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There‘s a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess - I’m the guy who can get it for you。
Tailor-made
cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if you‘re
partial to
that, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your son or daughter’s high school graduation, or almost anything else …… within reason, that is。 It wasn‘t always that way。
Tailor-made 量身定做 be partial to 偏愛
I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty, and I am one of the few people in our happy little family who is willing to own up to what he did。 I committed murder。 I put a large insurance policy on my wife, who was three years older than I was, and then I fixed the
brakes
of the Chevrolet coupe her father had given us as a wedding present。 It worked out exactly as I had planned, except I hadn’t planned on her stopping to pick up the neighbour woman and the neighbour woman‘s
infant
son on the way down Castle Hill and into town。 The brakes let go and the car crashed through the bushes at the edge of the town common, gathering speed。 Bystanders said it must have been doing fifty or better when it hit the base of the Civil War statue and burst into flames。
infant 嬰兒 brake 制動
burst into flames 燃燒成火焰
I also hadn't planned on getting caught
, but caught I was。 I got a season’s pass into this place。 Maine has no
death penalty
, but the district attorney saw to it that I was tried for all three deaths and given three life sentences, to run one after the other。 That fixed up any chance of parole I might have, for a long, long time。
I also hadn't planned on getting caught 我沒有預想到我會被抓住
death penalty 死刑 district attorney 地方檢察官 parole 假釋
The judge called what I had done ‘a hideous, heinous crime’, and it was, but it is also in the past now。 You can look it up in the yellowing files of the Castle Rock Call, where the big headlines announcing my
death penalty 死刑 district attorney 地方檢察官 parole 假釋
look sort of funny and antique next to the news of Hitler and Mussolini and FDR‘s alphabet soup agencies。
conviction
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