The Great Gatsby

1、“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,”he told me,“just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

2、He didn’t say any more,but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way,and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.

3、Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes,but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on.

4、I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. 5、some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life

6、No-Gatsby turned out all right at the end;it is what preyed on Gatsby,what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

7、It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man,more recently arrived than I,stopped me on the road.

8、And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,just as things grow in fast movies,I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

9、This isn’t just an epigram-life is much more successfully looked at from a single window,after all.

10、It was a matter of chance that...... 11、I had no sight into Daisy’s heart.

12、......jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens-finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.

13、The front was broken by a line of French windows,glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon.

14、Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.

15、Turning me around by one arm,he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista....

16、The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.A breeze blew through the room,blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags,twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling,and then rippled over the wine-colored rug,making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

17、The younger of the two was a stranger to me. 18、I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.

19、Again a sort of apology arose to my lips.

20、For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face,her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened—then the glow faded,each light deserting her with lingering regret,like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.

21、Daisy took her face in her hands,as if feeling its lovely shape,and her eyes moved gradually out into the velvet dusk.

22、Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues,and this is mine:I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

23、There are only the pursued,the pursuing,the busy and the tired. 24、One thing’s sure and nothing’s surer

the rich get richer and the poor get—children in the meantime, in between time-

25、No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in this ghostly heart. 26、You can’t repeat the past.

27、...but in her heart she never loved any one except me.

28、The track curved and now it was going away from the sun,which as it sank lower,seemed to spread itself in benediction over the vanishing city where she had drawn her breath.

29、But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it,the freshest and the best,forever.

30、They’re a rotten crowd.You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

31、There was nothing I could say,except the one unutterable fact that it wasn’t true.

32、They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness,or whatever it was that kept them together,and let other people clean up the mess they had made....

33、So we beat on,boats against the current,borne back ceaselessly into the past. 34、All the bright precious things fade so fast.

35、I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage,frightening dreams. 36、I was within and without.

37、A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

38、So engrossed was she that she had no consciousness of being observed,and one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. 39、veteran bores 40、unaffected scorn

41、flabby impressionability

42、the warm center of the world

43、a country of wide lawns and friendly trees 44、the young breath-giving air

45、among various physical accomplishments 46、everything afterwards savors of anti-climax 47、take one’s breath away 48、in my own generation 49、warm windy

50、supercilious manner 51、a gruff husky tenor

52、come forward into the room 53、old sport

54、pick one’s words with care