The Great Gatsby — Page 115

间接地说，正是科迪让盖茨比滴酒不沾。

It was indirectly due to Cody that Gatsby drank so little.

有时在热闹的派对上，女人们会把香槟揉进他的头发里；而他自己则养成了远离烈酒的习惯。

Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone.

他从科迪那里继承了一笔钱——两万五千美元的遗产。

And it was from Cody that he inherited money—a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars.

但他没能得到这笔钱。

He didn't get it.

他始终不明白那个被用来对付他的法律手段，但那数百万遗产中剩余的部分完整地落入了艾拉·凯伊之手。

He never understood the legal device that was used against him, but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye.

他只得到了那段异常贴切的教育经历；杰·盖茨比那模糊的轮廓，已经充实成了一个真实男人的血肉之躯。

He was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man.

这一切他都是很久以后才告诉我的，但我在这里把它写下来，是为了戳穿那些关于他出身的最初的荒诞谣言——那些谣言连一点真实性都没有。

He told me all this very much later, but I've put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumours about his antecedents, which weren't even faintly true.

况且，他是在一个令我困惑的时刻告诉我的，那时我已经到了对他什么都信、又什么都不信的地步。

Moreover he told it to me at a time of confusion, when I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him.

所以我趁着这短暂的间歇——盖茨比可以说是喘了口气的时候——借机澄清这一系列的误解。

So I take advantage of this short halt, while Gatsby, so to speak, caught his breath, to clear this set of misconceptions away.

这也是我与他的那些事务之间的一段空白。

It was a halt, too, in my association with his affairs.

好几个星期我既没见到他，也没在电话里听到他的声音——我大多数时间都在纽约，跟着乔丹四处奔走，努力讨好她那个老糊涂的姨妈——但最终，在一个周日的下午，我还是去了他家。

For several weeks I didn't see him or hear his voice on the phone—mostly I was in New York, trotting around with Jordan and trying to ingratiate myself with her senile aunt—but finally I went over to his house one Sunday afternoon.

我到那儿还不到两分钟，就有人带着汤姆·布坎南进来喝酒。

I hadn't been there two minutes when somebody brought Tom Buchanan in for a drink.