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肖申克的救赎-4

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‘  How can you be so obtuse1?‘ Andy said, so low that Chester could barely hear. But heheard the warden2 just fine.
‘What? What did you call me?‘‘Obtuse? Andy cried. ‘Is it deliberate?‘‘Dufresne, you‘ve taken five minutes of my time - no, seven - and I have a very busyschedule today. So I believe we‘ll just declare this little meeting closed and -‘‘The country club will have ail3 the old time-cards, don‘t you realize that?‘ Andy shouted.
They‘ll have tax-forms and W-2s and unemployment compensation forms, all with hisname on them! There will be employees there now that were there then, maybe Briggshimself! It‘s been fifteen years, not forever! They‘ll remember him! They will rememberBlotch! If I‘ve got Tommy to testify to what Blatch told him, and Briggs to testify thatBlatch was there, actually working at the country club, I can get a new trial! I can -‘‘Guard! Guardl Take this man away!‘‘What‘s the matter with you?‘ Andy said, and Chester told me he was very nearlyscreaming by then. ‘It‘s my life, my chance to get out, don‘t you see that? And you won‘tmake a single long-distance call to at least verify Tommy‘s story? Listen, I‘ll pay for thecall! I‘ll pay for -‘Then there was a sound of thrashing as the guards grabbed him and started to drag himout‘Solitary4,‘ Warden Norton said dryly. He was probably - gering his thirty-year pin as hesaid it ‘Bread and water.‘And so they dragged Andy away, totally out of control now, still screaming at thewarden; Chester said you could hear him even after the door was shut: ‘It‘s my life! It‘smy life, don‘t you understand it‘s my life?‘Twenty days on the grain and drain train for Andy down there in solitary. It was hissecond jolt6 in solitary, and his dust-up with Norton was his first real black mark since hehad joined our happy little family.
I‘ll tell you a little bit about Shawshank‘s solitary while we‘re on the subject It‘ssomething of a throwback to those hardy7 pioneer days of the early-to-mid-1700s inMaine. In ..those days no one wasted much time with such things as penalogy‘ and‘rehabilitation‘ and ‘selective perception‘. In ,those days, you were taken care of in termsof absolute black and white. You were either guilty or innocent. If you were guilty, youwere either hung or put in gaol8. And if you were sentenced to gaol, you did not go to aninstitution. No, you dug your own gaol with a spade provided to you by the Province ofMaine. You dug it as wide and as deep as you could during the period between sunup andsundown. Then ,they gave you a couple of skins and a bucket, and down you went Oncedown, the gaoler would bar the top of your hole, -.row down some grain or maybe a pieceof maggoty meat once or twice a week, and maybe there would be a dipperful ; barleysoup on Sunday night You pissed in the bucket, and you held up the same bucket forwater when the gaoler came around at six in the morning. When it rained, you used liebucket to bail9 out your gaol-cell ... unless, that is, you wanted to drown like a rat in arainbarrel.
No one spent a long time ‘in the hole‘, as it was called; thirty months was an unusuallylong term, and so far as I‘ve been able to tell, the longest term ever spent from which aninmate actually emerged alive was served by the so-called Durham Boy‘, a fourteen-yearoldpsychopath who castrated a schoolmate with a piece of rusty11 metal. He did sevenyears, but of course he went in young and strong.
You have to remember that for a crime that was more serious than petty theft orblasphemy or forgetting to put a snotrag in your pocket when out of doors on theSabbath, you were hung. For low crimes such as those just mentioned and for others likethem, you‘d do your three or six or nine months in the hole and come out fishbelly white,cringing from the wide-open spaces, your eyes half-blind, your teeth more than likelyrocking and rolling in their sockets12 from the scurvy13, your feet crawling with fungus14. Jollyold Province of Maine. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.
Shawshank‘s Solitary Wing was nowhere as bad as that... I guess. Things come in threemajor degrees in the human experience, I think. There‘s good, bad, and terrible. And asyou go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to makesubdivisions.
To get to Solitary Wing you were led down twenty-three steps to a basement level wherethe only sound was the drip of water. The only light was supplied by a series of danglingsixty-watt bulbs. The cells were keg-shaped, like those wall-safes rich people sometimeshide behind a picture. Like a safe, the round doorways16 were hinged, and solid instead ofbarred. You get ventilation from above, but no light except for your own sixty-watt bulb,which was turned off from a master-switch promptly17 at eight p.m., an hour before lightsoutin the rest of the prison. The wire wasn‘t in a wire mesh15 cage or anything like that.
The feeling was that if you wanted to exist down there in the dark, you were welcome toit. Not many did ... but after eight, of course, you had no choice. You had a bunk18 boltedto the wall and a can with no toilet seat. You had three ways to spend your time: sitting,shitting, or sleeping. Big choice. Twenty days could get to seem like a year. Thirty dayscould seem like two, and forty days like ten. Sometimes you could hear rats in theventilation system. In a situation like that, subdivisions of terrible tend to get lost.
If anything at all can be said in favour of solitary, it‘s just that you get time to think. Andyhad twenty days in which to think while he enjoyed his grain and drain, and when he gotout he requested another meeting with the warden. Request denied. Such a meeting, thewarden told him, would be ‘counter-productive‘. That‘s another of those phrases you haveto master before you can go to work in the prisons and corrections field.
Patiently, Andy renewed his request And renewed it And renewed it He had changed, hadAndy Dufresne. Suddenly, as that spring of 1963 bloomed around us, there were lines inhis face and sprigs of grey showing in his hair. He had lost that little trace of a smile thatalways seemed to linger around his mouth. His eyes stared out into space more often, andyou get to know that when a man stares that way, he is counting up the years served, themonths, the weeks, the days.
He renewed his request and renewed it He was patient He had nothing but time. It got tobe summer. In Washington, President Kennedy was promising19 a fresh assault on povertyand on civil rights inequalities, not knowing he had only half a year to live. In Liverpool,a musical group called The Beatles was emerging as a force to be reckoned with inBritish music, but I guess that no one Stateside had yet heard of them. The Boston RedSox, still four years away from what New England folks call The Miracle of ‘67, werelanguishing in the cellar of the American League. All of those things were going on outin a larger world where people walked free.
Norton saw him near the end of June, and this conversation I heard about from Andyhimself some seven years later.
‘If it‘s the money, you don‘t have to worry,‘ Andy told Norton in a low voice. ‘Do youthink I‘d talk that up? I‘d be cutting my own throat I‘d be just as indictable as -‘That‘s enough,‘ Norton interrupted. His face was as long and cold as a slate21 gravestone.
He leaned back in his office chair until the back of his head almost touched the samplerreading HIS JUDGMENT22 COMETH AND THAT RIGHT EARLY.
‘But-‘‘Don‘t you ever mention money to me again,‘ Norton said. ‘Not in this office, notanywhere. Not unless you want to see that library turned back into a storage room andpaint-locker again. Do you understand?‘‘I was trying to set your mind at ease, that‘s all.‘‘Well now, when I need a sorry son of a bitch like you to set my mind at ease, I‘ll retire. Iagreed to this appointment because I got tired of being pestered23, Dufresne. I want it tostop. If you want to buy this particular Brooklyn Bridge, that‘s your affair. Don‘t make itmine. I could hear crazy stories like yours twice a week if I wanted to lay myself open tothem. Every sinner in this place would be using me for a crying towel. I had more respectfor you. But this is the end. The end. Have we got an understanding?‘‘Yes,‘ Andy said. ‘But I‘ll be hiring a lawyer, you know.‘‘What in God‘s name for?‘‘I think we can put it together,‘ Andy said. ‘With Tommy Williams and with my testimonyand corroborative25 testimony24 from records and employees at the country club, I think wecan put it together.‘‘Tommy Williams is no longer an inmate10 of this facility.‘‘What?‘‘He‘s been transferred.‘‘Transferred where?‘‘Cashman.‘At that, Andy fell silent. He was an intelligent man, but it would have taken anextraordinarily stupid man not to smelt26 deal all over that. Cashman was a minimumsecurityprison far up north in Aroostook County. The inmates27 pick a lot of potatoes, andthat‘s hard work, but they are paid a decent wage for their labour and they can attendclasses at CVI, a pretty decent vocational-technical institute, if they so desire. Moreimportant to a fellow like Tommy, a fellow with a young wife and a child, Cashman hada furlough programme ... which meant a chance to live like a normal man, at least on theweekends. A chance to build a model plane with his kid, have sex with his wife, maybego on a picnic.
Norton had almost surely dangled28 all of that under Tommy‘s nose with only one stringattached: not one more word about Elwood Blatch, not now, not ever. Or you‘ll end updoing hard time in Thomaston down there on scenic29 Route 1 with the real hard guys, andinstead of having sex with your wife you‘ll be having it with some old bull queer.
‘But why?‘ Andy said. ‘Why would -‘‘As a favour to you,‘ Norton said calmly, ‘I checked with Rhode Island. They did have aninmate named Elwood Blatch. He was given what they call a PP - provisional parole,another one of these crazy liberal programmes to put criminals out on the streets. He‘ssince disappeared.‘Andy said: ‘The warden down there ... is he a friend of yours?‘Sam Norton gave Andy a smile as cold as a deacon‘s watchchain. ‘We are acquainted,‘ hesaid.
‘ Why?‘ Andy repeated. ‘Can‘t you tell me why you did it? You knew I wasn‘t going totalk about ... about anything you might have had going. You knew that. So why?
‘Because people like you make me sick,‘ Norton said deliberately30. ‘I like you right whereyou are, Mr Dufresne, and as long as I am warden here at Shawshank, you are going to beright here. You see, you used to think that you were better than anyone else. I have gottenpretty good at seeing that on a man‘s face. I marked it on yours the first time I walkedinto the library. It might as well have been written on your forehead in capital letters.
That look is gone now, and I like that just fine. It is not just that you are a useful vessel,never think that. It is simply that men like you need to learn humility31. Why, you used towalk around that exercise yard as if it was a living room and you were at one of thosecocktail parties where the hellhound walk around coveting32 each others‘ wives andhusbands and getting swinishly drunk. But you don‘t walk around that way anymore. AndI‘ll be watching to see if you should start to walk that way again. Over a period of years,I‘ll be watching you with great pleasure. Now get the hell out of here.‘‘Okay. But all the extracurricular activities stop now, Norton. The investmentcounselling, the scams, the free tax advice. It all stops. Get H & R Block to tell you howto declare your extortionate income.‘Warden Norton‘s face first went brick-red ... and then all the colour fell out of it ‘You‘regoing back into solitary for that Thirty days. Bread and water. Another black mark. Andwhile you‘re in, think about this: if anything that‘s been going on should stop, the librarygoes. I will make it my personal business to see that it goes back to what it was beforeyou came here. And I will make your life... very hard. Very difficult You‘ll do the hardesttime it‘s possible to do. You‘ll lose that one-bunk Hilton down in Cellblock 5, for starters,and you‘ll lose those rocks on the windowsill, and you‘ll lose any protection the guardshave given you against the sodomites. You will... lose everything. Clear?‘I guess it was clear enough.
Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that reallyis magic. But Andy Dufresne had changed. He had grown harder. That‘s the only way Ican think of to put it He went on doing Warden Norton‘s dirty work and he held onto thelibrary, so outwardly things were about the same. He continued to have his birthdaydrinks and his New Year‘s Eve drinks; he continued to share out the rest of each bottle. Igot him fresh rock-polishing cloths from time to time, and in 1967 I got him a new rockhammer- the one I‘d gotten him nineteen years ago had plumb33 worn out Nineteen years!
When you say it sudden like that, those three syllables34 sound like the thud and doublelockingof a tomb door. The rock-hammer, which had been a ten-dollar item back then,went for twenty-two by ‘67. He and I had a sad little grin over thatAndy continued to shape and polish the rocks he found in the exercise yard, but the yardwas smaller by then; half of what had been there in 1950 had been asphalted over in1962. Nonetheless, he found enough to keep him occupied, I guess. When he had finishedwith each rock he would put it carefully on his window ledge35, which faced east He toldme he liked to look at them in the sun, the pieces of the planet he had taken up from thedirt and shaped. Schists, quartzes, granites36. Funny little mica37 sculptures that were heldtogether with airplane glue. Various sedimentary conglomerates38 that were polished andcut in such a way that you could see why Andy called them ‘millennium sandwiches‘ - thelayers of different material that had built up over a period of decades and centuries.
Andy would give his stones and his rock-sculptures away from time to time in order tomake room for new ones. He gave me the greatest number, I think - counting the stonesthat looked like matched cufflinks, I had five. There was one of the mica sculptures I toldyou about, carefully crafted to look like a man throwing a javelin39, and two of thesedimentary conglomerates, all the levels showing in smoothly40 polished cross-section.
I‘ve still got them, and I take them down every so often and think about what a man cando, if he has time enough and the will to use it, a drop at a time.
So, on the outside, at least, things were about the same. If Norton had wanted to breakAndy as badly as he had said, he would have had to look below the surface to see thechange. But if he had seen how different Andy had become, I think Norton would havebeen well-satisfied with the four years following his clash with Andy.
He had told Andy that Andy walked around the exercise yard as if he were at a cocktailparty. That isn‘t the way I would have put it, but I know what he meant. It goes back towhat I said about Andy wearing his freedom like an invisible coat, about how he neverreally developed a prison mentality41. His eyes never got that dull look. He neverdeveloped the walk that men get when the day is over and they are going back to theircells for another endless night - that flat-footed, hump-shouldered walk. Andy walkedwith his shoulders squared and his step was always light, as if he was heading home to agood home-cooked meal and a good woman instead of to a tasteless mess of soggyvegetables, lumpy mashed42 potato, and a slice or two of that fatty, gristly stuff most of thecons called mystery meat ... that, and a picture of Raquel Welch on the wall.
But for those four years, although he never became exactly like the others, he did becomesilent, introspective, and brooding. Who could blame him? So maybe it was WardenNorton who was pleased ... at least, for a while.
His dark mood broke around the time of the 1967 World Series. That was the dream year,the year the Red Sox won the pennant44 instead of placing ninth, as the Las Vegas bookieshad predicted. When it happened - when they won the American League pennant - a kindof ebullience45 engulfed46 the whole prison. There was a goofy sort of feeling that if theDead Sox could come to life, then maybe anybody could do it I can‘t explain that feelingnow, any more than an ex-Beatlemaniac could explain that madness, I suppose. But itwas real. Every radio in the place was tuned47 to the games as the Red Sox pounded downthe stretch. There was gloom when the Sox dropped a pair in Cleveland near the end, anda nearly riotous48 joy when Rico Petrocelli put away the pop fly that clinched49 it And thenthere was the gloom that came when Lonborg was beaten in the seventh game of theSeries to end the dream just short of complete fruition. It probably pleased Norton to noend, the son of a bitch. He liked his prison wearing sackcloth and ashes.
But for Andy, there was no tumble back down into gloom. He wasn‘t much of a baseballfan anyway, and maybe that was why. Nevertheless, he seemed to have caught thecurrent of good feeling, and for him it didn‘t peter out again after the last game of theSeries. He had taken that invisible coat out of the closet and put it on again.
I remember one bright-gold fall day in very late October, a couple of weeks after theWorld Series had ended. It must have been a Sunday, because the exercise yard was fullof men ‘walking off the week‘ - tossing a Frisbee50 or two, passing around a football,bartering what they had to barter51. Others would be at the long table in the Visitors‘ Hall,under the watchful52 eyes of the screws, talking with their relatives, smoking cigarettes,telling sincere lies, receiving their picked-over care packages.
Andy was squatting53 Indian-fashion against the wall, chunking two small rocks together inhis hands, his face turned up into the sunlight. It was surprisingly warm, that sun, for aday so late in the year.
‘Hello, Red,‘ he called. ‘Come on and sit a spell.‘I did.
‘You want this?‘ he asked, and handed me one of the two carefully polished ‘millenniumsandwiches‘ I just told you about‘I sure do,‘ I said. ‘It‘s very pretty. Thank you.‘He shrugged54 and changed the subject ‘Big anniversary coming up for you next year.‘I nodded. Next year would make me a thirty-year man. Sixty per cent of my life spent inShawshank Prison.
Think you‘ll ever get out?‘‘Sure. When I have a long white beard and just about three marbles left rolling aroundupstairs.‘He smiled a little and then turned his face up into the sun again, his eyes closed. ‘Feelsgood.‘‘I think it always does when you know the damn winter‘s almost right on top of you.‘He nodded, and we were silent for a while.
‘When I get out of here,‘ Andy said finally, ‘I‘m going where it‘s warm all the time.‘ Hespoke with such calm assurance you would have thought he had only a month or so left toserve. ‘You know where I‘m goin‘, Red?‘‘Nope.‘‘Zihuatcnejo,‘ he said, rolling the word softly from his tongue like music. ‘Down inMexico. It‘s a little place maybe twenty miles from Playa Azul and Mexico Highway 37.
It‘s a hundred miles north-west of Acapulco on the Pacific Ocean. You know what theMexicans say about the Pacific?‘I told him I didn‘tThey say it has no memory. And that‘s where I want to finish out my life, Red. In a warmplace that has no memory.‘He had picked up a handful of pebbles56 as he spoke55; now he tossed them, one by one, andwatched them bounce and roll across the baseball diamond‘s dirt infield, which would beunder a foot of snow before long.
‘Zihuatanejo. I‘m going to have a little hotel down there. Six cabanas along the beach, andsix more set further back, for the highway trade. I‘ll have a guy who‘ll take my guests outcharter fishing. There‘ll be a trophy57 for the guy who catches the biggest marlin of theseason, and I‘ll put his picture up in the lobby. It won‘t be a family place. It‘ll be a placefor people on their honeymoons58 ... first or second varieties.‘‘And where are you going to get the money to buy this fabulous59 place?‘ I asked. ‘Yourstock account?‘He looked at me and smiled. ‘That‘s not so far wrong,‘ he said. ‘Sometimes you startle me,Red.‘‘What are you talking about?‘There are really only two types of men in the world when it comes to bad trouble,‘ Andysaid, cupping a match between his hands and lighting60 a cigarette. ‘Suppose there was ahouse full of rare paintings and sculptures and fine old antiques, Red? And suppose theguy who owned the house heard that there was a monster of a hurricane headed right at it.
One of those two kinds of men just hopes for the best The hurricane will change course,he says to himself. No right-thinking hurricane would ever dare wipe out all theseRembrandts, my two Degas horses, my Jackson Pollocks and my Paul Klees.
Furthermore, God wouldn‘t allow it. And if worst comes to worst, they‘re insured. That‘sone sort of man. The other sort just assumes that hurricane is going to tear right throughthe middle of his house. If the weather bureau says the hurricane just changed course, thisguy assumes it‘ll change back in order to put his house on ground zero again. This secondtype of guy knows there‘s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you‘re prepared forthe worst.‘I lit a cigarette of my own. ‘Are you saying you prepared for the eventuality?‘‘Yes. I prepared for the hurricane. I knew how bad it looked. I didn‘t have much time, butin the time I had, I operated. I had a friend - just about the only person who stood by me -who worked for an investment company in Portland. He died about six years ago.‘‘Sorry.‘‘Yeah.‘ Andy tossed his butt61 away. ‘Linda and I had about fourteen thousand dollars. Nota big bundle, but hell, we were young. We had our whole lives ahead of us.‘ He grimaceda little, then laughed. ‘When the shit hit the fan, I started lugging62 my Rembrandts out ofthe path of the hurricane. I sold my stocks and paid the capital gains tax just like a goodlittle boy. Declared everything. Didn‘t cut any corners.‘‘Didn‘t they freeze your estate?‘‘I was charged with murder, Red, not dead! You can‘t freeze the assets of an innocentman - thank God. And it was a while before they even got brave enough to charge mewith the crime. Jim - my friend - and I, we had some time. I got hit pretty good, justdumping everything like that. Got my nose skinned. But at the time I had worse things toworry about than a small skinning on the stock market.‘‘Yeah, I‘d say you did.‘‘But when I came to Shawshank it was all safe. It‘s still safe. Outside these walls, Red,there‘s a man that no living soul has ever seen face to face. He has a Social Security cardand a Maine driver‘s license63. He‘s got a birth certificate. Name of Peter Stevens. Nice,anonymous name, huh?‘‘Who is he?‘ I asked. I thought I knew what he was going to say, but I couldn‘t believe it.
‘Me.‘‘You‘re not going to tell me that you had time to set up a false identity while the bullswere sweating you,‘ I said, ‘or that you finished the job while you were on trial for -‘‘No, I‘m not going to tell you that. My friend Jim was the one who set up the falseidentity. He started after my appeal was turned down, and the major pieces ofidentification were in his hands by the spring of 1950.‘‘He must have been a pretty close friend,‘ I said. I was not sure how much of this Ibelieved - a little, a lot, or none. But the day was warm and the sun was out, and it wasone hell of a good story. ‘All of that‘s one hundred per cent illegal, setting up a false IDlike that.‘‘He was a close friend,‘ Andy said. ‘We were in the war together. France, Germany, theoccupation. He was a good friend. He knew it was illegal, but he also knew that settingup a false identity in this country is very easy and very safe. He took my money - mymoney with all the taxes on it paid so the IRS wouldn‘t get too interested - and invested itfor Peter Stevens. He did that in 1950 and 1951. Today it amounts to three hundred andseventy thousand dollars, plus change.‘I guess my jaw64 made a thump65 when it dropped against my chest, because he smiled.
‘Think of all the things people wish they‘d invested in since 1950 or so, and two or threeof them will be things Peter Stevens was into. If I hadn‘t ended up in here, I‘d probably beworth seven or eight million bucks66 by now. I‘d have a Rolls ... and probably an ulcer67 asbig as a portable radio.‘His hands went to the dirt and began sifting68 out more pebbles. They moved gracefully,restlessly.
‘I was hoping for the best and expecting the worst -nothing but that The false name wasjust to keep what little capital I had untainted. It was lugging the paintings out of the pathof the hurricane. But I had no idea that the hurricane ... that it could go on as long as ithas.‘I didn‘t say anything for a while. I guess I was trying to absorb the idea that this small,spare man in prison grey next to me could be worth more money than Warden Nortonwould make in the rest of his miserable69 life, even with the scams thrown in.
‘When you said you could get a lawyer, you sure weren‘t kidding,‘ I said at last ‘For thatkind of dough70 you could have hired Clarence Darrow, or whoever‘s passing for him thesedays. Why didn‘t you, Andy? Christ! You could have been out of here like a rocket.‘He smiled. It was the same smile that had been on his face when he‘d told me he and hiswife had had their whole lives ahead of them. ‘No,‘ he said.
‘A good lawyer would have sprung the Williams kid from Cashman whether he wanted togo or not,‘ I said. I was getting carried away now. ‘You could have gotten your new trial,hired private detectives to look for that guy Blatch, and blown Norton out of the water toboot. Why not, Andy?‘‘Because I outsmarted myself. If I ever try to put my hands on Peter Stevens‘s moneyfrom inside here, I‘d lose every cent of it My friend Jim could have arranged it, but Jim‘sdead. You see the problem?‘I saw it For all the good the money could do Andy, it might as well have really belongedto another person. In a way, it did. And if the stuff it was invested in suddenly turned bad,all Andy could do would be to watch the plunge71, to trace it day after day on the stocksand-bonds page of the Press-Herald. It‘s a tough life if you don‘t weaken, I guess.
‘I‘ll tell you how it is, Red. There‘s a big hayfield in the town of Buxton. You know whereBuxton is at, don‘t you?‘I said I did. It lies right next door to Scarborough.
"That‘s right And at the north end of this particular hayfield there‘s a rock wall, right outof a Robert Frost poem. And somewhere along the base of that wall is a rock that has nobusiness in a Maine hayfield. It‘s a piece of volcanic72 glass, and until 1947 it was apaperweight on my office desk. My friend Jim put it in that wall. There‘s a keyunderneath it. The key opens a safe deposit box in the Portland branch of the CascoBank.‘‘I guess you‘re in a pack of trouble,‘ I said. ‘When your friend Jim died, the IRS must haveopened all of his safety deposit boxes. Along with the executor of his will, of course.‘Andy smiled and tapped the side of my head. ‘Not bad. There‘s more up there thanmarshmallows, I guess. But we took care of the possibility that Jim might die while I wasin the slam. The box is in the Peter Stevens name, and once a year the firm of lawyersthat served as Jim‘s executors sends a check to the Casco to cover the rental74 of theStevens box.
‘Peter Stevens is inside that box, just waiting to get out His birth certificate, his S.S. card,and his driver‘s license. The license is six years out of date because Jim died six yearsago, true, but it‘s still perfectly75 renewable for a five-dollar fee. His stock certificates arethere, the tax-free municipals, and about eighteen bearer bonds in the amount of tenthousand dollars each.‘I whistled.
‘Peter Stevens is locked in a safe deposit box at the Casco Bank in Portland and AndyDufresne is locked in a safe deposit box at Shawshank,‘ he said. Tit for tat And the keythat unlocks the box and the money and the new life is under a hunk of black glass in aBuxton hayfield. Told you this much, so I‘ll tell you something else, Red - for the lasttwenty years, give or take, I have been watching the papers with a more than usualinterest for news of any construction projects in Buxton. I keep thinking that somedaysoon I‘m going to read that they‘re putting a highway through there, or erecting76 a newcommunity hospital, or building a shopping centre. Burying my new life under ten feet ofconcrete, or spitting it into a swamp somewhere with a big load of fill.‘I blurted77, ‘Jesus Christ, Andy, if all of this is true, how do you keep from going crazy?‘He smiled. ‘So far, all quiet on the Western front.‘‘But it could be years -‘‘It will be. But maybe not as many as the state and Warden Norton think it‘s going to be. Ijust can‘t afford to wait that long. I keep thinking about Zihuatanejo and that small hotel.
That‘s all I want from my life now, Red, and I don‘t think that‘s too much to want. I didn‘tkill Glenn Quentin and I didn‘t kill my wife, and that hotel ... it‘s not too much to want Toswim and get a tan and sleep in a room with open windows and space... that‘s not toomuch to want.‘He slung78 the stones away.
‘You know, Red,‘ he said in an offhand79 voice, ‘a place like that... I‘d have to have a manwho knows how to get things.‘I thought about it for a long time. And the biggest drawback in my mind wasn‘t even thatwe were talking pipedreams in a shitty little prison exercise yard with armed guardslooking down at us from their sentry80 posts. ‘I couldn‘t do it,‘ I said. ‘I couldn‘t get along onthe outside. I‘m what they call an institutional man now. In here I‘m the man who can getit for you, yeah. But out there, anyone can get it for you. Out there, if you want posters orrock-hammers or one particular record or a boat-in-a-bottle model kit81, you can use thefucking Yellow Pages. In here, I‘m the fucking Yellow Pages. I wouldn‘t know how tobegin. Or where.‘‘You underestimate yourself,‘ he said. ‘You‘re a self-educated man, a self-made man. Arather remarkable82 man, I think.‘‘Hell, I don‘t even have a high school diploma.‘‘I know that,‘ he said. ‘But it isn‘t just a piece of paper that makes a man. And it isn‘t justprison that breaks one, either.‘‘I couldn‘t hack83 it outside, Andy. I know that.‘ He got up. ‘You think it over,‘ he saidcasually, just as the inside whistle blew. And he strolled off, as if he was a free man whohad just made another free man a proposition. And for a while just that was enough tomake me feel free. Andy could do that. He could make me forget for a time that we wereboth lifers, at the mercy of a hard-ass20 parole board and a psalm-singing warden who likedAndy Dufresne right where he was. After all, Andy was a lap-dog who could do taxreturns.
What a wonderful animal!
But by that night in my cell I felt like a prisoner again. The whole idea seemed absurd,and that mental image of blue water and white beaches seemed more cruel than foolish -it dragged at my brain like a fishhook. I just couldn‘t wear that invisible coat the wayAndy did. I fell asleep that night and dreamed of a great glassy black stone in the middleof a hayfield; a stone shaped like a giant blacksmith‘s anvil84. I was trying to rock the stoneup so I could get the key that was underneath73. It wouldn‘t budge85; it was just too damnedbig.
And in the background, but getting closer, I could hear the baying of bloodhounds.
Which leads us, I guess, to the subject of jailbreaks.
Sure, they happen from time to time in our happy little family. You don‘t go over thewall, though, not at Shawshank, not if you‘re smart. The searchlight beams go all night,probing long white fingers across the open fields that surround the prison on three sidesand the stinking86 marshland on the fourth. Cons43 do go over the wall from time to time, andthe searchlights almost always catch them. If not, they get picked up trying to thumb aride on Highway 6 or Highway 99. If they try to cut across country, some farmer seesthem and just phones the location in to the prison. Cons who go over the wall are stupidcons. Shawshank is no Canon City, but in a rural area a man humping his ass acrosscountry in a grey pyjama suit sticks out like a cockroach87 on a wedding cake.
Over the years, the guys who have done the best - maybe oddly, maybe not so oddly - arethe guys who did it on the spur of the moment Some of them have gone out in the middleof a cartful of sheets; a convict sandwich on white, you could say. There was a lot of thatwhen I first came in here, but over the years they have more or less closed that loophole.
Warden Norton‘s famous ‘Inside-Out‘ programme produced its share of escapees, too.
They were the guys who decided88 they liked what lay to the right of the hyphen better thanwhat lay to the left And again, in most cases it was a very casual kind of thing. Drop yourblueberry rake and stroll into the bushes while one of the screws is having a glass ofwater at the truck or when a couple of them get too involved in arguing over yardspassing or rushing on the old Boston Patriots89.
In 1969, the Inside-Outers were picking potatoes in Sabbatus. It was the third ofNovember and the work was almost done. There was a guard named Henry Pugh - and heis no longer a member of our happy little family, believe me -sitting on the back bumperof one of the potato trucks and having his lunch with his carbine across his knees when abeautiful (or so it was told to me, but sometimes these things get exaggerated) ten-pointbuck strolled out of the cold early afternoon mist Pugh went after it with visions of justhow that trophy would look mounted in his rec room, and while he was doing it, three ofhis charges just walked away. Two were recaptured in a Lisbon Falls pinball parlour. Thethird has not been found to this day.
I suppose the most famous case of all was that of Sid Nedeau. This goes back to 1958,and I guess it will never be topped. Sid was out lining90 the ball-field for a Saturdayintramural baseball game when the three o‘clock inside whistle blew, signalling theshiftchange for the guards. The parking lot is just beyond the exercise yard, on the otherside of the electrically-operated main gate. At three the gate opens j and the guardscoming on duty and those going off mingle91. There‘s a lot of back-slapping andbullyragging, comparison of league bowling92 scores and the usual number of tired oldethnic jokes.
Sid just trundled his lining machine right out through the gate, leaving a three-inchbaseline all the way from third base in the exercise yard to the ditch on the far side ofRoute 6, where they found the machine overturned in a pile of lime. Don‘t ask me how hedid it He was dressed in his prison uniform, he stood six-feet-two, and he was billowingclouds of lime-dust behind him. All I can figure is that, it being Friday afternoon and all,the guards going off were so happy to be going off, and the guards coming on were sodownhearted to be coming on, that the members of the former group never got their headsout of the clouds and those in the latter never got their noses off their shoetops ... and oldSid Nedeau just sort of slipped out between the two.
So far as I know, Sid is still at large. Over the years, Andy Dufresne and I had a goodmany laughs over Sid Nedeau‘s great escape, and when we heard about that airlinehijacking for ransom93, the one where the guy parachuted from the back door of theairplane, Andy swore up and down that D B Cooper‘s real name was Sid Nedeau.
‘And he probably had a pocketful of baseline lime in his pocket for good luck,‘ Andy said.
‘That lucky son of a bitch.‘But you should understand that a case like Sid Nedeau, or the fellow who got away cleanfrom the Sabbatus potato-field crew, guys like that are winning the prison version of theIrish Sweepstakes. Purely94 a case of six different kinds of luck somehow jelling togetherall at the same moment A stiff like Andy could wait ninety years and not get a similarbreak.
Maybe you remember, a ways back, I mentioned a guy named Henley Backus, thewashroom foreman in the laundry. He came to Shawshank in 1922 and died in the prisoninfirmary thirty-one years later. Escapes and escape attempts were a hobby of his, maybebecause he never quite dared to take the plunge himself. He could tell you a hundreddifferent schemes, all of them crackpot, and all of them had been tried in the Shank at onetime or another. My favourite was the tale of Beaver95 Morrison, a b & e convict who triedto build a glider96 from scratch in the plate-factory basement The plans he was workingfrom were in a circa-1900 book called The Modern Boy‘s Guide to Fun and Adventure.
Beaver got it built without being discovered, or so the story goes, only to discover therewas no door from the basement big enough to get the damned thing out When Henleytold that story, you could bust97 a gut98 laughing, and he knew a dozen - no, two dozen -justas funny.
When it came to detailing Shawshank bust-outs, Henley had it down chapter and verse.
He told me once that during his time there had been better than four hundred escapeattempts that he knew of. Really think about that for a moment before you just nod yourhead and read on. Four hundred escape attempts! That comes out to 12.9 escape attemptsfor every year Henley Backus was in Shawshank and keeping track of them. The EscapeAttempt of the Month Club. Of course most of them were pretty slipshod affairs, the sortof thing that ends up with a guard grabbing some poor, sidling slob‘s arm and growling,‘Where do you think you‘re going, you happy asshole?‘Henley said he‘d class maybe sixty of them as more serious attempts, and he included the‘prison break‘ of 1937, the year before I arrived at the Shank. The new administrationwing was under construction then and fourteen cons got out, using constructionequipment in a poorly locked shed. The whole of southern Maine got into a panic overthose fourteen ‘hardened criminals‘, most of whom were scared to death and had no moreidea of where they should go than a jackrabbit does when it‘s headlight-pinned to thehighway with a big truck bearing down on it Not one of those fourteen got away. Two ofthem were shot dead - by civilians99, not police officers or prison personnel -but none gotaway.
How many had gotten away between 1938, when I came here, and that day in Octoberwhen Andy first mentioned Zihuatanejo to me? Putting my information and Henley‘stogether, I‘d say ten. Ten that got away clean. And although it isn‘t the kind of thing youcan know for sure, I‘d guess that at least half of those ten are doing time in otherinstitutions of lower learning like the Shank. Because you do get institutionalized. Whenyou take away a man‘s freedom and teach him to live in a cell, he seems to lose his abilityto think in dimensions. He‘s like that jackrabbit I mentioned, frozen in the oncominglights of the truck that is bound to kill it More often than not a con5 who‘s just out will pullsome dumb job that hasn‘t a chance in hell of succeeding ... and why? Because it‘ll gethim back inside. Back where he understands how things work.


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1 obtuse 256zJ     
adj.钝的;愚钝的
参考例句:
  • You were too obtuse to take the hint.你太迟钝了,没有理解这种暗示。
  • "Sometimes it looks more like an obtuse triangle,"Winter said.“有时候它看起来更像一个钝角三角形。”温特说。
2 warden jMszo     
n.监察员,监狱长,看守人,监护人
参考例句:
  • He is the warden of an old people's home.他是一家养老院的管理员。
  • The warden of the prison signed the release.监狱长签发释放令。
3 ail lVAze     
v.生病,折磨,苦恼
参考例句:
  • It may provide answers to some of the problems that ail America.这一点可能解答困扰美国的某些问题。
  • Seek your sauce where you get your ail.心痛还须心药治。
4 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。
5 con WXpyR     
n.反对的观点,反对者,反对票,肺病;vt.精读,学习,默记;adv.反对地,从反面;adj.欺诈的
参考例句:
  • We must be fair and consider the reason pro and con.我们必须公平考虑赞成和反对的理由。
  • The motion is adopted non con.因无人投反对票,协议被通过。
6 jolt ck1y2     
v.(使)摇动,(使)震动,(使)颠簸
参考例句:
  • We were worried that one tiny jolt could worsen her injuries.我们担心稍微颠簸一下就可能会使她的伤势恶化。
  • They were working frantically in the fear that an aftershock would jolt the house again.他们拼命地干着,担心余震可能会使房子再次受到震动。
7 hardy EenxM     
adj.勇敢的,果断的,吃苦的;耐寒的
参考例句:
  • The kind of plant is a hardy annual.这种植物是耐寒的一年生植物。
  • He is a hardy person.他是一个能吃苦耐劳的人。
8 gaol Qh8xK     
n.(jail)监狱;(不加冠词)监禁;vt.使…坐牢
参考例句:
  • He was released from the gaol.他被释放出狱。
  • The man spent several years in gaol for robbery.这男人因犯抢劫罪而坐了几年牢。
9 bail Aupz4     
v.舀(水),保释;n.保证金,保释,保释人
参考例句:
  • One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
  • She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
10 inmate l4cyN     
n.被收容者;(房屋等的)居住人;住院人
参考例句:
  • I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
  • The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。
11 rusty hYlxq     
adj.生锈的;锈色的;荒废了的
参考例句:
  • The lock on the door is rusty and won't open.门上的锁锈住了。
  • I haven't practiced my French for months and it's getting rusty.几个月不用,我的法语又荒疏了。
12 sockets ffe33a3f6e35505faba01d17fd07d641     
n.套接字,使应用程序能够读写与收发通讯协定(protocol)与资料的程序( Socket的名词复数 );孔( socket的名词复数 );(电器上的)插口;托座;凹穴
参考例句:
  • All new PCs now have USB sockets. 新的个人计算机现在都有通用串行总线插孔。
  • Make sure the sockets in your house are fingerproof. 确保你房中的插座是防触电的。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
13 scurvy JZAx1     
adj.下流的,卑鄙的,无礼的;n.坏血病
参考例句:
  • Vitamin C deficiency can ultimately lead to scurvy.缺乏维生素C最终能道致坏血病。
  • That was a scurvy trick to play on an old lady.用那样的花招欺负一个老太太可真卑鄙。
14 fungus gzRyI     
n.真菌,真菌类植物
参考例句:
  • Mushrooms are a type of fungus.蘑菇是一种真菌。
  • This fungus can just be detected by the unaided eye.这种真菌只用肉眼就能检查出。
15 mesh cC1xJ     
n.网孔,网丝,陷阱;vt.以网捕捉,啮合,匹配;vi.适合; [计算机]网络
参考例句:
  • Their characters just don't mesh.他们的性格就是合不来。
  • This is the net having half inch mesh.这是有半英寸网眼的网。
16 doorways 9f2a4f4f89bff2d72720b05d20d8f3d6     
n.门口,门道( doorway的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The houses belched people; the doorways spewed out children. 从各家茅屋里涌出一堆一堆的人群,从门口蹦出一群一群小孩。 来自辞典例句
  • He rambled under the walls and doorways. 他就顺着墙根和门楼遛跶。 来自辞典例句
17 promptly LRMxm     
adv.及时地,敏捷地
参考例句:
  • He paid the money back promptly.他立即还了钱。
  • She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her.她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会。
18 bunk zWyzS     
n.(车、船等倚壁而设的)铺位;废话
参考例句:
  • He left his bunk and went up on deck again.他离开自己的铺位再次走到甲板上。
  • Most economists think his theories are sheer bunk.大多数经济学家认为他的理论纯属胡说。
19 promising BkQzsk     
adj.有希望的,有前途的
参考例句:
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
20 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。
21 slate uEfzI     
n.板岩,石板,石片,石板色,候选人名单;adj.暗蓝灰色的,含板岩的;vt.用石板覆盖,痛打,提名,预订
参考例句:
  • The nominating committee laid its slate before the board.提名委员会把候选人名单提交全体委员会讨论。
  • What kind of job uses stained wood and slate? 什么工作会接触木头污浊和石板呢?
22 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。
23 pestered 18771cb6d4829ac7c0a2a1528fe31cad     
使烦恼,纠缠( pester的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • Journalists pestered neighbours for information. 记者缠着邻居打听消息。
  • The little girl pestered the travellers for money. 那个小女孩缠着游客要钱。
24 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。
25 corroborative bveze5     
adj.确证(性)的,确凿的
参考例句:
  • Is there any corroborative evidence for this theory? 是否有进一步说明问题的论据来支持这个理论?
  • They convicted the wrong man on the basis of a signed confession with no corroborative evidence. 凭一张有签名的认罪书而没有确凿的佐证,他们就错误地判了那人有罪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
26 smelt tiuzKF     
v.熔解,熔炼;n.银白鱼,胡瓜鱼
参考例句:
  • Tin is a comparatively easy metal to smelt.锡是比较容易熔化的金属。
  • Darby was looking for a way to improve iron when he hit upon the idea of smelting it with coke instead of charcoal.达比一直在寻找改善铁质的方法,他猛然想到可以不用木炭熔炼,而改用焦炭。
27 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》
28 dangled 52e4f94459442522b9888158698b7623     
悬吊着( dangle的过去式和过去分词 ); 摆动不定; 用某事物诱惑…; 吊胃口
参考例句:
  • Gold charms dangled from her bracelet. 她的手镯上挂着许多金饰物。
  • It's the biggest financial incentive ever dangled before British footballers. 这是历来对英国足球运动员的最大经济诱惑。
29 scenic aDbyP     
adj.自然景色的,景色优美的
参考例句:
  • The scenic beauty of the place entranced the visitors.这里的美丽风光把游客们迷住了。
  • The scenic spot is on northwestern outskirts of Beijing.这个风景区位于北京的西北远郊。
30 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。
31 humility 8d6zX     
n.谦逊,谦恭
参考例句:
  • Humility often gains more than pride.谦逊往往比骄傲收益更多。
  • His voice was still soft and filled with specious humility.他的声音还是那么温和,甚至有点谦卑。
32 coveting bcf51cc820cec5bf2c09ea88ad1492a4     
v.贪求,觊觎( covet的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • We begin by coveting what we see every day. 垂涎的开始是我们每天看见的东西。 来自互联网
  • We coveting what we see every day. 之所以如此,是因为我们垂涎每日所见的一些东西。 来自互联网
33 plumb Y2szL     
adv.精确地,完全地;v.了解意义,测水深
参考例句:
  • No one could plumb the mystery.没人能看破这秘密。
  • It was unprofitable to plumb that sort of thing.这种事弄个水落石出没有什么好处。
34 syllables d36567f1b826504dbd698bd28ac3e747     
n.音节( syllable的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • a word with two syllables 双音节单词
  • 'No. But I'll swear it was a name of two syllables.' “想不起。不过我可以发誓,它有两个音节。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
35 ledge o1Mxk     
n.壁架,架状突出物;岩架,岩礁
参考例句:
  • They paid out the line to lower him to the ledge.他们放出绳子使他降到那块岩石的突出部分。
  • Suddenly he struck his toe on a rocky ledge and fell.突然他的脚趾绊在一块突出的岩石上,摔倒了。
36 granites 7fae1b633ca7ee9b22167bd1ba69c75c     
花岗岩,花岗石( granite的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The rapakivi granites have a number of petrological peculiarities. 环斑花岗岩具有若干岩石学的特征。
  • S-type granites should not be considered as the evidence of plume magmatism. 不能把S-型花岗岩作为地幔柱岩浆作用的证据。
37 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。
38 conglomerates fc454a44bef83f13306fc280a858ea84     
n.(多种经营的)联合大企业( conglomerate的名词复数 );砾岩;合成物;组合物
参考例句:
  • At the surface, radioactivity of the conglomerates is locally as high as 30 X background. 在地表,砾岩的局部地段的放射性高达30倍本底值。 来自辞典例句
  • The conglomerates failed to understand that books could not be sold like soap. 这些联合大企业不懂卖书不象卖肥皂那样。 来自辞典例句
39 javelin hqVzZG     
n.标枪,投枪
参考例句:
  • She achieved a throw of sixty metres in the javelin event.在掷标枪项目中,她掷了60米远。
  • The coach taught us how to launch a javelin.教练教我们投标枪。
40 smoothly iiUzLG     
adv.平滑地,顺利地,流利地,流畅地
参考例句:
  • The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作,所以工作进展顺利。
  • Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。
41 mentality PoIzHP     
n.心理,思想,脑力
参考例句:
  • He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
  • Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。
42 mashed Jotz5Y     
a.捣烂的
参考例句:
  • two scoops of mashed potato 两勺土豆泥
  • Just one scoop of mashed potato for me, please. 请给我盛一勺土豆泥。
43 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》
44 pennant viuym     
n.三角旗;锦标旗
参考例句:
  • The second car was flying the Ghanaian pennant.第二辆车插着加纳的三角旗。
  • The revitalized team came from the cellar to win the pennant.该队重整旗鼓,从最后一名一跃而赢得冠军奖旗。
45 ebullience 98zy5     
n.沸腾,热情,热情洋溢
参考例句:
  • His natural ebullience began to return.他开始恢复与生俱来的热情奔放。
  • She burst into the room with her usual ebullience.她像往常一样兴高采烈地冲进了房间。
46 engulfed 52ce6eb2bc4825e9ce4b243448ffecb3     
v.吞没,包住( engulf的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters. 他被一群记者团团围住。
  • The little boat was engulfed by the waves. 小船被波浪吞没了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
47 tuned b40b43fd5af2db4fbfeb4e83856e4876     
adj.调谐的,已调谐的v.调音( tune的过去式和过去分词 );调整;(给收音机、电视等)调谐;使协调
参考例句:
  • The resort is tuned in to the tastes of young and old alike. 这个度假胜地适合各种口味,老少皆宜。
  • The instruments should be tuned up before each performance. 每次演出开始前都应将乐器调好音。 来自《简明英汉词典》
48 riotous ChGyr     
adj.骚乱的;狂欢的
参考例句:
  • Summer is in riotous profusion.盛夏的大地热闹纷繁。
  • We spent a riotous night at Christmas.我们度过了一个狂欢之夜。
49 clinched 66a50317a365cdb056bd9f4f25865646     
v.(尤指两人)互相紧紧抱[扭]住( clinch的过去式和过去分词 );解决(争端、交易),达成(协议)
参考例句:
  • The two businessmen clinched the deal quickly. 两位生意人很快达成了协议。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Evidently this information clinched the matter. 显然,这一消息使问题得以最终解决。 来自辞典例句
50 frisbee pzrz1     
n.飞盘(塑料玩具)
参考例句:
  • We always go to the park on weekends and play Frisbee.我们每个周末都会到公园玩飞盘。
  • The frisbee is a light plastic disc,shaped like a plate.飞盘是一种碟形塑料盘。
51 barter bu2zJ     
n.物物交换,以货易货,实物交易
参考例句:
  • Chickens,goats and rabbits were offered for barter at the bazaar.在集市上,鸡、山羊和兔子被摆出来作物物交换之用。
  • They have arranged food imports on a barter basis.他们以易货贸易的方式安排食品进口。
52 watchful tH9yX     
adj.注意的,警惕的
参考例句:
  • The children played under the watchful eye of their father.孩子们在父亲的小心照看下玩耍。
  • It is important that health organizations remain watchful.卫生组织保持警惕是极为重要的。
53 squatting 3b8211561352d6f8fafb6c7eeabd0288     
v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的现在分词 );非法擅自占用(土地或房屋);为获得其所有权;而占用某片公共用地。
参考例句:
  • They ended up squatting in the empty houses on Oxford Road. 他们落得在牛津路偷住空房的境地。
  • They've been squatting in an apartment for the past two years. 他们过去两年来一直擅自占用一套公寓。 来自《简明英汉词典》
54 shrugged 497904474a48f991a3d1961b0476ebce     
vt.耸肩(shrug的过去式与过去分词形式)
参考例句:
  • Sam shrugged and said nothing. 萨姆耸耸肩膀,什么也没说。
  • She shrugged, feigning nonchalance. 她耸耸肩,装出一副无所谓的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
55 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。
56 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。
57 trophy 8UFzI     
n.优胜旗,奖品,奖杯,战胜品,纪念品
参考例句:
  • The cup is a cherished trophy of the company.那只奖杯是该公司很珍惜的奖品。
  • He hung the lion's head as a trophy.他把那狮子头挂起来作为狩猎纪念品。
58 honeymoons ec2865f0c8fbcee3c291c781075fe3f4     
蜜月( honeymoon的名词复数 ); 短暂的和谐时期; 蜜月期; 最初的和谐时期
参考例句:
  • I suppose all honeymoons are more or less alike. 我想所有的蜜月多多少少都是相似的。
  • Honeymoons are stupid things. 蜜月是乏味的事情。
59 fabulous ch6zI     
adj.极好的;极为巨大的;寓言中的,传说中的
参考例句:
  • We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。
  • This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。
60 lighting CpszPL     
n.照明,光线的明暗,舞台灯光
参考例句:
  • The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
  • The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
61 butt uSjyM     
n.笑柄;烟蒂;枪托;臀部;v.用头撞或顶
参考例句:
  • The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。
  • He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。
62 lugging cce6bbbcf49c333a48fe60698d0047ab     
超载运转能力
参考例句:
  • I would smile when I saw him lugging his golf bags into the office. 看到他把高尔夫球袋拖进办公室,我就笑一笑。 来自辞典例句
  • As a general guide, S$1 should be adequate for baggage-lugging service. 一般的准则是,如有人帮你搬运行李,给一新元就够了。 来自互联网
63 license B9TzU     
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
参考例句:
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
64 jaw 5xgy9     
n.颚,颌,说教,流言蜚语;v.喋喋不休,教训
参考例句:
  • He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.他给了对方下巴一记右钩拳。
  • A strong square jaw is a sign of firm character.强健的方下巴是刚毅性格的标志。
65 thump sq2yM     
v.重击,砰然地响;n.重击,重击声
参考例句:
  • The thief hit him a thump on the head.贼在他的头上重击一下。
  • The excitement made her heart thump.她兴奋得心怦怦地跳。
66 bucks a391832ce78ebbcfc3ed483cc6d17634     
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
参考例句:
  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
67 ulcer AHmyp     
n.溃疡,腐坏物
参考例句:
  • She had an ulcer in her mouth.她口腔出现溃疡。
  • A bacterium is identified as the cause for his duodenal ulcer.一种细菌被断定为造成他十二指肠溃疡的根源。
68 sifting 6c53b58bc891cb3e1536d7f574e1996f     
n.筛,过滤v.筛( sift的现在分词 );筛滤;细查;详审
参考例句:
  • He lay on the beach, sifting the sand through his fingers. 他躺在沙滩上用手筛砂子玩。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I was sifting the cinders when she came in. 她进来时,我正在筛煤渣。 来自辞典例句
69 miserable g18yk     
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
参考例句:
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
70 dough hkbzg     
n.生面团;钱,现款
参考例句:
  • She formed the dough into squares.她把生面团捏成四方块。
  • The baker is kneading dough.那位面包师在揉面。
71 plunge 228zO     
v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲
参考例句:
  • Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
  • That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。
72 volcanic BLgzQ     
adj.火山的;象火山的;由火山引起的
参考例句:
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year.今年火山爆发了好几次。
  • Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
73 underneath VKRz2     
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
参考例句:
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
74 rental cBezh     
n.租赁,出租,出租业
参考例句:
  • The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
  • We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。
75 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。
76 erecting 57913eb4cb611f2f6ed8e369fcac137d     
v.使直立,竖起( erect的现在分词 );建立
参考例句:
  • Nations can restrict their foreign trade by erecting barriers to exports as well as imports. 象设置进口壁垒那样,各国可以通过设置出口壁垒来限制对外贸易。 来自辞典例句
  • Could you tell me the specific lift-slab procedure for erecting buildings? 能否告之用升板法安装楼房的具体程序? 来自互联网
77 blurted fa8352b3313c0b88e537aab1fcd30988     
v.突然说出,脱口而出( blurt的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She blurted it out before I could stop her. 我还没来得及制止,她已脱口而出。
  • He blurted out the truth, that he committed the crime. 他不慎说出了真相,说是他犯了那个罪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
78 slung slung     
抛( sling的过去式和过去分词 ); 吊挂; 遣送; 押往
参考例句:
  • He slung the bag over his shoulder. 他把包一甩,挎在肩上。
  • He stood up and slung his gun over his shoulder. 他站起来把枪往肩上一背。
79 offhand IIUxa     
adj.临时,无准备的;随便,马虎的
参考例句:
  • I can't answer your request offhand.我不能随便答复你的要求。
  • I wouldn't want to say what I thought about it offhand.我不愿意随便说我关于这事的想法。
80 sentry TDPzV     
n.哨兵,警卫
参考例句:
  • They often stood sentry on snowy nights.他们常常在雪夜放哨。
  • The sentry challenged anyone approaching the tent.哨兵查问任一接近帐篷的人。
81 kit D2Rxp     
n.用具包,成套工具;随身携带物
参考例句:
  • The kit consisted of about twenty cosmetic items.整套工具包括大约20种化妆用品。
  • The captain wants to inspect your kit.船长想检查你的行装。
82 remarkable 8Vbx6     
adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的
参考例句:
  • She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
  • These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
83 hack BQJz2     
n.劈,砍,出租马车;v.劈,砍,干咳
参考例句:
  • He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
  • Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。
84 anvil HVxzH     
n.铁钻
参考例句:
  • The blacksmith shaped a horseshoe on his anvil.铁匠在他的铁砧上打出一个马蹄形。
  • The anvil onto which the staples are pressed was not assemble correctly.订书机上的铁砧安装错位。
85 budge eSRy5     
v.移动一点儿;改变立场
参考例句:
  • We tried to lift the rock but it wouldn't budge.我们试图把大石头抬起来,但它连动都没动一下。
  • She wouldn't budge on the issue.她在这个问题上不肯让步。
86 stinking ce4f5ad2ff6d2f33a3bab4b80daa5baa     
adj.臭的,烂醉的,讨厌的v.散发出恶臭( stink的现在分词 );发臭味;名声臭;糟透
参考例句:
  • I was pushed into a filthy, stinking room. 我被推进一间又脏又臭的屋子里。
  • Those lousy, stinking ships. It was them that destroyed us. 是的!就是那些该死的蠢猪似的臭飞船!是它们毁了我们。 来自英汉非文学 - 科幻
87 cockroach AnByA     
n.蟑螂
参考例句:
  • A cockroach can live several weeks with its head off.蟑螂在头被切掉后仍能活好几个星期。
  • She screamed when she found a cockroach in her bed.她在床上找到一只蟑螂时大声尖叫。
88 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。
89 patriots cf0387291504d78a6ac7a13147d2f229     
爱国者,爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Abraham Lincoln was a fine type of the American patriots. 亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国爱国者的优秀典型。
  • These patriots would fight to death before they surrendered. 这些爱国者宁愿战斗到死,也不愿投降。
90 lining kpgzTO     
n.衬里,衬料
参考例句:
  • The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。
  • Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。
91 mingle 3Dvx8     
vt.使混合,使相混;vi.混合起来;相交往
参考例句:
  • If we mingle with the crowd,we should not be noticed.如果我们混在人群中,就不会被注意到。
  • Oil will not mingle with water.油和水不相融。
92 bowling cxjzeN     
n.保龄球运动
参考例句:
  • Bowling is a popular sport with young and old.保龄球是老少都爱的运动。
  • Which sport do you 1ike most,golf or bowling?你最喜欢什么运动,高尔夫还是保龄球?
93 ransom tTYx9     
n.赎金,赎身;v.赎回,解救
参考例句:
  • We'd better arrange the ransom right away.我们最好马上把索取赎金的事安排好。
  • The kidnappers exacted a ransom of 10000 from the family.绑架者向这家人家勒索10000英镑的赎金。
94 purely 8Sqxf     
adv.纯粹地,完全地
参考例句:
  • I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
  • This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。
95 beaver uuZzU     
n.海狸,河狸
参考例句:
  • The hat is made of beaver.这顶帽子是海狸毛皮制的。
  • A beaver is an animals with big front teeth.海狸是一种长着大门牙的动物。
96 glider wgNxU     
n.滑翔机;滑翔导弹
参考例句:
  • The glider was soaring above the valley.那架滑翔机在山谷上空滑翔。
  • The pilot managed to land the glider on a safe place.那个驾驶员设法让滑翔机着陆到一个安全的地方。
97 bust WszzB     
vt.打破;vi.爆裂;n.半身像;胸部
参考例句:
  • I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
  • She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。
98 gut MezzP     
n.[pl.]胆量;内脏;adj.本能的;vt.取出内脏
参考例句:
  • It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.冷冻鱼之前并不总是需要先把内脏掏空。
  • My immediate gut feeling was to refuse.我本能的直接反应是拒绝。
99 civilians 2a8bdc87d05da507ff4534c9c974b785     
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
参考例句:
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
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