《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter I》第23节
“Did I?” She looked at me. “I can’t seem to remember, but I think we talked about the Nordic race. Yes, I’m sure we did. It sort of crept up on us and first thing you know—” “Don’t believe everything you hear, Nick,” he advised me. I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home. They came to the door with me and stood side by side in a cheerful square of light. As I started my motor Daisy peremptorily called: “Wait! “I forgot to ask you something, and it’s important. We heard you were engaged to a girl out West.” “That’s right,” corroborated Tom kindly. “We heard that you were engaged.” “It’s a libel. I’m too poor.” “But we heard it,” insisted Daisy, surprising me by opening up again in a flower-like way. “We heard it from three people, so it must be true.” Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn’t even vaguely engaged. The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come East. You can’t stop going with an old friend on account of rumours, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumoured into marriage.
注释摘要
这段对话发生在布坎南家的门厅，尼克正要告辞。汤姆突然问黛西：“你在走廊上跟尼克交心了吗？”黛西先是装傻，然后轻飘飘地接住了这个话题。她说自己记不清了，但觉得他们聊的是北欧种族——这当然是胡扯。真正在餐桌上大谈“白种人将被淹没”、“我们是北欧人”的人恰恰是汤姆本人，黛西此刻故意把丈夫那套令人生厌的种族理论抬出来，语带调侃。她的句子还没说完，“不知怎么就聊到了…