The Great Gatsby — Page 3
这种敏感与那种被冠以"创作气质"之名的软弱易感毫无关系——它是一种非凡的希望天赋，一种浪漫的准备状态，这是我在任何其他人身上从未发现过的，也不太可能再次找到。
This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
不——盖茨比最终还是没有问题的；正是那些侵蚀盖茨比的东西，那些在他梦想的尾迹中漂浮的污秽尘埃，使我暂时对人们那些夭折的悲伤和短暂的欢欣失去了兴趣。
No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
我的家族在这座中西部城市已经是三代显赫、富裕的人家了。
My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations.
卡拉威家族算得上是一个氏族，我们有一个传统，说我们是巴克卢公爵的后裔，但我这一支真正的创始人是我祖父的兄弟，他在五一年来到这里，雇了一个替身去参加内战，并创办了我父亲今天仍在经营的五金批发生意。
The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.
我从未见过这位曾祖叔父，但据说我长得像他——特别是对照父亲办公室里挂着的那幅颇为严峻的画像来看。
I never saw this great-uncle, but I'm supposed to look like him—with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in father's office.
我于一九一五年从纽黑文毕业，恰好比我父亲晚了四分之一个世纪，稍后我参加了那场被称为第一次世界大战的迟来的日耳曼民族迁徙运动。
I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War.
我对那场反击战享受得如此彻底，以至于回来后心绪难平。
I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless.
Vocabulary
- responsiveness
- 对外界刺激或他人反应敏感的能力
- flabby
- 软弱无力的；松弛的；缺乏活力的
- impressionability
- 容易被影响或感动的特质
- dignified
- 有尊严的；庄重的；高贵的
- creative
- 有创造力的；富有想象力的
- temperament
- 天性；气质；性情
- extraordinary
- 非凡的；杰出的；超乎寻常的
- gift
- 天赋；才能；礼物
- romantic
- 浪漫的；充满理想与幻想的
- readiness
- 准备就绪的状态；愿意行动的心态
- likely
- 可能的；有望的
- preyed
- prey的过去式，侵扰；折磨；捕食
- foul
- 肮脏的；恶臭的；令人厌恶的
- floated
- float的过去式，漂浮；飘动
- wake
- 船行后留下的水波；尾迹
- temporarily
- 暂时地；临时地
- abortive
- 失败的；未能完成的；夭折的
- sorrows
- 悲伤；忧愁；痛苦
- short-winded
- 气短的；缺乏持久力的；短促的
- elations
- 兴高采烈；极度喜悦的情绪
- prominent
- 杰出的；知名的；显赫的
- well-to-do
- 富裕的；生活宽裕的
- generations
- 代；世代；一代人
- clan
- 氏族；家族；宗族
- tradition
- 传统；惯例；世代相传的习俗
- descended
- descend的过去分词，起源于；传承自
- Dukes
- 公爵；贵族最高等级之一
- actual
- 实际的；真实的
- founder
- 创始人；奠基者
- line
- 血统；家系；家族脉络
- substitute
- 替代者；代替；替代品
- Civil
- 公民的；国内的；文明的
- wholesale
- 批发的；大批量销售的
- hardware
- 五金；金属器具；硬件
- great-uncle
- 叔祖父；伯祖父；祖辈的兄弟
- supposed
- 被认为应该；据说；推测
- reference
- 参考；提及；指向某人某物
- rather
- 相当；有点；表示程度
- hard-boiled
- 冷酷无情的；老于世故的
- graduated
- 毕业；完成学业
- Haven
- 港口；避风港；新黑文市
- quarter
- 四分之一；二十五年为一个quarter世纪
- century
- 世纪；一百年
- participated
- participate的过去式，参与；参加
- delayed
- delay的过去式，推迟的；延迟的
- Teutonic
- 日耳曼民族的；与德意志民族相关的
- migration
- 迁移；移民；人口流动
- counter-raid
- 反击突袭；对敌方的反向突击行动
- thoroughly
- 彻底地；完全地；十分
- restless
- 坐立不安的；焦躁的；无法安静的
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