The Great Gatsby — Page 48
他们至少痛苦地意识到附近有唾手可得的钱财，并且深信只需说几句恰当的话，那些钱就会落入自己的口袋。
They were at least agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.
我一到达便试图寻找主人，但我向两三个人打听他的下落时，他们用一种惊愕的眼神望着我，极力否认对他行踪的任何了解，我便悄悄地朝鸡尾酒桌的方向溜去——那是花园里唯一一个单身男子可以逗留而不显得无所事事、形单影只的地方。
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
我正打算借酒浇愁、一醉方休以掩盖内心的窘迫，这时乔丹·贝克从屋里走出来，站在大理石台阶的最高处，微微向后仰着身子，带着一种不屑而又好奇的神情俯视着花园。
I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.
不管受不受欢迎，在我开始随意跟过路人搭讪之前，我觉得有必要找个人依附。
Welcome or not, I found it necessary to attach myself to someone before I should begin to address cordial remarks to the passersby.
「你好！」我向她走去，大声喊道。我的声音在花园里显得异常响亮。
"Hello!" I roared, advancing toward her. My voice seemed unnaturally loud across the garden.
「我就猜你可能在这里，」她漫不经心地回答，我走近时她说，「我记得你住在——的隔壁」
"I thought you might be here," she responded absently as I came up. "I remembered you lived next door to—"
她漫不经心地握着我的手，像是在承诺她马上会来照应我，然后侧耳倾听停在台阶底部的两个身穿黄色双胞胎装的女孩说话。
She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she'd take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses, who stopped at the foot of the steps.
「你好！」她们齐声喊道。「真遗憾你没赢。」
"Hello!" they cried together. "Sorry you didn't win."
那是指高尔夫球锦标赛的事。
That was for the golf tournament.
Vocabulary
- least
- 最少，最小程度，at least表示至少
- agonizingly
- 极度痛苦地，令人煎熬地
- aware
- 意识到，知晓某事的存在
- vicinity
- 附近，周边地区，邻近范围
- convinced
- 确信的，被说服的，深信不疑
- theirs
- 他们的，表示所有权的代词
- key
- 关键的，起决定性作用的
- attempt
- 尝试，努力去做某事
- host
- 主人，宴会或活动的东道主
- whom
- who的宾格形式，用于正式语境
- whereabouts
- 某人的下落或所在位置
- stared
- 凝视，盯着看，stare的过去式
- amazed
- 惊讶的，感到十分吃惊的
- denied
- 否认，拒绝承认，deny的过去式
- vehemently
- 强烈地，激烈地，极力地否认
- knowledge
- 知识，了解，对某事的认知
- movements
- 行动，动向，某人的活动轨迹
- slunk
- slink的过去式，悄悄溜走
- direction
- 方向，朝向某处
- cocktail
- 鸡尾酒，一种混合酒精饮料
- linger
- 逗留，徘徊，不愿意离开
- purposeless
- 无目的的，漫无目标的
- roaring
- 轰鸣的，roaring drunk形容醉得厉害
- drunk
- 醉酒的，喝醉了
- sheer
- 纯粹的，完全的，十足的
- embarrassment
- 尴尬，窘迫，令人不好意思的状态
- marble
- 大理石，一种坚硬光滑的石料
- leaning
- 倾斜，靠着，lean的进行时
- backward
- 向后，往后方倾斜
- contemptuous
- 轻蔑的，鄙视的，不屑一顾的
- necessary
- 必要的，必须的，不可缺少的
- attach
- 依附，连接，attach oneself to跟随某人
- address
- 向……说话，与人搭话
- cordial
- 热情友好的，真诚亲切的
- remarks
- 言论，评论，随口说的话
- passersby
- 过路人，行人，路过的人们
- roared
- 大声喊叫，吼叫，roar的过去式
- advancing
- 向前走，前进，advance的进行时
- unnaturally
- 不自然地，异常地，不寻常地
- responded
- 回应，回答，respond的过去式
- absently
- 心不在焉地，漫不经心地回应
- impersonally
- 冷淡地，不带个人感情地
- promise
- 承诺，答应，保证做某事
- twin
- 双胞胎的，成对的，相同的
- golf
- 高尔夫球，一种户外运动
- tournament
- 锦标赛，竞技比赛，运动赛事
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