Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable east egg glittered along the water , and the history of the summer really begins on the evening i drove over there to have dinner with the tom buchanans 小湾对岸，东卵豪华住宅区的洁白的宫殿式的大厦沿着水边光彩夺目，那个夏天的故事是从我开车去那边到汤姆?布坎农夫妇家吃饭的那个晚上才真正开始的。
It was a circumstance to be noted , on the summer morning when our story begins its course , that the women , of whom there were several in the crowd , appeared to take a peculiar interest in whatever penal infliction might be expected to ensue 就在我们的故事发生的那个夏天的早晨，有一情况颇值一书：挤在人群中的好几位妇女，看来劝可能出现的任何刑罚那抱有特殊的兴趣。
An acclimatised britisher he had seen that summer eve from the footplate of an engine cab of the loop line railway company while the rain refrained from falling glimpses , as it were , through the windows of loveful households in dublin city and urban district of scenes truly rural of happiness of the better land with dockrell s wallpaper at one and ninepence a dozen , innocent british born bairns lisping prayers to the sacred infant , youthful scholars grappling with their pensums , model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows , a sacrifice , greatest bargain ever . . 那个夏天的傍晚，当雨住了的时候，他站在环行线铁道公司机丰驾驶室的踏板上，隔着都柏林市内和郊区那些恩爱之家的窗户，瞥见幸福的地地道道牧歌式的乡间生活，墙上糊的是由多克雷尔120店里买来的每打一先令九便士的墙纸。这里，在英国出生的天真烂漫的娃娃们，口不清地对圣婴作着祷告年轻学子们拼死拼活地用着功模范的淑女们弹着钢琴，或围着噼噼啪啪燃烧着的那截圣诞夜圆木，阖家念诵玫瑰经。
