《The Great Gatsby》经典名句

　　1、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 ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　2、So we beat onboats against the current.borne back ceaselessly into the past. ----F. Scott Fitzgerald

　　3、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? ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　4、With tiny movements that were only the shadows of waves the mattress floated irregularly down the pool carrying its load. A small breath of wind was enough to disturb its accidental journey and the touch of some leaves on the surface made it turn slowly leaving a thin red circle in the water. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　5、Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiarly threatening quality – it stands out in my memory from Gatsby&＃039;s other parties that summer. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　6、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　7、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; ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　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; ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　9、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　10、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　11、“走声当你想于人下上只批评什么人时，于人下上只种学住，想人下用的来上不是人人个为生下道拥有你有过的你着于些优越士战件。”

　　12、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　13、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　14、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　15、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　16、Suddenly Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.&＃039;They&＃039;re such beautiful shirts&＃039; she sobbed. &＃039;It makes me sad because I&＃039;ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.&＃039;Outside Gatsby&＃039;s window it began to rain again and we stood in a row looking out at the sea beyond the lawn.&＃039; ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　17、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　18、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　19、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　20、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　21、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　22、&＃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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　23、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　24、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　25、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　26、Daisy asked me questions in her low exciting voice. Her face was sad and lovely with bright eyes and a bright beautiful mouth but it was her voice that men who loved her found difficult to forget. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　27、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　28、As Gatsby closed the door of the library I was almost sure I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.Upstairs we saw luxuriously furnished bedrooms with fresh flowers on the tables dressing rooms and bathrooms. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　30、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. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald