The Great Gatsby — Page 196
吉米把它寄给我的。我觉得这是一张非常漂亮的照片，拍得很好。
Jimmy sent it to me. I think it's a very pretty picture. It shows up well.
非常好。你最近见过他吗？
Very well. Had you seen him lately?
两年前他来看过我，还给我买了我现在住的这栋房子。当然，他离家出走的时候我们都很心碎，但我现在明白了，他那么做是有原因的。他知道自己前途无量。而且自从他闯出名堂之后，对我一直非常慷慨。
He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now. Of course we was broke up when he run off from home, but I see now there was a reason for it. He knew he had a big future in front of him. And ever since he made a success he was very generous with me.
他似乎不舍得把照片收起来，又在我眼前恋恋不舍地多看了一会儿，才把钱包放回去，从口袋里掏出一本破旧的书，书名叫《无敌神枪手》。
He seemed reluctant to put away the picture, held it for another minute, lingeringly, before my eyes. Then he returned the wallet and pulled from his pocket a ragged old copy of a book called Hopalong Cassidy.
「你看，这是他小时候看的一本书，真是说明了一切。」
"Look here, this is a book he had when he was a boy. It just shows you."
他翻到封底，转过来给我看。最后一张空白页上印着「计划表」几个字，以及1906年9月12日的日期。下面写着：
He opened it at the back cover and turned it around for me to see. On the last flyleaf was printed the word schedule, and the date September 12, 1906. And underneath:
起床 上午6:00
Rise from bed 6:00 a.m.
哑铃练习与攀墙训练 6:15–6:30
Dumbell exercise and wall-scaling 6:15-6:30 "
学习电学等科目 7:15–8:15
Study electricity, etc. 7:15-8:15 "
工作 上午8:30–下午4:30
Work 8:30-4:30 p.m.
棒球与体育运动 4:30–5:00
Baseball and sports 4:30-5:00 "
练习演讲、仪态及提升之道 5:00–6:00
Practise elocution, poise and how to attain it 5:00-6:00 "
研究有用的发明 晚上7:00–9:00
Study needed inventions 7:00-9:00 "
总体决心
General Resolves
不在沙福特那里或【某人名，难以辨认】处虚度光阴
No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indecipherable]
不再吸烟或嚼烟草
No more smokeing or chewing.
Vocabulary
- sent
- send的过去式，表示发送或寄出
- pretty
- 形容词，表示漂亮的、美丽的
- picture
- 名词，指图片、照片或画作
- lately
- 副词，表示最近、近来
- broke
- 形容词，俚语，表示身无分文、破产
- reason
- 名词，表示原因、理由
- future
- 名词，表示未来、前途
- success
- 名词，表示成功、成就
- generous
- 形容词，表示慷慨大方、乐于给予
- seemed
- 动词，seem的过去式，表示似乎、好像
- reluctant
- 形容词，表示不情愿的、勉强的
- held
- hold的过去式，表示握住、持着
- lingeringly
- 副词，表示留恋地、久久不舍地
- returned
- 动词，return的过去式，表示归还或返回
- wallet
- 名词，表示钱包，用于存放钱和证件
- 名词，表示口袋、衣兜
- ragged
- 形容词，表示破旧的、磨损的
- copy
- 名词，表示（书的）一本，副本
- cover
- 名词，表示书的封面或封底
- flyleaf
- 名词，指书籍前后的空白页
- schedule
- 名词，表示时间表、日程安排
- underneath
- 介词或副词，表示在……下面、下方
- Rise
- 动词，表示起床、起身
- a.m
- 缩写，表示上午、午前时间
- Dumbell
- 名词，即dumbbell，哑铃，健身器材
- exercise
- 名词或动词，表示锻炼、运动
- wall-scaling
- 名词，表示爬墙训练、攀爬练习
- electricity
- 名词，表示电学、电力
- etc
- 缩写，et cetera，表示等等、诸如此类
- p.m
- 缩写，表示下午、午后时间
- Baseball
- 名词，表示棒球运动
- Practise
- 动词，表示练习、实践（英式拼写）
- elocution
- 名词，表示演讲术、口才训练
- poise
- 名词，表示仪态、沉稳的气质
- attain
- 动词，表示达到、获得某目标
- inventions
- 名词复数，表示发明、创造物
- General
- 形容词，表示总体的、通用的
- Resolves
- 名词复数，表示决心、决议事项
- wasting
- 动词，waste的现在分词，表示浪费
- indecipherable
- 形容词，表示无法辨认的、难以破译的
- smokeing
- 动词，smoking的错误拼写，表示吸烟
- chewing
- 动词，表示咀嚼，此处指嚼烟草
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