1、There was music from my neighbor&＃039;s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like night-flying insects among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. ----《The Great Gatsby》
2、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》
3、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》
4、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》
5、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》
6、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》
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、&＃039;Look!&＃039; said Daisy suddenly. Her eyes were on her little finger. We all looked. It was black and blue.&＃039;You did it Tom&＃039; she said accusingly. &＃039;I know you didn&＃039;t mean to but you did do it. That&＃039;s what I get for marrying a great big powerful animal of a man."I hate that word animal&＃039; said Tom crossly &＃039;even as a joke.&＃039; ----《The Great Gatsby》
9、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》
10、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》
11、A moment later she rushed out into the darkness waving her hands and shouting. Before he could move it was all over. ----《The Great Gatsby》
12、I walked out the back way – just as Gatsby had done half an hour earlier – and waited under a huge black tree in the middle of my lawn. Once more it was pouring and there was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby&＃039;s enormous mansion.After half an hour the sun shone again. ----《The Great Gatsby》
13、Already it was deep summer and when I reached my house I put the car away and sat for a while out in my small garden. It was a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and insects flying above my head. A cat moved across the grass in the moonlight and turning my head to watch it I saw that I was not alone. ----《The Great Gatsby》
14、IN THE MEANTIME IN BETWEEN TIME—As I went over to say goodbye I saw the dazed look on Gatsby&＃039;s face again. Was he doubting the quality of his happiness? Almost five years! ----《The Great Gatsby》
15、They were gone without a word. After a moment or two we left too. Jordan and I got into the coupé with Tom and we started for Long Island. Tom was very pleased with himself talking and laughing all the way but Jordan and I were not listening. ----《The Great Gatsby》
16、She looked away from me and up to the top of the steps. We could hear Three o&＃039;clock in the Morning a neat sad little dance song coming from the open door. What was it in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the soft hours of darkness? ----《The Great Gatsby》
17、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》
18、&＃039;Why didn&＃039;t he ask you to arrange a meeting?&＃039;&＃039;He wants her to see his house and you live right next door.&＃039;It was dark now and I put my arm round Jordan&＃039;s golden shoulder and drew her toward me. ----《The Great Gatsby》
19、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》
20、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》
21、He stayed there a week revisiting the places where he and Daisy had been together. He left the town feeling that if he had searched harder he could have found her. On the train out of town he stretched his arms out of the window trying to catch a handful of the air that she had breathed. ----《The Great Gatsby》
22、Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions whatever determination she had had were gone forever. ----《The Great Gatsby》
23、I see now that this has been a story of the West after all. Tom and Gatsby Daisy and Jordan and I were all Westerners and perhaps there was something missing in every one of us so that we were never able to get used to Eastern life. ----《The Great Gatsby》
24、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》
25、Gatsby believed in the green light the future that year by year moves further away from us. It escaped us then but that doesn&＃039;t matter – tomorrow we will run faster stretch out our arms further … And one fine morning …So we beat on boats against the current carried back ceaselessly into the past. ----《The Great Gatsby》
26、I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment but he was already too far away and I could only remember without anger that Daisy hadn&＃039;t sent a message or a flower.
When it was over we walked quickly through the rain to the cars. Owl-eyes spoke to me by the gate.
&＃039;I couldn&＃039;t get to the house&＃039; he remarked. ----《The Great Gatsby》
27、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》
28、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》
29、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》
30、There was nothing I could say except the one thing that was impossible to say – that it wasn&＃039;t true.
I couldn&＃039;t forgive him or like him but I saw that he thought he had good reasons for what he had done. It was all very careless and confused. ----《The Great Gatsby》
