The Great Gatsby — Page 168
然而，无论他作为盖茨比的未来多么辉煌，他眼下不过是一个没有过去的穷小子，随时都可能从肩上滑落那件无形的军装外衣。
However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders.
于是他充分利用了眼前的时光。
So he made the most of his time.
他贪婪而肆无忌惮地索取一切能得到的东西——最终，在一个寂静的十月夜晚，他占有了黛西，只因他根本没有资格触碰她的手。
He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously—eventually he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand.
他本该鄙视自己，因为他确实是以虚假的借口得到了她。
He might have despised himself, for he had certainly taken her under false pretences.
我并不是说他用那些子虚乌有的百万家财来欺骗她，而是说他蓄意让黛西产生了一种安全感；
I don't mean that he had traded on his phantom millions, but he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security;
他让她相信他与她出身相近，完全有能力照料她。
he let her believe that he was a person from much the same strata as herself—that he was fully able to take care of her.
而事实上，他根本没有这样的条件——他身后没有殷实的家族作为依靠，随时可能因某个冷漠政府的一时兴起而被派往世界任何角落。
As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities—he had no comfortable family standing behind him, and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world.
但他并没有鄙视自己，事情也没有按他所设想的方向发展。
But he didn't despise himself and it didn't turn out as he had imagined.
他原本大概打算得到他所能得到的，然后离去——但他现在发现，自己已然投身于对一只圣杯的追寻之中。
He had intended, probably, to take what he could and go—but now he found that he had committed himself to the following of a grail.
他知道黛西是个不寻常的女子，但他没有意识到，一个"好人家的"女孩究竟能有多么不寻常。
He knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn't realize just how extraordinary a "nice" girl could be.
她消失在她那富丽的豪宅里，消失进那丰盈而充实的富贵生活中，只留给盖茨比——一无所有。
She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby—nothing.
他感到自己已与她结为夫妻，如此而已。
He felt married to her, that was all.
Vocabulary
- However
- 尽管如此，表示转折的连词
- glorious
- 辉煌的，令人骄傲的，极好的
- might
- 可能；也可表示力量或能力
- future
- 未来，将来的时间或前途
- present
- 现在，目前；也指礼物或出席
- penniless
- 身无分文的，极度贫穷的
- past
- 过去，以前的经历或历史
- moment
- 瞬间，某一时刻
- invisible
- 看不见的，无形的，隐形的
- cloak
- 披风，斗篷；也比喻掩盖物
- uniform
- 制服，军装；统一的外观
- slip
- 滑落，悄悄离开或脱落
- ravenously
- 贪婪地，如饥似渴地，极度渴望地
- unscrupulously
- 无所顾忌地，不择手段地
- eventually
- 最终，终究，到最后
- still
- 静止的，宁静的；仍然
- right
- 权利；正确的；右边
- despised
- 鄙视，蔑视，非常看不起
- certainly
- 当然，确实，毫无疑问地
- false
- 虚假的，错误的，欺骗性的
- pretences
- 借口，假象，伪装（英式复数）
- mean
- 意思是；吝啬的；卑鄙的
- traded
- 交易，利用……做买卖
- phantom
- 幻影，虚幻的，不真实的
- millions
- 数百万，巨额财富
- deliberately
- 故意地，蓄意地，有意为之
- sense
- 感觉，意识；感官
- security
- 安全感，保障，稳定
- strata
- 阶层，层次（stratum的复数）
- fully
- 完全地，充分地
- matter
- 事情，问题；as a matter of fact即事实上
- facilities
- 设施，条件，便利资源
- comfortable
- 舒适的，安逸的
- standing
- 地位，声望；持续的状态
- liable
- 可能会，易于……的，有责任的
- whim
- 突发奇想，一时的冲动
- impersonal
- 非个人的，冷漠无情的
- government
- 政府，国家管理机构
- despise
- 鄙视，轻蔑，瞧不起某人
- imagined
- 想象，设想；imagine的过去式
- intended
- 打算，有意，intend的过去式
- probably
- 可能，大概，很有可能
- committed
- 致力于，投身于；犯下
- following
- 跟随，追随；接下来的
- grail
- 圣杯，指难以实现的理想目标
- extraordinary
- 非凡的，不寻常的，令人惊叹的
- realize
- 意识到，认识到，实现
- vanished
- 消失，不见踪影，突然消失
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