Chapter3-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《了不起的盖茨比The Great Gatsby》

CHAPTER3 There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths^{①} among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft^{②}, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motorboats slit the waters of the Sound drawing aquaplanes③} over cataracts^{④} of foam. On weekends his RollsRoyce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered{} like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled{} all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York -- every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid^{} of pulpless^{} halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract{} the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers^{} came down with several .072: 第三章 整个夏日的夜晚,我邻居的宅郎都会传出音乐声。 ①moth [mo]n. 飞蛾 他那蓝色的花园里,充满着欢声笑语,香嫔美酒,还有 闪烁的繁星。男男女女犹如飞蛾一般,在那中间来回穿 ② raft [ra:ft]n. 浮台 梭。下午涨潮时,我注视着他的客人们从浮台上跳水, 或者躺在属于他的海滩的热沙上晒太阳,而他的那两艘 ③ aquaplane ['aekwaplein]nt 汽艇则拖着滑水板在长岛海峡水域迎着翻腾的浪花前 滑水板 行。每逢周末,他的那辆劳斯莱斯便成了公共汽车, ④ cataract I'kaetoraekt] n. 大 瀑布 从上午力点到深更半夜来往城里,接送客人。而他那辆 scamper ['skaempalv. 步 旅行车好像一只敏捷的黄色甲壳虫,风驰电犁地开去为 子小而轻地奔跑 每一趟火车接站。到了星期一,八个仆人,包括一位临 toil [toil]v 长时间辛苦工 # 时请来的园丁,要用拖把、硬毛刷子、锤子和修枝剪辛 苦劳作一天,收拾头一天晚上留下的残局。 到了星期五,有人会从纽约的一家水果店里送来 五佳橘子和檬一而到了星期一,对半切开榨干了内 pyramid [piramid] n. 金 的橘子和檬被遗弃在宅郎后门口,堆成了一座金字 字塔 ⑧ pulpless I'palplas] a. 干燥 塔。厨房里有一台机器,管家只需要用拇指在机器的一 的 个小按纽上按上二百次,半个小时之内就可以把二百个 extract I'ekstraekt]v 榨取 o caterer I'keitoral n. 酒席 橘子榨成果汗 承办人 每两个星期中至少有一次,一帮训练有素专门承 劳斯莱斯(Rolls-Royce)是世界顶级豪华轿车品牌,1906年成立 于英国,公司创始人是弗里德里克·亨利·莱斯(FrederickHenry Royce,1863-1933)和查尔斯·斯图尔特·劳斯(CharlesStewar Rolls,1877-1910)。劳斯莱斯轿车是顶级汽车的杰出代表,以豪华 而享誉全球。 .073· CHAPTER3 hundred feet of canvas{①} and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden. On buffet^{②} tables, garnished^{③} with glistening hors d'oeuvre{}, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin{} designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials*}so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another. By seven o'clock the orchestra^{}has arrived, no thin five-piece affair. but a whole pitful of oboes^{③} and trombones^{} and saxophones and viols and cornets^{}and piccolos^{①}, and low and high drums. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs: the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy{}with primary colors, and hair bobbed in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile. The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate{} the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo{} and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names. The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches^{} away from the sun, and now the orchestra is plaving yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality{} tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell with new .074: 第三章 ①canvas kaenvasln. 帆布 办各类庆典活动的人便会从城里赶过来,带上几百英尺 ② buffet ba'feiln. 自助餐 长的帆布和大量彩灯,把盖茨比偌大的花园装点得有如 ③garnish f'qg:nifv装饰 一棵圣诞树。自助餐桌上,各种冷盘琳琅满目,五香火 ④ hors doeuvre 开胃餐品 harlequin ['ha:lakwin] a 腿边摆放着各色各样的色拉,还有熠得金黄的习猪和灭 五颜六色的 鸡。大厅内,人们用真正的铜杆搭起了一个酒吧,配备 cordial ['ko:dial]n. 甘露 酒 有各种杜松子酒和其他烈性酒{},还有早已被人们遗忘 了的甘露酒{,绝大多数到场的女宾由于年纪太轻,根 本分辨不清这些酒的种类。 orchestra 'o:kistral n. 管 弦乐队 七点钟时,管弦乐队已经就位了,这可不是什么 ③oboe oubouln. 双策管 五人小乐队,而是配备了全套乐器的大乐队,双箭管。 trombone [trom'baun] n. 长号 长号、萨克斯管、大提琴、小提琴、短号、短笛、高音 comet [ko:nit]n. 短号 鼓和低音鼓,一应俱全。最后一拨游泳的客人已经从海 piccolo [pikalou]n. 短笛 滩返回了,现在正在楼上更衣。从纽约开过来的轿车五 gaudy [a:di]a. 花唱的 辆一列停放在车道上,厅堂、客厅和阳台已经装饰得 五颜六色。女宾们的发型新颖奇特,式样各异。披肩的 permeate Ipo:mieit]v 遍 花色式样是卡斯蒂利亚人做梦都想不到的。酒吧处人 布 气旺盛,一杯杯鸡尾酒放在托盘上传遍室外花园的所有 innuendo L.inju'endau]7 暗讽 角落,最后整个场面都活跃起来,空气中充满了欢声笑 语,人们高谈阔论,随意挪偷打趣,相互介绍却又转瞬 即忘。女人之间虽然相互不知道对方姓甚名谁,但却热 lurch lla:tf门]v 满而行 情洋溢地攀谈交流。 太阳渐渐落下地平线,灯光显得愈发明亮了起来。 prodigality L prodi'qaelati] n.大量 管弦乐队此时正在演奏黄色鸡尾酒音乐,如合唱一般的 人声又提高了一个音阶。笑声每时每刻都在变得越发亲 1 杜松子酒(gin.geneva.也叫金酒)最先由荷兰生产,在英国大量 生产后闻名于世,是世界第一大类的烈酒。杜松子酒按口味风格又可 分为辣味杜松子酒、老汤姆杜松子酒和果味杜松子酒,所以原文用了 复数。 2 烈性酒(liquor)指用蒸方式酿制的酒,通常分为八大类: 杜松子酒或金酒(gin,geneva)、威士忌(whisky)、白兰地 (brandy)、伏特加(vodka)、兰姆酒(又叫罗姆酒、蓝姆酒或朗 姆酒)(rum)、龙舌兰酒(tequila),中国白酒和日本清酒 3 甘露酒(cordial)以发酒、蒸酒或食用酒精为酒基,加入可 食用的辅料、食品添加剂,进行调配、混合或再加工制成,是已改变 了原酒基风格的饮料酒。 4 卡斯蒂利亚(Castilla)是西班牙历史上的一个王国,由西班牙西 北部的老卡斯蒂利亚和中部的新卡斯蒂利亚组成,逐渐和周边王国副 合,形成了西班牙王国。该地区以生产纱中而闻名遐迩。 .075· CHAPTER3 arrivals, dissolve{} and form in the same breath: already there are wanderers. confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable. become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group, and then. excited with triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light Suddenly one of the gvpsies^{②}, in trembling opal^{}. seizes a cocktail out of the air. dumps it down for courage and, moving her hands like Frisco, dances out alone on the canvas platform. A momentary hush: the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly{} for her, and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda Gray's understudy^{}from the Follies. The party has begun. I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island. and somehow they ended up at Gatsby's door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all. came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission I had been actually invited. A chauffeur{} in a uniform of robin's-egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note .076. 第三章 ① dissolve [di'zolvlv 解散 切随意,一句开心愉快的话语会引起哄堂大笑。人群的 变换越来越迅速,时而有新成员的加人而扩大队伍,时 而又有人撤出组成新的群体。已经开始有人四处游走, 胆大自信的姑娘们在比较稳定的人群中穿行,一时间增 添了热烈欢乐的气氛,成为人们关注的焦点,然后,喜 气洋洋,情绪激动地离开,轻盈的身段继续在持续变 ②gypsy I'd3ipsi]n. 吉普赛 , 化的灯光以及那如大海般变幻的面孔、声音和色彩中穿 ③opal [aupalln. 蛋白石 行。 突然,那些像吉卜赛人似的姑娘中珠光宝气的一 ④ obligingly [a'blaidsinlil ad 热情地 位,伸手端起一杯鸡尾酒,为了增添勇气,一饮而尽 understudy ['AndostAdi]n 紧接着像弗里斯科似的,挥动着双手,在铺上帆布的 替身 舞台上,独自一人舞蹈起来。短暂的平静之后,乐队指 挥热情周到地替她变换了音乐的节奏,于是,人群中立 刻机明嘹地议论开了,有误传说,她是百老汇音乐剧 团吉尔达·格雷{的替补演员。晚会已经开始了。 我相信,在我去盖茨比宅斑的头一天晚上,自已是 实实在在受到邀请的少数客人之一。人们并不是被邀请 来的-他们是自已来的。他们上了载着他们前往长岛 的汽车,不知不觉就到了盖茨比的宅郎门口。到达那儿 之后,某位认识盖茨比的人把他们介绍一下,然后大家 就按照娱乐场所的规矩自我表现去了。有时候,他们从 chauffeur ['faufaln. 司相 到达到离开压根儿就没有见着盖茨比,他们怀着一颗淳 朴的心来参加聚会,因为这就是入场券。 我是实实在在受到了邀请的。那个星期六一大清 1 乔·弗里斯科(JoeFrisco.1889-1958)是美国20世纪20至30年代 百老汇著名的爵士舞蹈演员。 2 吉尔达·格雷(GildaGray.1901-1959)是美国20世纪20年代 名噪一时的舞蹈演员,是当时美国一种时尚的爵士舞--希米舞 (shimmy)的代表人物。关于希米舞这个名称有一段故事,波兰移 民古尔达·格雷的舞蹈在20年代风靡美国,也横扫了当时流行的好 菜鸠歌舞片,她的舞蹈风格之所以引起轰动,受到人们的广泛喜爱, 纯属偶然。1919年的一天晚上,吉尔达在纽约演出,当她演唱《星 条旗永不落》(“Star Spangled Banner”)时,忘了其中几句歌词. 为了掩饰忘词引起的尴尬,她开始快速摆动自己的肩膀和警部。事 后,当记者就其舞蹈风格采访吉尔达时,她用带着浓厚波兰口音的英 语回答说:"T'm shaking my chemise.”吉尔达的“chemise”,由于波 兰口音的原故,让记者听起来像是“shimmy”,日的报刊上便登 出了“shimmy”这个词,吉尔达因此被称之为“希米舞王后”(the shimmy Queen)。 ·077· CHAPTER 3 from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said, if I would attend his "little party" that night. He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar{ combination of circumstances had prevented it- signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic②}hand. Dressed up in white flannels^{③} I went over to his lawn a little while after seven, and wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies④ of people I didn't know - though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train. I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about: all well dressed, all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low, earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans. I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were at least agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way. and denied so vehemently{} any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk{} off in the direction of the cocktail table - the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps. leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden. Welcome or not, I found it necessary to attach myself to someone before I should begin to address cordial remarks to the passers-by. "Hello!" I roared, advancing toward her. My voice seemed unnaturally loud across the garden. "I thought you might be here," she responded absently as I came up."1 remembered you lived next door to" She held my hand impersonally③, as a promise that she'd take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses, who stopped at the foot of the steps. "Hello!" they cried together. "Sorry you didn't win." .078. 第三章 早,一位身穿蓝绿色制服的司机穿过我的草坪,送来了 他雇主措辞士分正式的请束。上面写着;如蒙我当晚光 临他的“小型聚会”,盖茨比当感到荣幸之至。他见过 ① peculiar [pi'kju:lia]a. 古 怪的 我几回,早有造访我的意图,却因种种特殊原因未能如 ②majestic [ma'd3estik] a. 庄 愿--最后是杰伊·盖茨比的署名,笔迹刚劲洒脱。 严安伟的 ③ flannel 'flaenol]n. 法兰缄 七点刚过,我身穿一套白色法兰绒西装到了他家草 ④eddy lediln. 游涡 坪上。我在同自已素不相识的人群堆里转悠徘徊,感觉 很不自在--虽说时不时地会遇上一张在通勤列车上 留意过的面孔。我立刻注意到,客人中间有许多是英国 年轻人。他们全都穿着讲究,全都看上去有点饥饿,全 都热切地在同富有的美国人低声交谈着。我可以肯定, 他们在推销什么东西,证券、保险或者汽车。他们至少 agonizingly I'aeganaizinli] 显得痛苦焦虑,因为他们意识到,挣钱的机会就在眼 ad.苦恼地 前,坚信只要说上几句恰到好处的话,那钱就是属于他 们的了。 我刚一到场便开始设法寻找主人,但是问了两三 vehemently ['vi:amantli] 个人主人的下落,他们都用眼睛盯着我看,显得十分惊 ad.情绪激动地 愣,情绪激动地表示,他们不知道主人的行踪。我只好 slink [slink]v 偷偷溜走 悄悄地朝着摆满鸡尾酒的桌子走一一花园里唯有那个地 方,一个单身汉可以逗留徘徊,而不至于让人觉得漫无 目的而又孤单寂寞。 我感到无聊透顶,正想要一醉方休。就在这时,乔 丹·贝尔从宅郎里走了出来,站在大理石台阶的顶端 身子微微后仰,神情轻蔑,注视着下面的花园。 无论欢迎与否,我觉得有必要先找个伴儿,然后才 能开始同从身边经过的人热情寒暄。 “嘿!”我大声招呼着,一边朝她走过去。我的声 音在整个花园里都听得到,显得很不自然 “我猜到了您可能会在这儿,”我朝上走时,她心 不在焉地回应着说,“我记得您就住在隔壁的-” 她握了握我的手,态度显得很冷淡,表示待会再理 ③ impersonally [im'po:sons. 会我,然后把耳朵凑向两位穿着一模一样的黄色衣裙的 li]ad.冷淡地 姑娘,她们停步在台阶底下 “嘿!”她们一同大声招呼着,“很遗憾,您没有 1 通勤列车(thecommutingtrain)是指为城镇职工、学生及部分居 民开行供其往返于居住地和工作地的铁路客运列车。 ·079· CHAPTER3 That was for the golf tournament. She had lost in the finals the week before “You don't know who we are." said one of the girls in yellow,"but we met you here about a month ago." “You've dyed^{①} your hair since then," remarked Jordan, and I started. but the girls had moved casually on and her remark was addressed to the premature^{}moon, produced like the supper, no doubt, out of a caterer's basket. With Jordan's slender golden arm resting in mine, we descended the steps and sauntered about the garden. A tray of cocktails floated at us through the twilight, and we sat down at a table with the two girls in yellow and three men, each one introduced to us as Mr. Mumble. "Do you come to these parties often?" inquired Jordan of the girl beside her. "The last one was the one I met you at,"answered the girl, in an alert confident yoice. She turned to her companion. "Wasn't it for you. Lucille?" It was for Lucille. too "I like to come." Lucille said. "I never care what I do, so I always have a good time. When I was here last I tore my gown on a chair, and he asked me my name and address - inside of a week I got a package from Croirier's with a new evening gown in it." "Did you keep it?"asked Jordan "Sure I did. I was going to wear it tonight, but it was too big in the bust③ and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender^{④}beads^{}. Two hundred and sixty-five dollars." "There's something funny about a fellow that'll do a thing like that."said the other girl eagerly. "He doesn't want any trouble with anybody." “Who doesn't?"I inquired. "Gatsby. Somebody told me " The two girls and Jordan leaned together confidentially. .o8o. 第三章 赢。” 她们说的是那场高尔夫球锦标赛。她上星期在决赛 中输了。 “您不认识我们,”两位穿黄色衣裙的姑娘中的一 ①dye[dailv 染色 位说, “但是,我们一个月前在这儿遇到过您。 “从那以后,你们把头发染了。”乔丹说,而我怔 ② premature I'premotfa] a 过早的 了一下,但两位姑娘漫不经心地走开了,而她的这句话 只当是说给初升的月亮听的,毫无疑问,月亮如同晚餐 一样,是从酒席承办人的篮子里拿出来的。我挽着乔丹 纤细金色的手臂走下台阶,漫步在花园里。朦胧的夜色 中,一只放着鸡尾酒的托盘传到我们跟前,我们在一张 桌子边坐下,同桌的有那两位身穿黄色衣裙的姑娘,另 外还有三位男士,他们每个人在向我们作自我介绍时都 矶里咕噜地说一通,听不出所以然来。 “你们经常来参加这一类聚会吗?”乔丹询问她身 边的那位姑娘 “上一次就是我遇上您的那次。”姑娘回答说,说 话的声音里透着机警和自信。她转向她的同伴:“你也 是吧,露西尔?” 露西尔也一样。 “我喜欢来参加,”露西尔说, “我根本不在乎做 什么,所以总是会玩得很开心。我上次来这儿时,晚礼 ③ bust bastl. 胸围 服被椅子扯破了,他问了我的名字和地址,不出一个星 ④ lavender ['laevondo]n. 淡 紫色 期,我便收到了从克罗利尔公司寄来的一个包裹,里面 bead bi:d]n. 珠子 是一件崭新的晚礼服。” “您收下了吗?”乔丹问。 “我当然收下了。我本来打算今晚穿上的,可谁知 胸口太大了,只得拿去改了。衣服是淡蓝色的,上面镶 嵌了淡紫色的珠子。花费了二百六十五美元啊。 “一个人会做出这样的事情来,真是有点意思,” confidentially I.konfi'denfs 另外那位姑娘说,语气很热切,“他不想得罪任何 li]ad.秘密地 “谁不想?”我问了一声。 “盖茨比。有人告诉我说-” 两个姑娘和乔丹身子凑到了一块儿,显得神秘兮兮 的。 ·o81·