菲茨杰拉德的《了不起的盖茨比》,摘录书中比较经典的句子:Chapter 11
每当你觉得想要批判什么人的时候,你切要记着,这个世界上的人并非都具备你禀有的条件
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one , just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you’ve had
人们的善恶感一生下来就有差异
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth
人们的品行有的好像建筑在坚硬的岩石上,有的好像建筑在泥沼里,不过超过一定的限度,我就不在乎它建在什么之上了
Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on
Chapter 2这时,天色已经暗了下来,我们这排高高地俯瞰着城市的灯火通明的窗户,一定让街头间或抬头眺望的人感到了,人类的秘密也有其一份在这里吧,我也是这样的一个过路人,举头望着惊诧着
我既在事内又在事外,几杯永无枯竭的五彩纷呈的生活所吸引,同时又被其排斥着
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