Day 25: Who is your friend
Thursday
各位书友，今天我们一起阅读《The Great Gatsby》186-194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
Who is your friend?
谁是朋友？
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. The "death car" didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend. Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust.
那辆“凶车”停都没停车于从苍茫暮色中出现，出事后悲惨地犹疑了片刻，然后在前面一转弯就不见了。茉特尔·威尔逊在那里跪在公路当中，死于非命，她那发黑的浓血和尘土混合在一起。
2. I saw Wilson standing on the raised threshold of his office, swaying back and forth and holding to the doorposts with both hands. His eyes would drop slowly from the swinging light to the laden table by the wall, and then jerk back to the light again, and he gave out incessantly his high, horrible call.
我看见威尔逊站在他办公室高高的门槛上，身体前后摆动着，双手抓着门框。他的目光从那盏摇晃的电灯慢慢地下移到墙边那张停着尸体的桌子上，然后又突然转回到那盏灯上，同时他不停地发出他那高亢的、可怕的呼号。
3. Watching Tom, I saw the wad of muscle back of his shoulder tighten under his coat. He walked quickly over to Wilson and, standing in front of him, seized him firmly by the upper arms.
我注视着汤姆，看见他肩膀后面那团肌肉在上衣下面紧张起来。他急忙朝威尔逊走过去，然后站在他面前，一把抓住他的上臂。
4. Wilson's eyes fell upon Tom; he started up on his tiptoes and then would have collapsed to his knees had not Tom held him upright.
威尔逊的眼光落到了汤姆身上。他先是一惊，踮起了脚尖，然后差点跪倒在地上，要不是汤姆扶住他的话。
5. Some dim impulse moved the policeman to look suspiciously at Tom.
一点模糊的冲动促使警察疑心地看看汤姆。
6. Picking up Wilson like a doll, Tom carried him into the office, set him down in a chair, and came back.
汤姆把威尔逊像玩偶一样提起来，提到办公室里去，放在一把椅子上，然后自己又回来。
7. In a little while I heard a low husky sob, and saw that the tears were overflowing down his face.
过了一会我听见低低的一声呜咽，接着看到他泪流满面。
重点词汇
1. waver: 摇曳；踌躇；摆动
2. hushed: 寂静的；安静的
3. incessantly: 不停地，不间断地
4. moan: 呻吟声；悲叹
5. thrusting: 有强大推进力的；有进取心的
6. threshold: 门槛；入口；开始；极限；临界值
7. incoherent: 语无伦次的；不连贯的；不合逻辑的
8. soothing: 抚慰的；使人宽心的
9. authoritatively: 权威地；命令式地；可信地
10. whimper: 呜咽；啜泣；低声抱怨
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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。