1、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》
2、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》
3、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》
4、And as I lay there thinking about the old unknown world I thought of Gatsby&＃039;s wonder when he first saw the green light at the end of Daisy&＃039;s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close to him. ----《The Great Gatsby》
5、For a moment I thought I loved her. But I said nothing. I knew that first I had to get myself out of that connection back home. For me it had never been more than friendship but there was a sort of understanding between us and that had to be gently broken off before I was free. ----《The Great Gatsby》
6、You see I think everything&＃039;s terrible anyway. Everybody thinks so. And I know. I&＃039;ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. Nothing&＃039;s new to me!&＃039; She laughed scornfully.The moment her voice stopped her power over me died away. I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said and it made me uneasy. ----《The Great Gatsby》
7、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》
8、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》
9、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》
10、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》
11、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. ----《The Great Gatsby》
12、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; ----《The Great Gatsby》
13、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》
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. ----《The Great Gatsby》
15、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》
16、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》
17、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》
18、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》
19、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》
20、&＃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》
21、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》
22、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》
23、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》
24、There was something truly wonderful about him a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life – he was like one of those complicated machines that show the presence of an earthquake ten thousand miles away. ----《The Great Gatsby》
25、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》
26、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》
27、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. ----《The Great Gatsby》
28、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》
29、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》
30、&＃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》
