《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter IV》第17节
When he saw us Tom jumped up and took half a dozen steps in our direction. “Where’ve you been?” he demanded eagerly. “Daisy’s furious because you haven’t called up.” “This is Mr. Gatsby, Mr. Buchanan.” They shook hands briefly, and a strained, unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby’s face. “How’ve you been, anyhow?” demanded Tom of me. “How’d you happen to come up this far to eat?” “I’ve been having lunch with Mr. Gatsby.” I turned toward Mr. Gatsby, but he was no longer there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ One October day in nineteen-seventeen— (said Jordan Baker that afternoon, sitting up very straight on a straight chair in the tea-garden at the Plaza Hotel) —I was walking along from one place to another, half on the sidewalks and half on the lawns. I was happier on the lawns because I had on shoes from England with rubber knobs on the soles that bit into the soft ground. I had on a new plaid skirt also that blew a little in the wind, and whenever this happened the red, white, and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out stiff and said tut-tut-tut-tut, in a disapproving way. The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay’s house. She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster, and all day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night. “Anyways, for an hour!”
注释摘要
这一节在餐厅里突然把两个世界撞在了一起。尼克刚和盖茨比、沃尔夫山姆吃完饭，一转身看见汤姆·布坎南，事情立刻变得微妙起来。汤姆的反应是“跳起来”向尼克走了好几步，问话的口气是急切而带有质问性质的——他去哪儿了，黛西因为他没打电话都生气了。这里透露出汤姆对尼克的某种理所当然的掌控感，仿佛尼克的行为需要向他交代。紧接着尼克介绍盖茨比和汤姆认识，两人短暂握手，而盖…