电影《了不起的盖茨比》经典台词中英文对照

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最近《了不起的盖茨》比算火了一把，作为一个既看了电影，也看了小说，目前还在读英文原版的人，我也想谈一下我的看法：这部电影着重在爱情方面，导演之前拍摄了罗密欧和朱丽叶，也许他好这口。因此它和原著的偏重点实在很不一样，因此骂他不遵从原著的原著党人多势众。

黛西对盖茨比是什么，是他的梦想，他一直的目标。为了爱情，他不惜牺牲一切，即使他明白这个人不一定值得他怎么做。这就是你们在各种什么言情小说台湾偶像剧里那种至死不渝的爱啊！！！！怎么它换个包装你就不认识了！盲目的牺牲并没有了不起，而明知道后果还愿意放弃金钱、名望、安逸的生活去就了不起了。

以下为The Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》经典台词中英文对照：

1. I'm paralyzed with happiness.
我要被幸福冲昏头脑了。

2. Daisy, don't create a scene.
黛茜，不要小题大做。

3. I decided to get roaring drunk.
我决定痛饮一番。

4. Of course, you don't need to take my word for it, old sport.
当然，耳听为虚，老兄。

5. I have my hands full.
我手头够忙的了。

6. But he was once again dirt-poor.
但他再度一贫如洗。

7. I couldn't care less about the parties.
我一点都不关心派对。

8. May I save the next dance?
我能预约跳下一支舞吗？

9. Have it your own way, Tom.
随你便，汤姆。

10. Well, I have a second sight sometimes that tells me what to do.
有时我的预感会告诉我做什么。

11. I'm all run down.
我身体都垮了。

12. I wised up to something funny these last two days.
我这两天发现了点蹊跷的事。

13. You make it worse by crabbing about it.
你唧唧歪歪的只会更热。

14. If you're going to make personal remarks, I won't stay here a minute.
要是你想人身攻击，我就一分钟都不待下去了。

15. Now, once in a while I go off on a spree.
我偶尔会出去找找乐子。

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《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby），出版于1925年，是美国作家弗朗西斯·斯科特·基·菲茨杰拉德所写的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约市及长岛为背景的短篇小说，被视为美国文学“爵士时代”的象徵。

它在初出版时并不受欢迎——菲茨杰拉德在世时的总销量只有少于二万四千本。在大萧条以及二战时被忽略，直至20世纪50年代再版时才受到广泛注目。其后的数十年它更成为高中、大学文学课的标准教材。经常有人把它称为20世纪最伟大的英文小说之一[1]。1999年改编为同名歌剧《了不起的盖茨比》演出。

本书有许多中文翻译版本，书名也有许多译法，例如《永恆之恋》，黄淑慎译，1954年。《大哉！盖世比》，王润华、澹莹译，1969年。《大亨小传》，乔治高（高克毅）译，1970年、2001年（增订版）。《大亨──凯士毕》，丁士奇译，1971年。《了不起的盖茨比》，巫宁坤译，2007年。

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 1, opening words.

Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 1, Nick on Gatsby.

[Tom] would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 1.

In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year....Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 1.

Civilization's going to pieces. I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things... The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be -- will be utterly submerged... It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 1, Tom.

All right...I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 1, Daisy on her newborn girl.

I KNOW. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated - God, I'm sophisticated.
The Great Gatsby

Chapter 1, Daisy.

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 2.

He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 2, Tom, on Wilson and his wife Myrtle, with whom Tom is having an affair.

I married him because I thought he was a gentleman...I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 2, Myrtle on Wilson.

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He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out...I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried...all afternoon.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 2, Myrtle.

I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 2.

I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 3.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 3.

It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too - didn't cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 3.

He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 3, on Gatsby.

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others - poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner - young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 3, Nick.

It takes two to make an accident.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 3.

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 3, Nick on himself.

Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there....they shot him three times in the belly and drove away.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 4.

I belong to another generation....You sit...and discuss your sports and your young ladies....As for me, I am fifty years old, and I won't impose myself on you any longer.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 4.

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 4.

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 5.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 5.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 5.

If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay....You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 5.

One thing's sure and nothing's surer
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 5.

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 5, Nick, on Gatsby's idealization of Daisy.

The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God-a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that-and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 6.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 6.

She was appalled by West Egg...by its raw vigor that chafed...and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 6, on Daisy.

He wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 6, on Gatsby.

Can't repeat the past?…Why of course you can!
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 6, Gatsby.

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. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 6, Gatsby on his first kiss with Daisy.

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Daisy and Jordan lay upon an  enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against  the singing breeze of the fans.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 7.

Her  voice is full of money.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 1, Gatsby about  Daisy.

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. Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter  7.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we  drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress,  until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his  control.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 7, Nick, on Tom Buchanan.

I love  New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very  sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall  into your hands.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 7, Jordan.

I suppose the  latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your  wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out.
The Great  Gatsby
Chapter 7, Tom Buchanan on Gatsby.

With every word she was  drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead  dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no  longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice  across the room.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 7.

....the promise of a  decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning  briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair. But there was Jordan beside me, who,  unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to  age....So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
The Great  Gatsby
Chapter 7.

Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at  the kitchen table....They weren't happy...yet they weren't unhappy either. There  was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would  have said that they were conspiring together.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter  7.

It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it  increased her value in his eyes.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 8.

God  knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but  you can't fool God!
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 8.
"They are a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole  damn bunch put together."
I've always been glad I said that. It was the only  compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.  First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and  understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the  time.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 8, Nick on Gatsby.

He must have felt  that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with  a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening  leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the  sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without  being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously  about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the  amorphous trees.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 8.

He had reached an age  where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise, and when he looked  around him now for the first time and saw the height and splendor of the  hall...his grief began to be mixed with an awed pride.
The Great  Gatsby
Chapter 9.

When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up  in it in any way. I keep out. When I was a young man it was different...I stuck  with them to the end...Let us learn to show friendship for a man when he is  alive and not after he is dead.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 9.

Filled  with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can't forget  so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there....they shot him  three times in the belly and drove away.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter  9.

After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted  beyond my eyes' power of correction. So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves  was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to  come back home.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 9.

They were careless  people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated  back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept  them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
The  Great Gatsby
Chapter 9, Nick on the Buchanans.

Most of the big shore  places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy,  moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the  inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old  island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes-a fresh, green breast of  the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's  house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human  dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the  presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither  understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something  commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
The Great Gatsby
Chapter  9.

And as I sat there, brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of  Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out Daisy's light at the end of his dock.  He had come such a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so  close he could hardly fail to grasp it. But what he did not know was that it was  already behind him, somewhere in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the  dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
The Great  Gatsby
Chapter 9.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic  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-
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 9.

So we beat on, boats against  the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
The Great  Gatsby
Chapter 9, Nick on resilience.