了不起的盖茨比（Myrtle懊恼和威尔逊结婚）

The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean—then the shrill voice of Mrs. McKee called me back into the room.

    【窗外，天空在夕照中显得格外柔和，像蔚蓝的地中海一样。】

　　“I almost made a mistake, too,” she declared vigorously. “I almost married a little kyke who’d been after me for years. I knew he was below me. Everybody kept saying to me: ‘Lucille, that man’s ‘way below you!’ But if I hadn’t met Chester, he’d of got me sure.”

　　“Yes, but listen,” said Myrtle Wilson, nodding her head up and down, “at least you didn’t marry him.”

　　“I know I didn’t.”

　　“Well, I married him,” said Myrtle, ambiguously. “And that’s the difference between your case and mine.”

　　“Why did you, Myrtle?” demanded Catherine. “Nobody forced you to.”

　　Myrtle considered.

“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,” she said finally. “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.”

【"我嫁给了他，是因为我以为他是个上等人，"她最后说，"我以为他还有点教养，不料他连舔我的鞋都不配。"】

　　“You were crazy about him for a while,” said Catherine.

　　“Crazy about him!” cried Myrtle incredulously. “Who said I was crazy about him? I never was any more crazy about him than I was about that man there.”

     【"爱他爱得发疯！"茉特尔不相信地喊道，"谁说我爱他爱得发疯啦？我从来没爱过他，就像我没爱过那个人一样。"】

　   She pointed suddenly at me, and every one looked at me accusingly. I tried to show by my expression that I had played no part in her past.