Day 29: Many people define someone as “mad”

Monday

各位书友,今天我们一起阅读《The Great Gatsby》223-232页。The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922.

Question

What do you think: many people define someone as “mad”

你如何看待众人为某人下“疯子”的定义。

欢迎各位书友留言,文字语音都可以,中文英文均不限。

您的每一条留言对于我们都很重要!*3

英语共读编辑团队在后台等您来!在后台等您来!等您来!

重点语句

1. Someone with a positive manner, perhaps a detective, used the expression "madman" as he bent over Wilson's body that afternoon, and the adventitious authority of his voice set the key for the newspaper reports next morning.

那天下午,有一个神态自信的人,也许是一名侦探,低头检视威尔逊的尸体时用了“疯子”两个字,而他的语气偶然的权威就为第二天早上所有报纸的报道定了调子。

2. As he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.

一小时又一小时过去,他还是躺在他的房子里,不动,不呼吸,也不说话,我才渐渐明白我在负责,因为除我以外没有任何人有兴趣——我的意思是说,那种每个人身后多少都有权利得到的强烈的个人兴趣。

3. I was sure he'd start when he saw the newspapers, just as I was sure there'd be a wire from Daisy before noon--but neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfshiem arrived; no one arrived except more police and photographers and newspaper men. 

我认为他一看见报纸肯定马上就会赶来的,正如我认为中午以前黛西肯定会有电报来的——可是电报也没来,沃尔夫山姆先生也没到。什么人都没来,只有更多的警察、摄影师和新闻记者。

4. I was relieved too, for that seemed to promise another friend at Gatsby’s grave. 

我也感到宽慰,因为这一来盖茨比的墓前可能会多一个朋友了。

重点词汇

1. adventitious: 外来的,偶然的

2. unessential: 非本质的,不重要的

3. instinctively: 本能地

4. superfluous: 多余的;不必要的;奢侈的

5. squawk: 抗议;叫声;诉苦;故障

6. ejaculate: 突然说出;射出

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—共读书籍简介—

《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德1925年所写的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约市及长岛为背景的中篇小说,小说的背景被设定在现代化的美国社会中上阶层的白人圈内,通过卡拉韦的叙述展开。


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