《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter I》第24节
Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich—nevertheless, I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away. It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house, child in arms—but apparently there were no such intentions in her head. As for Tom, the fact that he “had some woman in New York” was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages, where new red petrol-pumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard. The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life. The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight, and, turning my head to watch it, I saw that I was not alone—fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbour’s mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars. Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.
注释摘要
尼克驾车离开布坎农家，此刻心里翻涌着一团矛盾的感受。汤姆和黛西对他婚约传言的关心，让他觉得这两人突然间亲切了一点，不再是那种高不可攀的有钱人。可紧跟着的句子，那个“nevertheless”一转，透露了他真正的内心——困惑，还有一点厌恶。 这份厌恶感直接引出一个很有分量的内心评论：在尼克看来，黛西此刻理所应当做的事，是抱着孩子冲出这栋房子。这个念头一下子把…