《肖申克的救赎》是美国著名作家斯蒂芬·金的杰出代表作，收录于小说合集《四季奇谭》中，副标题为“春天的希望”。这是一部迥异于作者其它作品风格和主题的“另类”之作。说它另类，是因为它不再靠惊悚征服读者，而是通过对人性的深情解读和严肃思考引起读者的强烈反响。请看下面的双语台词：
1、 Red narrating: These walls are kind of funny like that. First you hate’em, then you get used to’em. Enough time passes, gets so you depend on them.
瑞德话外音：这些高墙还真是有点意思。一开始你恨它，然后你对它就习惯了。等相当的 时间过去后，你还会依赖它。
2、 Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies!
记着，希望是件好东西，没准儿是件最好的东西，而且从没有一样好东西会消逝!
3、I have to remind myself that some birds don’t mean to be caged . Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up. DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just miss my friend.
我得经常同自己说，有些鸟儿是关不住的。他们的羽毛太鲜亮了。当它们飞走的时候，你心底里知道把他们关起来是一种罪恶，你会因此而振奋。不过，他们一走,你住的地方也就更加灰暗空虚。我觉得我真是怀念我的朋友。
4、 Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
恐惧让你沦为囚犯。希望让你重获自由。
5、 I guess it comes down to a simple choice:get busy living or get busy dying.
生命可以归结为一种简单的选择：要么忙于生存，要么赶着去死。
6、 That’s the beauty of music. They can’t take that away from you.
这就是音乐的美丽。他们无法把这种美丽从你那里夺去。
7、 It takes a strong man to save himself, and a great man to save another.
坚强的人只能救赎自己，伟大的人才能拯救他人。
8、 There is something inside ,that they can't get to , that they can't touch. That's yours.
那是一种内在的东西, 他们到达不了,也无法触及的,那是你的。
9、 It takes a strong man to save himself, and a great man to save another.
强者自救，圣者渡人。
10、 There`s not a day goes by I don`t feel regret. Not because I`m in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then. Then a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can`t. That kid`s long gone and this old man is all that`s left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It`s just a bull.......... word. So you go on and stamp your form, sorry, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don`t give a shit.
我无时不刻地对自己的所作所为深感内疚，，也不是讨好你们(指假释官)。回首曾经走过的弯路，我多么想对那个犯下重罪的愚蠢的年轻人说些什么，告诉他我现在的感受，告诉他还可以有其他的方式解决问题。可是，我做不到了。那个年轻人早已淹没在岁月的长河里，只留下一个老人孤独地面对过去。重新做人?骗人罢了!小子，别再浪费我的时间了，盖你的章吧，我不会再废话了。