The Great Gatsby · chapter 13 of 20
The Plaza Hotel
广场饭店
In a hot room at the Plaza Hotel, with a wedding going on downstairs, Tom's question hangs in the air, and everyone waits for Gatsby's answer.
Read what you hear
- Narrator 广场饭店的房间里很热。楼下有人在结婚。楼上，大家都看着盖茨比。
Guǎngchǎng Fàndiàn de fángjiān li hěn rè. Lóuxià yǒu rén zài jiéhūn. Lóushàng, dàjiā dōu kànzhe Gàicíbǐ.
The room at the Plaza Hotel was hot. Downstairs someone was getting married; upstairs, everyone was looking at Gatsby.
- Jay Gatsby 是，我去过牛津。
Shì, wǒ qùguo Niújīn.
Yes, I went to Oxford.
- Tom Buchanan 那是什么时候的事？
Nà shì shénme shíhou de shì?
And when was that?
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- Jay Gatsby 一九一九年，战争完了以后。美国让一些军官去英国上学。
Yī jiǔ yī jiǔ nián, zhànzhēng wán le yǐhòu. Měiguó ràng yìxiē jūnguān qù Yīngguó shàngxué.
In 1919, after the war. America let some officers go to school in England.
- Tom Buchanan 去了几年？三年？四年？
Qù le jǐ nián? Sān nián? Sì nián?
For how many years? Three? Four?
- Jay Gatsby 只有五个月，老兄。所以，我不能说我是牛津人。
Zhǐyǒu wǔ gè yuè, lǎoxiōng. Suǒyǐ, wǒ bù néng shuō wǒ shì Niújīn rén.
Only five months, old sport. So I can't really call myself an Oxford man.
- Nick Carraway 五个月……他没有骗我们！他说的是真的！
Wǔ gè yuè… tā méiyǒu piàn wǒmen! Tā shuō de shì zhēn de!
Five months... he wasn't fooling us! He's telling the truth!
- Tom Buchanan 老兄？一个不知道从哪儿来的人，也叫我老兄？
Lǎoxiōng? Yí gè bù zhīdào cóng nǎr lái de rén, yě jiào wǒ lǎoxiōng?
Old sport? A man from who knows where calls me old sport?
- Daisy Buchanan 汤姆！你今天怎么了？大家都很热，别说了。
Tāngmǔ! Nǐ jīntiān zěnme le? Dàjiā dōu hěn rè, bié shuō le.
Tom! What's the matter with you today? Everyone's hot. Stop it.
- Jay Gatsby 老兄，你听好：你太太不爱你。她没有爱过你，她爱的是我。
Lǎoxiōng, nǐ tīng hǎo: nǐ tàitai bú ài nǐ. Tā méiyǒu àiguo nǐ, tā ài de shì wǒ.
Listen, old sport: your wife doesn't love you. She's never loved you. She loves me.
- Tom Buchanan 你说什么？你再说一次！
Nǐ shuō shénme? Nǐ zài shuō yí cì!
What did you say? Say that again!
- Jay Gatsby 她跟你结婚，是因为我那时候很穷。她不能等我了。
Tā gēn nǐ jiéhūn, shì yīnwèi wǒ nà shíhou hěn qióng. Tā bù néng děng wǒ le.
She married you because I was poor then. She couldn't wait for me anymore.
- Tom Buchanan 黛西，你说！你是爱我的！
Dàixī, nǐ shuō! Nǐ shì ài wǒ de!
Daisy, tell him! You do love me!
- Jay Gatsby 黛西，告诉他吧。你没有爱过他。
Dàixī, gàosu tā ba. Nǐ méiyǒu àiguo tā.
Daisy, tell him. You never loved him.
- Daisy Buchanan 我没有……爱过他。
Wǒ méiyǒu… àiguo tā.
I never... loved him.
- Tom Buchanan 黛西，在夏威夷也没有吗？那时候，你多高兴啊。
Dàixī, zài Xiàwēiyí yě méiyǒu ma? Nà shíhou, nǐ duō gāoxìng a.
Daisy, not even in Hawaii? You were so happy then.
- Daisy Buchanan 杰伊，别问了！我爱过他……可是，我也爱过你。
Jiéyī, bié wèn le! Wǒ àiguo tā… kěshì, wǒ yě àiguo nǐ.
Jay, stop asking! I did love him once... but I loved you too.
- Jay Gatsby 黛西……我等了你五年啊。
Dàixī… wǒ děng le nǐ wǔ nián a.
Daisy... I waited five years for you.
- Tom Buchanan 还有一件事。黛西，你听着：他和沃尔夫山姆开了很多药店，在里边偷偷卖酒！
Hái yǒu yí jiàn shì. Dàixī, nǐ tīngzhe: tā hé Wò'ěrfūshānmǔ kāi le hěn duō yàodiàn, zài lǐbian tōutōu mài jiǔ!
And one more thing. Listen, Daisy: he and Wolfsheim have opened lots of drugstores, and they sell alcohol in them in secret!
- Jay Gatsby 不是这样的！黛西，你听我说，我可以告诉你……
Bú shì zhèyàng de! Dàixī, nǐ tīng wǒ shuō, wǒ kěyǐ gàosu nǐ…
It isn't like that! Daisy, listen to me, I can tell you...
- Narrator 盖茨比说了很多很多，可是黛西不看他了。
Gàicíbǐ shuō le hěn duō hěn duō, kěshì Dàixī bú kàn tā le.
Gatsby talked and talked, but Daisy would not look at him anymore.
- Nick Carraway 看他的脸……好像他真的杀过人。
Kàn tā de liǎn… hǎoxiàng tā zhēn de shāguo rén.
Look at his face... as if he really had killed a man.
- Daisy Buchanan 汤姆，我想回家。我太累了。
Tāngmǔ, wǒ xiǎng huí jiā. Wǒ tài lèi le.
Tom, I want to go home. I'm so tired.
- Tom Buchanan 好。你跟盖茨比先生走，坐他的车。他不会再找你了。
Hǎo. Nǐ gēn Gàicíbǐ xiānsheng zǒu, zuò tā de chē. Tā bú huì zài zhǎo nǐ le.
Fine. Go with Mr. Gatsby, in his car. He won't bother you again.
- Narrator 黛西和盖茨比走了，一句话也没说。
Dàixī hé Gàicíbǐ zǒu le, yí jù huà yě méi shuō.
Daisy and Gatsby left without a word.
- Nick Carraway 乔丹，我才想起来，今天是我的生日。
Qiáodān, wǒ cái xiǎng qǐlái, jīntiān shì wǒ de shēngrì.
Jordan, I've only just remembered: today is my birthday.
- Jordan Baker 是吗？生日快乐，尼克。三十岁，一点儿也不老。
Shì ma? Shēngrì kuàilè, Níkè. Sānshí suì, yìdiǎnr yě bù lǎo.
Is it? Happy birthday, Nick. Thirty isn't old at all.
- Narrator 七点，汤姆、尼克和乔丹坐上蓝车，开回长岛。
Qī diǎn, Tāngmǔ, Níkè hé Qiáodān zuò shàng lán chē, kāi huí Chángdǎo.
At seven, Tom, Nick and Jordan got into the blue car and drove back to Long Island.
- Tom Buchanan 他完了！你们都看到了吧？他还想要我的太太！
Tā wán le! Nǐmen dōu kàn dào le ba? Tā hái xiǎng yào wǒ de tàitai!
He's finished! You all saw it, didn't you? And he wanted my wife!
- Nick Carraway 三十岁了。前边的路，又黑又长。
Sānshí suì le. Qiánbian de lù, yòu hēi yòu cháng.
Thirty now. The road ahead is dark and long.
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What changed in the story?
- How long was Gatsby at Oxford?
“五个月”
- What does Gatsby tell Tom about Daisy?
“你太太不爱你。她没有爱过你”
- Why does Gatsby say Daisy married Tom?
“是因为我那时候很穷”
- What does Tom say Gatsby sells in his drugstores?
“在里边偷偷卖酒”
- What day is it for Nick?
“今天是我的生日”