《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter V》第10节
After half an hour, the sun shone again, and the grocer’s automobile rounded Gatsby’s drive with the raw material for his servants’ dinner—I felt sure he wouldn’t eat a spoonful. A maid began opening the upper windows of his house, appeared momentarily in each, and, leaning from the large central bay, spat meditatively into the garden. It was time I went back. While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little now and then with gusts of emotion. But in the new silence I felt that silence had fallen within the house too. I went in—after making every possible noise in the kitchen, short of pushing over the stove—but I don’t believe they heard a sound. They were sitting at either end of the couch, looking at each other as if some question had been asked, or was in the air, and every vestige of embarrassment was gone. Daisy’s face was smeared with tears, and when I came in she jumped up and began wiping at it with her handkerchief before a mirror. But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.
注释摘要
尼克在树下躲了半小时雨后，太阳出来了。杂货店的汽车驶进盖茨比的车道，送来仆人晚餐的食材——叙述者补了一句自己的判断：他确信盖茨比一口也吃不下。这时盖茨比宅子的上层窗户被女仆一一打开，她逐个窗口探出身来，最后倚在中央的大飘窗上，若有所思地朝花园啐了一口唾沫。尼克觉得该回去了。刚才下雨时，雨声听起来像是屋内两人说话的喃喃声，偶尔随情绪波动而升高增强；此刻雨停之…