1、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》
2、I went in – after making every possible noise in the kitchen – but I don'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》
3、The lights grow brighter as the earth moves away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music. The voices are louder and higher, and laughter is easier minute by minute. Suddenly a girl dances out alone on to the lawn, and the party has begun. ----《The Great Gatsby》
4、He did extraordinarily well in the war, and afterwards was sent to Oxford, although he tried very hard to get sent home. Daisy'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》
5、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》
6、Suddenly Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.'They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.'Outside Gatsby's window it began to rain again, and we stood in a row looking out at the sea beyond the lawn.' ----《The Great Gatsby》
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.' ----《The Great Gatsby》
8、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》
9、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》
10、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》
11、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'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.
'I couldn't get to the house,' he remarked. ----《The Great Gatsby》
12、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. ----《The Great Gatsby》
13、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's mansion. Standing on the porch was the lonely figure of the host, his hand raised in a formal goodbye. ----《The Great Gatsby》
14、'Look!' said Daisy suddenly. Her eyes were on her little finger. We all looked. It was black and blue.'You did it, Tom,' she said accusingly. 'I know you didn't mean to, but you did do it. That's what I get for marrying a great big powerful animal of a man."I hate that word animal,' said Tom crossly, 'even as a joke.' ----《The Great Gatsby》
15、I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park in the soft evening half-light, but each time I tried to go, I got involved in some wild argument, which pulled me back into the room. ----《The Great Gatsby》
16、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》
17、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. ----《The Great Gatsby》
18、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》
19、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》
20、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》
21、Gatsby believed in the green light, the future that year by year moves further away from us. It escaped us then, but that doesn'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》
22、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. ----《The Great Gatsby》
23、Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions, whatever determination she had had, were gone forever. ----《The Great Gatsby》
24、A moment later she rushed out into the darkness, waving her hands and shouting. Before he could move, it was all over. ----《The Great Gatsby》
25、'Why didn't he ask you to arrange a meeting?''He wants her to see his house, and you live right next door.'It was dark now, and I put my arm round Jordan's golden shoulder and drew her toward me. ----《The Great Gatsby》
26、From the car window Daisy's face looked out at me, from under a three-cornered hat, with a delighted smile.'Is this absolutely where you live, my dearest one?'Her lovely voice made the gray day feel brighter. I took her hand to help her from the car.'Are you in love with me?' she said low in my ear. ' ----《The Great Gatsby》
27、Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiarly threatening quality – it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer. ----《The Great Gatsby》
28、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》
29、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》
30、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's enormous mansion.After half an hour the sun shone again. ----《The Great Gatsby》