The Great Gatsby — Page 151
「我是认真的，」她费力地说。
"I am, though," she said with a visible effort.
「她不会离开我的！」汤姆的话语突然压向盖茨比。「她绝对不会为了一个卑鄙的骗子而离开我——那种人连给她戴的戒指都要靠偷。」
"She's not leaving me!" Tom's words suddenly leaned down over Gatsby. "Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger."
「我不能忍受这个！」黛西哭喊道。「哦，求求你们，我们走吧。」
"I won't stand this!" cried Daisy. "Oh, please let's get out."
「你到底是什么人？」汤姆爆发出来。「你是那群跟迈耶·沃夫谢姆混在一起的人之一——这一点我恰好知道。我已经对你的事情做了一些调查——明天我会进一步追查。」
"Who are you, anyhow?" broke out Tom. "You're one of that bunch that hangs around with Meyer Wolfshiem—that much I happen to know. I've made a little investigation into your affairs—and I'll carry it further tomorrow."
「那件事你可以自己做主，老伙计，」盖茨比平静地说。
"You can suit yourself about that, old sport," said Gatsby steadily.
「我查出了你那些'药店'是怎么回事。」他转向我们，快速地说道。「他和这个沃夫谢姆在这里和芝加哥收购了许多街边小药店，在柜台上出售谷物酒精。这只是他的小把戏之一。我第一次见到他就认定他是个私酒贩子，而我猜得没错。」
"I found out what your 'drugstores' were." He turned to us and spoke rapidly. "He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drugstores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong."
「那又怎样？」盖茨比礼貌地说。「我猜你的朋友沃尔特·蔡斯并不太自傲，还不是照样参与其中。」
"What about it?" said Gatsby politely. "I guess your friend Walter Chase wasn't too proud to come in on it."
「而你把他抛弃了，不是吗？你让他在新泽西坐了一个月的牢。天哪！你应该听听沃尔特是怎么评价你的。」
"And you left him in the lurch, didn't you? You let him go to jail for a month over in New Jersey. God! You ought to hear Walter on the subject of you."
「他来找我们的时候身无分文。他很乐意捞点钱，老伙计。」
"He came to us dead broke. He was very glad to pick up some money, old sport."
「不要叫我'老伙计'！」汤姆喊道。盖茨比没有说话。
"Don't you call me 'old sport'!" cried Tom. Gatsby said nothing.
Vocabulary
- though
- 虽然，尽管，表示让步关系
- visible
- 可见的，明显的，看得出来的
- effort
- 努力，费力，尽力做某事
- suddenly
- 突然地，出乎意料地发生
- leaned
- lean的过去式，身体向前倾斜
- Certainly
- 当然，确实，表示肯定语气
- common
- 普通的，平庸的，低俗的
- swindler
- 骗子，诈骗者，欺诈他人的人
- steal
- 偷窃，盗取他人财物
- ring
- 戒指，佩戴在手指上的饰物
- finger
- 手指，手上的五根指头之一
- stand
- 忍受，容忍，承受某种情况
- cried
- cry的过去式，大声喊叫或哭泣
- anyhow
- 无论如何，到底，究竟
- broke
- break的过去式，此处指打断话语
- bunch
- 一群人，一帮，一伙人
- hangs
- hang around的第三人称，厮混
- happen
- 发生，碰巧，偶然出现
- investigation
- 调查，侦查，深入了解某事
- affairs
- 事务，事情，个人的活动与行为
- carry
- 继续推进，carry it further指深入
- further
- 更进一步，更深入地进行
- suit
- 适合，suit yourself指随你便
- sport
- 老兄，old sport是一种亲切称呼
- steadily
- 平稳地，稳定地，不慌不忙地
- drugstores
- 药店，美国兼售杂货的药房
- rapidly
- 迅速地，快速地，急促地
- side-street
- 小街，侧街，非主干道的街道
- grain
- 谷物，粮食，grain alcohol指谷物酒精
- alcohol
- 酒精，含酒精的饮料或化学物质
- counter
- 柜台，over the counter指在柜台出售
- stunts
- 花招，把戏，不寻常的手段或行为
- bootlegger
- 私酒贩子，非法销售酒精的人
- politely
- 礼貌地，客气地，有礼貌地
- guess
- 猜测，推测，估计某件事
- proud
- 骄傲的，自尊的，傲慢的
- lurch
- 困境，left in the lurch指被遗弃
- jail
- 监狱，关押犯人的场所
- ought
- 应该，ought to表示应当做某事
- subject
- 话题，主题，所谈论的内容
- dead
- 死的，死亡，已不存在的
- glad
- 高兴的，愉快的，乐意的
- pick
- 挑选，pick up指捡起或利用
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