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‘How can you be so obtuse?‘ Andy said, so low that Chester could barely hear. But he heard the warden just fine. ‘What? What did you call me?‘ ‘Obtuse? Andy cried. ‘Is it deliberate?‘ ‘

肖申克的救赎-3

By World Series time of 1950 - this was the year Bobby Thompson hit his famous home run at the end of the season, you will remember - Andy was having no more trouble from the sisters. Stammas and Hadl

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Chapter 27 A story Once upon a time in an old forest, there was a poor wood cutter cutting wood by the lake. One day, his axe accidently fell into the lake. The poor wood cutter didnt know how to swim, so he could do nothing but sat by the lake and p

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影片对白 ANDY: My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know. Like a closed book. Complained about it all the time. She's beautiful. God, I loved her. But I just didn't know how to show it, that's all. I killed her, Red. I didn't pull the trigger. But

The Shawshank Redemption 肖申克的救赎（精讲之五）

影片对白 RED: He's got his fingers in a lot of pies , from what I hear. ANDY: What you hear isn't half of it. He's got scams you haven't dreamed of. Kickbacks on his kickbacks. There's a river of dirty money flowing through this place. RED: Can be a

The Shawshank Redemption 肖申克的救赎（精讲之四）

影片对白 RED: I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singin' about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think they were singin' about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in word

The Shawshank Redemption 肖申克的救赎（精讲之三）

影片对白 RED: What the hell's going on? SNOOZE: You tell me. One second he was fine, then out came the knife. RED: Brooks, Brooks, we can talk about this right? BROOKS: Nothing left to talk about! It's damn all talked out! I'm gonna kill him, cut hi

The Shawshank Redemption 肖申克的救赎（精讲之二）

影片对白 RED: And that's how it came to pass, that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of '49 wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning, drinking icy cold Bohemian sty

The Shawshank Redemption 肖申克的救赎（精讲之一）

影片对白 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 honestly say I'm a changed man. I'

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