《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter V》第11节
“Oh, hello, old sport,” he said, as if he hadn’t seen me for years. I thought for a moment he was going to shake hands. “It’s stopped raining.” “Has it?” When he realized what I was talking about, that there were twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room, he smiled like a weather man, like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light, and repeated the news to Daisy. “What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining.” “I’m glad, Jay.” Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy. “I want you and Daisy to come over to my house,” he said, “I’d like to show her around.” “You’re sure you want me to come?” “Absolutely, old sport.” Daisy went upstairs to wash her face—too late I thought with humiliation of my towels—while Gatsby and I waited on the lawn. “My house looks well, doesn’t it?” he demanded. “See how the whole front of it catches the light.” I agreed that it was splendid. “Yes.” His eyes went over it, every arched door and square tower. “It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it.” “I thought you inherited your money.” “I did, old sport,” he said automatically, “but I lost most of it in the big panic—the panic of the war.”
注释摘要
尼克从后门绕回屋里，看到的几乎是一个换了个人似的盖茨比。他那句“哦，你好，老兄”说得仿佛我们是多年不见的老友，我甚至以为他要跟我握手了。接着他像个孩子一样宣布雨停了。当他真的意识到房间里跳动着阳光时，他像个天气预报员那样笑了——像个狂喜的、宣告光明重回大地的人，把这个消息郑重地转告黛西。黛西只说了一句“我很高兴，杰伊”，但叙述者用了一个精彩的细节：她说的这…