最经典的《The Great Gatsby》名句欣赏

　　1、A moment later she rushed out into the darkness, waving her hands and shouting. Before he could move, it was all over. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　2、Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was standing in front of the fireplace. The back of his head was touching a clock on a shelf, but he was trying to look perfectly comfortable and even a little bored. His miserable eyes stared down at Daisy, who was sitting, frightened but beautiful, on the edge of a stiff chair. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　3、You see, I think everything's terrible anyway. Everybody thinks so. And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. Nothing's new to me!' She laughed scornfully.The moment her voice stopped, her power over me died away. I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said, and it made me uneasy. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　4、We drove over the great bridge, with the sunlight on the moving cars, and the city rising up across the river. New York seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.' ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　5、The sun had risen now on Long Island, and we went round the house, opening the rest of the downstairs windows. Ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.  There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, promising a cool, lovely day. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　6、'Here, my dear.' She felt drunkenly around on the floor, and picked up the necklace. 'Give it back to whoever it belongs to. And tell them all, Daisy's changed her mind!'She began to cry – she cried and cried. I rushed out and found her mother's servant girl. We locked the door and got Daisy into a cold bath. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　7、They had forgotten me, but Daisy looked up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn't know me now at all. I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, distantly, enclosed in their own bright world. Then I went out of the room and down the grand steps into the rain, leaving them there together. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　8、When I came home to West Egg that night, I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. Two o'clock in the morning, and the whole of the coastline seemed to be in flames. Turning a corner, I saw that it was Gatsby's house, lit from tower to cellar.At first I thought it was another party. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　9、Daisy disappeared into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby – nothing. He felt married to her, that was all

When they met again, two days later, it was Gatsby who was unsure of himself, who would do anything to see her again. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　10、I walked out the back way – just as Gatsby had done half an hour earlier – and waited under a huge black tree in the middle of my lawn. Once more it was pouring, and there was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous mansion.After half an hour the sun shone again. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　11、And so, with the sunshine, and the leaves bursting out on the trees, I had that recognizable feeling that life was beginning over again with the summer. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　12、Suddenly Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.'They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.'Outside Gatsby's window it began to rain again, and we stood in a row looking out at the sea beyond the lawn.' ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　13、She looked away from me and up to the top of the steps. We could hear Three o'clock in the Morning, a neat, sad little dance song, coming from the open door. What was it in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the soft hours of darkness? ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　14、He stayed there a week, revisiting the places where he and Daisy had been together. He left the town feeling that if he had searched harder, he could have found her.  On the train out of town he stretched his arms out of the window, trying to catch a handful of the air that she had breathed. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　15、There was something truly wonderful about him, a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life – he was like one of those complicated machines that show the presence of an earthquake ten thousand miles away. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　16、“走声当你想于人下上只批评什么人时，于人下上只种学住，想人下用的来上不是人人个为生下道拥有你有过的你着于些优越士战件。”

　　17、And as I lay there, thinking about the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first saw the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close to him. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　18、'Why didn't he ask you to arrange a meeting?''He wants her to see his house, and you live right next door.'It was dark now, and I put my arm round Jordan's golden shoulder and drew her toward me. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　19、He knew that when he kissed this girl, he would never dream his wild dreams again. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the music of the stars.Then he kissed her. At the touch of his lips, love opened like a flower and his new life was born. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　20、It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. ----F. Scott Fitzgerald

　　21、When I came back from the East last autumn, I felt I wanted the whole world to be in moral uniform, all living a highly moral life for ever. I wanted no more wildness, no more secrets of the human heart. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　22、The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. ----F. Scott Fitzgerald

　　23、While I watched him, his hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear, he turned toward her with a sudden rush of feeling. I think that feverish, exciting voice of hers held him most, because it couldn't be dreamed – that voice was a deathless song. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　24、Gatsby believed in the green light, the future that year by year moves further away from us. It escaped us then, but that doesn't matter – tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further … And one fine morning …So we beat on, boats against the current, carried back ceaselessly into the past. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　25、IN THE MEANTIME, IN BETWEEN TIME—As I went over to say goodbye, I saw the dazed look on Gatsby's face again. Was he doubting the quality of his happiness? Almost five years! ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　26、I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all. Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps there was something missing in every one of us, so that we were never able to get used to Eastern life. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　27、Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiarly threatening quality – it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　28、Daisy asked me questions in her low, exciting voice. Her face was sad and lovely, with bright eyes and a bright beautiful mouth, but it was her voice that men who loved her found difficult to forget. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　29、Once I had reached my front door, I looked back across the lawn. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors of Gatsby's mansion. Standing on the porch was the lonely figure of the host, his hand raised in a formal goodbye. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald

　　30、He talked a lot about the past, and I understood that he wanted to rediscover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and meaningless since then, but if he could only return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly ----F· Scott Fitzgerald