The Great Gatsby — Page 21
她出生还不到一个小时,汤姆不知道跑哪儿去了。我从麻醉中醒来,心里有一种彻底被遗弃的感觉,马上问护士是男孩还是女孩。
She was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.
她告诉我是个女孩,于是我把头扭到一边,哭了起来。
She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept.
'好吧,'我说,'我很高兴是个女孩。我希望她是个傻瓜——那是一个女孩在这个世界上所能成为的最好的东西,一个漂亮的小傻瓜。'
'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.'
'你看,我觉得无论如何一切都是可怕的,'她以一种笃定的口吻继续说道。'每个人都这么想——那些最进步的人。我知道。我走遍了各处,见过一切,也经历过一切。'
"You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," she went on in a convinced way. "Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything."
她的眼神以一种挑衅的方式在四周闪动,颇像汤姆,她带着令人颤栗的轻蔑笑了起来。'老练——天哪,我太老练了!'
Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom's, and she laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated—God, I'm sophisticated!"
就在她的声音戛然而止、不再吸引我的注意力和信任的那一刻,我感觉到了她所说的话骨子里的虚伪。
The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
这让我感到不安,仿佛整个晚上都是某种把戏,为了从我这里榨取一种呼应的情感。
It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact a contributory emotion from me.
我等待着,果然,过了一会儿,她用那张可爱的脸对我露出一副十足得意的笑容,仿佛她刚刚宣示了自己是某个颇为高贵的秘密团体的成员——那个她与汤姆同属的团体。
I waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face, as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged.
屋内,深红色的房间在灯光中盛放。
Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light.
Vocabulary
- less
- 较少的,程度或数量更小
- hour
- 小时,时间单位,等于60分钟
- God
- 上帝;神;常用于感叹表达
- woke
- wake的过去式,从睡眠中醒来
- ether
- 乙醚,旧时用作麻醉剂的化学物质
- utterly
- 完全地,彻底地,程度副词
- abandoned
- 被遗弃的;也指放纵、毫无拘束的
- nurse
- 护士;照料病人的医护人员
- wept
- 哭泣,weep的过去式,流泪
- glad
- 高兴的,感到愉快和满足
- fool
- 傻瓜,愚笨的人
- terrible
- 可怕的,糟糕的,极其恶劣的
- anyhow
- 无论如何,不管怎样
- convinced
- 确信的,坚信的,深信不疑
- advanced
- 先进的,高级的,超前的
- everywhere
- 到处,各地,无处不在
- flashed
- 闪烁,flash的过去式,眼神闪亮
- defiant
- 挑衅的,反抗的,蔑视权威的
- rather
- 相当,有点,表示程度修饰
- thrilling
- 令人激动的,刺激的,兴奋的
- scorn
- 轻蔑,蔑视,不屑一顾的态度
- Sophisticated
- 老练的,见多识广的,精致复杂的
- sophisticated
- 老练的,见多识广的,精致复杂的
- instant
- 瞬间,立刻;某一特定时刻
- broke
- break的过去式,打破;声音中断
- ceasing
- 停止,cease的现在分词
- compel
- 强迫,迫使,使某人不得不做
- attention
- 注意,关注,留心
- belief
- 信念,信仰,相信某事为真
- basic
- 基本的,基础的,根本的
- insincerity
- 不真诚,虚伪,言行不一致
- uneasy
- 不安的,焦虑的,感到不舒适
- though
- 尽管,虽然,好像,让步连词
- trick
- 把戏,诡计,欺骗手段
- sort
- 种类,类型;some sort of意为某种
- exact
- 精确的,准确的,要求严格的
- contributory
- 起促成作用的,有贡献的
- emotion
- 情感,情绪,内心的感受
- moment
- 片刻,瞬间,某一时刻
- absolute
- 绝对的,完全的,毫无疑问的
- smirk
- 得意的笑,自鸣得意的表情
- lovely
- 可爱的,美丽的,令人愉快的
- asserted
- 声称,断言,assert的过去式
- membership
- 成员资格,会员身份
- distinguished
- 杰出的,卓越的,有声望的
- secret
- 秘密的,保密的,不公开的
- society
- 社会,团体,社交圈
- belonged
- 属于,belong的过去式
- crimson
- 深红色,绯红色,鲜艳的红色
- bloomed
- 绽放,bloom的过去式,充满生机
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