《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter VII》第10节
“I can’t say anything in his house, old sport.” “She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of—” I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it … High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl … Tom came out of the house wrapping a quart bottle in a towel, followed by Daisy and Jordan wearing small tight hats of metallic cloth and carrying light capes over their arms. “Shall we all go in my car?” suggested Gatsby. He felt the hot, green leather of the seat. “I ought to have left it in the shade.” “Is it standard shift?” demanded Tom. “Yes.” “Well, you take my coupé and let me drive your car to town.” The suggestion was distasteful to Gatsby. “I don’t think there’s much gas,” he objected. “Plenty of gas,” said Tom boisterously. He looked at the gauge. “And if it runs out I can stop at a drugstore. You can buy anything at a drugstore nowadays.” A pause followed this apparently pointless remark. Daisy looked at Tom frowning, and an indefinable expression, at once definitely unfamiliar and vaguely recognizable, as if I had only heard it described in words, passed over Gatsby’s face.
注释摘要
这一段发生在布坎南家的门廊上，汤姆刚刚进屋去拿威士忌，留下尼克和盖茨比站在灼热的碎石车道上。盖茨比先开口，他对尼克说：“我在他家里什么也不能说，老兄。”这句话很关键——在汤姆的地盘上，盖茨比丧失了他在自己豪宅里那种掌控一切的魔力。财富与财富之间是有等级秩序的，继承来的东卵财富此刻正无声地压制着盖茨比贩私酒聚敛起来的西卵财富，盖茨比感受到了这一点。尼克试图把…