1、He smiled understandingly. It was one of those smiles that you see only four or five times in your life. It showed you that he understood you believed in you and had the best possible opinion of you. ----《The Great Gatsby》
2、When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. Two o&＃039;clock in the morning and the whole of the coastline seemed to be in flames. Turning a corner I saw that it was Gatsby&＃039;s house lit from tower to cellar.At first I thought it was another party. ----《The Great Gatsby》
3、He talked a lot about the past and I understood that he wanted to rediscover something some idea of himself perhaps that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and meaningless since then but if he could only return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly ----《The Great Gatsby》
4、Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiarly threatening quality – it stands out in my memory from Gatsby&＃039;s other parties that summer. ----《The Great Gatsby》
5、I began to like New York especially the adventurous feel of it at night. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and choose romantic women from the crowd – I used to imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter their lives and no one would ever know. ----《The Great Gatsby》
6、But with every word of his she was drawing further and further into herself so he stopped that and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away trying unhappily to reach that lost voice across the room. ----《The Great Gatsby》
7、After his embarrassment and then his unreasoning joy he now felt only wonder that she was there.Pulling himself together he opened two huge cupboards to show us his well-cut suits expensive shirts and silk ties.&＃039;I&＃039;ve got a man in England who buys me clothes. ----《The Great Gatsby》
8、IN THE MORNING IN THE EVENING AIN&＃039;T WE GOT FUN—
Outside the wind was loud. All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains were carrying men home from New York and there was excitement in the air. ONE THING&＃039;S SURE AND NOTHING&＃039;S SURER THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET-CHILDREN. ----《The Great Gatsby》
9、We drove over the great bridge with the sunlight on the moving cars and the city rising up across the river. New York seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.&＃039; ----《The Great Gatsby》
10、When I came back from the East last autumn I felt I wanted the whole world to be in moral uniform all living a highly moral life for ever. I wanted no more wildness no more secrets of the human heart. ----《The Great Gatsby》
11、They had forgotten me but Daisy looked up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn&＃039;t know me now at all. I looked once more at them and they looked back at me distantly enclosed in their own bright world. Then I went out of the room and down the grand steps into the rain leaving them there together. ----《The Great Gatsby》
12、Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions whatever determination she had had were gone forever. ----《The Great Gatsby》
13、&＃039;Here my dear.&＃039; She felt drunkenly around on the floor and picked up the necklace. &＃039;Give it back to whoever it belongs to. And tell them all Daisy&＃039;s changed her mind!&＃039;She began to cry – she cried and cried. I rushed out and found her mother&＃039;s servant girl. We locked the door and got Daisy into a cold bath. ----《The Great Gatsby》
14、Daisy put her arm through his but Gatsby seemed lost in thought. Possibly he had realized that the enormous importance of that light had now gone for ever. To him it had seemed very near to her almost touching her as close as a star to the moon. Now it was just a green light on a dock again.&＃039;Look!&＃039; cried Daisy. ----《The Great Gatsby》
15、If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world and paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up through frightening leaves at a new world full of poor ghosts breathing dreams … like that ashen fantastic figure coming slowly toward him through the trees. ----《The Great Gatsby》
16、There was dancing now on the lawn the orchestra was playing jazz and champagne was being served in glasses bigger than finger bowls. The moon had risen higher and floating in the ocean was a silver triangle trembling a little in the night air. ----《The Great Gatsby》
17、One autumn night five years before they had been walking down the street. The ground was white with moonlight and they stopped and turned toward each other. It was a cool night but with that mysterious excitement in it which comes as the seasons change. ----《The Great Gatsby》
18、But his heart was never at peace. The wildest most fantastic dreams kept him awake at night while the moonlight shone in on the untidy heap of his clothes on the floor. He was sure that a great future lay ahead of him. ----《The Great Gatsby》
19、The sun had risen now on Long Island and we went round the house opening the rest of the downstairs windows. Ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow pleasant movement in the air promising a cool lovely day. ----《The Great Gatsby》
20、Instead of taking the short cut across the lawn we walked down to the road and entered through the main gates. With murmurs of delight Daisy admired the flowers the gardens and the way the mansion stood out against the sky. ----《The Great Gatsby》
21、I went in – after making every possible noise in the kitchen – but I don&＃039;t believe they heard a sound. They were sitting at either end of the sofa and every sign of embarrassment was gone. Daisy had been crying and was drying her tears. But there was a surprising change in Gatsby. ----《The Great Gatsby》
22、He knew that when he kissed this girl he would never dream his wild dreams again. So he waited listening for a moment longer to the music of the stars.Then he kissed her. At the touch of his lips love opened like a flower and his new life was born. ----《The Great Gatsby》
23、And so with the sunshine and the leaves bursting out on the trees I had that recognizable feeling that life was beginning over again with the summer. ----《The Great Gatsby》
24、Once I had reached my front door I looked back across the lawn. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors of Gatsby&＃039;s mansion. Standing on the porch was the lonely figure of the host his hand raised in a formal goodbye. ----《The Great Gatsby》
25、While I watched him his hand took hold of hers and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a sudden rush of feeling. I think that feverish exciting voice of hers held him most because it couldn&＃039;t be dreamed – that voice was a deathless song. ----《The Great Gatsby》
26、The lights grow brighter as the earth moves away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music. The voices are louder and higher and laughter is easier minute by minute. Suddenly a girl dances out alone on to the lawn and the party has begun. ----《The Great Gatsby》
27、Daisy disappeared into her rich house into her rich full life leaving Gatsby – nothing. He felt married to her that was all
When they met again two days later it was Gatsby who was unsure of himself who would do anything to see her again. ----《The Great Gatsby》
28、I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park in the soft evening half-light but each time I tried to go I got involved in some wild argument which pulled me back into the room. ----《The Great Gatsby》
29、Gatsby his hands still in his pockets was standing in front of the fireplace. The back of his head was touching a clock on a shelf but he was trying to look perfectly comfortable and even a little bored. His miserable eyes stared down at Daisy who was sitting frightened but beautiful on the edge of a stiff chair. ----《The Great Gatsby》
30、He did extraordinarily well in the war and afterwards was sent to Oxford although he tried very hard to get sent home. Daisy&＃039;s letters to him were nervous and desperate; she wanted to feel his presence beside her and to be told she was doing the right thing. ----《The Great Gatsby》
