《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter IV》第2节
Clarence Endive was from East Egg, as I remember. He came only once, in white knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum named Etty in the garden. From farther out on the Island came the Cheadles and the O. R. P. Schraeders, and the Stonewall Jackson Abrams of Georgia, and the Fishguards and the Ripley Snells. Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett’s automobile ran over his right hand. The Dancies came, too, and S. B. Whitebait, who was well over sixty, and Maurice A. Flink, and the Hammerheads, and Beluga the tobacco importer, and Beluga’s girls. From West Egg came the Poles and the Mulreadys and Cecil Roebuck and Cecil Schoen and Gulick the State senator and Newton Orchid, who controlled Films Par Excellence, and Eckhaust and Clyde Cohen and Don S. Schwartz (the son) and Arthur McCarty, all connected with the movies in one way or another. And the Catlips and the Bembergs and G. Earl Muldoon, brother to that Muldoon who afterward strangled his wife. Da Fontano the promoter came there, and Ed Legros and James B. (“Rot-Gut”) Ferret and the De Jongs and Ernest Lilly—they came to gamble, and when Ferret wandered into the garden it meant he was cleaned out and Associated Traction would have to fluctuate profitably next day.
注释摘要
尼克在这里继续着他那份著名的宾客清单，口气好像在念一份警方通报或者社交专栏，冷冷淡淡，却把每个人的底细都翻了出来。克拉伦斯·恩迪夫只来过一次，穿着白色灯笼裤，在花园里和一个叫埃蒂的流浪汉打架——“灯笼裤”这个细节极其刻薄，它属于上流社会的运动装束，却被穿来打架，暗示着这些东卵来的“体面人”举止未必比一个流浪汉更文明。接着是一串从长岛更远处来的人物，名字被尼…