《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter IV》第12节
“Highballs?” asked the head waiter. “This is a nice restaurant here,” said Mr. Wolfshiem, looking at the presbyterian nymphs on the ceiling. “But I like across the street better!” “Yes, highballs,” agreed Gatsby, and then to Mr. Wolfshiem: “It’s too hot over there.” “Hot and small—yes,” said Mr. Wolfshiem, “but full of memories.” “What place is that?” I asked. “The old Metropole.” “The old Metropole,” brooded Mr. Wolfshiem gloomily. “Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can’t forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there. It was six of us at the table, and Rosy had eat and drunk a lot all evening. When it was almost morning the waiter came up to him with a funny look and says somebody wants to speak to him outside. ‘All right,’ says Rosy, and begins to get up, and I pulled him down in his chair. “ ‘Let the bastards come in here if they want you, Rosy, but don’t you, so help me, move outside this room.’ “It was four o’clock in the morning then, and if we’d of raised the blinds we’d of seen daylight.” “Did he go?” I asked innocently.
注释摘要
这一段发生在正午的餐厅里，头盘都还没上，只冒出来一句侍者问要不要高杯酒，但真正的戏在沃尔夫山姆身上。他先是嫌眼下的餐厅不够好——倒不是差，而是“马路对面那家”更好。尼克完全不知道对面是什么地方，于是带出了“老都会”这个名字。 沃尔夫山姆说起“老都会”时，语气一下子从抱怨变成了沉重的缅怀。他念出“老都会”这三个字时，菲茨杰拉德用的动词是 brooded，阴郁…