The Great Gatsby — Page 113
有一段时间,这些幻想为他的想象力提供了出口;它们隐约暗示着现实的虚幻本质,仿佛在承诺,世界这块磐石是稳稳地建立在仙女的翅膀之上的。
For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.
对未来荣耀的一种本能驱使他在几个月前来到了明尼苏达州南部的圣奥拉夫小路德学院。
An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran College of St. Olaf's in southern Minnesota.
他在那里待了两个星期,对学校对他命运鼓声、乃至对命运本身那种冷漠无情感到沮丧,也鄙视那份原本要靠他来维持学费的看门人工作。
He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through.
后来他又漂回到苏必利尔湖,在丹·科迪的游艇停泊在岸边浅水处的那天,他依然在四处寻找可以做的事情。
Then he drifted back to Lake Superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows alongshore.
科迪当时五十岁,是内华达银矿、育空地区以及七十五年以来每一次金属淘金热的产物。
Cody was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since seventy-five.
蒙大拿铜矿的交易让他成为了数倍的百万富翁,然而这也使他身体虽然强健,精神却濒临昏聩,察觉到这一点的无数女人都试图将他与他的财富分离。
The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.
埃拉·凯——那位女报人——如何扮演曼特农夫人利用他的弱点,并将他打发到海上去乘游艇漂泊,其中那些不甚光彩的曲折内情,在1902年那些浮夸的新闻报道中早已是人尽皆知的事了。
The none too savoury ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common property of the turgid journalism in 1902.
他已经沿着那些过于热情好客的海岸漂荡了五年,直到他作为詹姆斯·盖茨的命运出现在小女孩湾。
He had been coasting along all too hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz's destiny in Little Girl Bay.
Vocabulary
- while
- 一段时间;当……的时候
- reveries
- 白日梦,幻想,沉湎于空想的状态
- provided
- 提供;假如,如果满足某条件
- outlet
- 发泄或表达情感的出口或途径
- imagination
- 想象力,构想事物的心理能力
- satisfactory
- 令人满意的,达到预期要求的
- hint
- 暗示,细微的迹象或线索
- unreality
- 不真实感,缺乏真实性的状态
- reality
- 现实,真实存在的状态或事物
- promise
- 承诺;预示某种可能性或希望
- rock
- 岩石;坚固的物质或基础
- founded
- 建立;被奠基或建造
- securely
- 牢固地,安全地,稳定地
- fairy
- 仙子,神话中有魔法的小精灵
- wing
- 翅膀,鸟或昆虫用于飞翔的器官
- instinct
- 本能,天生的行为倾向或冲动
- toward
- 朝向,向着某方向或目标
- future
- 未来,将要发生的时间或事情
- glory
- 荣耀,辉煌的名誉或成就
- led
- lead的过去式,引导,带领
- Lutheran
- 路德教的,基督新教的一个派别
- College
- 学院,提供高等教育的机构
- southern
- 南方的,位于南部的
- stayed
- 停留,留在某地一段时间
- dismayed
- 沮丧的,感到失望或惊恐的
- ferocious
- 凶猛的,极其强烈或残酷的
- indifference
- 冷漠,对事物缺乏兴趣或关心
- drums
- 鼓;敲击;drum的复数
- destiny
- 命运,注定要发生的事情
- despising
- 鄙视,轻蔑地看待某人或某事
- janitor
- 看门人,负责清洁维护的工人
- pay
- 支付,给予报酬或费用
- drifted
- 漂流,随意移动,无目的游荡
- searching
- 搜寻,认真寻找某物
- yacht
- 游艇,供娱乐用的豪华帆船或汽船
- dropped
- 落下,放下,下降
- anchor
- 锚,固定船只使其不漂移的器具
- shallows
- 浅水区,水位较低的区域
- alongshore
- 沿岸地,靠近海岸线的方向
- product
- 产物,某地或某过程的结果
- silver
- 银,贵重金属,银色的
- fields
- 矿区;田野;field的复数
- rush
- 淘金热,大批人涌向某地的浪潮
- metal
- 金属,具有光泽和导电性的物质
- transactions
- 交易,商业行为或业务往来
- copper
- 铜,红色金属,导电性好
- millionaire
- 百万富翁,拥有巨额财富的人
- physically
- 身体上,从身体或物质角度来说
- robust
- 强健的,身体结实精力充沛的
- verge
- 边缘,接近某种状态的临界点
- soft-mindedness
- 意志薄弱,头脑不坚定易受影响
- suspecting
- 怀疑,猜测某事可能为真
- infinite
- 无限的,数量极多无法计数的
- separate
- 分开,使……与……脱离
- none
- 没有一个,没有任何人或物
- savoury
- 体面的,名誉良好的;咸香的
- ramifications
- 后果,复杂的衍生影响或结果
- newspaper
- 报纸,刊载新闻的定期出版物
- weakness
- 弱点,缺点,软弱的地方
- common
- 共同的,普通的,大众的
- property
- 财产,所有物,共有资产
- turgid
- 夸张浮华的,文笔浮肿做作的
- journalism
- 新闻业,从事新闻采编写作的行业
- coasting
- 沿岸航行;轻松漫无目的地进行
- hospitable
- 好客的,热情款待他人的
- shores
- 海岸,岸边,shore的复数
- Bay
- 海湾,三面被陆地环绕的水域
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