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原著正文 · 英語

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 anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

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在我年紀尚輕、閱歷尚淺的歲月裡，父親曾給過我一句忠告，從那以後我一直銘記在心、反覆思索。「每當你想要批評別人的時候，」他對我說，「要記住，這世上並非所有人都擁有過你所擁有的那些優越條件。」

原著正文 · 英語

He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me.

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他沒有再多說什麼，但我們父子倆向來在含蓄之中保持著異乎尋常的默契，我明白他話裡的深意遠不止於此。因此，我習慣於對一切事物保留判斷，這一習慣使許多性格奇特的人願意向我敞開心扉。

原著正文 · 英語

About halfway between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.

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在西卵與紐約市之間大約一半路程的地方，公路急匆匆地向鐵路靠攏，並排延伸四分之一英里，彷彿是為了躲開一片荒涼的土地。

原著正文 · 英語

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.

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這是一片灰燼之谷——一個奇異的農場，灰燼像麥子一樣生長，堆成山脊、丘陵和怪誕的花園；在那裡，灰燼幻化出房屋、煙囪和裊裊青煙的形狀，最後，又以一種超凡的努力，幻化出在粉塵瀰漫的空氣中影影綽綽、搖搖欲墜地移動著的人影。