Do you think people can repeat the past?
Saturday
各位书友，今天我们一起阅读《The Great Gatsby》142-147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
Do you think people can repeat the past?
你觉得人们可以重温旧梦吗？
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重点语句
1. Well, he certainly must have strained himself to get this menagerie together.
我说，他一定花了很大的气力才搜罗到这么一大帮牛头马面。
2. When he came down the steps at last the tanned skin was drawn unusually tight on his face, and his eyes were bright and tired.
等到他最后走下台阶时，那晒得黝黑的皮肤比往常更紧地绷在他脸上，他的眼睛发亮而有倦意。
3. He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
他发狂地东张西望，仿佛他的旧梦就隐藏在这里，他的房子的阴影里，几乎一伸手就可以抓到的。
4. One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight.
一个秋天的夜晚，五年以前，落叶纷纷的时候，他俩走在街上，走到一处没有树的地方，人行道被月光照得发白。
5. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.
他知道他一跟这个姑娘亲吻，并把他那些无法形容的憧憬和她短暂的呼吸永远结合在一起，他的心灵就再也不会像上帝的心灵一样自由驰骋了。
6. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
经他的嘴唇一碰，她就像一朵鲜花一样为他开放，于是这个理想的化身就完成了。
重点词汇
1. crunch: 嘎吱作响地咀嚼；嘎吱嘎吱地踏过。
2. dilatory: 拖拉的；缓慢的，不慌不忙的。
3. exalt: 提升；提拔；赞扬；使得意。
4. dismiss: 解散；解雇；开除；让...离开；不予理会、不予考虑。
5. wildly: 狂暴地；野生地；野蛮地；鲁莽地。
6. lurk: 潜藏；潜伏；埋伏。
7. unutterable: 无法用言语表达的；十足的；说不出口的。
8. perishable: 不经久的；已衰败的；易腐坏的；易毁灭的。
9. romp: 轻快地跑；玩耍。
10. incarnation: 化身；道成肉身；典型。
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