The Great Gatsby — Page 103
「我花了整整三年时间赚够了买它的钱。」
"It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it."
「我以为你的钱是继承来的。」
"I thought you inherited your money."
「是的，老兄，」他漫不经心地说，「但我在那场大恐慌中亏掉了大半——战时的那场恐慌。」
"I did, old sport," he said automatically, "but I lost most of it in the big panic—the panic of the war."
我想他自己也不知道在说什么，因为当我问他从事什么行业时，他脱口而出：「那是我的私事，」随即才意识到这回答并不恰当。
I think he hardly knew what he was saying, for when I asked him what business he was in he answered: "That's my affair," before he realized that it wasn't an appropriate reply.
「哦，我做过好几种行业，」他自我纠正道。「我做过药品生意，后来又做石油生意。不过现在两样都不做了。」
"Oh, I've been in several things," he corrected himself. "I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I'm not in either one now."
他更专注地看了看我。「你是说，你一直在考虑我那晚提出的事？」
He looked at me with more attention. "Do you mean you've been thinking over what I proposed the other night?"
我还没来得及回答，黛西就从屋里走了出来，她裙子上两排黄铜纽扣在阳光下闪闪发光。
Before I could answer, Daisy came out of the house and two rows of brass buttons on her dress gleamed in the sunlight.
「就是那边那座巨大的宅子？」她一边指着一边惊叫道。
"That huge place there?" she cried pointing.
「你喜欢吗？」
"Do you like it?"
「我很喜欢，但我不明白你怎么能一个人住在那里。」
"I love it, but I don't see how you live there all alone."
「我让那里日夜都住满了有趣的人——做着有趣事情的人，名人。」
"I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people."
我们没有抄近路沿着海湾走，而是下到大路，从那扇大侧门进去。
Instead of taking the shortcut along the Sound we went down to the road and entered by the big postern.
Vocabulary
- It
- 代词，指代事物或情况
- took
- 花费（时间或精力）；take的过去式
- me
- 我，I的宾格形式
- just
- 仅仅，只不过；恰好
- years
- 年，year的复数形式
- earn
- 通过工作赚取金钱或报酬
- money
- 钱，货币
- bought
- 购买；buy的过去式
- thought
- 认为，以为；think的过去式
- inherited
- 继承（财产、遗产等）
- old
- 旧的；老的；亲密称呼中表示友好
- sport
- 此处作称呼，意为老兄、老友
- automatically
- 无意识地，不假思索地，自动地
- lost
- 失去，丧失；lose的过去式
- most
- 大部分，大多数
- big
- 大的，巨大的
- panic
- 恐慌，惊慌，金融危机时的恐慌
- war
- 战争，武装冲突
- hardly
- 几乎不，勉强
- knew
- 知道；know的过去式
- asked
- 询问，要求；ask的过去式
- business
- 生意，商业；职业，事务
- answered
- 回答，答复；answer的过去式
- affair
- 私事，与自己相关的事务
- before
- 在……之前，表示时间顺序
- realized
- 意识到，认识到；realize的过去式
- appropriate
- 适当的，合适的，得体的
- reply
- 回答，回复
- several
- 几个，数个，多于两个
- corrected
- 纠正，更正；correct的过去式
- drug
- 药品；毒品；此处指药物生意
- oil
- 石油，油；此处指石油行业
- either
- 两者中的任何一个；也不
- attention
- 注意，关注，专心
- mean
- 意思是，意指
- thinking
- 思考，考虑；think的现在分词
- proposed
- 提议，建议；propose的过去式
- answer
- 回答，答复
- house
- 房子，住宅
- rows
- 排，行；row的复数形式
- brass
- 黄铜，铜制的
- buttons
- 纽扣，按钮；button的复数
- dress
- 裙子，连衣裙；服装
- gleamed
- 闪光，发出光亮；gleam的过去式
- sunlight
- 阳光，日光
- huge
- 巨大的，庞大的
- place
- 地方，场所；此处指宅邸
- cried
- 喊叫，大声说；cry的过去式
- pointing
- 指向，指着；point的现在分词
- alone
- 独自，单独地
- keep
- 保持，使维持某种状态
- full
- 充满的，满的
- interesting
- 有趣的，令人感兴趣的
- Celebrated
- 著名的，知名的；受人称赞的
- Instead
- 代替，反而，作为替代
- shortcut
- 近路，捷径，更快的方法
- along
- 沿着，顺着
- Sound
- 海峡，水湾；此处为地名
- entered
- 进入，走进；enter的过去式
- postern
- 后门，侧门，小的次要入口
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