The Great Gatsby — Page 7
盖茨比，那是一座以该名字命名的绅士所居住的豪宅。
Gatsby, it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman of that name.
我自己的房子虽然碍眼，但只是小小的碍眼，而且一直被人忽视，
My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked,
所以我能看到水面，还能看到邻居草坪的一角，并享受着百万富翁近在咫尺的慰藉——这一切每月只需八十美元。
so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbour's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month.
隔着礼貌湾，时髦的东卵那一排白色宫殿在水边熠熠生辉，
Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water,
而这个夏天的故事，真正开始于那天傍晚我驱车前往汤姆·布坎南家共进晚餐。
and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.
黛西是我的表妹，隔了一代，而汤姆是我大学时就认识的朋友。
Daisy was my second cousin once removed, and I'd known Tom in college.
战争刚结束后，我曾在芝加哥与他们共度了两天。
And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago.
她的丈夫除了拥有各种体能上的成就之外，还曾是新黑文最出色的橄榄球边锋之一，
Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—
某种程度上是个全国知名的人物，属于那种在二十一岁就达到了某种极致而有限的巅峰、此后一切都难免显得虎头蛇尾的男人。
a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savours of anticlimax.
他的家族极为富有——甚至在大学时，他对金钱的随意挥霍就已是众人诟病之事——
His family were enormously wealthy—even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach—
但如今他离开了芝加哥，以一种令人咋舌的派头来到东部：比如，他从莱克福里斯特带来了一批马球小马。
but now he'd left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance, he'd brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest.
让人难以置信，与我同代的一个人竟然富裕到可以做到这一切。
It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.
他们为何东来，我不得而知。
Why they came East I don't know.
Vocabulary
- mansion
- 豪宅，非常大而豪华的住宅
- inhabited
- 被居住的，有人居住于某处
- gentleman
- 绅士，有礼貌有教养的男性
- eyesore
- 难看的东西，令人不悦的景观
- overlooked
- 被忽视的，未被注意到的
- view
- 景色，从某处看到的风景
- partial
- 部分的，也指偏爱某事物
- lawn
- 草坪，修剪整齐的草地
- consoling
- 令人安慰的，给人慰藉的
- proximity
- 邻近，距离某处非常近
- millionaires
- 百万富翁，拥有巨额财富的人
- courtesy
- 礼貌，客气有礼的行为或态度
- bay
- 海湾，陆地环绕的水域
- palaces
- 宫殿，极其豪华壮丽的建筑
- fashionable
- 时髦的，流行的，上流社会的
- glittered
- 闪闪发光，发出耀眼的光芒
- cousin
- 表兄弟姐妹，亲戚关系
- removed
- 在亲属关系中差一辈的
- various
- 各种各样的，多种不同的
- physical
- 身体的，与体力相关的
- accomplishments
- 成就，技能，出色完成的事情
- powerful
- 强壮的，有力量的
- ends
- （橄榄球）端锋，球队边锋位置
- national
- 全国性的，与国家相关的
- figure
- 人物，在某领域知名的人
- acute
- 敏锐的，强烈的，极端的
- limited
- 有限的，范围或数量受限的
- excellence
- 卓越，非常优秀的品质
- afterward
- 此后，在那之后的时间
- savours
- 带有……的味道或气息
- anticlimax
- 虎头蛇尾，令人失望的结果
- enormously
- 极其，非常，程度极大地
- wealthy
- 富裕的，拥有大量财富的
- freedom
- 自由，不受约束的状态
- reproach
- 责备，批评，表示不满
- fashion
- 时尚，流行风格，方式
- rather
- 副词，相当，有些，宁可
- breath
- 呼吸，气息
- instance
- 例子，举例说明的情况
- string
- 一串，一组同类事物
- polo
- 马球，骑马击球的运动
- ponies
- 小马，体型较小的马
- realize
- 意识到，认识到某事实
- generation
- 一代人，同时代出生的人群
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