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Chapter 4
第四章
On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages along shore the world
星期天早晨，教堂的钟声响彻沿海的村庄，
and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.
男男女女又来到盖茨比的家里，在他的草坪上寻欢作乐。
"He's a bootlegger," said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers.
“他是个私酒贩子，”年轻的女士们一边说，一边喝酒赏花。
"One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.
“有一次，他杀死了一个人，因为那个人发现他是兴登堡的侄子，那个魔鬼的近亲。
Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass."
给我一朵玫瑰，亲爱的，再给我在水晶杯里倒最后一滴酒。”
Once I wrote down on the empty spaces of a time-table the names of those who came to Gatsby's house that summer.
我曾经在一张空白的时刻表上写下了那年夏天到盖茨比家里来的人的名字。
It is an old time-table now, disintegrating at its folds and headed,
它现在已经十分破旧，在它的折叠处散掉了，
"This schedule in effect July 5th, 1922."
"本表生效于1922年7月5日"
But I can still read the grey names and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those
但我仍然可以读到这些灰色的名字，由我来进行概括不如依次介绍这些人来得清楚明白。
who accepted Gatsby's hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.
他们都受到了盖茨比的盛情款待，对他表示了一种微妙的敬意，却对他一无所知。
From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches and a man named Bunsen
首先是从东卵来的切斯特·贝克一家、利契一家和一个名叫本森的人，
whom I knew at Yale and Doctor Webster Civet who was drowned last summer up in Maine.
还有去年夏天在缅因州淹死的西维特大夫。
And the Hornbeams and the WillieVoltaires and a whole clan named Black buck
霍恩比姆夫妇、威廉·伏尔泰夫妇和布莱克巴克全家，
who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near.
他们总是聚集在一个角落里，像山羊一样翻着鼻子看着走近的人。
And the Ismays and the Chrysties (or rather Hubert Auerbach and Mr.Chrystie's wife) and Edgar Beaver,
还有伊十梅夫妇、克里斯蒂夫妇（更确切地说是休伯特·奥尔巴哈和克里斯蒂先生的老婆）和埃德加·比弗，
whose hair they say turned cotton-white one winter afternoon for no good reason at all.
据说她的头发不知为何在一个冬天的下午突然变得像棉花一样白。
Clarence Endive was from East Egg, as I remember.
克拉伦斯·恩狄似乎也来自东卵。
He came only once, in white knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum named Etty in the garden.
他只来过一次，穿着白色灯笼裤，在花园里和一个名叫埃蒂的流浪汉打了一架。
From farther out on the Island came the Cheadles and the O. R. P. Schraeders
从岛上更远的地方来的人有开德勒夫妇、 O·R·P斯雷德夫妇，
and the Stonewall Jackson Abrams of Georgia and the Fishguards and the Ripley Snells.
乔治亚州的斯通瓦尔·杰无逊·亚伯拉姆夫妇，还有菲希加德夫妇和平普利·斯奈尔夫妇。
Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive
斯奈尔在进监狱的三天前来到了盖茨比家，然后醉倒在外面的碎石路上，
that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand.
被尤利西斯·斯威特太太的汽车碾过了右手。
