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As it turned out, Tommy had himself a young wife and a new baby girl.
汤米有娇妻和一女儿
Maybe he thought of them on the streets
他怕妻女流落街头
or his child growing up not knowing her daddy.
不认识老爸
Whatever it was
或是别的原因
something lit a fire under that boy's ass.
反正这小子卯上了
Thought I might try for my high school equivalency.
我想考同等学历
Hear you helped a couple of fellas with that.
听说你帮过人
I don't waste time with losers, Tommy.
我不帮废人
I ain't no goddamn loser.
我才不是废人
You mean that?
你有心?
Yeah.
对
You really mean that?
真的有心?
Yes, sir, I do.
是的 我有
Good. Because if we do this
好 要冲就冲到底
we do it all the way, a hundred percent, nothing half-assed.
百分之百 不可退却
Thing is, see
问题是
I don't read so good.
我不太识字
"Well."
没关系
You don't read
你不识字
so well.
所以
We'll get to that.
交给我吧
So Andy took Tommy under his wing.
安迪收汤米为徒
Started walking him through his ABC's.
从字母教起
Tommy took to it pretty well too.
汤米学的非常好
Boy found brains he never knew he had.
他从未发现自己有天份
Before long, Andy started him on his course requirements.
没多久就始准备应试
He really liked the kid.
安迪真心喜欢他
Gave him a thrill to help a youngster crawl off the shit heap.
助人向上令他兴奋
But that wasn't the only reason.
但动机不止于此
Prison time is slow time.
牢狱生活缓慢得很
So you do what you can to keep going.
必须找事打发时间
Some fellas collect stamps.
有人集邮
Others build matchstick houses.
有人盖火柴屋
Andy built a library.
安迪成立了图书馆
Now he needed a new project.
如今他需要新计划
Tommy was it.
就是汤米
It was the same reason he spent years shaping and polishing those rocks.
这跟他长年刻石一样
The same reason he hung his fantasy girlies on the wall.
也跟他挂美女图一样
In prison
在牢里
a man will do most anything to keep his mind occupied.
没事也得找事做
By 1966, right about the time Tommy was getting ready to take his exams
1966年 就在汤米应考之前
it was lovely Raquel.
换上拉寇儿·薇芝了
vi. 爬行，卑躬屈膝，自由式游泳
n. 爬行
