《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter II》第13节
“Do you live down on Long Island, too?” she inquired. “I live at West Egg.” “Really? I was down there at a party about a month ago. At a man named Gatsby’s. Do you know him?” “I live next door to him.” “Well, they say he’s a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm’s. That’s where all his money comes from.” “Really?” She nodded. “I’m scared of him. I’d hate to have him get anything on me.” This absorbing information about my neighbour was interrupted by Mrs. McKee’s pointing suddenly at Catherine: “Chester, I think you could do something with her,” she broke out, but Mr. McKee only nodded in a bored way, and turned his attention to Tom. “I’d like to do more work on Long Island, if I could get the entry. All I ask is that they should give me a start.” “Ask Myrtle,” said Tom, breaking into a short shout of laughter as Mrs. Wilson entered with a tray. “She’ll give you a letter of introduction, won’t you, Myrtle?” “Do what?” she asked, startled. “You’ll give McKee a letter of introduction to your husband, so he can do some studies of him.” His lips moved silently for a moment as he invented, “ ‘George B. Wilson at the Gasoline Pump,’ or something like that.”
注释摘要
这一段对话发生在纽约那套公寓里，彼时房间里已经挤满了人，气氛正从午后昏昏欲睡的酒精暖意，转向某种更嘈杂、更涣散的状态。尼克刚刚从沙发角落里被凯瑟琳搭话。凯瑟琳是梅特尔·威尔逊的妹妹，一个“瘦削、世故、大约三十岁的女孩”，留着“硬邦邦的红色短发”，脸上一层“粉白”的妆容，眉毛拔掉又画过，带着一种刻意修补反而更显模糊的风尘气。她问尼克是否也住在长岛，尼克答在西…