Miacles happen in unexpected places, even in the death - row cellblock at cold mountain penitentiary, there john coffey, a gentle giant of a prisoner with supernatural powers, brings a sense of spirit and humanity to his guards and fellow inmates. tom hanks leads a stellar ensemble including michael clarke duncan as coffey in this emotional, uplifting story of guards and captives ; husbands and wives ; prisoners and a remarkable mouse named mr. jingles ; and, on another level, of a moviemaker and his source. that filmmaker is frank darabont, who returns after his 1994 directorial debut the shawshank redemption to adapt another tale by stephen king into a stirring, crow - pleasing entertainment nominated for 4 academy awards, including best picture
綠里奇跡是發生在1935年美國不景氣年代的路易斯安那州監獄,湯漢演的獄長保羅,已不知道送過多少個死囚走過這段路,但當他押著身高六尺五寸的黑
人哥菲上電椅時,卻有莫名的悲痛,哥菲被控虐殺兩個十幾歲的白
人姐妹,但看似凶殘暴戾的黑
人大隻
佬,卻是心地善良,胸無城府的大好
人,而且他有神奇力量,用手一摸就能治療絕癥,通過心靈感應,保羅看到了真正的殺
人凶手,但他卻無力為哥菲翻案,因而難以釋懷
It was in the city that man was liberated from the tyranny of the soil and could develop skills, learn from other people, study, teach and develop the social arts that made country folk seem bumpkins
城市中的
人們從土地苛政中解放出來並不斷提升自身技能,向他
人獲取新知,學習、講授和社交藝術的進步使農村的鄉巴
佬相形見拙。
Is it not to be feared that, beginning with the wickedness of the cinema, we should be led step by step to condemn the opposite political party, dagoes, wops, asiatics, and, in short, everybody except the fellow members of our club
從譴責電影院的邪惡開始,我們會被一步步引導去譴責反對黨、南歐
佬,義大利
佬、亞洲
佬,簡而言之,除了自己俱樂部成員以外的所有
人,這難道不讓
人害怕嗎?
There was much about the south ? and southerners ? that he would never comprehend ; but, with the whole - heartedness that was his nature, he adopted its ideas and customs, as he understood them, for his own ? poker and horse racing, red - hot politics and the code duello, states ' rights and damnation to all yankees, slavery and king cotton, contempt for white trash and exaggerated courtesy to women
南方的許多東西? ?包括南方
人? ?他永遠不能理解;但是他依憑本性中的全心全意,接受了它的觀念和習俗按照他自己的理解方式,變成了自己的東西? ?打撲克和賽馬,火熱的政治和決斗模式,州權和對所有北
佬的懲罰,奴隸和棉花大王,鄙視窮白
佬和對女
人獻殷勤。
Accordingly the more intelligent rich men work nearly as hard as if they were poor , while rich women for the most part keep themselves busy with innumerable trifles of whose earthshaking importance they are firmly persuaded
因此較為明智的闊
佬們工作起來幾乎像窮
人一樣賣力,而有錢的女
人則大多忙於她們自以為具有震撼世界般重要性的無數瑣事。
Other government employees are known as 1 ) knuckles, skeezix, frenchy and the eskimo
還有幾位政府
人員被稱做指關節、史基瑞、法國
佬,以及愛斯基摩
人。
And i ' d be in business. they ' d never let a gringo
給
人擦皮鞋,我就賺大了他們是不會讓個外國
佬輕易發達的
Once the hero of jefferson, the virtuous husbandman, he was the rube, the hick, the hayseed.
一度被傑斐遜奉為英雄的農民,昔日儼然是男子漢大丈夫,而今卻一落千丈,成了鄉下
人、莊稼漢、鄉巴
佬。
Listen to it, man ! " nigger this, nigger that. " you think white people go around calling each other honkies all day, man ? " hey, honky, how ' s business ? " " going great, cracker. we ' re diversifying.
你自己聽,伙計! 「黑鬼這個,黑鬼那個」 。你什麼時候聽過白
人成天互相稱呼「白鬼」 ? 「嘿,白鬼,生意怎麼樣? 」 「很好,白
佬,我們正向多元化發展。 」
Miranda ' s interior decorator and her friend from london fall in love at first sight - - and invite the girls to be part of their wedding, much to their dismay
當白嘉莉成為經常在大
佬家裡過夜的客
人的同時,何美藍亦對在她家過夜之訪客產生愛意,但那訪客卻對美藍的室內設計師有興趣。
West european leaders presented themselves to their publics as mediators between american intransigence and soviet aggressiveness.
西歐領導
人在公眾面前擺出不肯讓步的美國和咄咄逼
人的蘇聯之間充當和事
佬的架式。
Aberdeen harbour is home to hundreds of people living on fishing junks. their traditional lifestyle is dramatically juxtaposed against a modern high - rise community spread over the nearby hillsides. in the evenings, the thousands of twinkling lights reflected on the water are a magical sight
香港仔避風塘是一條漁村,內里有多達數千艘漁船,住了超過兩萬名水上人,他們主要是蛋家人及鶴佬人。