了不起的盖茨比

【1】 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 marches， but after a certain point I don"t care what it"s founded on.

【2】于是我们奋力向前划，逆流向上的小舟，不停地倒退，进入过去。

So we beat on, boats against the current., borne back ceaselessly into the past.

【3】世界只有被追求者和追求者，忙碌着和疲惫者。

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

【4】 他怀着一种创造性的情感将自己全身心地投入到它的中间，不断地为它增添内容，用飘浮到他路上的每一根漂亮羽毛去装扮它。有谁知道在一个人的波诡云谲的心里，能蓄下多少火一样的激情和新鲜的念头。

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather thcot drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

【5】 他是上帝之子，如果这个词还有什么别的含义的话，这里只能用它的本意，他要为天父的事业而献身，服务于这一博大而又粗俗，浮华而又美丽的事业。

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 meretriciopus beauty.