Daisy was not a Catholic ,and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie .
黛西并不是天主教徒，因此这个煞费苦心的谎言使我有点震惊。
"When they do get married ,"continued Catherine,"they're going west to live for a while until it blows over ."
哪天他们结了婚，凯瑟琳接着说，他们准备到西部去住一些时候，等风波过去再回来。
"It'd be more discreet to go Europe ."
更稳妥的办法是到欧洲去。
"Oh ,do you like Europe ?"she exclaimed surprisingly ."I just got back from Monte Carlo."
哦，你喜欢欧洲吗？她出其不意地叫了起来，我刚从蒙的卡罗回来。
"Really."
真的吗？
"Just last year .I went over there with another girl."
就在去年，我和另外一个姑娘一起去的。
"Stay long ?"
待了很久吗？
"No ,we just went to Monte Carlo and back .We went by way of Marseilles .We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started but we got gypped out of it all in two days in the private rooms .We had an awful time getting back ,I can tell you ,God ,how I hated that town !"
没有，我们只去了蒙的卡罗就回来了，我们是取消马刺赛去的。我们动身的时候带了一千二百多美元，可是两天之内就在赌场小房间里让人骗光了。跟你说噢，我们在回来路上吃的苦头可不少。天哪，我恨死那城市了。
The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean -- then the shril voice of Mrs .McKee called me back into the room .
窗外，天空在夕照中显得格外柔和，像蔚蓝的地中海一样。这时麦基太太尖锐的声音把我唤回到屋子里来。
"I almost made a mistake ,too ,"she declared vigorously ."I almost married a little kyke who'd been after me for yaers .I knew he was below me .Everybody kept saying to me :'Lucille ,that man's way below you!' But if I hadn't met Chester, he'd of got me sure ."
我差点也犯了错误，她精神抖擞地大声说，我差点嫁给了一个追了我好几年的犹太小子。我知道他配不上我，大家都以我说：露西尔，那个人比你差远了。可是，如果我没碰上切斯特，他准保会把我搞到手的。
"Yes ,but listen ,"said Myrtle Wilson ,nodding her head up and down ,"at least you didn't marry him ."
不错，可是你听我说，茉特尔.威尔逊说，一面不停地摇头晃脑，好在你并没嫁给他啊。
"I know I didn't.
我知道我没嫁给他。
"Well ,I married him ,"said Myrtle ,ambiguously ."And that's the difference between your case and mine ."
但是，我可嫁给了他，茉特尔含糊其词说，这就是你的情况和我的情况不同地地方。
"Why did you ,Myrtle ?"demanded Catherine ."Nobody forced you to ."
你为什么嫁给他呢，茉特尔？凯瑟琳质问道，也没有人强迫你。
Myrtle considered .
茉特尔考虑了一会儿。
"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman ,"she said finally ."I thought he knew something about breeding ,but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe ."
我嫁给了他，是因为我以为他是个上等人，她最后说，我以为他还有点教养，不料他连舔我的鞋都不配。
"You were crazy about him for a while ,"said Catherine .
你有一阵子爱他爱得发疯。凯瑟琳说。
"Crazy about him !"cried Myrtle incredulously ."Who said I was crazy about him ? I never was any more crazy about him than I was about that man there ."
爱他爱得发疯！茉特尔不相信地喊道，谁说我爱他爱得发疯啦？我从来没爱过他，就像我没爱过那个人一样。
She pointed suddenly at me ,and every one looked at me accusingly. I tried to show by my expression that I had played no part in her past .
她突然指着我，于是大家都用责备的目光看着我。我竭力做出一副样子表示我并没指望什么人爱我。
"The only crazy I was was when I married him.I knew right away I made a mistake .He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it ,and the man came after it one day when he was out .She looked around to see who was listening :"Oh,is that your suit ? I said .This is the first I ever heard about it ,'But I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried to beat the band all afternoon ."
我干的唯一发疯的事是跟他结了婚，我马上就知道我犯了错误。他借了人家一套出客的衣服穿着结婚，还从来不告诉我，后来有一天他不在家，那人来讨还衣服。她环顾四周，看看都有谁在注意听，哦，这套衣服是你的吗？我说，这还是我头一回听说哩。但是我把衣服给了他，然后我躺到床上，号啕大哭，整整哭了一下午。
"She really ought to get away from him ,"resumed Catherine to me ."They've been living over that garage for eleven years .And Tom's the first sweetie she ever had ."
她实在应当离开他，凯瑟琳又跟我说不去，他们在那汽车行楼顶上住了十一年了。汤姆还是她第一个相好的哩。
The bottle of whiskey -- a second one -- was now in constant demand by all present ,excepting Catherine who "felt just as good on nothing at all ."Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches ,which were a complete supper in themselves .I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild strident argument which pulled me back ,as if with ropes ,into my chair .Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets ,and I was him too ,looking up and wondering. I was within and without ,simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life .
那瓶威士忌--第二瓶了--此刻大家都喝个不停，唯有凯瑟琳除外，她什么都不喝也感到飘飘然。汤姆按铃把看门的喊来，叫他去买一种出名的三明治，吃了可以抵得上一顿晚餐。我想到外面去，在柔和的暮色中向东朝公园走过去，但每次我起身告辞，都被卷入一阵吵闹刺耳的争执中，结果就仿佛有绳子把我拉回到椅子上。然而我们这排黄澄澄的窗户高踞在城市上空，一定给暮色苍茫的街道上一位观望的过客增添了一点人性的秘密，同时我也可以看到他，一面在仰望一面在寻思。我既身在其中又身在其外，对人生的千变万化既感到陶醉，同时又感到厌恶。
Myrtl pulled her chair close to mine ,and suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom .
茉特尔把她自己的椅子拉到我的椅子旁边，忽然之间她吐出的热气朝我喷来，她絮絮叨叨讲起了她跟汤姆初次相逢的故事。
"It was on the two little seats facing each other that are always the last ones left on the train .I was going up to New York to see my sister and spend the night .He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes and I couldn't keep my eyes off him but every time he looked at me I had to pretend to be looking at the advertisement over his head .When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm -- and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman ,but he knew I lied. I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting ingo a subway train .All I kept thinking about ,over and over ,was 'You can't live forever ,you can't live forever."
事情发生在两个面对面的小座位上，就是火车上一向剩下的最后两个座位。我上纽约去看我妹妹，在她那儿过夜。他穿了一身礼服，一双漆皮鞋，我就忍不住老是看他，可是每次他一看我，我只好假装在看他头顶上的广告。我们走进车站时，他紧挨在我身边，他那雪白的衬衫前胸蹭着我的胳膊，于是我跟他说我可要叫警察了，但他明知我在说假话。我神魂颠倒，跟他上了一辆出租汽车，还以为是上了地铁哩。我心里翻天覆地想的只有一句话：你又不能永远活着。你又不能永远活着。
She turned to Mrs .McKee and the room rang full of her artificial laughter .
她回头来跟卖基太太讲话，屋子里充满了她那不自然的笑声。她回过头来跟卖基太太讲话。屋子里充满了她那不自然的笑声。
"My dear ,"she cried ,"I'm going to give you this dress as soon as I'm through with it .I'v got to get another one tomorrow .I'm going to make a list of all the things I've got to get .A massage and a wave and a collar for the dog and one of those cute little ash-trayts where you touch a spring ,and a wreath with a black silk bow for mother's grave that'll last all summer .I got to write down a list so I won't forget all the things I got to do."
亲爱的，她喊道，我这件衣服穿过之后就送给你。明天我得去另买一件。我要把所有要办的事情开个单子。按摩、烫发、替小狗买条项圈，买一个那种有弹簧的、小巧玲珑的烟灰缸，还要给妈妈的坟上买一个挂黑丝结的假花圈，可以摆一个夏天的那种。我一定得写个音子，免得我忘掉要做哪些事。
It was nine o'clock -- almost immediately afterward I looked at my watch and found it was ten .Mr.McKee was asleep on a chair with his fists clenched in his lap ,like a photograph of a man of action .Taking out my handkerchief I wiped from his cheek the remains of the spot of dried lather that had worried me all the afternoon .
已经九点钟了----转眼我再看表时发觉已经十点了，麦基先生倒在椅子上睡着了，两手握拳放在大腿上，好像一张活动家的相片。我掏出手帕，把他脸上那一小片叫我一下午都看了难受的干肥皂沫擦掉。
The little dog was sitting on the table looking with blind eyes through the smoke and from time to time groaning faintly .People disappeared ,reappeared ,made plans to go somewhere ,and then lost each other ,searched for each other, found each other a few feet away .Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs.Wilson stood face to face discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs.Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name .
小狗坐在桌子上，两眼在烟雾中盲目地张望，不时轻轻地哼着。屋子里的人一会儿不见了，一会儿又重新出现，商量到什么地方去，然后又找不着对方，找来找去，发现彼此就在几尺之内。快到半夜的时候，汤姆.布坎农场和威尔逊太太面对面站着争吵，声音很激动，争的是威尔逊太太有没有权利提黛西的名字。
"Daisy !Daisy !Daisy !"shouted Mrs.Wilson ."I'll say it whenwver I want to !Daisy Dai--"
黛西！黛西！黛西！威尔逊太太大喊大叫。我什么时候想叫就叫！黛西！黛西…
Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand .
汤姆.布坎农动作敏捷，伸出手一巴掌打破了威尔逊太太的鼻子。
Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor ,and women's voice scolding ,and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain .Mrs.McKee awoke from his doze and started in a daze toward the door .When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene --his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid ,and the despairing figure on the couch bleeding fluently and trying to spread a copy of "Town Tattle "over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.Then Mr.McKee turned and continued on out the door .Taking my hat from the chandelier I followed .
接着，浴室满地都血淋淋的毛巾，只听见女骂骂咧咧的声音，同时一片混乱之中，还夹有断断续续痛楚的哀号。麦基先生打盹醒了，懵懵懂懂地朝门口走。他走了一半路，又转过身来看着屋子里的景象发呆--他老婆和凯瑟琳一面骂一面哄，同时手里拿着急救用的东西跌跌撞撞地在拥挤的家具中间来回跑，还有躺在沙发上的那个凄楚的人形，一面血流不止，一面还想把一份《纽约闲话》铺在织锦套上的凡尔赛风景上面。然后麦基先生又掉转身子，继续走出门去。我从灯架上取下帽子，也跟着走了出去。
"Come to lunch some day ,"he suggested ,as we groaned down in the elevator .
改天过来一道吃午饭吧。我们在电梯里哼哼唧唧地往下走的时候，他提议说。
"Where ?"
什么地方？
"Anywhere."
随便什么地方。
"Keep your hands off the lever,"snapped the elevator boy .
别碰电梯开关，开电梯的工人不客气地说。
"I beg your pardon ,"said Mrs.McKee with dignity ,"I didn't know I was touching it ."
对不起，麦基先生神气十足地说，我不知道我碰了。
"All right ," I agreed ,"I'll be glad to ."
好吧，我表示同意，我一定奉陪。
I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets ,clad in his underwear ,with a great portfolio in his hands .
我正站在麦基床边，而他坐在两层床单中间，身上只穿着内衣，手里捧着一本大相片簿。…我正站在麦基床边，而他坐在两层床单中间，身上只穿着内衣，手里捧着一本大相片簿。
"Beauty and the Beast …Loneliness …Old Grocery Horse …Brook'n Bridge …"
《美女与野兽》…《寂寞》…《小店老马》…《布鲁克林大桥》…
Then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the Pennsylvania Station ,staring at the morning "Tribune "and waiting for the four o'clock train .
后来我半睡半醒躺在宾夕法尼亚车站很冷的下层侯车室里，一面盯着刚出的《论坛报》，一面等侯清早四点钟的那班火车
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