The Great Gatsby — Page 14

她是个身材苗条、胸部平坦的女孩，站姿挺拔，双肩向后仰，像个年轻的军校学员。

She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.

她那双因长期在阳光下眯眼而显得灰蒙蒙的眼睛，从一张苍白而迷人、却又带着几分倦怠的脸上，以礼貌而相互好奇的目光回望着我。

Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming, discontented face.

这时我忽然想起，我曾在某处见过她，或者见过她的一张照片。

It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before.

「你住在西卵，」她轻蔑地说道，「我认识那里的一个人。」

"You live in West Egg," she remarked contemptuously. "I know somebody there."

「我一个人都不——」

"I don't know a single—"

「你一定认识盖茨比。」

"You must know Gatsby."

「盖茨比？」黛西追问道，「哪个盖茨比？」

"Gatsby?" demanded Daisy. "What Gatsby?"

我还没来得及回答说他是我的邻居，晚餐便宣告开席了；汤姆·布坎南用他那紧绷的手臂强硬地挽住我，把我从房间里带走，就像棋盘上移动一枚棋子一样。

Before I could reply that he was my neighbour dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

两位年轻女子步态轻盈、慵懒优雅，双手轻轻搭在臀部，走在我们前面，来到一个玫瑰色的门廊上，那里朝着夕阳敞开着，四根蜡烛在减弱的风中于桌上摇曳闪烁。

Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out on to a rosy-coloured porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.

「为什么要点蜡烛？」黛西皱着眉头表示异议，用手指把蜡烛一一掐灭。「再过两个星期就是一年中白昼最长的一天了。」她容光焕发地看着我们大家，「你们是不是总是盼着一年中白昼最长的那一天，结果却又错过了？我总是盼着那一天，结果却又总是错过。」

"Why candles?" objected Daisy, frowning. She snapped them out with her fingers. "In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year." She looked at us all radiantly. "Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."

「我们应该计划点什么，」贝克小姐打着哈欠说，一屁股坐到桌边，好像是在往床上躺下去一样。

"We ought to plan something," yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed.

「好啊，」黛西说。

"All right," said Daisy.