Chapter4-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《了不起的盖茨比The Great Gatsby》

CHAPTER4 On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled^{①} hilariously on his lawn. "He's a bootlegger②}," said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. "One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass." Once I wrote down on the empty spaces of a timetable the names of those who came to Gatsby's house that summer. It is an old timetable now. disintegrating③} at its folds, and headed 'This schedule in effect July 5th. 1922." But I can still read the gray names, and they will give you a better impression than my generalities{} of those who accepted Gatsby's hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute{} of knowing nothing whatever about him. From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches, and a man named Bunsen, whom I knew at Yale, and Doctor Webster Civet, who was drowned last summer up in Maine. And the Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires .110. 第四章 星期日的早晨。 当教堂的钟声在沿岸村落中响起来 ① twinkle ['twinkl]v 轻快 的时候,社交圈里的男男女女回到了盖茨比的宅郎,在 地移动 他的草坪上纵情喧闹。 “他是个走私贩,”年轻女士们说着,一边在他的 ② bootlegger ['bu:tlega] n 走私叛 鸡尾酒和鲜花丛中来回走动,“有一次,他杀了个人, 因为那人发现,他是冯·兴登堡的侄子和魔鬼的远房 表弟。递给我一支玫瑰,亲爱的,再往那个水晶酒杯里 为我倒最后一滴酒。” 我曾经在一张火车时刻表的空自处记下了那个夏天 到过盖茨比宅郎的人的名字。那张时刻表现在已经陈旧 ③ disintegrate [dis'intigreit] 了,折叠处都裂开了,顶端印着“本时刻表于1922年7 v碎裂 月5日生效。”但是,我依旧能够辨认得出那些褪了色 ④ generality [d3ena'raelati] 的名字。他们接受盖茨比的盛情款待,并且对他给予微 n.概述 妙的回报,那就是对他的情况一无所知。比起我对那些 tribute [tribju:t]n. 致敬 人作一个笼而统之的介绍来,这些名字可以给你一个更 加清晰的印象 当时来自东卵的有切斯特·贝克夫妇和利奇夫妇 还有一位名叫本森的人,此人是我在耶鲁念书时认识 的。有韦伯斯特·西韦特医生,他去年夏天在缅因州{ 1 冯·兴登堡(PaulvonHindenberg,1847-1934)是德国元帅、总 统,第一次世界大战中击溃俄军,后任参谋总长、陆军总司令,总统 任内支持保皇派和法西斯组织,授命希特勒为总理 2 缅因州(Maine)是美国大陆最偏僻的一个州,位于美国的东北 角,只有西南面与新罕布什尔州为邻。西北和东北边境分别眦邻加拿 大,南临大西洋。该州海岸曲折,多港湾,岸外小岛星罗棋布。 .111· CHAPTER4 and a whole clan named Blackbuck, who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near. And the Ismays and the Chrysties (or rather Hubert Auerbach and Mr. Chrystie's wife), and Edgar Beaver, whose hair, they say, turned cotton-white one winter afternoon for no good reason at all. Clarence Endive was from East Egg, as I remember. He came only once, in white knickerbockers^{①}, and had a fight with a bum^{②}named Etty in the garden. From farther out on the Island came the Cheadles and the O. R. P. Schraeders and the Stonewall Jackson Abrams of Georgia, and the Fishguards and the Ripley Snells. Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary{③}, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand. The Dancies came. too. and S. B. Whitebait. who was well oven sixty, and Maurice A. Flink, and the Hammerheads, and Beluga the tobacco importer, and Beluga's girls. From West Egg came the Poles and the Mulreadys and Cecil Roebuck and Cecil Schoen and Gulick the state senator*and Newton Orchid. who controlled Films Par Excellence, and Eckhaust and Clyde Cohen and Don S. Schwartze (the son) and Arthur McCarty, all connected with the movies in one way or another. And the Catlips and the Bembergs and G. Earl Muldoon, brother to tha Muldoon who afterward strangled{} his wife. Da Fontano the promoter came there, and Ed Legros and James B. ("'Rot-Gut") Ferret and the De Jongs and Ernest Lilly-- they came to gamble, and when Ferret wandered into the garden it meant he was cleaned out and Associated Traction would have to fluctuate^{ profitably next day. A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became known as"the boarder"- I doubt if he had any other home. Of theatrical{} people there were Gus Waize and Horace O'donavan and Lester Myer and George Duckweed and Francis Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers and Russel Betty and the Corrigans .112: 第四章 漏水身亡了。有霍恩比姆夫妇和威利·伏尔泰夫妇,以 及布莱克巴克全家,他们总是集聚在一个角落里,只要 有人靠近,就会像山羊似的翘起鼻子。还有伊斯梅夫 妇,克里斯蒂夫妇(还不如说休伯特·奥尔巴克和克里 斯蒂先生的太太),以及埃德加·比弗,人们说,他的 头发在一个冬天里莫名其妙地白得像棉花 我记得,克拉伦斯·恩迪弗来自东卵,他只到过一 ① knickerbockers I'nikabokazl 次,身穿白色灯笼裤,在花园里同一个名叫埃蒂的混混 n.灯笼裤 ②bum bAmln.无业游民 吵了一架。来自岛上更远处的有奇德尔夫妇,O.B.P.施 罗德夫妇,佐治亚州的斯通沃尔·杰克逊·阿伯拉姆 ③ penitentiary L.peni'tenferil 夫妇,还有费什加德夫妇和里普利·斯内尔夫妇。斯内 n.监狱 尔进监狱前三天还到过这里,他醉酬酬地倒在砾石铺面 的车道上,结果尤利西斯·斯韦特太太的汽车从他的 右手上碾了过去。丹西夫妇也来过。还有年逾六十的 S.B.怀特贝特,莫里斯·A.弗林克,哈默黑德夫妇以及 烟草进口商人贝鲁加和他的几个女儿。 ④ senator I'senotaln. 参议员 从西卵来的有波尔夫妇,马尔雷迪夫妇,塞西尔· 罗巴克,塞西尔·舍恩,州议会议员古利克,控制着卓 越影业公司的牛顿·奥尔奇德,还有埃克豪斯特,克菜 德·科恩,小唐·S.施瓦茨,阿瑟·麦克卡蒂,他们都 与电影业有千丝万缕的联系。还有卡利普夫妇,班姆伯 strangle ['straengll: 勒死 格夫妇,C.厄尔·马尔东,即后来勒死自已太太的那位 马尔东的兄弟。企业主达·方达诺,还有爱德·勒格罗 夫妇,詹姆斯·B.费里特(外号“劣质酒”),德·琼 fluctuate ['flAktfueit] v 波 夫妇,厄内斯特·利利-他们都是来赌博的。当费里 动 特在花园里徘徊时,说明他已经输得精光了,而翠日联 合运输公司的股票则会有巨大的波动。 有位名叫克利普斯普林格的男士经常到场,而且 theatrical [oi'aetrikal] a. 戏 剧的 待的时间又很长,以至大家都称他为“寄宿人”--我 怀疑他根本就是无家可归。戏剧领域的人士有格斯·韦 兹,霍勒斯·奥多诺万,菜斯特·梅尔,乔治·德克韦 德和弗朗西斯·布尔。来自纽约的还有克罗姆夫妇,贝 克海森夫妇,丹尼克尔夫妇,拉塞尔·贝蒂,科里根夫 1 佐治亚州(Georgia,又译乔治亚州)是美国东南部七个州之一。北 界田纳西州和北卡罗来纳州,南邻佛罗里达州,东北与南卡罗来纳州 接壤,东南临大西洋,西眦亚拉巴马州。首府是亚特兰大。 ·113· CHAPTER4 and the Kellehers and the Dewers and the Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Ouinns, divorced now, and Henry L. Palmetto, who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train in Times Sauare. Benny McClenahan arrived always with four girls. They were never quite the same ones in physical person, but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before. I have forgotten their names - Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela, or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious^{} names of flowers and months or the sterner{②} ones of the great American capitalists③} whose cousins, if pressed. they would confess{④} themselves to be. In addition to all these I can remember that Faustina O'Brien. came there at least once and the Baedeker girls and young Brewer, who had his nose shot off in the war, and Mr. Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancee{}, and Ardita Fitz- Peters and Mr. P. Jewett. once head of the American Legion, and Miss Claudia Hip, with a man reputed{ to be her chauffeur, and a prince of something. whom we called Duke, and whose name, if I ever knew it. I have forgotten All these people came to Gatsby's house in the summer At nine o'clock, one morning late in July, Gatsby's gorgeous car lurched up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of melody from its three-noted horn. It was the first time he had called on me, though I had gone to two of his parties, mounted in his hydroplane, and, at his urgent invitation, made frequent use of his beach. "Good-morning, old sport. You're having lunch with me today and I thought we'd ride up together." He was balancing himself on the dashboard^{} of his car with that resourcefulness{③ of movement that is so peculiarly American - that comes. I suppose, with the absence of lifting work in youth and, even more, with the .114· 第四章 妇,凯菜赫夫妇,迪尤尔夫妇,斯卡利夫妇,S.W.贝尔 彻,斯默克夫妇,现在已经离婚的年轻的奎因夫妇,还 有亨利·L.帕默多,此人在时报广场跳下地铁自杀了。 本尼·麦克菜纳汉一直都是领着四个女儿来的。 虽然每次来的都不是同一个人,但由于相互之间相貌长 得过于相像,所以大家都觉得她们先前到过。我已经忘 记了她们的名字了一一,我觉得是杰奎琳,要不就是孔 苏埃拉,或者格洛丽亚,或者朱迪,或者琼,她们的姓 ① melodious [ma'loudias] a 要么是美妙的鲜花名称,要么是月份的名称,要么就是 悦耳的 ②stern [sta:nla. 严厉的 让人肃然起敬的美国大资本家的姓氏,如果有人追问得 ③ capitalist ['kaepitalist] n 急,她们就会承认自已是他们的表亲。 资本家 除了上述人士之外,我还记得福斯蒂纳·奥布莱恩 ④ confess kon'fes]v 坦白 至少到过一回,还有贝达克姐妹和小布鲁尔,后者的鼻 fiancee [fi'onsei]n. 未婚 子在战争中被打掉了。还有阿尔布鲁克伯格先生和他的 妻 未婚妻海格小姐,阿迪塔·菲茨-彼得夫妇,曾经担任 过美国退伍军人协会主席的P.朱厄特先生,克劳迪哑· repute Iri'pju:t]v 认为 希普和一位据说是其司机的男土,还有某某亲王,我们 称他为公爵,他的名字即便我曾经知道,现在也已经忘 记了。 以上人士那年夏天都到过盖茨比的宅邪 7月下旬的一天上午九点,盖茨比的豪华轿车沿着 我住宅前满是石头的车道颠簸着开到了门口,然后三 音符的喇叭响起一阵悦耳的低音。这是他头一次拜访 我,尽管我已经参加过两次他举行的聚会,乘坐过他 的水上飞机,而且还在他的盛情邀请下经常光顾他的 海滩。 “早上好,老朋友。你今天要和我共进午餐,我想 dashboard 'daefbo:d] n. 扫 我们一同驱车前往吧。” 泥板 ③ resourcefulness Iri'sorsfal- 他站立在汽车挡泥板上保持着身体的平衡,那种 nis]n.足智多谋 动作的轻盈敏捷是美国人所特有的一一我估计,这是由 于年轻时没有干过抬举的活儿,更有可能是因为我们国 1 时报广场(TimesSquare,旧误译为时代广场),又称“世界的十 字路口”,是美国纽约市曼哈顿的一块街区,中心位于西四十二街与 百老汇大道交会处,范围东西向分别至第六大道与第九大道,南北向 分别至西三十九街与西五十二街,构成曼哈顿中城商业区的西部。称 作时报广场是因为《纽约时报》早期的总部大楼在此。 ·115· CHAPTER4 formless grace of our nervous, sporadic{①} games. This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious②} manner in the shape of restlessness. He was never quite still: there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand. He saw me looking with admiration at his car "It's pretty, isn't it, old sport?" He jumped off to give me a better view "Haven't you ever seen it before?" I'd seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel{③}, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat- boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth④ of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory{}, we started to town. I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say. So my first impression that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse next door And then came that disconcerting ride. We hadn't reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit "Look here, old sport." he broke out surprisingly. "What's your opinion of me, anyhow?" A little overwhelmed. I began the generalized evasions{}which that question deserves. "Well, I'm going to tell you something about my life," he interrupted."I don't want you to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear." So he was aware of the bizarre accusations that flavored conversation in his halls. "I'll tell you God's truth." His right hand suddenly ordered divine^{} retribution{} to stand by. "I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West - all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford. because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition." ·116. 第四章|1 ① sporadic fspe'radikla. 零 家那些紧张剧烈的运动项目成就了姿态的优雅。这种特 星的 ② punctilious [pank'tilias] a 征不断以躁动不安的形式表现出来,使得他在态度上不 谨小慎微的 那么拘谨审慎。他从来都没有安安静静待着过,总是用 脚轻轻地敲击着什么地方,或者一只手不耐烦地一开一 合。 他看见我用羡慕的目光看着他的轿车。 “很漂亮,对吧,老朋友?”他跳了下来,让我看 得更加清楚,“你先前就没有看见过这辆车吗? 我看见过,人人都看见过,车子呈鲜艳的奶油色。 ③ nickel 'niklln. 键 了锦的地方闪闪发亮,超长的车身有多处隆起的部 ④ labvrinth [laebarinl . 错 分,设置了威风八面的帽盒和餐盒,还有工具盒,层层 综复杂的事物 叠叠的挡风玻璃反映出十多个太阳。汽车里面如同一个 conservatory kon'sa:votri] 绿色皮革装饰成的温室,我们坐在层层玻璃的后面,向 n.温室 着市区驶去。 过去的一个月里,我可能同他交谈了五六次。令我 感到失望的是,我发现,他很少说话。因此,尽管我最 初觉得他是很了不起的人物,但这种印象已经慢慢消失 了,他就是个住在我隔壁豪华宅郎的业主而已。 随后便有了那次倍感窘迫的驱车之行。我们还没有 抵达西卵镇,盖茨比便把他那句说到一半的典雅话搁下 了,并且犹豫不决地轻轻拍打着自己那套淡褐色西装的 膝盖处。 “我说啊,老朋友,”他脱口而出,显得出人意 料, evasion [i'vei3nln. 避而 “你究竟对我有什么样的看法?” 不谈 我有点猝不及防,便开始泛泛而谈,虚以委蛇。 “得啦,我给你说说我的身世吧,”他打断了我的 话, “我不希望你根据自己听到的种种传言对我产生误 解。” 原来,他宅郎的厅堂里那些增加谈资的飞短流长的 divine [di'vain]a. 神的 话,他全都知道。 ⑧ retribution I retri'bju:fn]n “我对上帝起誓,我告诉你的全是实情。”他举 报应 起右手,似乎要随时接受上天的惩罚。“我出生在中 西部地区的一个富裕人家--家族的人现在全都不在人 世了。我在美国长大,但在牛津大学上学,因为多少 年来,我的祖先们都是在那儿上的学。这是个家族传 统。” ·117· CHAPTER4 He looked at me sideways - and I knew why Jordan Baker had believed he was lying. He hurried the phrase "educated at Oxford," or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before. And with this doubt, his whole statement fell to pieces, and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him. after all “What part of the Middle West?" I inquired casually “SanFrancisco." “Isee." "My family all died and I came into a good deal of money." His voice was solemn^{}, as if the memory of that sudden extinction{②} of a clan still haunted him. For a moment I suspected that he was pulling my leg, but a glance at him convinced me otherwise "After that I lived like a young rajah{③} in all the capitals of EUROPE- Paris, Venice, Rome - collecting jewels, chiefly rubies^{}, hunting big game. painting a little things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago." With an effort I managed to restrain{n my incredulous laughter. The very phrases were worn so threadbare^{} that they evoked^{}no image except that of a turbaned^{}"character" leaking sawdust{} at every pore^{}as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne "Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. I accepted a commission^{} as first lieutenant^{} when it began. In the Argonne Forest I took the remains of my ·118. 第四章 他斜院着眼晴看我一一我这才明白,乔丹·贝克为 何会认为他在扯。他把“在牛津大学上学”这句话或 说得一闪而过,或吞掉不说,要不就说得结结巴巴,好 像这话先前让他纠结过似的。有了这样一种疑虑,他的 整个叙述就站不住脚了。我还是怀疑他有什么不可告人 的秘密。 “中西部的哪个地方啊?”我问了一声,语气显得 很随意。 “旧金山。 “哦。” ①solemn fsolamlg. 庄严的 “我家族的人都不在人世了,所以我继承了巨额钱 ② extinction Lik'stinkfn] n 消亡 财。” 他的声音显得庄严肃穆,仿佛他家族的人突然离世 ③ rajah 'ra:d3aln. 酋长 的情景仍然索绕在他的心头。一时间,我怀疑他是在同 ④ruby f'ru:bi]n. 红宝石 我闹着玩的,但是,警了他一眼之后,我就不这么认为 了。 “那之后,我就像个年轻的拉甲似的,生活在欧 洲的各大都市--巴黎,威尼斯,罗马--收集珠宝, restrain Iri'stein]v 抑制 threadbare I'redbeal a. 陆 主要是红宝石,打猎,画点东西,只是供自已消遣的玩 的 意儿,设法忘记一些伤心的事情,因为那些事情都是很 evoke Ji'vsuk]v 产生 久以前发生在我身上的。 ⑧ turbaned ['ta:band]a. 包 着头巾的 我充满疑惑,极力克制自己才没有笑出来。他的说 sawdust ['so:dAst]n. 木周 pore[po:]n.毛孔 辞属于陈腔滥调,只能让人想到这样的画面:一位头上 commission [ka'mifn] n. 包着头中的“人物”,在布洛涅森林{}里追逐着一只老 任命 lieutenant [lu:'tenant] n 虎,身体内填满的锯屑不停地往外漏 陆军中尉 “后来,战争爆发了,老朋友。这对我来说真是种 解脱,我竭尽全力要去死,但我的命似乎总是被某种魔 法保佑着。战争刚爆发时,我被授予中尉军衔。阿戈讷 1. 拉甲(rajah)是指印度的酋长、王公或贵族,也指马来、爪哇等 地的酋长、首领等。 2 布洛涅森林(leBoisde Boulogne)是巴黎西部的森林公园,位 于塞纳河畔讷伊(Neuilly sur Seine)和布洛涅-比扬古(Boulogne Billancourt)之间。面积八百四十六公顷。南北最长处三点五公里. 东西最宽处二点六公里,属巴黎市政府管辖,与巴黎东南部的文森 森林(leBoisdeVincennes)一同被认为是巴黎吸收氧气的两扇“肺 叶”。18世纪起,布洛涅森林向公众开放,1852年划归巴黎市。早 年,它属于皇家林苑,是国王的狩猎场 ·119·