The Great Gatsby — Page 75
此后，我像个年轻的王公一样游历欧洲各大都城——巴黎、威尼斯、罗马——收集珠宝，尤其是红宝石，猎取大型野兽，偶尔作画，一切都只为自己，同时试图忘却很久以前发生在我身上的一件非常悲伤的事。
After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe—Paris, Venice, Rome—collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago.
我费了好大力气才忍住不可置信的笑声。那些话语已经磨损得如此陈腐，除了一个头缠包巾的"人物"形象之外什么也唤不起——那形象浑身渗着锯末，正在布洛涅森林里追逐一头老虎。
With an effort I managed to restrain my incredulous laughter. The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character" leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne.
「然后战争爆发了，老兄。那真是一大解脱，我拼命想死，却似乎有什么护身符保佑着我。战争开始时我接受了一个中尉的任命。在阿尔贡森林里，我率领我的机枪营残部向前推进得太远，两翼各有半英里的缺口，步兵根本无法跟上。我们在那里坚守了两天两夜，一百三十名士兵，配备十六挺刘易斯机枪。当步兵终于赶上来的时候，他们在死尸堆中发现了三个德国师的徽章。我因此晋升为少校，每一个同盟国政府都授予我勋章——甚至连黑山，那个亚得里亚海边的小小黑山！」
"Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. I accepted a commission as first lieutenant when it began. In the Argonne Forest I took the remains of my machine-gun battalion so far forward that there was a half mile gap on either side of us where the infantry couldn't advance. We stayed there two days and two nights, a hundred and thirty men with sixteen Lewis guns, and when the infantry came up at last they found the insignia of three German divisions among the piles of dead. I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!"
小小的黑山！他把这几个字轻轻托举起来，带着他那特有的微笑向它们点了点头。那微笑包容了黑山动荡的历史，也对黑山人民英勇的抗争表示了深切的同情。
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them—with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people.
Vocabulary
- rajah
- 印度王公或土邦君主
- capitals
- 首都，各国的政治中心城市
- collecting
- 收集，收藏物品
- jewels
- 宝石，珍贵的珠宝饰品
- chiefly
- 主要地，尤其，首先
- rubies
- 红宝石，珍贵的红色宝石
- hunting
- 猎取，追捕，狩猎
- game
- 猎物，指猎取的大型野生动物
- effort
- 努力，费力地尝试
- managed
- 设法做到，成功地完成某事
- restrain
- 克制，抑制，控制住情绪或行为
- incredulous
- 不相信的，怀疑的，难以置信的
- laughter
- 笑声，大笑
- phrases
- 短语，词组，话语
- worn
- 陈旧的，因过度使用而磨损的
- threadbare
- 陈腐的，老套的，毫无新意的
- evoked
- 唤起，激发，引发某种感觉或形象
- image
- 形象，画面，意象
- except
- 除了，不包括
- turbaned
- 戴着头巾的，指包缠头巾的人物
- character
- 人物，角色，性格特征
- leaking
- 泄漏，渗出液体或物质
- sawdust
- 锯末，木屑，切割木材产生的粉末
- pore
- 毛孔，皮肤或物体表面的细孔
- pursued
- 追赶，追逐，pursue的过去式
- sport
- 运动，消遣，此处讽刺战争如游戏
- relief
- 解脱，宽慰，轻松的感觉
- bear
- 承受，拥有，此处指拥有某种命运
- enchanted
- 被魔法保护的，着了魔的
- accepted
- 接受，接收，accept的过去式
- commission
- 军官任命书，军官职位授权
- lieutenant
- 中尉，军队低级军官职衔
- remains
- 残余，剩余部分，残部
- machine-gun
- 机关枪，自动连发枪械
- battalion
- 营，由数百士兵组成的军事单位
- gap
- 缺口，间隙，空缺的部分
- either
- 两者中任一，两边都
- infantry
- 步兵，徒步作战的军队
- advance
- 前进，推进，向前移动
- insignia
- 徽章，标志，军队或组织的标识符号
- divisions
- 师，由数千士兵组成的军事单位
- among
- 在……之中，在……当中
- piles
- 堆，大量，一大堆
- promoted
- 晋升，提升军衔或职位
- major
- 少校，军队中级军官职衔
- Allied
- 同盟国的，一战中协约国联盟
- decoration
- 勋章，荣誉徽章，军事奖励
- nodded
- 点头，表示同意或确认
- comprehended
- 理解，领会，comprehend的过去式
- troubled
- 动荡的，多灾多难的
- sympathized
- 同情，表示理解和关切
- brave
- 勇敢的，英勇无畏的
- struggles
- 斗争，奋斗，艰难的努力
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