在1947年，有一位银行家叫安迪。他的妻子搞外遇背叛了他。一天晚上他喝了很多酒，想用枪把妻子和妻子的情人杀死，但他没有那么做。巧的是刚好在那天晚上他的妻子和妻子的情人都死了。找不到真凶，他被定了罪判了无期徒刑。
In 1947, there was a banker named Andy. His wife cheated on him. One night he drank a lot of wine and tried to kill his wife and her lover with a gun, but he didn't. Coincidentally, his wife and his wife's lover died that night. Unable to find the real culprit, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
阿瑞是肖申克监狱里的“大人物”。他在监狱里呆了20年了，只要有钱，你想要的东西他几乎都可以弄到。在肖申克监狱里，只要有新犯人进来他们就会打赌。看第一个晚上谁会哭，阿瑞赌弱不禁风的安迪。后来他输了，被打的人是个胖子，后来还被打死了。为此阿瑞输了两包烟。
Ari is a big shot in Shawshank prison. He's been in prison for 20 years, and he can get almost anything you want with money. In Shawshank prison, they bet whenever new inmates come in. To see who will cry on the first night, arry gambles on the weak Andy. Later, he lost. The man who was beaten was a fat man, and later he was killed. For this reason, ARI lost two packs of cigarettes.
安迪刚来的一个月几乎都不说话。在监狱里好像就在公园散步一样，无忧无虑的感觉。一个月后安迪找到阿瑞，请他帮忙带一个小鹤嘴锄。说想雕刻一些小石头消磨时间。后来又说想逃过狱方的例行检查。一次监狱派一些犯人外出劳动，安迪无意间听到监狱官在讲有关上税的事情，安迪说他有办法让监狱官合法的免去一大笔税，做为交换他那些狱友们没人获得了两瓶啤酒。后来安迪被几个监狱里的人围着打，打到半死，住院住了一个月。在安迪出院前阿瑞带着一些人收集石头给安迪。不久阿瑞就玩上了安迪刻的国际象棋。后来安迪又让阿瑞弄了一张丽塔·海华斯的大海报。
Andy barely spoke for a month. In prison, it's like walking in the park, carefree. A month later Andy finds ARI and asks him to bring a small pickaxe. He said he wanted to carve some small stones to kill time. Later he said that he wanted to escape the routine inspection of the prison. Once the prison sent some prisoners out to work, Andy overheard the warden talking about tax payment. Andy said that he had a way to legally exempt the prison official from a large amount of tax. In exchange, none of his inmates got two bottles of beer. Later, Andy was surrounded by several people in prison, beat half to death, and was hospitalized for a month. Before Andy leaves the hospital, ARI takes some people to collect stones for Andy. Before long, ARI played the chess carved by Andy. Then Andy asked ARI to get a big poster of Rita Hayworth.
由于安迪精通财务制度方面的知识，很快摆脱了监狱里繁重的劳动活。后来让安迪去监狱图书馆管理，处理一些税务问题。主要还是帮监狱长洗黑钱。由于安迪一周一信不停地给州长写信，获得了一笔钱用于图书馆的建设。安迪找到一个CD就用播放器把CD放出来，监狱里的每个人都听得很入神。后来他又被罚囚两周。
As Andy is proficient in financial system, he soon gets rid of the heavy labor in prison. Later, Andy went to the prison library to manage and deal with some tax issues. Mainly to help the warden launder money. As Andy kept writing letters to the governor every week, he got a sum of money to build the library. Andy finds a CD and uses the player to put it out. Everyone in the prison can hear it. He was later jailed for another two weeks.
有一个年轻的犯人来打破了安迪这样的平静生活。这个人在另外的一所监狱里服刑时有听过安迪的案子，他知道凶手是谁。当安迪跟监狱长申请此案时，监狱长拒绝了。并且又受到两个月的单独禁闭。监狱长为了把安迪留在身边继续帮他洗钱，就把知道真相的那个犯人给杀了。
A young prisoner came to break Andy's quiet life. This guy heard about Andy's case while he was in another prison. He knew who the killer was. When Andy applied to the warden for the case, the warden refused. And two months in solitary confinement. The warden killed the prisoner who knew the truth in order to keep Andy at his side and continue to launder money for him.
安迪知道了现实的残酷，变得很消沉。有一天，他对阿瑞说“如果有一天，你可以获得假释，一定要替我完成心愿。那是我第一次和妻子约会的地方。在巴克斯顿有个大干田。把那里一颗大橡树下埋着个盒子，到时候你打开就会知道了。”当天晚上风雨交加，雷声轰轰地响着，安迪成功的从他挖好的洞逃走了。
Andy knows the cruelty of reality and becomes depressed. One day, he said to ARI, "if one day you can get parole, you must fulfill my wish. It was the place where I first dated my wife. There's a big dry field in buckston. Bury a box under a big oak tree there, and you'll find out when you open it. " That night, with the rain and the thunder, Andy managed to escape from the hole he had dug.
1966安迪成功逃离，原来二十年来，安迪每天都在用小鹤嘴锄挖洞，然后用那个大海报把洞给遮住。安迪越狱时还带走了监狱长部分的黑钱。并且告发了监狱长贪污受贿的真相。后来被关了40年的阿瑞被释放。他去了安迪说了那个地方。他得到了一笔钱。最后两个老友在太平洋边的沙滩上相见。
Andy managed to escape in 1966. For 20 years, Andy had been digging a hole with a pickaxe every day, and then covered the hole with that big poster. Andy escaped with part of the warden's money. And reported the truth of the prison governor's corruption and bribery. After 40 years in prison, ARI was released. He went to the place Andy said. He got a sum of money. Finally, the two old friends met on the beach of the Pacific Ocean.
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