了不起的盖茨比（纯英文注解版）The Great Gatsby
[美]菲茨杰拉德
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[美]菲茨杰拉德
《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家菲茨杰拉德创作的中篇小说，出版于1925年。该小说采用重点单词加双语注解，经典语句提供译文，重要语法点提供讲解的方式，旨在帮助读者更好地阅读名著。小说的主人公出身贫苦，自幼梦想做个出人头地的大人物。经过一番努力，他终于步步高升，并更名为杰伊·盖茨比，自以为是上帝的儿子。成为百万富翁之后的盖茨比在长岛西端买下了一幢豪华别墅，他的府第每晚灯火通明，成群的宾客饮酒纵乐。为了昔日的情人黛西，不惜替她顶罪，临终，黛茜居然没来送葬：叙述者尼克由此看透了上层社会有钱人的冷酷残忍和居心险恶，离开纽约，回到了中西部的故乡。
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
并不容易但可以看很多次的一本书。情绪表现相当细腻，能让人愉快地揣摩每一句描写 。多处伏笔与隐喻，每一次读都能获得另一种理解。主人公提起很多次“inside but outside”更是对这本书叙述角度的完美诠释：看似可有可无却的一个人，但缺了他就无法将这荒唐的故事开展，继续，联系。致敬作者。
叙述者用时间和空间维度，细腻柔软的讲述着那个年代的人与事。看似云淡风轻，内心深处却是无比的压抑。
The first 50 pages of the book was so horrendously slow going that it seemed aimless. I kept feeling like I was being pulled from one random scene to another without a single clue what it was that Fitzgerald tried to show me. I nearly abandoned it halfway. The story did start rolling from there and I was finally in the familiar rhythms of a fiction again - fast rolling, enchanting and hard to put down. The author certainly has a way with words; the language was beautiful. And he is a sharp observer of humanity. I liked Gatsby and it was a sad sad story. Fitzgerald writes poetically but not so sure about his story-telling skill.