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The Shawshank Redemption
（
[?
?
] ['
?
?
:
?
?
?
k] [ri
?
demp
?
?
n]
）
A successful
young banker Andy found his wife fornicating(
['f
?
:nikeit]
与
…
.
通奸
)
with a baseball coach(
[k<
/p>
?
ut
?
]
). He flew into a fury
（
['fju
?
ri]
狂怒；暴怒；
激怒者
）
and planned to shoot them dead at
one night. But at last he gave
up.
His
reason
won
his
emotion.
Surprisingly,
his
wife
and
her
lover
died
at
that night. Andy was
framed(
[freimd
]
遭到陷害的
) for murder. And the <
/p>
sentence
（
['sent
?
ns]
判决
宣判）
was two life
imprisonments
（
[im'priz
?
nm
?
nt
]
监禁，
关押；坐牢；下
狱
）（
两个无期徒刑
）
. He was sent into Shawshank prison.
?
That was a dark
and gloomy
（
['
ɡ
lu:mi]
黑暗的；沮丧的；阴郁的
）
hell
with
mad prisoners, cruel warders
（
'w
?
:d
?
]
典狱官
）
and viperous
（
['vaip
?
r
?
s]
毒
蛇般的；
阴险的；
有毒的）
and
greedy
wardenry
(
['w
?
:d
?
nr:i]
监狱长
).
The
first
night
Andy
spent in it a new comer like Andy couldn’t bear
the fear and kept
crying and shouting.
The result was he was taken out and beaten dead by
the warders(
'w
?
:d
?
]
典狱官
). At that moment, Andy
understood that if he
wants to live he
must be silent in Shawshank.(
I want to
quote a line from
Shawshank
Redempt
ion
(
[ri'demp
?
?
n]
赎回，拯救
)
things , and no good thing ever dies .
我想引用《肖申克的救赎》中的一句台词：希望是个好东西，
甚至可能是最好的东西了，没有什
么美好的东西是会轻易消逝的。
)
In Shawshank Andy knew an old
prisoner Red
（
瑞德
）<
/p>
. They gradually became friends. Red
was able to get some small goods for
the prisoners
（
['priz
< br>?
n
?
]
囚犯
）
. So Andy
asked for a little
hammer because of
his interest in geology.
The life in Shawshank was full of
danger. Andy, as a new prisoner, was
often threatened and maltreated
< br>（
[m?
l'tri:t]
虐待；滥用；粗暴对待
）
by
some
scoundrels
（
[
'skaundr
?
l]
恶棍；无赖；流氓
）
because
he always refused their
unbearable
and
disgusting
（
[
dis'
ɡ
?<
/p>
sti?]
令人厌恶的
令人恶心的
）
demand.
In
such
a
dark
prison,
no
one
could
help
him
even
if
someone
may
want
to.
After
two
years, one day, Andy, Red and some
other prisoners got the chance to
rebuild the roof. They
heard
the head
of the warders
complaining that he
had to
pay high tax to government if he wanted to receive
his brother’s
inheritance
（
[in'herit
?
ns]
继承；遗传；遗产
）
.
Andy
grabbed
the
opportunity
and
taught
him
a
way
to
be
exempt
（
[i
ɡ
'zempt]
免除；豁免
）
from
taxation
（
[t?
k'sei
?
?
n]
税收
）
.
The
condition
was
to
give
each
prisoner
3
bottles
of
ice
beer.
All
the
prisoners
enjoyed
the
rare
（
< br>[rε?
]
）
and
short
freedom
lei
surely
（
['le
?
?
li]
悠闲的；从容的
）
. Red
said,” It’s just like rebuilding the roof of our
own
house.
We
are
free
like
God.”
Another
consequence
was
that
from
t
hen
on
Andy
got
the
protection
from
the
head
of
the
warders.
And
all
the
warders
even the wardenry began to consult
（
咨询
）
Andy
for financial affairs
（
财务
）
.
Consequently
some
of
his
special
behaviors
were
permitted,
such
as
pasting
posters
of
some
famous
actresses
on
the
wall
or
carving
chessm
en
（
（国际象棋的）棋子
）
with his little hammer at night.
Prisoner as he was, Andy
did more than a civilian
（
[si
'vilj
?
n]
平民，百姓
）
.
He
kept
writing
one
letter
to
the
government
every
week
to
ask
for
bankroll
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