Day 22: What do you do if you find something strange around you?
Monday
各位书友,今天我们一起阅读《The Great Gatsby》157-167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 do if you find something strange around you?
如果你发现周围有些蹊跷的事情会怎么做?
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重点语句
1. Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space.
他们的眼光相遇了,他们彼此目不转睛地看着对方,超然物外。
2. His hand, trembling with his effort at self control, bore to his lips the last of his glass of ale.
他把杯中剩下的啤酒举到了唇边,他的手由于他尽力控制自己而在发抖。
3. Daisy looked at Tom frowning, and an indefinable expression, at once definitely unfamiliar and vaguely recognizable, as if I had only heard it described in words, passed over Gatsby's face.
黛西皱着眉头瞧瞧汤姆,同时盖茨比脸上掠过一种难以形容的表情,既十分陌生又似曾相识,仿佛我以前只是听人用言语描述过似的。
4. After a moment the proprietor emerged from the interior of his establishment and gazed hollow−eyed at the car.
过了一会老板从车行的里面走了出来,两眼呆呆地盯着看我们的车子。
5. With an effort Wilson left the shade and support of the doorway and, breathing hard, unscrewed the cap of the tank. In the sunlight his face was green.
威尔逊很吃力地从门口阴凉的地方走出来,喘着大气把汽油箱的盖子拧了下来。在太阳里他的脸色发青。
6. He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick. I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before.
他发现了茉特尔背着他在另外一个世界里有她自己的生活,而这个震动使他的身体患病了。我盯着他看看,又盯着汤姆看看,他在不到半小时以前也有了同样的发现。
7. Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil, but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away.
在灰堆上方,T-J-埃克尔堡大夫的巨眼在守望着,但是过了一会我觉察另外一双眼睛正在从不到二十英尺以外聚精会神地注视着我们。
重点词汇
1. astounded: 受惊骇的;被震惊的
2. crack: 破裂;爆裂
3. fuss: 小题大作;忙乱;焦燥;焦急;无事自扰
4. indefinable: 难下定义的;难确定的;模糊不清的
5. snob: 势利小人,势利眼;假内行
6. unscrew: 旋开;旋松(过去式为unscrewed)
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