场景再现

【场景再现】

MAN 1: Sit.
MAN 2: We see by your file you've served twenty years of a life sentence.
RED: Yes, sir.
MAN 3: You feel you've been rehabilitated?
RED: Yes, sir. Absolutely. I've learned my lesson. I can honestlysay I'm a changed man. I'm no longer a danger to society. That's the God's honest truth.
CON 1: Hey, Red. How'd it go?
RED: Same old , different day.
CON 1: Yeah, I know how you feel. I'm up for rejection next week.
CON 2: Yeah, I got rejected last week. It happens.
CON 3: Hey, Red, bump me a deck.
RED: Get the out of my face, man! You're into me for five packs already.
CON #3: Four.
RED: Five!
RED (V.O.): There's must be a con like me in every prison inAmerica. I'm the guy who can get it for you. Cigarettes, a bag ofreefer if that's your thing, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your kid'shigh school graduation. Damn near anything within reason. Yes sir, I'ma regular Sears & Roebuck.

RED: So when Andy Dufresne came to me in 1949 and asked me to smuggleRita Hayworth into the prison for him, I told him no problem.

重点讲解

【重点讲解】

1. life sentence:无期徒刑；终身监禁。

《肖申克的救赎》是一部监狱题材的影片，所以牵扯到很多和犯罪相关的词语，在这个片段里我们还会看到一个单词：con.这是一种俚语的说法，意思是“罪犯”。相当于convict. 此外对罪犯的终极惩罚通常就是死刑，而死刑一词的表达是death penalty,我们把它放在这里和影片中出现的相关词汇一起掌握。

2. rehabilitate: 这个词的本意是“康复、修复”

在这个语境里，因为Red在申请假释，所以警察这句话不是问他“你觉得你已经康复了吗？”而是问他是否已经“改邪归正”。

3. God's truth: 意思是“真实的事情”，一般用来指说话人特别想强调的事实，比如

It is God's truth thatmy next door neighbor was a murderer atlarge!就是“我的隔壁住着一个在逃的杀人犯，这事儿千真万确！”

4. up for: 打算；准备

I'm up for rejection next week.意思为“我已经做好了准备，下周申请假释的时候也被拒”。

再如：The house is up for sale. 房子准备出售。

be upfor是一个很常用的词组，在口语中，为了避免句式单调，我们可以用这个词组替代be ready.

5. bump me a deck: 这是非常俚语的讲法。bump这里的意思相当于lend，deck是指a pack ofcigarettes。

所以整句的意思就是“借我一盒烟”。监狱里的犯人常常用一种普通人听不懂的指代词语来谈论一些事情，这可以说是他们长年牢狱生活的“创造”。

6. be into sb: 这也是一个非常俚语的讲法。在这里的是borrow或者owe的意思。

整句话的意思就是：You have already borrowed five packs from me.