肖申克的救赎 Day5

安迪依次找我要了三样东西： rock-hammer, rock-blankets, Rita's poster

“我”凭每件物品10%-20%的盈利方式：

For something like the gadget you're talking about, it takes a little more goose-grease to get the wheels turning. 

对安迪的神态描写极为传神贴切：

It was a slight lightening, a gleam of his special ironic humor.

...as if he was wearing one of his three-piece banker' suits instead of...

...was to beat Andy within an inch of his life.

(描写weak 'sister')  He got to be like a high wind in the summertime, all bluster and no bite.

His lip was swelled up so big it looked like a summer sausage ,his right eye was swollenhalf-shut... turn up with bruises on his face...

He seemed over-charged, a man on the verge of blowing his radiator.

He was blushing just like a kid trying to get into a kootch show.

morally uplifting message: 

It was moral we could take some comfort in.

in the current parlance   用现在的说法

/ on fair speaking terms