈祷。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • She agonized herself with the thought of her loss. 她念念不忘自己的损失,深深陷入痛苦之中。 来自辞典例句
31 muzzle i11yN     
n.鼻口部;口套;枪(炮)口;vt.使缄默
参考例句:
  • He placed the muzzle of the pistol between his teeth.他把手枪的枪口放在牙齿中间。
  • The President wanted to muzzle the press.总统企图遏制新闻自由。
32 muffle gFjxn     
v.围裹;抑制;发低沉的声音
参考例句:
  • Mother made an effort to muffle her emotions.母亲努力控制自己的感情。
  • I put my hand over my mouth to muffle my words,so only my friend could hear. 我把手挡在嘴上,遮住声音,仅让我的朋友听到。
33 rumours ba6e2decd2e28dec9a80f28cb99e131d     
n.传闻( rumour的名词复数 );风闻;谣言;谣传
参考例句:
  • The rumours were completely baseless. 那些谣传毫无根据。
  • Rumours of job losses were later confirmed. 裁员的传言后来得到了证实。
34 swapped 3982604ac592befc46570aef4e827102     
交换(工作)( swap的过去式和过去分词 ); 用…替换,把…换成,掉换(过来)
参考例句:
  • I liked her coat and she liked mine, so we swapped. 我喜欢她的外套,她喜欢我的外套,于是我们就交换了。
  • At half-time the manager swapped some of the players around. 经理在半场时把几名队员换下了场。
35 investigation MRKzq     
n.调查,调查研究
参考例句:
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
36 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
37 testimony zpbwO     
n.证词;见证,证明
参考例句:
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
  • He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
38 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
39 neatly ynZzBp     
adv.整洁地,干净地,灵巧地,熟练地
参考例句:
  • Sailors know how to wind up a long rope neatly.水手们知道怎样把一条大绳利落地缠好。
  • The child's dress is neatly gathered at the neck.那孩子的衣服在领口处打着整齐的皱褶。
40 recording UktzJj     
n.录音,记录
参考例句:
  • How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
  • I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
41 dime SuQxv     
n.(指美国、加拿大的钱币)一角
参考例句:
  • A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
  • The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。
42 isolated bqmzTd     
adj.与世隔绝的
参考例句:
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
43 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
44 shuddered 70137c95ff493fbfede89987ee46ab86     
v.战栗( shudder的过去式和过去分词 );发抖;(机器、车辆等)突然震动;颤动
参考例句:
  • He slammed on the brakes and the car shuddered to a halt. 他猛踩刹车,车颤抖着停住了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I shuddered at the sight of the dead body. 我一看见那尸体就战栗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
45 jotting 7d3705384e72d411ab2c0155b5810b56     
n.简短的笔记,略记v.匆忙记下( jot的现在分词 );草草记下,匆匆记下
参考例句:
  • All the time I was talking he was jotting down. 每次我在讲话时,他就会记录下来。 来自互联网
  • The student considers jotting down the number of the businessman's American Express card. 这论理学生打算快迅速地记录下来下这位商贾的美国运通卡的金额。 来自互联网
46 subjective mtOwP     
a.主观(上)的,个人的
参考例句:
  • The way they interpreted their past was highly subjective. 他们解释其过去的方式太主观。
  • A literary critic should not be too subjective in his approach. 文学评论家的看法不应太主观。
47 musing musing     
n. 沉思,冥想 adj. 沉思的, 冥想的 动词muse的现在分词形式
参考例句:
  • "At Tellson's banking-house at nine," he said, with a musing face. “九点在台尔森银行大厦见面,”他想道。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
  • She put the jacket away, and stood by musing a minute. 她把那件上衣放到一边,站着沉思了一会儿。
48 deliberately Gulzvq     
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
参考例句:
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
49 perjured 94372bfd9eb0d6d06f4d52e08a0ca7e8     
adj.伪证的,犯伪证罪的v.发假誓,作伪证( perjure的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The witness perjured himself. 证人作了伪证。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Witnesses lied and perjured themselves. 证人撒谎作伪证。 来自辞典例句
50 detector svnxk     
n.发觉者,探测器
参考例句:
  • The detector is housed in a streamlined cylindrical container.探测器安装在流线型圆柱形容器内。
  • Please walk through the metal detector.请走过金属检测器。
51 muffling 2fa2a2f412823aa263383f513c33264f     
v.压抑,捂住( muffle的现在分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己)
参考例句:
  • Muffler is the conventional muffling device in the noise control of compressor. 消声器是压缩机噪声控制中常用的消声装置。 来自互联网
  • A ferocious face and a jet black muzzle, a muffling muzzle of long pistol. 一张狰狞的脸和他手中的乌黑枪口,那是长长的手枪销音器枪口。 来自互联网
52 sarcastically sarcastically     
adv.挖苦地,讽刺地
参考例句:
  • 'What a surprise!' Caroline murmured sarcastically.“太神奇了!”卡罗琳轻声挖苦道。
  • Pierce mocked her and bowed sarcastically. 皮尔斯嘲笑她,讽刺地鞠了一躬。
53 inconvenient m4hy5     
adj.不方便的,令人感到麻烦的
参考例句:
  • You have come at a very inconvenient time.你来得最不适时。
  • Will it be inconvenient for him to attend that meeting?他参加那次会议会不方便吗?
54 lieutenant X3GyG     
n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员
参考例句:
  • He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
  • He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官,递上了一张简短的便条进去。
55 corpses 2e7a6f2b001045a825912208632941b2     
n.死尸,尸体( corpse的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The living soldiers put corpses together and burned them. 活着的战士把尸体放在一起烧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Overhead, grayish-white clouds covered the sky, piling up heavily like decaying corpses. 天上罩满了灰白的薄云,同腐烂的尸体似的沉沉的盖在那里。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
56 joint m3lx4     
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
参考例句:
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
57 acquitted c33644484a0fb8e16df9d1c2cd057cb0     
宣判…无罪( acquit的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(自己)作出某种表现
参考例句:
  • The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
  • Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。
58 bent QQ8yD     
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
参考例句:
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
59 poked 87f534f05a838d18eb50660766da4122     
v.伸出( poke的过去式和过去分词 );戳出;拨弄;与(某人)性交
参考例句:
  • She poked him in the ribs with her elbow. 她用胳膊肘顶他的肋部。
  • His elbow poked out through his torn shirt sleeve. 他的胳膊从衬衫的破袖子中露了出来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
60 halfway Xrvzdq     
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
参考例句:
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
61 condemned condemned     
adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
  • The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。
62 eroding c892257232bdd413a7900bdce96d217e     
侵蚀,腐蚀( erode的现在分词 ); 逐渐毁坏,削弱,损害
参考例句:
  • The coast is slowly eroding. 海岸正慢慢地被侵蚀。
  • Another new development is eroding the age-old stereotype of the male warrior. 另一个新现象是,久已形成的男人皆武士的形象正逐渐消失。
63 drawn MuXzIi     
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
参考例句:
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
64 fatten ClLxX     
v.使肥,变肥
参考例句:
  • The new feed can fatten the chicken up quickly enough for market.新饲料能使鸡长得更快,以适应市场需求。
  • We keep animals in pens to fatten them.我们把动物关在围栏里把它们养肥。
65 binoculars IybzWh     
n.双筒望远镜
参考例句:
  • He watched the play through his binoculars.他用双筒望远镜看戏。
  • If I had binoculars,I could see that comet clearly.如果我有望远镜,我就可以清楚地看见那颗彗星。
66 inmates 9f4380ba14152f3e12fbdf1595415606     
n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》
67 slit tE0yW     
n.狭长的切口;裂缝;vt.切开,撕裂
参考例句:
  • The coat has been slit in two places.这件外衣有两处裂开了。
  • He began to slit open each envelope.他开始裁开每个信封。
68 wail XMhzs     
vt./vi.大声哀号,恸哭;呼啸,尖啸
参考例句:
  • Somewhere in the audience an old woman's voice began plaintive wail.观众席里,一位老太太伤心地哭起来。
  • One of the small children began to wail with terror.小孩中的一个吓得大哭起来。
69 jawing 68b6b8bcfa058a33b918fd4d636a27e6     
n.用水灌注
参考例句:
  • I got tired of him jawing away all the time. 他老是唠唠叨叨讲个不停,使我感到厌烦。 来自辞典例句
  • For heaven's sake, what are you two jawing about? 老天爷,你们两个还在嘟囔些什么? 来自辞典例句
70 snob YFMzo     
n.势利小人,自以为高雅、有学问的人
参考例句:
  • Going to a private school had made her a snob.上私立学校后,她变得很势利。
  • If you think that way, you are a snob already.如果你那样想的话,你已经是势利小人了。
71 coffins 44894d235713b353f49bf59c028ff750     
n.棺材( coffin的名词复数 );使某人早亡[死,完蛋,垮台等]之物
参考例句:
  • The shop was close and hot, and the atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins. 店堂里相当闷热,空气仿佛被棺木的味儿污染了。 来自辞典例句
  • Donate some coffins to the temple, equal to the number of deaths. 到寺庙里,捐赠棺材盒给这些死者吧。 来自电影对白
72 snobby 667d10674990d20663977c10de67e90a     
a.虚荣的
参考例句:
  • Can I really tell my snobby friends that I now shop at-egads-Walmart? 天呐,我真得好意思告诉那帮势利的朋友们我在沃尔玛买东西?
73 lethal D3LyB     
adj.致死的;毁灭性的
参考例句:
  • A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
  • She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。
74 flick mgZz1     
n.快速的轻打,轻打声,弹开;v.轻弹,轻轻拂去,忽然摇动
参考例句:
  • He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
  • By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下,将马头上的苍蝇驱走。
75 flicked 7c535fef6da8b8c191b1d1548e9e790a     
(尤指用手指或手快速地)轻击( flick的过去式和过去分词 ); (用…)轻挥; (快速地)按开关; 向…笑了一下(或瞥了一眼等)
参考例句:
  • She flicked the dust off her collar. 她轻轻弹掉了衣领上的灰尘。
  • I idly picked up a magazine and flicked through it. 我漫不经心地拿起一本杂志翻看着。
76 gild L64yA     
vt.给…镀金,把…漆成金色,使呈金色
参考例句:
  • The sun transform the gild cupola into dazzling point of light.太阳将这些镀金的圆屋顶变成了闪耀的光点。
  • With Dimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney primed to flower anew,Owen can gild the lily.贝巴和鲁尼如今蓄势待发,欧文也可以为曼联锦上添花。
77 fiat EkYx2     
n.命令,法令,批准;vt.批准,颁布
参考例句:
  • The opening of a market stall is governed by municipal fiat.开设市场摊位受市政法令管制。
  • He has tried to impose solutions to the country's problems by fiat.他试图下令强行解决该国的问题。
78 sift XEAza     
v.筛撒,纷落,详察
参考例句:
  • Sift out the wheat from the chaff.把小麦的壳筛出来。
  • Sift sugar on top of the cake.在蛋糕上面撒上糖。
79 pebbles e4aa8eab2296e27a327354cbb0b2c5d2     
[复数]鹅卵石; 沙砾; 卵石,小圆石( pebble的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet. 汽车道上的小石子在他脚底下喀嚓作响。
  • Line the pots with pebbles to ensure good drainage. 在罐子里铺一层鹅卵石,以确保排水良好。
80 quartz gCoye     
n.石英
参考例句:
  • There is a great deal quartz in those mountains.那些山里蕴藏着大量石英。
  • The quartz watch keeps good time.石英表走时准。
81 milky JD0xg     
adj.牛奶的,多奶的;乳白色的
参考例句:
  • Alexander always has milky coffee at lunchtime.亚历山大总是在午餐时喝掺奶的咖啡。
  • I like a hot milky drink at bedtime.我喜欢睡前喝杯热奶饮料。
82 mica gjZyj     
n.云母
参考例句:
  • It could not pass through material impervious to water such as mica.它不能通过云母这样的不透水的物质。
  • Because of its layered structure,mica is fissile.因为是层状结构,云母很容易分成片。
83 shale cEvyj     
n.页岩,泥板岩
参考例句:
  • We can extract oil from shale.我们可以从页岩中提取石油。
  • Most of the rock in this mountain is shale.这座山上大部分的岩石都是页岩。
84 silted 208d7171ac6ba45d31ce741d4638137b     
v.(河流等)为淤泥淤塞( silt的过去式和过去分词 );(使)淤塞
参考例句:
  • The riverbed is silted up, so there's no outlet for the floodwater. 河道淤塞,水无出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The river is silted up and the water flows sluggishly. 河道淤塞,水流迟滞。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
85 granite Kyqyu     
adj.花岗岩,花岗石
参考例句:
  • They squared a block of granite.他们把一块花岗岩加工成四方形。
  • The granite overlies the older rocks.花岗岩躺在磨损的岩石上面。
86 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
87 gadget Hffz0     
n.小巧的机械,精巧的装置,小玩意儿
参考例句:
  • This gadget isn't much good.这小机械没什么用处。
  • She has invented a nifty little gadget for undoing stubborn nuts and bolts.她发明了一种灵巧的小工具用来松开紧固的螺母和螺栓。
88 determined duszmP     
adj.坚定的;有决心的
参考例句:
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
89 prospecting kkZzpG     
n.探矿
参考例句:
  • The prospecting team ploughed their way through the snow. 探险队排雪前进。
  • The prospecting team has traversed the length and breadth of the land. 勘探队踏遍了祖国的山山水水。
90 bugler e1bce9dcca8842895d1f03cfacb4cf41     
喇叭手; 号兵; 吹鼓手; 司号员
参考例句:
  • The general ordered the bugler to sound the retreat. 将军命令号手吹号收兵。
  • There was nothing faded about the bugler under the cap. 帽子下面那个号手可一点也不是褪色的。
91 misgivings 0nIzyS     
n.疑虑,担忧,害怕;疑虑,担心,恐惧( misgiving的名词复数 );疑惧
参考例句:
  • I had grave misgivings about making the trip. 对于这次旅行我有过极大的顾虑。
  • Don't be overtaken by misgivings and fear. Just go full stream ahead! 不要瞻前顾后, 畏首畏尾。甩开膀子干吧! 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
92 judgment e3xxC     
n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见
参考例句:
  • The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
  • He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
93 tunic IGByZ     
n.束腰外衣
参考例句:
  • The light loose mantle was thrown over his tunic.一件轻质宽大的斗蓬披在上衣外面。
  • Your tunic and hose match ill with that jewel,young man.你的外套和裤子跟你那首饰可不相称呢,年轻人。
94 swelled bd4016b2ddc016008c1fc5827f252c73     
增强( swell的过去式和过去分词 ); 肿胀; (使)凸出; 充满(激情)
参考例句:
  • The infection swelled his hand. 由于感染,他的手肿了起来。
  • After the heavy rain the river swelled. 大雨过后,河水猛涨。
95 swollen DrcwL     
adj.肿大的,水涨的;v.使变大,肿胀
参考例句:
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着,她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她,她的手臂肿起来了。
96 curiously 3v0zIc     
adv.有求知欲地;好问地;奇特地
参考例句:
  • He looked curiously at the people.他好奇地看着那些人。
  • He took long stealthy strides. His hands were curiously cold.他迈着悄没声息的大步。他的双手出奇地冷。
97 fatigues e494189885d18629ab4ed58fa2c8fede     
n.疲劳( fatigue的名词复数 );杂役;厌倦;(士兵穿的)工作服
参考例句:
  • The patient fatigues easily. 病人容易疲劳。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Instead of training the men were put on fatigues/fatigue duty. 那些士兵没有接受训练,而是派去做杂务。 来自辞典例句
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