《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter VI》第4节
To young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, that yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world. I suppose he smiled at Cody—he had probably discovered that people liked him when he smiled. At any rate Cody asked him a few questions (one of them elicited the brand new name) and found that he was quick and extravagantly ambitious. A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pairs of white duck trousers, and a yachting cap. And when the Tuolomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast, Gatsby left too. He was employed in a vague personal capacity—while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about, and he provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby. The arrangement lasted five years, during which the boat went three times around the Continent. It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died.
注释摘要
这一段是盖茨比人生真正的开端，也是他那套自我神话的起点。尼克在这里不讲那些夸张的谣言了，他直接给出了一个确切的场景：年轻的詹姆斯·盖兹——一个穿着破运动衫和帆布裤、在苏必利尔湖边闲荡的穷小子——正靠在船桨上，仰头望着丹·科迪那艘游艇的栏杆甲板。 “To young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at th…