了不起的蓋茨比
二十世紀二十年代的美國,紙醉金迷。富豪蓋茨比的家中每晚盛宴流觴,極盡奢靡。偶然的機會下尼克闖入了蓋茨比隱秘的世界,驚訝地是奢華的生活並沒有讓這個神秘起家的男人舒顏;相反他深深牽掛著早年因貧寒而分手的女友黛西。蓋茨比原以為如今的財富可以搶回黛西。然而,殘酷現實粉碎了蓋茨比的理想,葬送了他的性命。
1. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
每當你覺得想要批評什麼人的時候,你切要記著,這個世界上的人並非都具備你稟有的條件。
2.There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
世界上只有被追求者和追求者,忙碌者和疲憊者。
3.I couldn't sleep all night; a fog-horn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams.
我整夜沒睡;霧笛聲一個勁兒在桑德海灣上悽惻地鳴響,我輾轉反側,像生了病一樣,理不清哪些是猙獰的現實,哪些是可怕的夢魘。
4.She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby—nothing.
她消逝在了她那奢華的房子裡,消逝在了她那富裕充實的生活之中,留給蓋茨比的——只是一無所有。
5.So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
為此,我們將頂住那不停地退回到過去的潮頭奮力向前。