The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1
一阕华丽的“爵士时代”的挽歌，在菲茨杰拉德笔下，竟然如诗如梦。
品质魅力——它有很强的故事性，同时又充满时代感。其批判性、文学性及艺术性，更是达到了一个前所未有的水平。
- it was a matter of chance…
- I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer…
- a dozen volumes on …
- in red and gold like new money from the mint
- the “well-rounded man.” This isn’t just an epigram - life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
- identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay
- The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard…
- glittered along the water
- the history of the summer really begins on…
- enormously wealthy
- drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together
- had no sight into Daisy’s heart…
- but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
- see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
- a supercilious manner. Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward…
- politely and abruptly