《了不起的盖茨比》经典语录：英文原文与中文翻译
The Great Gatsby
从F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的《了不起的盖茨比》中选出的15句经典语录，英文原文下附中文翻译。每一句都直接摘自原书。整本书可以免费阅读，配有翻译、朗读和词典。
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
每个人都至少自认为具备一种基本美德，而我的是这一种：我是我所认识的不多的诚实人之一。
"I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."
「我不会对她要求太多，」我壮着胆子说。「你无法重温过去。」
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...
就是这样。我以前从未明白。它充满了金钱，这就是它那无穷无尽的魅力所在，在它身上升起又落下，它的叮当声，它的铙钹之歌……高高地在白色宫殿里，国王的女儿，金色的姑娘……
I couldn't forgive him or like him but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...
我无法原谅他或喜欢他，但我看出他所做的事，对他而言完全正当。这一切都非常粗心大意和混乱。他们是粗心大意的人，汤姆和黛西，他们砸碎了东西和生灵，然后退缩回他们的金钱或他们那广大的粗心大意或无论什么使他们保持在一起的东西里，让别人去清理他们造成的烂摊子……
"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
「他们是一帮烂人，」我隔着草坪喊道。「你比他们全部加在一起都强。」
"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such—such beautiful shirts before."
「这些衬衫太美了，」她抽泣着说，声音闷在厚厚的褶皱里。「这让我难过，因为我从未见过这么，这么美的衬衫。」
"Why candles?" objected Daisy, frowning. She snapped them out with her fingers. "In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year." She looked at us all radiantly. "Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."
「为什么要蜡烛？」黛西反对道，皱起眉头。她用手指把它们掐灭。「再过两周就是一年中最长的一天。」她容光焕发地看着我们大家。「你们总是留意一年中最长的一天，然后错过它吗？我总是留意一年中最长的一天，然后错过它。」
"She never loved you, do you hear?" he cried. "She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!"
「她从未爱过你，你听见了吗？」他喊道。「她嫁给你只是因为我穷，而她厌倦了等我。那是个可怕的错误，但在她心里，她除了我从未爱过任何人！」
"Even alone I can't say I never loved Tom," she admitted in a pitiful voice. "It wouldn't be true."
「即使独自一人，我也不能说从未爱过汤姆，」她以可怜的声音承认。「那不会是真的。」
He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight—watching over nothing.
他把手插进外套口袋，急切地转回去审视那栋房子，仿佛我的存在破坏了这守夜的圣洁。于是我走开了，留他站在月光下，守望着虚无。
"I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."
「我三十岁了，」我说。「我太老了五岁，不能对自己撒谎并称之为荣誉。」
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone."
「让我们学会在一个人活着的时候向他表示友谊，而不是在他死后，」他建议道。「在那之后，我自己的准则是让一切顺其自然。」
So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
于是我们在渐凉的暮色中驱车驶向死亡。
Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor.
那么，在那个六月的夜晚，他所渴望的不仅仅是星辰。他对我变得鲜活起来，突然从他那无目的的辉煌的子宫中解脱出来。
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
在我年轻且更易受伤的岁月里，父亲给了我一些建议，从那以后我一直在心里反复思考。
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