了不起的蓋茨比經典台詞

1、每當你覺得想要批評什麼人的時候,你切要記著,這個世界上的人並非都具備你稟有的條件。

whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

2、人們的善惡感一生下來就有差異。

a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

3、人們的品行有的好像建築在堅硬的岩石上,有的好像建築在泥沼里,不過超過一定的限度,我就不在乎它建在什麼之上了。

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、這時,天色已經暗了下來,我們這排高高地俯瞰著城市的燈火通明的窗戶,一定讓街頭偶爾抬頭眺望的人感到了,人類的秘密也有其一份在這裡吧,我也是這樣的一個過路人,舉頭望著詫異著。我既在事內又在事外,幾杯永無枯竭的五彩紛呈的生活所吸引,同時又被其排斥著。

yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and i was him too, looking up and wondering. i was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

5、他理解體諒地笑了——這笑比理解和體諒有的含義。這是那種不多見的使你忐忑不安的情緒能很快地平靜下來的笑,這種笑容人的一生中頂多能碰上四五次。它 先是再一剎那間面對——或者說似乎在面對——整個外部世界,然後他就全副心神地傾注到你的身上,對你充滿一種不可抵禦的偏愛之情。它對你的理解恰是你想被 人理解的那么多,它對你的信任恰像你平時願意對自己所信任到的那種程度,它叫你確信它對你的印象恰是你所希望造成的那么多。

he smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, which you may come across four or five times in life. it faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. it understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

6、每個人都認為他自己至少具有一種主要的美德,我的美德是:我是我所結識過的少有的幾個誠實人中間的一個。

everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues and this

7、世界上只有被追求者和追求者,忙碌者和疲憊者。

there are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

8、他懷著一種創造性的情感將自己全身心地投入到它的中間,不斷地為它增添內容,用飄浮到他路上的每一根漂亮羽毛去裝扮它。有誰知道在一個人的波詭雲譎的心裡,能蓄下多少火一樣的激情和新鮮的念頭。

he had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. no amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

9、他是上帝之子,如果這個詞還有什麼別的含義的話,這裡只能用它的本意,他要為天父的事業而獻身,服務於這一博大而又粗俗、浮華而又美麗的事業。