Gone with the Wind

单词：porch 意思；门廊，走廊，边缘 故事原文:Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara. 单词：squint 意思：斜着眼看，斜视 The twins lounged easily in their chairs, squinting at the sunlight through tall mint-garnished glasses as they laughed 单词：accomplishment 成就，成绩，才艺，教养 In these accomplishments the twins excelled.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caughtby her charm as the Tarletton teins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the haevy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale greenn without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends.Above them, her thick black brows slanted upword,cutting a starting oblique line in her magnolia-whiteskin --that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.

Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarletion in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation,that bright April sfternoon of 1861, she made a pretty picture. Her new green flowered-mudlin dress spread itd twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactiy matched the flat-heeled greed morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta. The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showes breasts well matured for her sixteen years. But for all modestyy of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was pooriy concealed. The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were tubulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her by her moeher's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.

再整理一遍读书笔记，才发现其实很多情节作者在一开篇已经陈列的很清楚了。这颇有一种草蛇灰线伏脉千里的感觉，当然并没有中文名著那种含蓄的美，有点太过于直白了。

这里是斯嘉丽在 Twelve Oaks 对艾希礼表白的时候，艾希礼的回复。这个道理在后来的时候也曾经由 Rehtt 的口中说出来。艾希礼并不爱斯嘉丽的头脑、灵魂和内心世界；也就是说他从斯嘉丽身上想得到的只有鲜活、灵动的肉体。

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这是斯嘉丽向艾希礼表白被拒后，听到女孩子们在她的背后向梅兰妮嚼她的舌根。女孩子之间的攻击无非就是拿性和贞洁开刀。而在这里，梅兰妮却因为一尘不染的内心，虽然刚刚认识斯嘉丽，却挺身为她辩护——这样的辩护持续了整本书，持续了梅兰妮的一生。

在本书的最后一部，斯嘉丽和艾希礼在锯木厂里拥抱的时候被人撞见。当整个保守、坚贞的小镇要将斯嘉丽永远的钉在恶妇的十字架上的时候，又是梅兰妮挺身而出，逼着整个小镇原谅、接受斯嘉丽。

不得再次感叹《飘》虽然整本书959页，但是线条、脉络和结构却优雅的不行。