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“Good night；” she said softly。 “Wake me at eight； won’t you。” 〃明天见，〃她轻声说，〃八点叫我，好吧？〃
“If you’ll get up。” 〃只要你起得来。〃
“I will。 Good night； Mr。 Carraway。 See you anon。” 〃我一定可以。晚安，卡罗威先生。改天见吧。〃
“Of course you will；” confirmed Daisy。 “In fact I think I’ll arrange a marriage。 e over often； Nick； and I’ll sort of—oh—fling you together。 You know—lock you up accidentally in linen closets and push you out to sea in a boat； and all that sort of thing——” 〃你们当然会再见面的，〃黛西保证道，〃说实在，我想我要做个媒。多来几趟，尼克，我就想办法…呃…把你们俩拽到一起。比方说，无意间把你们关在被单储藏室用啦，或者把你们放在小船上往海里一推啦，以及诸如此类的方法。。。。。。〃
“Good night；” called Miss Baker from the stairs。 “I haven’t heard a word。” 〃明天见，〃贝克小姐从楼梯上喊道，〃我一个字也没听见。〃
“She’s a nice girl；” said Tom after a moment。 “They oughtn’t to let her run around the country this way。” 〃她是个好孩子，〃过了一会几汤姆说，〃他们不应当让她这样到处乱跑。〃
“Who oughtn’t to？” inquired Daisy coldly。 〃是谁不应当？〃黛西冷冷地问。
“Her family。” 〃她家里人。〃
“Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old。 Besides； Nick’s going to look after her； aren’t you； Nick？ She’s going to spend lots of weekends out here this summer。 I think the home influence will be very good for her。” 〃她家里只有一个七老八十的姑妈。再说，尼克以后可以照应她了，是不是，尼克？她今年夏天要到这里来度许多个周末。我想这里的家庭环境对她会大有好处的。〃
Daisy and Tom looked at each other for a moment in silence。 黛西和汤姆一声不响地彼此看了一会儿。
“Is she from New York？” I asked quickly。 〃她是纽约州的人吗？〃我赶快问。
“From Louisville。 Our white girlhood was passed together there。 Our beautiful white——” 〃路易斯维尔①人。我们纯洁的少女时期是一道在那里度过的。我们那美丽纯洁的。。。。。。〃 ①路易斯维尔（Louisville），美国南部肯塔基州的城市。
“Did you give Nick a little heart to heart talk on the veranda？” demanded Tom suddenly。 〃你在阳台上是不是跟尼克把心里话都讲了？〃汤姆忽然质问。
“Did I？” She looked at me。“I can’t seem to remember； but I think we talked about the Nordic race。 Yes； I’m sure we did。 It sort of crept up on us and first thing you know——” 〃我讲了吗？〃她看着我，〃我好像不记得，不过我们大概谈到了日耳曼种族。对了，我可以肯定我们谈的是那个。它不知不觉就进入了我们的话题，你还没注意到哩。。。。。。〃
“Don’t believe everything you hear； Nick；” he advised me。 〃别听到什么都信以为真，尼克。〃他告诫我道。
I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all； and a few minutes later I got up to go home。 They came to the door with me and stood side by side in a cheerful square of light。 As I started my motor Daisy peremptorily called： “Wait！” 我轻松地说我什么都没听到，几分钟之后我就起身告辞了。他们把我送到门口，两人并肩站在方方一片明亮的灯光里。我发动了汽车，忽然黛西命令式地喊道：〃等等！〃
“I forgot to ask you something； and it’s important。 We heard you were engaged to a girl out West。” 〃我忘了问你一件事，很重要的。我们听说你在西部跟一个姑娘订婚了。〃
“That’s right；” corroborated Tom kindly。 “We heard that you were engaged。” 〃不错，〃汤姆和蔼地附和说，〃我们听说你订婚了。〃
“It’s libel。 I’m too poor。” 〃那是造谣诽谤。我太穷了。〃
“But we heard it；” insisted Daisy； surprising me by opening up again in a flowerlike way。 “We heard it from three people； so it must be true。” 〃可是我们听说了。〃黛西坚持说，使我感到惊讶的是她又像花朵一样绽开了。〃我们听三个人说过，所以一定是真的。〃
Of course I knew what they were referring to； but I wasn’t even vaguely engaged。 The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had e East。 You can’t stop going with an old friend on account of rumors； and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage。 我当然知道他们指的是什么事，但是我压根儿没有订婚。流言蜚语传播说我订了婚，这正是我之所以到东部来的一个原因。你不能因为怕谣言就和一个老朋友断绝来往，可是另一方面我也无意迫于谣言的压力就去结婚。
Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich—nevertheless； I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away。 It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house； child in arms—but apparently there were no such intentions in her head。 As for Tom； the fact that he “had some woman in New York。” was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book。 Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart。 他们对我的关心倒很使我感动，也使他们不显得那么有钱与高不可攀了。虽然如此，在我开车回家的路上，我感到迷惑不解，还有点厌恶。我觉得，黛西应该做的事是抱着孩子跑出这座房子…可是显然她头脑里丝毫没有这种打算。至于汤姆，他〃在纽约有个女人〃这种事倒不足为怪，奇怪的是他会因为读了一本书而感到沮丧。不知什么东西在使他从陈腐的学说里摄取精神食粮，仿佛他那壮硕的体格的唯我主义已经不再能滋养他那颗唯我独尊的心了。
Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages； where new red gaspumps sat out in pools of light； and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard。 The wind had blown off； leaving a loud； bright night； with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life。 The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight； and turning my head to watch it； I saw that I was not alone—fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor’s mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars。 Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr。 Gatsby himself； e out to determine what share was his of our local heavens。 一路上，小旅馆房顶上和路边汽油站门前已经是一片盛夏景豼？鲜红的加油机一台台蹲在电灯光圈里。我回到我在西卵的住处，把车停在小车棚之后，在院子里一架闲置的刈草机上坐了一会儿。风已经停了，眼前是一片嘈杂、明亮的夜景，有鸟雀在树上拍翅膀的声音，还有大地的风箱使青蛙鼓足了气力发出的连续不断的风琴声。一只猫的侧影在月光中慢慢地移动，我掉过头去看它的时候，发觉我不是一个人五十英尺之外一个人已经从我邻居的大厦的阴影里走了出来，现在两手插在口袋里站在那里仰望银白的星光。从他那悠闲的动作和他那两脚稳踏在草坪上的姿态可以看出他就是盖茨比先生本人，出来确定一下我们本地的天空哪一片是属于他的。
I decided to call to him。 Miss Baker had mentioned him at dinner； and that would do for an introduction。 But I didn’t call to him； for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone—he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way； and； far as I was from him； I could have sworn he was trembling。 Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light； minute and far away； that might have been the end of a dock。 When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished； and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness。 我打定了主意要招呼他。贝克小姐在吃饭时提到过他，那也可以算作介绍了。但我并没招呼他，因为他突然做了个动作，好像表示他满足于独自待着…他朝着幽暗的海水把两只胳膊伸了出去，那样子真古怪，并且尽管我离他很远，我可以发誓他正在发抖。我也情不自禁地朝海上望去什么都看不出来，除了一盏绿灯，又小又远，也许是一座码头的尽头。等我回头再去看盖茨比时，他已经不见了，于是我又独自待在不平静的黑夜里。
Chapter 2 第二章
About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile； so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land。 西卵和纽约之间大约一半路程的地方，汽车路匆匆忙忙跟铁路会合，它在铁路旁边跑上四分之一英里，为的是要躲开一片荒凉的地方。
This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens； 这是一个灰烬的山谷…一个离奇古怪的农场，在这里灰烬像麦子一样生长，长成小山小丘和奇形怪状的园子。
where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and； finally； with a transcende