He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favour. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood...(2回应)
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out arms farther... And one fine morning- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. can't get the meaning of these sentences and read for many times. then I saw someone' understanding on ...
'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.'(2回应)
Then wear the golden hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry, lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you! Whenever you feel like criticsing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. for the intimate revlations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are us...
这次读这本书是因为碰巧又读起村上春树的《挪威的森林》,“我”认识我的好哥们就是因为大家相同的taste——the great gatsby。 之前看过两遍小李子那个版本的了不起的盖茨比,家里有一本the great gatsby, 之前没读完。 这次又读起,还在Kindle上买了个中文版,然后第一次觉得翻译真的版本根本没法看,必须看原汁原味的版本——起码盖茨比这本书一定要看英文原版。真实第一次在读英文上找到那种口齿留香的感觉——之前可能也就...
"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." 这句话真的值得回味,我要不断提醒自己去切身理解这之间的含义。
And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields...
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