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映画 - 【ショーシャンクの空に The Shawshank Redemption (1994)】英語

Overview

  • Director: Frank Darabont
  • Writers: Stephen King (short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"), Frank Darabont (screenplay)
  • Stars: Tim Robbins(Andy Dufresne), Morgan Freeman(RED), Bob Gunton(Warden Norton)

YouTube - Shawshank Redemption Trailer


The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Official Trailer #1 - Morgan Freeman Movie HD

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単語・例文

  • sober up : 酔いを覚ます、To make or become free from intoxication

    D.A. : When they arrived, you went up to the house and murdered them?
    ANDY : No. I was sobering up. I realized she wasn't worth it. I decided to let her have her quickie divorce.

  • remorseless : 冷酷な、Having no pity or compassion、merciless

    JUDGE : You strike me as a particularly icy and remorseless man, Mr. Dufresne.
    It chills my blood just to look at you.

  • back to back : 連続して、Consecutive; successive

    JUDGE : By the power vested in me by the State of Maine, I hereby order you to serve two life sentences, back to back, one for each of your victims. So be it.

  • cold fish : 冷たい人、冷淡な人、An aloof or emotionally reserved person

    ANDY : What else have you heard?
    RED : People say you're a cold fish. They say you think your shit smells sweeter than ordinary. That true?

  • hamstring : To cut the hamstring of (an animal or a person) and thereby cripple, To destroy or hinder the efficiency of; frustrate

    ANDY : What I mean is, do you think she'd go behind your back? Try to hamstring you?

  • IRS : Internal Revenue Service. アメリカ内国歳入庁

    ANDY : If you want to keep that money, all of it, just give it to your wife.
    See, the IRS allows you a one-time-only gift to your spouse. It's good up to sixty thousand dollars.

  • RED (V.O.) : I have no idea to this day what them 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 words, and makes your heart ache because of it.

  • dissolve : 溶ける、分解する

    RED (V.O.) : I tell you, those voices soared. Higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away...and for the briefest of moments -- every last man at Shawshank felt free.

  • ANDY : That there are things in this world not carved out of gray stone. That there's a small place inside of us they can never lock away, and that place is called hope.
    RED : Hope is a dangerous thing. Drive a man insane. It's got no place here. Better get used to the idea.

  • as good as one's word : 必ず約束を守る

    RED (V.O.) : Andy was as good as his word. He kept writing to the State Senate. Two letters a week instead of one.

  • meticulous : 几帳面な、Showing or acting with extreme care and concern for details.

    RED (V.O.) : Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature.
    An ice age here, a million years of mountain-building there, plates of bedrock grinding against each other over a span of millennia...

  • buff : 磨く

    RED (V.O.) : Andy did like he was told. Buffed those shoes to a high mirror shine.

  • spot-on : ぴったり正確な、Precisely right; exact

    RED (V.O.) : He had all the proper I.D. Driver's license, birth certificate, social security card. The signature was a spot-on match.

  • severance pay : 退職金、A sum of money usually based on length of employment for which an employee is eligible upon termination.

    RED (V.O.) : Mr. Stevens visited nearly a dozen banks in the Portland area that morning. All told, he blew town with better than 370 thousand dollars of Warden Norton's money. Severance pay for nineteen years.

  • drab : 単調な、面白みのない

    RED (V.O.) : Sometimes it makes me sad, though, Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are just too bright...
    ...and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice...but still, the place you live is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.