The Great Gatsby — Page 167
我想他现在会承认任何事情，毫无保留，但他想谈的是黛西。
I think that he would have acknowledged anything now, without reserve, but he wanted to talk about Daisy.
她是他认识的第一个"好人家"的女孩。
She was the first "nice" girl he had ever known.
他以各种不为人知的身份与这样的人有过接触，但中间始终隔着一道看不见的铁丝网。
In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between.
他觉得她令人心动，令人渴望。
He found her excitingly desirable.
他去她家，起初是和泰勒军营的其他军官一起，后来便独自前往。
He went to her house, at first with other officers from Camp Taylor, then alone.
这让他惊叹不已——他从未踏入过如此美丽的房子。
It amazed him—he had never been in such a beautiful house before.
但赋予这座房子一种令人屏息的紧张气息的，是黛西住在这里——这对她来说不过是寻常小事，就像他营地里的帐篷对他而言一样平常。
But what gave it an air of breathless intensity, was that Daisy lived there—it was as casual a thing to her as his tent out at camp was to him.
这里有一种成熟的神秘气息，隐约暗示着楼上的卧室比别处更美丽清凉，走廊间洋溢着欢快明媚的活动，还有那些并不陈旧、也未被束之高阁的浪漫故事，而是鲜活的、有呼吸的，散发着今年闪亮新车的气息，以及那些花朵几乎尚未凋零的舞会的芬芳。
There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors, and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year's shining motorcars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered.
还有一件事也让他兴奋——许多男人曾经爱过黛西，这在他眼中提升了她的价值。
It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy—it increased her value in his eyes.
他感觉到那些男人的存在萦绕在屋子的每个角落，用那些依然颤动的情感的余韵与回声弥漫在空气之中。
He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions.
但他清楚，他能置身于黛西的家中，不过是一场巨大的意外。
But he knew that he was in Daisy's house by a colossal accident.
Vocabulary
- think
- 认为，思考，动词
- would
- 表示过去的意愿或假设情况
- acknowledged
- 承认，认可某事为真实
- anything
- 任何事情，任何东西
- without
- 没有，不带，介词
- reserve
- 保留；克制；此处指有所保留或顾虑
- ever
- 曾经，从来，副词
- various
- 各种各样的，多种多样的
- unrevealed
- 未透露的，未公开的身份或角色
- capacities
- 身份，职能，能力，名词复数
- contact
- 接触，联系，名词或动词
- such
- 这样的，如此的，限定词
- indiscernible
- 难以察觉的，看不出来的
- barbed
- 带刺的，尖刻的，形容词
- wire
- 铁丝，电线，名词
- excitingly
- 令人激动地，兴奋地，副词
- desirable
- 令人渴望的，吸引人的
- officers
- 军官，官员，名词复数
- Camp
- 营地，军营，名词
- alone
- 独自，单独，形容词或副词
- amazed
- 使惊讶，使震惊，动词过去式
- air
- 空气；气氛，气质，名词
- breathless
- 令人屏息的，紧张激动的
- intensity
- 强烈程度，紧张感，名词
- casual
- 随意的，非正式的，形容词
- tent
- 帐篷，军营帐篷，名词
- camp
- 营地，军营，名词
- ripe
- 成熟的，充满的，形容词
- mystery
- 神秘感，谜，名词
- hint
- 暗示，提示，名词或动词
- bedrooms
- 卧室，名词复数
- upstairs
- 楼上，在楼上，副词或形容词
- gay
- 欢乐的，快乐的（旧义），形容词
- radiant
- 容光焕发的，光彩照人的
- activities
- 活动，行动，名词复数
- corridors
- 走廊，过道，名词复数
- romances
- 浪漫情事，恋情，名词复数
- musty
- 发霉的，陈腐的，形容词
- already
- 已经，副词
- lavender
- 薰衣草；淡紫色，名词或形容词
- breathing
- 呼吸的，充满生气的，形容词
- redolent
- 散发香气的，令人联想到的
- shining
- 闪亮的，光鲜的，形容词
- motorcars
- 汽车，轿车，名词复数（旧式用词）
- whose
- 谁的，其……的，关系代词所有格
- scarcely
- 几乎不，勉强，副词
- withered
- 枯萎的，凋谢的，动词过去式
- increased
- 增加的，增大的，形容词或过去式
- value
- 价值，重要性，名词
- presence
- 存在，出席，在场，名词
- pervading
- 弥漫的，遍布的，形容词
- shades
- 阴影，幽灵，色调，名词复数
- echoes
- 回声，回响，名词复数
- still
- 仍然，静止的，副词或形容词
- vibrant
- 充满活力的，振动的，形容词
- emotions
- 情感，情绪，名词复数
- colossal
- 巨大的，庞大的，形容词
- accident
- 意外，事故，偶然事件
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