A Farewell to Arms

The gravel paths were moist and the grass was wet with dew.The battery fired twice and the air came each time like a blow and shook the window and made the front of my pajamas flap.

看看这个文笔，简单粗暴又漂亮，真是让人这辈子都不想再去提什么写作之类的事啊……

It seems she had one hemorrhage after another. They couldn't stop it. I went into the room and stayed with Catherine until she died. She was unconscious all the time, and it did not take her very long to die.

Outside the room, in the hall, I spoke to the doctor, "Is there anything I can do to-night?"

"No. There is nothing to do. Can I take you to your hotel?"

"No, thank you. I am going to stay here a while."

"I know there is nothing to say. I cannot tell you--"

"No," I said. "There's nothing to say."

"Good-night," he said. "I cannot take you to your hotel?"

"No, thank you."

"It was the only thing to do," he said. "The operation proved--"

"I do not want to talk about it," I said.

"I would like to take you to your hotel."

"No, thank you."

He went down the hall. I went to the door of the room.

"You can't come in now," one of the nurses said.

"Yes I can," I said.

"You can't come in yet."

"You get out," I said. "The other one too."

But after I had got them out and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

白描，隐去动作，结尾环境描写渲染

Chapter I “The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves. . . .” 简直是大白话，一句话4个and，没有一个形容词。但这句话给我留下的印象是最深的 Chapter XXVII“There, darling. Now you’re all clean inside and out. Tell me. How many people have youever loved?”“Nobody.”“Not even me?”“Yes, you.”“How many others really?”“None.”“How many have you—how do you say it?—stayed with?”“None.”“You’re lying to me.”“Yes.”“It’s all right. Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do. Were they pretty?” 凯瑟琳和亨利的关系是建立在自欺的幻影上的。 Chapter XXVII I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and thedates. 对Henry来说，荣誉，骄傲和牺牲都是没有意义的。村庄的名字，士兵的名字，被摧残的土地，失去生命的躯体才是重要的。有意义地谈论战争就必须消除虚伪的观念，看清真实的战争。战争英雄的荣耀和在市场上买肉一样没有价值，战场上的牺牲就像家禽的宰杀一样稀松平常。 Chapter XXVIII When we were out past the tanneries onto the main road the troops, the motor trucks, the horse-drawn carts and the guns were in one wide slow-moving column. We moved slowly but steadily in the rain, the radiator cap of our car almost against the tailboard of a truck that was loaded high, the load covered with wet canvas. Then the truck stopped. The whole column was stopped. It started again and we went a little farther, then stopped. I got out and walked ahead, going between the trucks and carts and under the wet necks of the horses. 一幅活画面，意军撤退的场面如在眼前。海氏典型的粗暴的陈述句，对细节的掌握和以不失节奏的韵律展现军队的走走停停和人物内心的情绪。 Chapter XXXVI Poor, poor dear Cat. And this was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was theend of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other. Thank God for gas,anyway. What must it have been like before there were anesthetics? “Thank God For Gas”提示了小说一以贯穿的主题，书中角色都在寻找任何可能的办法来保护自己而免受痛苦。Rinaldi纵情女色，Henry和Catherine以相爱逃避战争，而大多数人用酒精麻痹自己。甚至这件事也要仰仗麻醉剂的一时之效。可是短暂的麻痹之后，痛苦还将继续的。

当Henry和Catherine经历了整场战争却仍然没有分开，当他们以为幸福即将开始，Catherine却因为难产将要死去的时候，她对Henry说："You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, won't you?""Never.""I want you to have girls, though.""I don't want them."战争中的人们互相残害，而在情感中人们伤害彼此，仿佛手握利剑。但是当一切都到了尽头，所有这些都不再必要了。就像Catherine最后说的，It's a dirty trickFarewell to arms.