1、Most of the big houses along the shore were closed now for the winter and were in darkness; there was only the shadowy moving light of a ferryboat across the water. And as the moon rose higher the houses slowly began to melt away until I became aware of the old island underneath. ----《The Great Gatsby》
2、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》
3、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》
4、&＃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》
5、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》
6、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》
7、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》
8、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》
9、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》
10、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》
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、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》
13、By seven o&＃039;clock every Saturday night the orchestra has arrived. The last swimmers have come in from the beach and are dressing upstairs; there are at least five rows of cars from New York parked in front of the house and already the halls and rooms are full of colorful dresses and the latest strangest haircuts. ----《The Great Gatsby》
14、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》
15、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》
16、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》
17、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》
18、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》
19、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》
20、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》
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. ----《The Great Gatsby》
22、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》
23、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》
24、We shook hands and I started to walk away. A little way down the path I remembered something and turned around.
&＃039;They&＃039;re a rotten crowd&＃039; I shouted across the lawn. &＃039;You&＃039;re worth the whole damned lot of them.&＃039;
I&＃039;ve always been glad I said that. It was the only nice thing I ever said to him. ----《The Great Gatsby》
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. ----《The Great Gatsby》
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. ----《The Great Gatsby》
27、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》
28、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》
29、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》
30、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》
