He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it—signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.

他见过我几次，早就打算来看我了，但是由于种种特殊的情况，他没有来——他威严地签下名字：杰伊·盖茨比。

Gatsby looked at me questioningly.

盖茨比疑惑地看着我。

Then how does Gatsby make officer?

那么盖茨比到底是怎么当上军官的？

Gatsby is the choice of the former.

盖茨比的选择是前者。

The most obvious hurdle, however, is Gatsby himself.

然而，最明显的障碍还是盖茨比本人。

The real Gatsby was an uneducated, ignorant boy with no background.

真正的盖茨比却是一个没受过教育的无知的孩子，没有背景。

But perhaps the real problem with the novel was Jay Gatsby himself.

但也许这本小说里真正的问题出在杰·盖茨比自己身上。

Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.

盖茨比买下那座房子，就是因为这样一来黛西就在海湾对面嘛。

I'm an avid reader, a huge Fitzgerald fan, The Great Gatsby, his masterpiece.

我是个读书狂，超级粉菲茨杰拉德，了不起的盖茨比，他的代表作。

The enigmatic Gatsby has the best parties, but it's Daisy he really wants.

神秘的盖茨比很会开派对，但他真正想要的是黛西。

His masterpiece the Great Gatsby is actually an elegy of the "Jazz time".

其代表作《了不起的盖茨比》就是“爵士时代”的一曲挽歌。

The father of four sons, Lance lives with his family in a Gatsby-like mansion in Atlanta.

四个儿子的父亲兰斯同家人居住在亚特兰大的一所豪宅中。

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.

盖茨比信奉这盏绿灯，这个一年年在我们眼前渐渐远去的、纸醉金迷的未来。

Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves.

盖茨比深切地体会到财富是怎样禁锢和保存着青春和神秘的。

To misquote "the Great Gatsby", the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

不恰当地套句《了不起的盖茨比》的话说，世界的基石稳稳地建立在仙女的翅膀上。

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us.

盖茨比信奉这盏绿灯，这个一年年在我们眼前渐渐远去的极乐的未来。

As a tragic figure, Gatsby embodied the same tragic principles as those of the heroes and great men.

盖茨比作为悲剧人物，体现了一种与英雄伟人相同的悲剧原则。

The list hits most of the marks you expect it would, but there are some conspicuous absences-most notably, the Great Gatsby.

这个目录囊括了你期望的所有书目，但是还有一些明显的缺陷——最明显的，伟大的盖茨比。

And yet - assuming he is not planning to jettison the source material altogether - the Great Gatsby Problem is not going away.

然而——假设他不打算把原文一起抛掉——《了不起的盖茨比》的困惑就不会消失。

Maybe he would argue that he is making his Gatsby, not Fitzgerald's, which means that these problems can be merrily ignored anyway.

可能他会争论说他要塑造自己的盖茨比，而不是菲茨杰拉德的盖茨比，也就是意味着他可以高高兴兴地把所有这些困惑都抛诸脑后。

He WAS the Jay Gatsby of Bangkok: rich, charming, glamorous and endlessly hospitable, but with something mysterious in his background.

他曾是曼谷的杰伊·盖茨比：腰缠万贯、魅力四射、热情无限，但身世总有一些神秘。

There is no point in trying to explain that the object of tennis is to beat the other player, not to look like a dashing guest chez Gatsby.

若此就试图将网球解释为以击败其他球员为目标，而非优雅地去盖茨比家做客，就显得毫无必要了。

Meanwhile, a number of new Gatsby-esque villas and vacation homes are laying claim to the island’s limestone cliffs and virgin coastline.

许多外表奢华的别墅和度假公寓正不断蚕食岛上的石灰岩悬崖和原始的海岸线。

He had money coming in from a dramatization of the Great Gatsby which was running well and it would sell to the movies and he had no worries.

《了不起的盖茨比》改编成话剧上演，卖座不错，他由此拿到了一笔钱，还会卖给电影制片厂，所以他无忧无虑。

Back in 2000, the Economist reported Mr Grantham's comments at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the publication of "the Great Gatsby".

2000年时，《经济学人》曾报道过Grantham对《了不起的盖茨比》出版75周年纪念的评论。