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飘|Gone With The Wind

上卷 第六章|CHAPTER VI

属类： 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 玛格丽特·米切尔] 阅读：[52908]
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他们过了河，马车向山上驶去。在“十二橡树”村还没进入眼帘之前，思嘉就已经看见一团烟雾在那些高高的树顶上悠闲地飘浮着，也闻到了那股混合着燃烧的山胡桃木和烤猪肉羊肉的香味。

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They crossed the river and the carriage mounted the hill. Even before Twelve Oaks came into view Scarlett saw a haze of smoke hanging lazily in the tops of the tall trees and smelled the mingled savory odors of burning hickory logs and roasting pork and mutton.

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那些从头天晚上便在缓缓燃着的烤全牲的火坑，估计现在已成为玫瑰红灰烬的长槽，兽肉在上面的叉子上转动着，肉汁缓缓地滴落在炭火中，发出咝咝的声音。思嘉知道微风吹送的那股香味是从那幢大房子背后的大橡树林里起来的。

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The barbecue pits, which had been slowly burning since last night, would now be long troughs of rose-red embers, with the meats turning on spits above them and the juices trickling down and hissing into the coals. Scarlett knew that the fragrance carried on the faint breeze came from the grove of great oaks in the rear of the big house.

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约翰·威尔克斯常常是在那里，在那缓缓而下通向玫瑰园的斜坡上，举行他的全牲野宴。这个阴凉宜人的佳境要比别的例如卡尔弗特家使用的地方好得多。卡尔弗特太太不喜欢野宴上的食品，并且声称好几天之后房子里都还有那些气味，所以她的客人就常常被安排在一个离住宅四分之一英里的平坦而没有遮荫的地点热汗淋漓地吃着。不过，也只有这位以好客闻名全州的约翰·威尔克斯才真正懂得怎样举行野宴。

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John Wilkes always held his barbecues there, on the gentle slope leading down to the rose garden, a pleasant shady place and a far pleasanter place, for instance, than that used by the Calverts. Mrs. Calvert did not like barbecue food and declared that the smells remained in the house for days, so her guests always sweltered on a flat unshaded spot a quarter of a mile from the house. But John Wilkes, famed throughout the state for his hospitality, really knew how to give a barbecue.

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那些带有支架的长长的野餐桌上沿着威尔克斯家最漂亮的亚麻布，这些餐桌常常摆在最阴凉的地方，两旁是没有靠背的条凳；空地上还放着一些椅子、矮脚凳和坐椅，是给那些不喜欢坐条凳的人准备的。在离宴席较远的地方才是那些长长的烤野兽肉的火坑和炖肉汁的大铁锅，这里散发的油烟和种种浓烈的香味是客人们闻不到的。威尔克斯先生经常养着至少十来个黑人，他们端着托盘来回跑动为客人提供食品。

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The long trestled picnic tables, covered with the finest of the Wilkeses’ linen, always stood under the thickest shade, with backless benches on either side; and chairs, hassocks and cushions from the house were scattered about the glade for those who did not fancy the benches. At a distance great enough to keep the smoke away from the guests were the long pits where the meats cooked and the huge iron wash-pots from which the succulent odors of barbecue sauce and Brunswick stew floated. Mr. Wilkes always had at least a dozen darkies busy running back and forth with trays to serve the guests.

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那边仓房背后还设有另一个野宴火炕，专供家仆、来宾们的车夫、侍女等人使用，他们吃是的玉米饼、山薯和黑人最喜欢的牲畜内脏，时令碰巧时还有足够的西瓜让他们吃个饱。

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Over behind the barns there was always another barbecue pit, where the house servants and the coachmen and maids of the guests had their own feast of hoecakes and yams and chitterlings, that dish of hog entrails so dear to negro hearts, and, in season, watermelons enough to satiate.

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当思嘉远远闻到的新鲜猪肉的香味时，她欣赏地皱起鼻子，希望等烤好以后她的食欲会旺盛起来。此刻她的肚子里还是饱饱的，而且腰扎得很紧，生怕自己随时都会打出嗝来。那就要命了，如果真是打嗝，因为只有老头儿和老太婆才不怕周围的人议论敢在宴度上打嗝呢。

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As the smell of crisp fresh pork came to her, Scarlett wrinkled her nose appreciatively, hoping that by the time it was cooked she would feel some appetite. As it was she was so full of food and so tightly laced that she feared every moment she was going to belch. That would be fatal, as only old men and very old ladies could belch without fear of social disapproval.

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他们驶上了山顶，这时那座白房子已整整齐齐的出现在她面前，你看那高高的圆柱，宽阔的游廊，平坦的屋顶，这美丽得像一个那么相信自己魅力的美人儿，她显得雍容大方，对谁都一样亲切可爱了。思嘉喜爱“十二橡树”村胜过喜欢塔拉农场，因为它的一种堂皇的美，一种柔和的庄严，而这是杰拉尔德的住宅所不具备的。

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They topped the rise and the white house reared its perfect symmetry before her, tall of columns, wide of verandas, flat of roof, beautiful as a woman is beautiful who is so sure of her charm that she can be generous and gracious to all. Scarlett loved Twelve Oaks even more than Tara, for it had a stately beauty, a mellowed dignity that Gerald’s house did not possess.

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宽阔曲折的车道上到处是骑乘的马和马车，宾客们正纷纷下马下车，向朋友打招呼。咧着大嘴傻笑的黑人对宴会总是那么兴奋，他们正在把牲口牵到仓场上去卸鞍解辔，让它们好好休息一下。成群的孩子，有黑的，有白的，在新绿的草地上嚷着跑着，玩跳房子和捉人的游戏，并且竞相夸口要在野宴上吃多少多少东西。

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The wide curving driveway was full of saddle horses and carriages and guests alighting and calling greetings to friends. Grinning negroes, excited as always at a party, were leading the animals to the barnyard to be unharnessed and unsaddled for the day. Swarms of children, black and white, ran yelling about the newly green lawn, playing hopscotch and tag and boasting how much they were going to eat.

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那间从前头一直延伸到屋后的宽敞的大厅里已经挤满了人，当奥哈拉的马车驶到前面台阶边停下时，思嘉看见那些像蝴蝶般漂亮的姑娘们摇摆着裙裾在二楼的楼梯上走上走下，有的彼此搂着腰肢倚在楼栏杆上，笑着招呼下面大厅里的年轻小伙子们。

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The wide hall which ran from front to back of the house was swarming with people, and as the O’Hara carriage drew up at the front steps, Scarlett saw girls in crinolines, bright as butterflies, going up and coming down the stairs from the second floor, arms about each other’s waists, stopping to lean over the delicate handrail of the banisters, laughing and calling to young men in the hall below them.

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从那敞开的法国式窗口，她看见那些年龄较大的妇女穿着深色绸衣摇着扇子端端正正坐在客厅里，谈论着婴儿、疾病和谁跟谁结婚，以及怎么结婚的，等等。威尔克斯的膳事总管汤姆在大厅和门厅里穿梭忙合着，他手里端着一只银托盘，不停地鞠躬微笑，向那些身穿淡米色或灰色裤子和皱边亚麻布衬衫的青年人奉上高脚酒杯。

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Through the open French windows, she caught glimpses of the older women seated in the drawing room, sedate in dark silks as they sat fanning themselves and talking of babies and sicknesses and who had married whom and why. The Wilkes butler, Tom, was hurrying through the halls, a silver tray in his hands, bowing and grinning, as he offered tall glasses to young men in fawn and gray trousers and fine ruffled linen shirts.

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阳光灿烂的前廊上也拥挤着宾客。是的，全县的人都在这里了，思嘉心想。塔尔顿家四个小伙子和他们的父亲倚着高高的圆柱，孪生兄弟斯图尔特和布伦特照例肩并肩站在那儿，博伊德和汤姆则同他们的父亲詹姆斯·塔尔顿在一起。卡尔弗特先生贴在近他的北方佬老婆，后者虽然已在佐治亚生活了１５年之久，可仍然显得有点像陌生人似的。每个人对她十分客气而亲切，都觉得她可怜，不过谁也不会忘记她由于做了卡尔弗特先生的孩子们的家庭教师而加重了她在出身上犯下的过失。

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The sunny front veranda was thronged with guests. Yes, the whole County was here, thought Scarlett. The four Tarleton boys and their father leaned against the tall columns, the twins, Stuart and Brent, side by side inseparable as usual, Boyd and Tom with their father, James Tarleton. Mr. Calvert was standing close by the side of his Yankee wife, who even after fifteen years in Georgia never seemed to quite belong anywhere. Everyone was very polite and kind to her because he felt sorry for her, but no one could forget that she had compounded her initial error of birth by being the governess of Mr. Calvert’s children.

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那两个卡尔弗家的小伙子雷福德和凯德，同他们那个活跃的白白胖胖的妹妹凯瑟琳在一起，向黑脸乔·方丹和他的漂亮未婚妻萨莉·芒罗开玩笑。亚可克斯和托尼·方丹在向迪米蒂·芒罗耳语，惹得她一次又一次格格大笑。有些家庭是远道而来的，例如从十英里外的洛夫乔伊，从费耶特维尔，从琼斯博罗，少数几家甚至来自亚特兰大和梅肯。整个房子像要被客人挤垮了，而不停地高谈阔论和哗然大笑，以及妇女们格格的笑声，尖叫声和喧嚷声，更是此起彼落，热闹无比。

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The two Calvert boys, Raiford and Cade, were there with their dashing blonde sister, Cathleen, teasing the dark-faced Joe Fontaine and Sally Munroe, his pretty bride-to-be. Alex and Tony Fontaine were whispering in the ears of Dimity Munroe and sending her into gales of giggles. There were families from as far as Lovejoy, ten miles away, and from Fayetteville and Jonesboro, a few even from Atlanta and Macon. The house seemed bursting with the crowd, and a ceaseless babble of talking and laughter and giggles and shrill feminine squeaks and screams rose and fell.

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思嘉看见约翰·威尔克斯站在走廊台阶上，他一头银丝般的头发，腰背挺直，焕发着宁静和蔼的容光，像佐治亚夏天的太阳一般永不衰败。他旁边站着霍妮·威尔克斯（人们之所以这样称呼她，是因为她对于从父亲到大田劳工所有的人都用同样亲切的口气说话），她正在不停地欢笑着迎接每一位来宾。

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On the porch steps stood John Wilkes, silver-haired, erect, radiating the quiet charm and hospitality that was as warm and never failing as the sun of Georgia summer. Beside him Honey Wilkes, so called because she indiscriminately addressed everyone from her father to the field hands by that endearment, fidgeted and giggled as she called greetings to the arriving guests.

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霍妮那种显然渴望对谁都显得亲切动人的劲儿，同她父亲的姿态形成了鲜明的对比，这使思嘉想起也许塔尔顿太太刚才说的话毕竟是有些道理。威尔克斯家的男人们无疑有自己的家族特征。那种把约翰·威尔克斯和艾希礼的灰眼睛衬托得更显著的赤金色浓睫毛，在霍妮和她妹妹英迪亚的脸上便变得稀疏而没有什么光泽了。霍妮像只野兔似的睫毛很少，而英迪亚除了用”平淡”一词以外，再没有别的说法可以形容了。

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Honey’s nervously obvious desire to be attractive to every man in sight contrasted sharply with her father’s poise, and Scarlett had the thought that perhaps there was something in what Mrs. Tarleton said, after all. Certainly the Wilkes men got the family looks. The thick deep-gold lashes that set off the gray eyes of John Wilkes and Ashley were sparse and colorless in the faces of Honey and her sister India. Honey had the odd lashless look of a rabbit, and India could be described by no other word than plain.

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英迪亚的踪影哪里也找不到，但思嘉知道她也许是在厨房里对仆人们作最后的指示。思嘉心想，可怜的英迪亚，自从她母亲去世以后，她得为家务操不少的心呢，因此除了斯图尔特·塔尔顿，便没有机会去交别的男朋友了。而且，如果他觉得我比她长得漂亮，那也不是我的过错呀。

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India was nowhere to be seen, but Scarlett knew she probably was in the kitchen giving final instructions to the servants. Poor India, thought Scarlett, she’s had so much trouble keeping house since her mother died that she’s never had the chance to catch any beau except Stuart Tarleton, and it certainly wasn’t my fault if he thought I was prettier than she.

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约翰·威尔克斯走下台阶，伸出手臂去搀扶思嘉。她下马车时见苏伦在得意地傻笑，便知道她已经从人丛中找出弗兰克·肯尼迪来了。我就不信找不到一个比这穿裤子的老处女更好的男人！她心里轻蔑地嘀咕着，一面跳下地来微笑着向约翰·威尔克斯表示感谢。

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John Wilkes came down the steps to offer his arm to Scarlett. As she descended from the carriage, she saw Suellen smirk and knew that she must have picked out Frank Kennedy in the crowd.If I couldn’t catch a better beau than that old maid in britches! she thought contemptuously, as she stepped to the ground and smiled her thanks to John Wilkes.

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弗兰克·肯尼迪赶忙走来搀扶苏伦，苏伦那个得意劲儿更叫思嘉恨不得抽她一鞭子。弗兰克·肯尼迪可能拥有比县里任何人都多的土地，而且可能心地很好，可这些在一个年满４０的人身上是毫无吸引力的，何况他既瘦小又神经质，长着几根稀稀拉拉几根黄胡子，是个婆婆妈妈、唯唯诺诺的人。

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Frank Kennedy was hurrying to the carriage to assist Suellen, and Suellen was bridling in a way that made Scarlett want to slap her. Frank Kennedy might own more land than anyone in the County and he might have a very kind heart, but these things counted for nothing against the fact that he was forty, slight and nervous and had a thin ginger-colored beard and an old-maidish, fussy way about him.

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不过，思嘉记起了自己的计谋，便打消这种轻蔑心理，反向他飞了个欣然的微笑，这使他不由得一怔，一面向苏伦伸出手臂，一面高兴得不知所措地把两眼睛朝思嘉身上骨碌碌乱转。

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However, remembering her plan, Scarlett smothered her contempt and cast such a flashing smile of greeting at him that he stopped short, his arm outheld to Suellen and goggled at Scarlett in pleased bewilderment.

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思嘉即使在跟约翰·威尔克斯愉快地交谈时，两只眼睛也在人群里搜索艾希礼，可是他不在走廊上。周围是一起欢迎的招呼声，斯图尔特和布伦特·塔尔顿这对孪生兄弟一起向她走来。芒罗家的姑娘们也对她的衣服大声称赞，她很快便成了一个吵吵闹闹的圈子的中心，这些声音越来越高，把整个大厅里的喧哗都压倒了。可是艾希礼在哪里？还有媚兰和查尔斯呢？她装得若无其事地环顾四周，并一直朝大厅那里笑闹的人群中望着。

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Scarlett’s eyes searched the crowd for Ashley, even while she made pleasant small talk with John Wilkes, but he was not on the porch. There were cries of greeting from a dozen voices and Stuart and Brent Tarleton moved toward her. The Munroe girls rushed up to exclaim over her dress, and she was speedily the center of a circle of voices that rose higher and higher in efforts to be heard above the din. But where was Ashley? And Melanie and Charles? She tried not to be obvious as she looked about and peered down the hall into the laughing group inside.

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她闲谈着，笑着，迅速向屋子里，庭院里搜索着，忽然发现一个陌生人独自站在大厅里用一种淡漠而不怎么礼貌的神情注视着她，这使她产生了一种复杂的感觉：一面由于自己吸引了一个男人而十分得意，一面又想到自己的衣服领口太低露出了胸脯而有点难为情了。他看来年纪不小，至少有３５岁。他个子高高的，体格很强壮。思嘉心想，还没有见过这样腰圆膀阔、肌肉结实、几乎粗壮得有失体面的男人呢。

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As she chattered and laughed and cast quick glances into the house and the yard, her eyes fell on a stranger, standing alone in the hall, staring at her in a cool impertinent way that brought her up sharply with a mingled feeling of feminine pleasure that she had attracted a man and an embarrassed sensation that her dress was too low in the bosom. He looked quite old, at least thirty-five. He was a tall man and powerfully built. Scarlett thought she had never seen a man with such wide shoulders, so heavy with muscles, almost too heavy for gentility.

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当她的眼光和那人的眼光接解，他笑了，露出一口狰狞雪白的牙齿，在修剪短短的髭须底下闪闪发光。他的脸膛黑得像个海盗，一双又黑又狠的眼睛仿佛主张把一艘帆船凿沉或抢走一名处女似的。他的脸上表情冷漠而卤莽，连对她微笑时嘴角上也流露出嘲讽的意味，使思嘉紧张得出不来气。

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When her eye caught his, he smiled, showing animal-white teeth below a close-clipped black mustache. He was dark of face, swarthy as a pirate, and his eyes were as bold and black as any pirate’s appraising a galleon to be scuttled or a maiden to be ravished. There was a cool recklessness in his face and a cynical humor in his mouth as he smiled at her, and Scarlett caught her breath.

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她想人家这样无礼地瞧着她简直是一种侮辱，可懊恼自己竟没有受辱的感觉。她不知道这究竟是个什么人，但他黑黑的脸膛无可否认地有着上等人家的血统。两片饱满的红嘴唇上那深长的鹰钩鼻子、高高的前额和宽阔的天庭，都说明了这一点。

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She felt that she should be insulted by such a look and was annoyed with herself because she did not feel insulted. She did not know who he could be, but there was undeniably a look of good blood in his dark face. It showed in the thin hawk nose over the full red lips, the high forehead and the wide-set eyes.

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她毫无笑容地努力把自己的眼光挪开，同时他也回过头去，因为有人在叫他：“瑞德，瑞德·巴特勒！到这里来！我要你见见佐治亚一个心肠最硬的姑娘。”

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She dragged her eyes away from his without smiling back, and he turned as someone called: "Rhett! Rhett Butler! Come here! I want you to meet the most hardhearted girl in Georgia."

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瑞德·巴特勒？这名字有点耳熟，好像同某个不体面的趣闻有关似的，不过她正一心想着艾希礼，便不去细究了。

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Rhett Butler? The name had a familiar sound, somehow connected with something pleasantly scandalous, but her mind was on Ashley and she dismissed the thought.

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“我得上楼去理理头发，”她告诉斯图尔特和布伦特，他们正想把她从人群中带走。”你们俩可得等着我，别跟旁的女孩子跑掉，惹我生气。”

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"I must run upstairs and smooth my hair," she told Stuart and Brent, who were trying to get her cornered from the crowd. "You boys wait for me and don’t run off with any other girl or I’ll be furious."

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她看得出来，要是她今天跟任何别的人调情，斯图尔特是不会善罢干休的。因为他刚刚喝了几杯，正摆出一副找人打架的神气，她凭经验知道这就要出事了。她在过厅里站下跟朋友们说话，又对英迪亚打招呼，后者正从后屋里出来，已忙得头发不整，两鬓流汗。

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She could see that Stuart was going to be difficult to handle today if she flirted with anyone else. He had been drinking and wore the arrogant looking-for-a-fight expression that she knew from experience meant trouble. She paused in the hall to speak to friends and to greet India who was emerging from the back of the house, her hair untidy and tiny beads of perspiration on her forehead.

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可怜的英迪亚！一个姑娘长着不灰不白的头发和眼睫毛，以及一个显得性情固执的下巴，这就够糟的了，何况已经２０岁了还没嫁人呢！她不知英迪亚是否怀恨她把斯图尔特从她身边夺走了。有不少的人还在说她仍然爱他，可是你怎么也琢磨不透一个威尔克斯的家人是如何想的。即使她怀恨这件事，他决不会露出痕迹来，仍一如既往地用那种稍觉疏远又颇为亲切的态度对待思嘉。

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Poor India! It would be bad enough to have pale hair and eyelashes and a jutting chin that meant a stubborn disposition, without being twenty years old and an old maid in the bargain. She wondered if India resented very much her taking Stuart away from her. Lots of people said she was still in love with him, but then you could never tell what a Wilkes was thinking about. If she did resent it, she never gave any sign of it, treating Scarlett with the same slightly aloof, kindly courtesy she had always shown her.

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思嘉愉快地跟她交谈了几句，便走上宽阔的楼梯。这时一个羞答答的声音在后面叫她的名字，她回过头来，看见了查尔斯·汉密尔顿。他是个俊俏的小伙子，满头柔软的褐色鬈发覆盖在白皙的前额上，眼睛也是深褐色的，明亮，温柔，像一只聪敏的长毛牧羊犬。他穿着很合身的裤子和黑色上衣，带皱褶的衬衫领口打着个很宽很时髦的黑领结。

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Scarlett spoke pleasantly to her and started up the wide stairs. As she did, a shy voice behind her called her name and, turning, she saw Charles Hamilton. He was a nice-looking boy with a riot of soft brown curls on his white forehead and eyes as deep brown, as clean and as gentle as a collie dog’s. He was well turned out in mustard-colored trousers and black coat and his pleated shirt was topped by the widest and most fashionable of black cravats.

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她转过身来时，他脸上泛起薄薄的红晕，因为他在女孩子面前总有点怯生生的。像大多数怕羞的男人那样，他非常爱慕思嘉这样快活，开朗而落落大方的姑娘。她以前对他的态度从没有超出敷衍应酬的范围，因此现在她回报他的那灿然一笑和愉快地伸出的两只手，就使他惊喜得透不过起来的。

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A faint blush was creeping over his face as she turned for he was timid with girls. Like most shy men he greatly admired airy, vivacious, always-at-ease girls like Scarlett. She had never given him more than perfunctory courtesy before, and so the beaming smile of pleasure with which she greeted him and the two hands outstretched to his almost took his breath away.

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“怎么，查尔斯·汉密尔顿，你这漂亮的小家伙，是你呀！我敢说你是专门从亚特兰大老远赶来，这可叫我心疼得不行啊！”

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"Why Charles Hamilton, you handsome old thing, you! I’ll bet you came all the way down here from Atlanta just to break my poor heart!"

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查尔斯激动的结结巴巴，几乎说不出话来了。他抓住她那双温暖的小手，痴痴地望着那双滴溜溜转的绿眼睛。姑娘们是惯用这种态度跟男孩子说话的，可对查尔斯却从来没有过。他可真不明白为什么她们老是把他当做小弟弟看待，又总是那么亲切，但从来不肯跟他开玩笑。他经常看见姑娘们跟那些比他难看得多和笨得多的男孩子在一起调情说笑，早就巴不得她们也这样跟他闹着玩儿。

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Charles almost stuttered with excitement, holding her warm little hands in his and looking into the dancing green eyes. This was the way girls talked to other boys but never to him. He never knew why but girls always treated him like a younger brother and were very kind, but never bothered to tease him. He had always wanted girls to flirt and frolic with him as they did with boys much less handsome and less endowed with this world’s goods than he.

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可是除了偶尔一两次外，他跟她们在一起时往往不知道说什么好，所以总是破口无言，窘困得难受极了。事情过后，他夜里躺在床上睡不着觉时，倒想起许许多多本来可以说的俏皮逗人的话来，可是机会没有了，因为人家姑娘们经过这么一两回试验之后，便把他撂在一边了。

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But on the few occasions when this had happened he could never think of anything to say and he suffered agonies of embarrassment at his dumbness. Then he lay awake at night thinking of all the charming gallantries he might have employed; but he rarely got a second chance, for the girls left him alone after a trial or two.

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至于霍妮，他同她已经有了默契，准备来年秋天他继承了遗产的时候结婚，可是他跟他在一起时同样也很不自在，没有什么好说的。有时候他有一种不怎么爽快的感觉，觉得霍妮那种有点卖弄风情和自作主张的神气对他很不利，因为她对男孩子有股狂热劲儿，恐怕一有机会她就会随便给哪个男人玩这一套的。所以查尔斯对娶霍妮不怎么热心，因为她没有在他心中那种疯狂的浪漫激情，而那是他心爱的书本告诉他一个恋人所应当有的。他经常渴望着有个美丽、大胆、感情炽热、善于戏谑的女人来爱他。

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Even with Honey, with whom he had an unspoken understanding of marriage when he came into his property next fall, he was diffident and silent. At times, he had an ungallant feeling that Honey’s coquetries and proprietary airs were no credit to him, for she was so boy-crazy he imagined she would use them on any man who gave her the opportunity. Charles was not excited over the prospect of marrying her, for she stirred in him none of the emotions of wild romance that his beloved books had assured him were proper for a lover. He had always yearned to be loved by some beautiful, dashing creature full of fire and mischief.

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可如今思嘉·奥哈拉用她所说的对他心疼的话，在跟他开玩笑呢！

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And here was Scarlett O’Hara teasing him about breaking her heart!

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他想想出几句话来说说，可是想不出来，接着他便默默祝福思嘉，因为她在一个劲儿地说下去，他也就用不着开口了。这真是做梦也想不到的。

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He tried to think of something to say and couldn’t, and silently he blessed her because she kept up a steady chatter which relieved him of any necessity for conversation. It was too good to be true.

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“现在，你就站在这儿，等我回来，到时我跟你一起吃野宴，可不要走开去跟别的女孩子胡闹呀，那样我可要吃醋了！”这些话从那张两旁各有一个酒窝的樱桃小口里说出，同时乌黑的睫毛在碧绿的眼睛上方假装严肃地飞舞着。

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"Now, you wait right here till I come back, for I want to eat barbecue with you. And don’t you go off philandering with those other girls, because I’m mighty jealous," came the incredible words from red lips with a dimple on each side; and briskly black lashes swept demurely over green eyes.

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“我不会的，”他终于使劲喘过起来，可是决没有想到她是在把他当做一只等待屠夫的小牛犊呢。

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"I won’t," he finally managed to breathe, never dreaming that she was thinking he looked like a calf waiting for the butcher.

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她拿那把合着的折扇在他臂膀上轻轻一敲，然后转身上楼，这时她的视线又落到那个名叫瑞德·巴特勒的人身上，他正孤零零地站在离查尔斯几步远的地方。他显然从旁听见了刚才的全部谈话，因为他仰头对思嘉咧嘴笑了笑，那模样邪恶得像只公猫似的，随即又将思嘉浑身上下打量着，眼光中全然没有思嘉所习惯的那种敬意。

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Tapping him lightly on the arm with her folded fan, she turned to start up the stairs and her eyes again fell on the man called Rhett Butler who stood alone a few feet away from Charles. Evidently he had overheard the whole conversation, for he grinned up at her as maliciously as a tomcat, and again his eyes went over her, in a gaze totally devoid of the deference she was accustomed to.

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“活见鬼！”思嘉用杰拉尔德惯用的那句粗话烦恼地暗思忖说。”他看来好象——好像知道我没穿内衣是模样似的。”接着把头一甩，径自上楼去了。

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"God’s nightgown!" said Scarlett to herself in indignation, using Gerald’s favorite oath. "He looks as if—as if he knew what I looked like without my shimmy," and, tossing her head, she went up the steps.

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在放包裹的那间卧室里，她发现凯瑟琳·卡尔弗特正站在镜前打扮，拼命咬着嘴唇，想叫它们显得更红一些。她的饰带上佩着新鲜的玫瑰花，这同她的两颊相到辉映，那双矢车菊般的蓝眼睛更是兴奋得神采飞扬了。

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In the bedroom where the wraps were laid, she found Cathleen Calvert preening before the mirror and biting her lips to make them look redder. There were fresh roses in her sash that matched her cheeks, and her cornflower-blue eyes were dancing with excitement.

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“凯瑟琳，”思嘉说，一面试着把她穿的那件紧身上衣拉高一点，”楼下那个姓巴特勒的讨厌家伙是谁？”

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"Cathleen," said Scarlett, trying to pull the corsage of her dress higher, "who is that nasty man downstairs named Butler?"

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“唔，亲爱的，你不知道吗？”凯瑟琳兴奋地低声说，留心不让在隔壁房间闲聊的迪尔茜和威尔克斯家姑娘们的嬷嬷听见。”我真想不到威尔克斯先生怎么会让他到这里来了，不过他本来就在琼斯博罗同肯尼迪先生商谈买棉花的事。当然了，肯尼迪先生要把他带在身边，就一起来了。他不能丢下他就走。”

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"My dear, don’t you know?" whispered Cathleen excitedly, a weather eye on the next room where Dilcey and the Wilkes girls’ mammy were gossiping. "I can’t imagine how Mr. Wilkes must feel having him here, but he was visiting Mr. Kennedy in Jonesboro—something about buying cotton—and, of course, Mr. Kennedy had to bring him along with him. He couldn’t just go off and leave him."

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“他究竟是怎么回事呢？”

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"What is the matter with him?"

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“人家谁也没有招待过他呢！亲爱的。”

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"My dear, he isn’t received!"

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“真的没有吗？”

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"Not really!"

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“没有。”

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"No."

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思嘉默默地寻思这件事，因为她还从不曾跟一个不受招待的人在一起待过呢。这倒是一种很令人兴奋的局面。

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Scarlett digested this in silence, for she had never before been under the same roof with anyone who was not received. It was very exciting.

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“他干过什么事了？”

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"What did he do?"

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“唔，他的名声坏极了！思嘉，他叫瑞德·巴特勒，是查尔斯顿人，他的朋友本来都是那里最上等的人，可现在都不理他了。去年夏天卡罗·雷特跟我谈了他的情形。她跟他的家庭并没有亲属关系，可是她了解他的一切，而且谁都了解。他是从西点军校开除出来的。你想想吧！他还些事情实在太糟糕了，卡罗也不便知道。此外就是关于他没有娶那个姑娘的事——”

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"Oh, Scarlett, he has the most terrible reputation. His name is Rhett Butler and he’s from Charleston and his folks are some of the nicest people there, but they won’t even speak to him. Caro Rhett told me about him last summer. He isn’t any kin to her family, but she knows all about him, everybody does. He was expelled from West Point. Imagine! And for things too bad for Caro to know. And then there was that business about the girl he didn’t marry."

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“快告诉我！”

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"Do tell me!"

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“亲爱的，你真的什么也不知道？卡罗去年夏天全都告诉我了，可要是她妈听说她居然知道这种事，恐怕会气得要死呢。唔，这位巴特勒先生带着一个查尔斯顿姑娘坐马车出去玩。我从来不知道她究竟是谁，不过我能猜到一点。她一定不是什么好东西，否则便不会在下午那么晚的时候没个伴就跟他出去了。而且亲爱的，他们在外面几乎待了个通宵，最后才步行回家，据说是马跑了，车也给摔坏了，他们在树林里迷了路。后来你猜怎么样——”

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"Darling, don’t you know anything? Caro told me all about it last summer and her mama would die if she thought Caro even knew about it. Well, this Mr. Butler took a Charleston girl out buggy riding. I never did know who she was, but I’ve got my suspicions. She couldn’t have been very nice or she wouldn’t have gone out with him in the late afternoon without a chaperon. And, my dear, they stayed out nearly all night and walked home finally, saying the horse had run away and smashed the buggy and they had gotten lost in the woods. And guess what—"

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“你说吧，我猜不着，”思嘉很热心地说，巴不得发生最糟糕的事。

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"I can’t guess. Tell me," said Scarlett enthusiastically, hoping for the worst.

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“第二天他居然拒绝同她结婚！”

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"He refused to marry her the next day!"

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“啊，”思嘉的希望破灭了。

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"Oh," said Scarlett, her hopes dashed.

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“他说他没——嗯——没跟她有过什么，也看不出为什么就该娶她。于是，当然喽，她哥哥把他叫出来，这时巴特勒先生称他宁愿给枪毙也不要娶一个蠢货。这样一来，他们就只有进行决斗，结果巴特勒先生击中了那姑娘的哥哥，他死了，同时巴特勒先生也只好离开查尔斯顿，可至今没有接待他，”凯瑟琳得意地结束了她的故事，而且很及时，因为这时迪尔茜回到房间照料思嘉梳妆来了。

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"He said he hadn’t—er—done anything to her and he didn’t see why he should marry her. And, of course, her brother called him out, and Mr. Butler said he’d rather be shot than marry a stupid fool. And so they fought a duel and Mr. Butler shot the girl’s brother and he died, and Mr. Butler had to leave Charleston and now nobody receives him," finished Cathleen triumphantly, and just in time, for Dilcey came back into the room to oversee the toilet of her charge.

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“她怀孕了没有？”思嘉在凯瑟琳的耳边悄悄地问。

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"Did she have a baby?" whispered Scarlett in Cathleen’s ear.

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凯瑟琳拼命摇头。”不过她同样给毁了，”她有点厌恶地低声回答。

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Cathleen shook her head violently. "But she was ruined just the same," she hissed back.

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但愿艾希礼别毁了我才好，思嘉突然这样想。象他这样一个十十足足的正人君子，是决不会不娶我的。可是，不知怎的，她情不自禁增对瑞德·巴特勒产生了一种敬意，因为他拒绝跟一个蠢女人结婚哩。

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I wish I had gotten Ashley to compromise me, thought Scarlett suddenly. He’d be too much of a gentleman not to marry me. But somehow, unbidden, she had a feeling of respect for Rhett Butler for refusing to marry a girl who was a fool.

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思嘉坐在屋后那株大橡树树荫下一张高高的木褥榻上，她衣裙上的荷叶边和皱襞向周围荡漾着，底下那双绿羊皮软鞋露出了大约两英寸的样子，这是大家闺秀坐着时双脚所能露出的最大部分。她手里捧着一个几乎没有动过的盘子。

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Scarlett sat on a high rosewood ottoman, under the shade of a huge oak in the rear of the house, her flounces and ruffles billowing about her and two inches of green morocco slippers—all that a lady could show and still remain a lady—peeping from beneath them. She had scarcely touched plate in her hands and seven cavaliers about her.

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野宴已达到高潮，暖融融的空气中洋溢着笑声、谈话声、餐具碰着杯盘的叮当声，以及烤肉和稠肉汤的浓烈香味。间或一阵清风吹过，从长长的烤牲火坑向宾客们起来了股股轻烟，小姐太太们假装烦地尖叫起来，一面使劲挥舞手中棕榈叶扇子。

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The barbecue had reached its peak and the warm air was full of laughter and talk, the click of silver on porcelain and the rich heavy smells of roasting meats and redolent gravies. Occasionally when the slight breeze veered, puffs of smoke from the long barbecue pits floated over the crowd and were greeted with squeals of mock dismay from the ladies and violent flappings of palmetto fans.

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大多数年轻小姐同她们的男伴坐在餐桌两旁长长的条凳上，唯独思嘉，她明白在这种座席上只能两边各坐一个男人，便单单另外挑了个位置，这样她就可以引来尽可能多的男人聚在自己周围了。

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Most of the young ladies were seated with partners on the long benches that faced the tables, but Scarlett, realizing that a girl has only two sides and only one man can sit on each of these sides, had elected to sit apart so she could gather about her as many men as possible.

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已婚妇女，都坐在凉亭里，她们的深色衣裳在周围的欢快色彩中看来更加显眼。主妇们无论年龄大小，常常坐在一起，稍稍离开那些明眸皓齿的小姐、情郎和他们的喧笑声，因为在南方，妇女一结婚就不算美人了。从那位倚老卖老公然在打嗝儿的方丹老太太到初次怀孕正在极力忍住不呕吐出来的１７岁的艾丽斯·芒罗，她们正交头接耳不停地讨论着家庭等方面的问题，这才使得这样的集会更加愉快而富于教育意义了。

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Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety. Matrons, regardless of their ages, always grouped together apart from the bright-eyed girls, beaux and laughter, for there were no married belles in the South. From Grandma Fontaine, who was belching frankly with the privilege of her age, to seventeen-year-old Alice Munroe, struggling against the nausea of a first pregnancy, they had their heads together in the endless genealogical and obstetrical discussions that made such gatherings very pleasant and instructive affairs.

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思嘉朝她们轻蔑地看了一眼，觉得她们活象一群肥老鸦，已婚妇女从来都是没有什么趣味的。可她就不想想，要是她嫁给了艾希礼，也得自动地跟这些穿深色绸衣的主妇们一起，坐到凉亭下和前屋客厅里去，并且跟她们一样庄重，一样呆板，不再属于那有趣而快活的一群了。原来她像大多数女孩子那样，她的想象力只能把她带到结婚的礼坛上去，不近也不远，到此为止。此外，她现在正觉得十分不幸，没有心思去考虑这种抽象的事。

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Casting contemptuous glances at them, Scarlett thought that they looked like a clump of fat crows. Married women never had any fun. It did not occur to her that if she married Ashley she would automatically be relegated to arbors and front parlors with staid matrons in dull silks, as staid and dull as they and not a part of the fun and frolicking. Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further. Besides, she was too unhappy now to pursue an abstraction.

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她垂下眼睛看看手里的盘子，灵巧地拿起一片薄薄的饼干送到嘴边模样是那么文雅，只轻轻咬了一点，要是嬷嬷见了准会大加赞赏的。她尽管周围有了那么多向她献殷勤的小伙子，可是从没像现在这样难受过。她自己也不明白是怎么回事，昨天昨上她想好的那些计划至少在艾希礼身上已经彻底完了。她吸引来几十个旁的男人，偏偏艾希礼没有来。因此昨天下午她所感到的那些恐惧现在又都卷土重来，笼罩在她身上了，使她的心脏时紧时慢地跳得很不正常，脸色也红一阵白一阵，难看得很。

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She dropped her eyes to her plate and nibbled daintily on a beaten biscuit with an elegance and an utter lack of appetite that would have won Mammy’s approval. For all that she had a superfluity of beaux, she had never been more miserable in her life. In some way that she could not understand, her plans of last night had failed utterly so far as Ashley was concerned. She had attracted other beaux by the dozens, but not Ashley, and all the fears of yesterday afternoon were sweeping back upon her, making her heart beat fast and then slow, and color flame and whiten in her cheeks.

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艾希礼不想加入她周围的那个圈子，实际上她来到以后还没有单独跟他说过一句话，甚至自从见面时打了个招呼便再没有机会对他说话了。当她走进后花园时，他上前来欢迎过她，但当时媚兰正挽着他的胳膊——她几乎还没有他的肩膀高呢。

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Ashley had made no attempt to join the circle about her, in fact she had not had a word alone with him since arriving, or even spoken to him since their first greeting. He had come forward to welcome her when she came into the back garden, but Melanie had been on his arm then, Melanie who hardly came up to his shoulder.

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媚兰是个娇小脆弱的姑娘，从外表看就像个躲在母亲裙子里玩耍的孩子，加上她那双褐色大眼睛流露的怕羞到几乎惊恐的神色，就更加给人以这样的印象了。她长着一头稠密乌黑的鬈发，上面严严地罩着发网，显得一丝不乱。这黑的一大堆前面挂着个长长的寡妇嘴刘海儿，使得她的脸蛋完全变成了鸡心形。

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She was a tiny, frailly built girl, who gave the appearance of a child masquerading in her mother’s enormous hoop skirts—an illusion that was heightened by the shy, almost frightened look in her too large brown eyes. She had a cloud of curly dark hair which was so sternly repressed beneath its net that no vagrant tendrils escaped, and this dark mass, with its long widow’s peak, accentuated the heart shape of her face.

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由于两个颧骨隔得太远，下巴太尖，那张脸虽然娇怯可人，但仍显平淡。她长得像——而且就是——泥土一样简单，面包一样可贵，春水一样清澈。不过，无论她的相貌多么平淡，身佬多么娇小，她的举止行动中仍包含着一种沉静而非常动人的庄重美，这使她看起来远不象一个１７岁的大姑娘。

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Too wide across the cheek bones, too pointed at the chin, it was a sweet, timid face but a plain face, and she had no feminine tricks of allure to make observers forget its plainness. She looked—and was—as simple as earth, as good as bread, as transparent as spring water. But for all her plainness of feature and smallness of stature, there was a sedate dignity about her movements that was oddly touching and far older than her seventeen years.

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她穿一件灰色细棉布衣裳，上面配有樱桃色缎带，裙裾荡漾，皱襞粼粼，似在掩饰那个如孩子般尚未充分发育的身躯，而那顶垂着鲜红的细长饰带的黄帽子，则使她的奶油色皮肤更加光莹夺目了。她那对沉甸甸的耳坠子吊在长长的金链上，从整整齐齐网着的鬈发中垂下来，在褐色眼睛近旁摆荡着，这对眼睛象冬天树林中波光皎洁的湖水，两片褐色的叶子从宁静的湖水中闪映出来。

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Her gray organdie dress, with its cherry-colored satin sash, disguised with its billows and ruffles how childishly undeveloped her body was, and the yellow hat with long cherry streamers made her creamy skin glow. Her heavy earbobs with their long gold fringe hung down from loops of tidily netted hair, swinging close to her brown eyes, eyes that had the still gleam of a forest pool in winter when brown leaves shine up through quiet water.

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她用怯生生的喜悦心情微笑着欢迎思嘉，称赞她那件绿色衣裳多么漂亮，这时思嘉很不好意思，几乎装出一副礼貌的笑容来回答，因为她那么迫切地想同艾希礼单独谈话！从那以后，艾希礼就离开宾客坐在媚兰脚边一只小凳上，同她悄悄地谈着，悠闲而睡眼朦胧地微笑着，这样的微笑正是思嘉最心爱不过的。

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She had smiled with timid liking when she greeted Scarlett and told her how pretty her green dress was, and Scarlett had been hard put to be even civil in reply, so violently did she want to speak alone with Ashley. Since then, Ashley had sat on a stool at Melanie’s feet, apart from the other guests, and talked quietly with her, smiling the slow drowsy smile that Scarlett loved.

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更糟糕的是在他的微笑下媚兰眼中焕发着一闪一闪的光辉，以致连想思嘉也不得不承认她几乎是美丽的了。媚兰望着艾希礼时，她那平淡的脸上仿佛被一支内心的火焰照耀得容光焕发，因为只要一颗热恋的心能够在脸上显现，那么现在媚兰脸上显现的正是这样的一颗心。

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What made matters worse was that under his smile a little sparkle had come into Melanie’s eyes, so that even Scarlett had to admit that she looked almost pretty. As Melanie looked at Ashley, her plain face lit up as with an inner fire, for if ever a loving heart showed itself upon a face, it was showing now on Melanie Hamilton’s.

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思嘉想把目光从这两个人身上挪开，不再看他们，可就是办不到，而且每看一眼就得从她周围的人们身上找到加倍的欢乐，跟他们一起笑着，谈着冒失的事情，挑逗他们，对他们的奉承话拼命摇头，摇得那双耳坠狂跳不止。她说了好几遍”胡说八道”，声明真理不在他们任何一个人身上，并且发誓永远不相信他们任何人说的任何事情。可是艾希礼好像根本没有注意到她。他只一味地仰望着媚兰不停地说下去，同时媚兰俯视着他，她脸上的表情明明显示出她是属于他的。

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Scarlett tried to keep her eyes from these two but could not, and after each glance she redoubled her gaiety with her cavaliers, laughing, saying daring things, teasing, tossing her head at their compliments until her earrings danced. She said "fiddle-dee-dee" many times, declared that the truth wasn’t in any of them, and vowed that she’d never believe anything any man told her. But Ashley did not seem to notice her at all. He only looked up at Melanie and talked on, and Melanie looked down at him with an expression that radiated the fact that she belonged to him.

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这样，思嘉便觉得难堪极了。

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So, Scarlett was miserable.

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在局外人看来，她是比谁也更没有理由觉得难堪的。她无疑是这次野宴上的美人，是大家注意的中心。她正在男人们中间激起的那阵狂热，加上其他姑娘们心中的妒火，在任何别的时候都会叫她心满意足了。

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To the outward eye, never had a girl less cause to be miserable. She was undoubtedly the belle of the barbecue, the center of attention. The furore she was causing among the men, coupled with the heart burnings of the other girls, would have pleased her enormously at any other time.

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由于受到她的青睐查尔斯·汉密尔顿，仍牢牢地站在她右边，任凭塔尔顿家的孪生兄弟合力挤他也不挪动一步。他一只手拿着她的扉子，另一只手端着自己那盘连碰也没碰的烤肉，固执地不去跟霍妮的眼光接角，这叫霍妮伤心得快要哭了。她左边的凯德懒洋洋地待在那里，他不时拉拉她的衣角让她注意，同时用一双怒气冲冲的眼睛瞪着斯图尔特。他和这对孪生兄弟之间的敌对气氛已达到了一触即发的程度，并且已开始斗起嘴来。

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Charles Hamilton, emboldened by her notice, was firmly planted on her right, refusing to be dislodged by the combined efforts of the Tarleton twins. He held her fan in one hand and his untouched plate of barbecue in the other and stubbornly refused to meet the eyes of Honey, who seemed on the verge of an outburst of tears. Cade lounged gracefully on her left, plucking at her skirt to attract her attention and staring up with smoldering eyes at Stuart. Already the air was electric between him and the twins and rude words had passed.

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弗兰克·肯尼迪象只带小鸡的母鸡在瞎忙着，到橡树树荫下的餐桌旁来回奔跑，替思嘉挑拣好吃的东西，仿佛那儿的十几个仆人都不中用似的。最后，苏伦已实在按捺不住满腔愤，便冲出大家闺秀的忍让范围，公然向思嘉怒目而视。小卡琳也早就想哭的，因为尽管思嘉讲了不少鼓励的话，可布伦特只对她说了声”好啊，小妹”，同时拨了拨她头上的发带便转身去全心全意奉承思嘉了。

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Frank Kennedy fussed about like a hen with one chick, running back and forth from the shade of the oak to the tables to fetch dainties to tempt Scarlett, as if there were not a dozen servants there for that purpose. As a result, Suellen’s sullen resentment had passed beyond the point of ladylike concealment and she glowered at Scarlett. Small Carreen could have cried because, for all Scarlett’s encouraging words that morning, Brent had done no more than say ”Hello, Sis” and jerk her hair ribbon before turning his full attention to Scarlett.

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他往常总是那么亲切，用一种出于自然的敬重态度对待她，让她感到自己已经是个大人，便暗暗梦想有一天她将绾起发髻，放下裙裾，把他当作一个真正的情人来接待。可现在看来，思嘉已经把他捞到手了！至于芒罗家的几位姑娘，她们眼看方丹家那些黑皮肤小伙子已公然背叛他们，可是仍极力掩饰着心头的懊恼，不过当托尼和亚历克斯站在圈子外面等着觑着，随时准备只要有人站起来俩立即他占一个靠近思嘉的位置，那副讨厌相就叫她们忍无可忍了。

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Usually he was so kind and treated her with a careless deference that made her feel grown up, and Carreen secretly dreamed of the day when she would put her hair up and her skirts down and receive him as a real beau. And now it seemed that Scarlett had him. The Munroe girls were concealing their chagrin at the defection of the swarthy Fontaine boys, but they were annoyed at the way Tony and Alex stood about the circle, jockeying for a position near Scarlett should any of the others arise from their places.

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她们用扬起眉头的方式将自己对思嘉行为的反感微妙地传递给赫蒂·塔尔顿。对于思嘉来说，惟一的要诀是”快”。

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They telegraphed their disapproval of Scarlett’s conduct to Hetty Tarleton by delicately raised eyebrows. "Fast" was the only word for Scarlett.

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这时，那三个年轻姑娘不约而同地举起花边阳伞，说她们已经吃够了，谢谢，一面用手指轻轻扶着身边男人的胳膊，娇声笑嚷着到玫瑰园、清泉和夏季别野参观去了。这种有秩序的战略性撤退对于一个在场的女人是不会不产生效果的，可男人就看不出来。

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Simultaneously, the three young ladies raised lacy parasols, said they had had quite enough to eat, thank you, and, laying light fingers on the arms of the men nearest them, clamored sweetly to see the rose garden, the spring and the summerhouse. This strategic retreat in good order was not lost on a woman present or observed by a man.

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思嘉看见那三个男人被拉出了她的魅力圈，跟着女孩子们到她们从小便熟悉的名胜地观光去了，便格格地笑起来，同时狠狠盯住艾希礼，看他是否注意到这件事。可是他正在玩媚兰的那条缎带，一面微笑着望着她。思嘉感到揪心般一阵剧痛。她恨不得立刻跑过去将媚兰的乳白色皮肤狠狠地抓呀，挠呀，直到鲜红淋漓才痛快哩。

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Scarlett giggled as she saw three men dragged out of the line of her charms to investigate landmarks familiar to the girls from childhood, and cut her eye sharply to see if Ashley had taken note. But he was playing with the ends of Melanie’s sash and smiling up at her. Pain twisted Scarlett’s heart. She felt that she could claw Melanie’s ivory skin till the blood ran and take pleasure in doing it.

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她的眼光从媚兰身上移开，便看见了瑞德·巴特勒，他已跟众人厮混在一起，可是仍站在一旁同约翰·威尔克斯交谈。他一直在观察她，但一旦接触到她的眼光便笑起来。思嘉感到很不自在，觉得这个不受招待的男人是在场惟一知道她那狂欢背后隐藏着什么心事的人，而且这只能给他以讥讽的乐趣。那么，她也可以抓他其他来取乐呀！

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As her eyes wandered from Melanie, she caught the gaze of Rhett Butler, who was not mixing with the crowd but standing apart talking to John Wilkes. He had been watching her and when she looked at him he laughed outright. Scarlett had an uneasy feeling that this man who was not received was the only one present who knew what lay behind her wild gaiety and that it was affording him sardonic amusement. She could have clawed him with pleasure too.

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“只要我能够熬过这个野宴，一直坚持到午后，”她想，”所有的女孩子便会上楼去午睡，准备精神饱满地参加晚上的舞会，那时我要留在楼下找机会跟艾希礼说话。他一定已经注意到我是多么受人爱慕了。”接着，她又自我宽慰地作出了另一种推测：“当然喽，他必须照顾媚兰，因为她毕竟是他的表妹，而且又一点不引人注目，如果他不那么关照她，她简直就要做无人问津的’墙花’了。”

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"If I can just live through this barbecue till this afternoon," she thought, "all the girls will go upstairs to take naps to be fresh for tonight and I’ll stay downstairs and get to talk to Ashley. Surely he must have noticed how popular I am." She soothed her heart with another hope: "Of course, he has to be attentive to Melanie because, after all, she is his cousin and she isn’t popular at all, and if he didn’t look out for her she’d just be a wallflower."

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想到这里，她重新鼓起了勇起，并且对查尔斯加倍下功夫，这时他那双褐色眼睛正炽热地俯视着她。对于查尔斯来说，这真是绝妙的一天，美梦般的一天，他已经毫不费力同思嘉恋爱起来。由于这种新的感情的冲击，霍妮在他心中的形象便暗淡无光了。

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She took new courage at this thought and redoubled her efforts in the direction of Charles, whose brown eyes glowed down eagerly at her. It was a wonderful day for Charles, a dream day, and he had fallen in love with Scarlett with no effort at all. Before this new emotion, Honey receded into a dim haze.

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霍妮是一只尖叫的麻雀，而思嘉则是只闪烁的蜂鸟。她逗弄他，疼爱他，向他提问题，然后又自己回答，这样他毋需开口便显得非常聪明。别的小伙子显然被她对查尔斯的这种偏爱所激怒，而且给弄得糊里糊涂，因为他们知道查尔斯为人那么羞怯，一口气说不出两个字、一句的话来，可是出于礼貌，他们不得不强压着心头的怒火。谁都敢怒而不敢言，这对思嘉是个很大的胜利，可在艾希礼身上却是例外。

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Honey was a shrill- voiced sparrow and Scarlett a gleaming hummingbird. She teased him and favored him and asked him questions and answered them herself, so that he appeared very clever without having to say a word. The other boys were puzzled and annoyed by her obvious interest in him, for they knew Charles was too shy to hitch two consecutive words together, and politeness was being severely strained to conceal their growing rage. Everyone was smoldering, and it would have been a positive triumph for Scarlett, except for Ashley.

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最后一叉子猪肉、鸡肉、羊肉都吃完了，思嘉希望时机已经来到，英迪亚会起身建议小姐们进屋去休息。这时是下午两点，太阳直照头顶，有点炎热，可是英迪亚由于准备野宴接连忙了三天，实在太劳累了，便乐得留下来坐在凉亭里歇一会，一面朝那位来自费耶特维尔的聋老头儿高声说话。

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When the last forkful of pork and chicken and mutton had been eaten, Scarlett hoped the time had come when India would rise and suggest that the ladies retire to the house. It was two o’clock and the sun was warm overhead, but India, wearied with the three- day preparations for the barbecue, was only too glad to remain sitting beneath the arbor, shouting remarks to a deaf old gentleman from Fayetteville.

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一阵懒洋洋的睡意向人群袭来。黑人们慢悠悠地收拾长桌上的残羹剩菜。谈笑声渐渐低沉，这里、那里三五成群的人也开始静默。大家都在等待女主人来宣布结束于前的野宴活动。棕榈扇子摇得愈来愈慢，有些先生由于炎热和吃得过饮，已经打起瞌睡来。大野宴已经结束，所以的人都要趁太阳正旺的时刻休息一下了。

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A lazy somnolence descended on the crowd. The negroes idled about, clearing the long tables on which the food had been laid. The laughter and talking became less animated and groups here and there fell silent. All were waiting for their hostess to signal the end of the morning’s festivities. Palmetto fans were wagging more slowly, and several gentlemen were nodding from the heat and overloaded stomachs. The barbecue was over and all were content to take their ease while sun was at its height.

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在午宴和昨会之间这段空隙中，人们都显得安静而平和，只有年轻小伙子们仍保持着不甘寂寞的精力，正是这种精力使刚才整个娶会充满了生机。他们从一群人到另一群人不断走动，慢吞吞地低声谈论着，漂亮得像些纯种马驹，也同样地危险。中午懒洋洋的气氛笼罩了整个聚会，可是在它下面潜伏着一些暴躁因素，它们可能突然爆发，上升到凶残的顶点，并且迅速蔓延，成为燎原之势，男人和女人，他们既是美丽的，又是放荡的，那可爱的外表下面都有一点火爆性，其中已经驯服了的只是很小一部而已。

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In this interval between the morning party and the evening’s ball, they seemed a placid, peaceful lot. Only the young men retained the restless energy which had filled the whole throng a short while before. Moving from group to group, drawling in their soft voices, they were as handsome as blooded stallions and as dangerous. The languor of midday had taken hold of the gathering, but underneath lurked tempers that could rise to killing heights in a second and flare out as quickly. Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

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过了一会，太阳越发热了，思嘉和其他人又朝英迪亚看了看。谈话已渐渐沉寂，这时从林里所有的人都忽然听到了杰拉尔德的激昂的声调。原来他站在距离野宴席不远的地方，同约翰·威尔克斯争论是正起劲呢。

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Some time dragged by while the sun grew hotter, and Scarlett and others looked again toward India. Conversation was dying out when, in the lull, everyone in the grove heard Gerald’s voice raised in furious accents. Standing some little distance away from the barbecue tables, he was at the peak of an argument with John Wilkes.

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“真是活见鬼，你这人哪！祈求跟北方佬和平解决吗？咱们已经在萨姆特要塞向那些流氓开火了！还能和平？南方应当以武力表明它不能让人侮辱，并且它不是凭联邦的仁慈而是凭着自己的力量在脱离联邦！”

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"God’s nightgown, man! Pray for a peaceable settlement with the Yankees after we’ve fired on the rascals at Fort Sumter? Peaceable? The South should show by arms that she cannot be insulted and that she is not leaving the Union by the Union’s kindness but by her own strength!"

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“哦，他又喝够了！我的上帝！”思嘉心想。”这想，我们都得在这里坐到半夜去了。”

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"Oh, my God!" thought Scarlett. "He’s done it! Now, we’ll all sit here till midnight."

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顷刻之间，瞌睡从懒洋洋的人群中逃之夭夭，一种像电流般敏感的东西迅速掠过周围。男人从条凳和椅子上跳起来，挥动着两臂，拼命提高嗓门，同时一心想压倒别人的声音。本来整个上午都没有谈起政治和平在眉睫的战争，因为威尔克斯先生要求大家不要去打扰那些太太小姐。如今杰拉尔德吼出”萨姆特要塞”这几个字来了，在场的每一个便都忘记了主人的告诫。

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In an instant, the somnolence had fled from the lounging throng and something electric went snapping through the air. The men sprang from benches and chairs, arms in wide gestures, voices clashing for the right to be heard above other voices. There had been no talk of politics or impending war all during the morning, because of Mr. Wilkes’ request that the ladies should not be bored. But now Gerald had bawled the words "Fort Sumter," and every man present forgot his host’s admonition.

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“咱们当然要打——”“北方佬是贼——”“咱们一个月就能把他们报销——”“是啊，一个南方人能打掉２０个北方佬——”“给他们一次教训，叫他们不要很快就忘了——”“不，你看林肯先生怎么侮辱咱们的委员吧！”“是啊，跟他们敷衍几个礼拜——还发誓一定得撤出萨姆特呢！”“他们要战争，咱们就让他们厌恶战急——”在所有这些声音之上，杰拉尔德的嗓门在隆隆震响，但思嘉能够听到的全是”州权、州权”的反复叫喊。杰拉尔德真是得意极了，可他的女儿并不得意。

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"Of course we’ll fight—" "Yankee thieves—" "We could lick them in a month—" "Why, one Southerner can lick twenty Yankees—" "Teach them a lesson they won’t soon forget—" "Peaceably? They won’t let us go in peace—" "No, look how Mr. Lincoln insulted our Commissioners!" "Yes, kept them hanging around for weeks— swearing he’d have Sumter evacuated!" "They want war; we’ll make them sick of war—" And above all the voices, Gerald’s boomed. All Scarlett could hear was "States’ rights, by God!" shouted over and over. Gerald was having an excellent time, but not his daughter.

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脱离联邦，战争——这些字眼由于长期以来不断重复，思嘉已觉得十分刺耳，不过现在她更恨这些声音，因为它们意味着那些男人将站在那里激烈地争论好几个小时，而她就没有机会去单独见艾希礼了。当然，大家心里都清楚，实际上不会发生战争，他们只不过喜欢谈论，同时喜欢听自己谈论。

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Secession, war—these words long since had become acutely boring to Scarlett from much repetition, but now she hated the sound of them, for they meant that the men would stand there for hours haranguing one another and she would have no chance to corner Ashley. Of course there would be no war and the men all knew it. They just loved to talk and hear themselves talk.

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查尔斯·汉密尔顿没有跟着别人站起来，而且发现思嘉身边人已经很少了，他便挨得更近一些，沿着那股从新爱情中产生的勇气，低声表白起来。

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Charles Hamilton had not risen with the others and, finding himself comparatively alone with Scarlett, he leaned closer and, with the daring born of new love, whispered a confession.

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“奥哈拉小姐——我——我——已经决定，如果战争打起来，我要到南卡罗来纳去加入那边的军队。据说韦德·汉普顿先生正在那里组织一支骑兵，我当然愿意去跟他在一起。他为人很好，还是我父亲最要好的朋友呢。”

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"Miss O’Hara—I—I had already decided that if we did fight, I’d go over to South Carolina and join a troop there. It’s said that Mr. Wade Hampton is organizing a cavalry troop, and of course I would want to go with him. He’s a splendid person and was my father’s best friend."

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思嘉想，”这叫我怎么办呢——给他喝三声彩吗？”因为查尔斯的自白表明他是在向她袒露内心的秘密。她想不出说什么话来好，只好默默地看了看他，觉得男人真笨，他们还以为女人对这种事感兴趣呢！他把她的这种表情看做是又惊慌又嘉许之意，于是索性大胆而迅速地说下去——

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Scarlett thought, "What am I supposed to do—give three cheers?" for Charles’ expression showed that he was baring his heart’s secrets to her. She could think of nothing to say and so merely looked at him, wondering why men were such fools as to think women interested in such matters. He took her expression to mean stunned approbation and went on rapidly, daringly—

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“要是我走了，你会——你会感到难过吗，奥哈拉小姐？”

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"If I went—would—would you be sorry, Miss O’Hara?"

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“我会每天晚上偷偷哭泣的，”思嘉这样说，听那口气显然是在开玩笑，可是他只从字面上理解，便一阵仍红乐得不行了。她的一只手本来藏在衣服的皱褶里，这时他故意把自己的的轻轻探进去碰它，后来索性紧紧握住了，连他自己都不明白哪来这么大的勇气，也不知道她怎的就默许了，因此感到愕然。

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"I should cry into my pillow every night," said Scarlett, meaning to be flippant, but he took the statement at face value and went red with pleasure. Her hand was concealed in the folds of her dress and he cautiously wormed his hand to it and squeezed it, overwhelmed at his own boldness and at her acquiescence.

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“你会为我祈祷吗？”

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"Would you pray for me?"

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“瞧你这个傻瓜！”思嘉刻薄地想道，一面偷偷向周围看了一眼，希望能找机会回避这种对话。

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"What a fool!" thought Scarlett bitterly, casting a surreptitious glance about her in the hope of being rescued from the conversation.

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“你会吗？”

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"Would you?"

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“唔——会，真的，汉密尔顿先生。每晚祈祷三轮念珠，至少！”

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"Oh—yes, indeed, Mr. Hamilton. Three Rosaries a night, at least!"

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查尔斯迅速看了看周围，憋着肚子，屏住气。实际上他们是单独在一起了，真是千载难逢的机会。而且，即使再一次遇到这样的天赐良机，他的勇气也许要不济事呢！

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Charles gave a swift look about him, drew in his breath, stiffened the muscles of his stomach. They were practically alone and he might never get another such opportunity. And, even given another such Godsent occasion, his courage might fail him.

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“奥哈拉小姐——我要告诉你一件事。我——我爱你！”

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"Miss O’Hara—I must tell you something. I—I love you!"

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“嗯？”思嘉心不在焉地说，一面将眼光穿过正辩论的人群朝艾希礼仍坐在媚兰脚边谈话的那个地方望去。

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"Um?" said Scarlett absently, trying to peer through the crowd of arguing men to where Ashley still sat talking at Melanie’s feet.

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“真的！”查尔斯低声说，由于她既没有笑也没有惊叫或晕倒而高兴得不行了，因为按照他平时所想象的，年轻姑娘们在这种场合必然会那样的。”我爱你！你是世界上最——最——”这时他才有生以来头一次打到自己的舌头了，”我所认识的最美丽的姑娘和最可爱亲切的人，而且你有最高贵的风高，我以我的整个心灵爱着你。我不能指望你会爱一个象我这样的人，但是，我亲爱的奥哈拉小姐，只要你能给我一点点鼓励，我愿意做世界上任何的事情来使你爱我。我愿意——”

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"Yes!" whispered Charles, in a rapture that she had neither laughed, screamed nor fainted, as he had always imagined young girls did under such circumstances. "I love you! You are the most—the most—" and he found his tongue for the first time in his life. "The most beautiful girl I’ve ever known and the sweetest and the kindest, and you have the dearest ways and I love you with all my heart. I cannot hope that you could love anyone like me but, my dear Miss O’Hara, if you can give me any encouragement, I will do anything in the world to make you love me. I will—"

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查尔斯停住了，因为他想不出一桩足以向思嘉证实自己爱情深度的困难行动来，于是他只好简单地说：“我要跟你结婚。”

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Charles stopped, for he couldn’t think of anything difficult enough of accomplishment to really prove to Scarlett the depth of his feeling, so he said simply: "I want to marry you."

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思嘉听到”结婚”这个字眼，便猛地从幻想中回到现实里来。她刚才正在梦想结婚，梦想着艾希礼呢，如今只好用一种很难掩盖得住的懊恼神色望着查尔斯发怔了。怎么恰好在今天，她苦恼得几乎要发狂的时候，这个像牛犊似的傻瓜偏偏要来把自己的感情强加于人呢？思嘉注视着那双祈求的褐色的眼睛，可是看不出一个羞怯男孩的初恋的美，看不出那种对于一个已经实现的理想的的祟拜之情，或者像火焰般烧透他整个身心的那种狂喜和亲切的感觉。

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Scarlett came back to earth with a jerk, at the sound of the word "marry." She had been thinking of marriage and of Ashley, and she looked at Charles with poorly concealed irritation. Why must this calf-like fool intrude his feelings on this particular day when she was so worried she was about to lose her mind? She looked into the pleading brown eyes and she saw none of the beauty of a shy boy’s first love, of the adoration of an ideal come true or the wild happiness and tenderness that were sweeping through him like a flame.

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思嘉已经见惯了向她求婚的男子，一些比查尔斯·汉密尔顿诱人得多的男子，他们也比他灵巧得多，决不会在一次野晏上当她心中有更得要的事情在考虑时提出这种问题的。她只看到一个２０岁的、红得像胡萝卜，有点傻里傻气的男孩子。她但愿自己能够告诉他，说他显得多么傻气。不过，母亲教导她在这种场合应当说的那些话自然而然溜到了嘴边，于是她出于长期养成的习惯，把眼睛默默地向下望，然后低声说：“汉密尔顿先生，我明白了你的好意，要我做你的妻子，这使我感到荣幸，不过这来得太突然了，我不知道说什么好呢。”

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Scarlett was used to men asking her to marry them, men much more attractive than Charles Hamilton, and men who had more finesse than to propose at a barbecue when she had more important matters on her mind. She only saw a boy of twenty, red as a beet and looking very silly. She wished that she could tell him how silly he looked. But automatically, the words Ellen had taught her to say in such emergencies rose to her lips and casting down her eyes, from force of long habit, she murmured: ”Mr. Hamilton, I am not unaware of the honor you have bestowed on me in wanting me to become your wife, but this is all so sudden that I do not know what to say.”

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这是一种干净利落手法，既可以安抚一个男人的虚荣心，又可以继续向他垂钓，所以查尔斯便高高兴兴地游上来了，他还经为这钓饵很新鲜，自己又是第一个来咬的呢。

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That was a neat way of smoothing a man’s vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.

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“我会永远等待！除非你完全拿定了主意，我是不会强求的。请你说我可以抱这种希望吧！奥哈拉小姐。”

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"I would wait forever! I wouldn’t want you unless you were quite sure. Please, Miss O’Hara, tell me that I may hope!"

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“唔！”思嘉漫不经心地应着，那双尖利的眼睛继续盯住艾希礼，他仍在望着媚兰微笑。没有参加关于战争的议论。要是查尔斯这个在一味央求她的傻瓜能安静一会儿，说不定她能听清楚他们的话呢。她必须听清楚。究竟媚兰说了些什么，才使他眼睛里流露出那么趣味盎然的神色来呀？

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"Um," said Scarlett, her sharp eyes noting that Ashley, who had not risen to take part in the war talk, was smiling up at Melanie. If this fool who was grappling for her hand would only keep quiet for a moment, perhaps she could hear what they were saying. She must hear what they said. What did Melanie say to him that brought that look of interest to his eyes?

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查尔斯的话把她正在聚精会神地谛听着的声音搅和了。

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Charles’ words blurred the voices she strained to hear.

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“唔，别响！”她轻轻说，连看也不看他，在他手下拧了一下。

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"Oh, hush!" she hissed at him, pinching his hand and not even looking at him.

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查尔斯吓了一跳，先是觉得惭愧，因思嘉的斥责而满脸通红，接着看到思嘉的眼睛紧盯在他妹妹身上，便微笑了。思嘉恐怕别有人会听见他的话。她自然觉得不好意思，有点害羞，更担心的是可能人在偷听。倒是查尔斯心中涌起了一种从未体验过的男性刚强感，因为这是他平生第一次让一个女孩感到难为情呢。他心头的震憾的令人陶醉的。他改变了自己的表情，显出一副自以为毫不介意的样子，同时故意在思嘉手上拧了一下作为回报，表示他是个堂堂的男子汉，懂得而且接受她的责备了。

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Startled, at first abashed, Charles blushed at the rebuff and then, seeing how her eyes were fastened on his sister, he smiled. Scarlett was afraid someone might hear his words. She was naturally embarrassed and shy, and in agony lest they be overheard. Charles felt a surge of masculinity such as he had never experienced, for this was the first time in his life that he had ever embarrassed any girl. The thrill was intoxicating. He arranged his face in what he fancied was an expression of careless unconcern and cautiously returned Scarlett’s pinch to show that he was man of the world enough to understand and accept her reproof.

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她甚至没有发觉他在拧她，因为这时她能清楚地听见作为媚兰主要迷人之处的那个嫡滴滴的声音了：“我恐怕难以同意你对于萨克雷先生作品的意见。他是个愤世嫉俗的人。我想他不是狄更斯先生那样的绅士。”

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She did not even feel his pinch, for she could hear clearly the sweet voice that was Melanie’s chief charm: "I fear I cannot agree with you about Mr. Thackeray’s works. He is a cynic. I fear he is not the gentleman Mr. Dickens is."

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思嘉这样想，对一个男人说这种话有多傻呀！她心里顿感轻松，几乎要格格笑起来。原来，她不过是个女学生罢了，可谁都知道男人们是怎样看待女学究的……要使男人感兴趣并抓住他的兴趣，最好的办法是拿他做谈话的中心，然后渐渐把话题引到你身上来，并且保持下去。如果媚兰原来是这么说的：“你多么了不起呀”或者”你怎么会想起这样的事情来呢？可是我只要一想到它他就小脑袋瓜都要炸了！”那么思嘉就会有理由感到恐惧。

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What a silly thing to say to a man, thought Scarlett, ready to giggle with relief. Why, she’s no more than a bluestocking and everyone knows what men think of bluestockings...The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about him, and then gradually lead the conversation around to yourself— and keep it there. Scarlett would have felt some cause for alarm if Melanie had been saying: "How wonderful you are!" or "How do you ever think of such things? My little ole brain would bust if I even tried to think about them!"

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但是她呢，面对脚边的一个男人，自己却像在教堂里似的一本正要地谈起来了。这时思嘉的前景已显得更加明朗，事实上已明朗得叫她回过头来，用纯粹出于喜悦的心情向查尔斯嫣然一笑，查尔斯以为这是她的爱情明证，便乐得忘乎所以地将她的扇子夺过来使劲挥打，以致把她的头发都扇得凌乱不堪了。

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But here she was, with a man at her feet, talking as seriously as if she were in church. The prospect looked brighter to Scarlett, so bright in fact that she turned beaming eyes on Charles and smiled from pure joy. Enraptured at this evidence of her affection, he grabbed up her fan and plied it so enthusiastically her hair began to blow about untidily.

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“你可没有发表意见支持我们呀，艾希礼。”吉姆·塔尔顿从那群叫嚷的男人中回过头来说。这时艾希礼只得表示歉意，并且站起身来。再也找不到像他这样漂亮的人了！——思嘉注意到他从容不迫的样子多么优雅，他那金色的头发和髭须阳光下多么辉丽，便在心中暗暗赞美。接着，甚至那些年长些的人也要安静下来听他的意见了。

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"Ashley, you have not favored us with your opinion," said Jim Tarleton, turning from the group of shouting men, and with an apology Ashley excused himself and rose. There was no one there so handsome, thought Scarlett, as she marked how graceful was his negligent pose and how the sun gleamed on his gold hair and mustache. Even the older men stopped to listen to his words.

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“先生们，怎么，如果佐治亚要打，我就跟它一起去。不然的话，我为什么要进军营呢？”他说着，一双灰眼睛睁得大大的，平时含着几分朦胧欲睡的神色已经在思嘉从未见过的强烈表情中消失了。”但是，跟上帝一样，我希望北方佬将让我们获得和气，不至于发生战争——”这时从方丹家和塔尔顿家的小伙子们中爆发出一阵嘈杂的声音，他便微笑着举起手来继续说：“是的，是的，我知道我们是被欺骗了，受侮辱了，但是如果我们处在北方佬的地位，是他们要脱离联邦，那我们会怎么办呢？大概也是一样吧。我们也是不会答应的。”

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"Why, gentlemen, if Georgia fights, I’ll go with her. Why else would I have joined the Troop?" he said. His gray eyes opened wide and their drowsiness disappeared in an intensity that Scarlett had never seen before. "But, like Father, I hope the Yankees will let us go in peace and that there will be no fighting—" He held up his hand with a smile, as a babel of voices from the Fontaine and Tarleton boys began. "Yes, yes, I know we’ve been insulted and lied to—but if we’d been in the Yankees’ shoes and they were trying to leave the Union, how would we have acted? Pretty much the same. We wouldn’t have liked it."

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“他又来了，”思嘉想。”总是设身处地替人家的说话。”据她看来，任何一次辩论中都只能有一方是对的。有时候艾希礼简直就不可理解。

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"There he goes again," thought Scarlett. "Always putting himself in the other fellow’s shoes." To her, there was never but one fair side to an argument. Sometimes, there was no understanding Ashley.

121
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“世界上的苦难大多是由战争引起的。我们还是不要头脑太热，还是不要打起来的好。等到战争一结束，谁也不知道那究竟是怎么回事了。”

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"Let’s don’t be too hot headed and let’s don’t have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about."

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思嘉听了嗤之以鼻。艾希礼幸而在勇气这一点上没有什么可指责的，否则便麻烦了。她这样想过，艾希礼周围已爆发出一起表示强烈抗议和愤慨的大声叫嚷了。

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Scarlett sniffed. Lucky for Ashley that he had an unassailable reputation for courage, or else there’d be trouble. As she thought this, the clamor of dissenting voices rose up about Ashley, indignant, fiery.

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这时在凉亭里，那位来自耶特维尔的聋老头儿也在大声向英迪亚发问。

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Under the arbor, the deaf old gentleman from Fayetteville punched India.

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“这究竟是怎么回事呀？他们在说什么？”

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"What’s it all about? What are they saying?"

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“战争！”英迪亚用手拢住他的耳背大声喊道。

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"War!" shouted India, cupping her hand to his ear. "They want to fight the Yankees!"

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“战争，是吗？”他边嚷边摸索身边的手杖，同时从椅子里挺身站起来，显示出已多年没有过的那股劲头。”我要告诉他们战争是什么样的，我打过呢。”原来麦克雷先生很少有机会那种为妇女们所不允许的方式来谈战争呢。

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"War, is it?" he cried, fumbling about him for his cane and heaving himself out of his chair with more energy than he had shown in years. "I’ll tell ’um about war. I’ve been there." It was not often that Mr. McRae had the opportunity to talk about war, the way his women folks shushed him.

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他急忙踉跄着走向人群，一路上挥着手杖叫嚷着；因为他听不见周围的声音，便很快无可争辩地把讲坛占领了。

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He stumped rapidly to the group, waving his cane and shouting and, because he could not hear the voices about him, he soon had undisputed possession of the field.

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“听我说。你们这班火爆性子的哥儿们，你们别想打仗吧。我打过，也很清楚，我先是参加了塞米诺尔战争，后来又当大傻瓜参加墨西哥战争。你们全都不明白战争是怎么回事。你们以为那是骑着一匹漂亮的马驹子，让姑娘们向你抛掷鲜花，然后作为英雄凯旋回家吧。噢，不是这样。不，先生，那是挨饿，是因为睡在湿地下而出疹子，得肺炎。要不是疹子和肺炎，就是拉痢疾。是的，先生，这便是战争对待人类肠胃的办法——痢疾之类——”

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"You fire-eating young bucks, listen to me. You don’t want to fight. I fought and I know. Went out in the Seminole War and was a big enough fool to go to the Mexican War, too. You all don’t know what war is. You think it’s riding a pretty horse and having the girls throw flowers at you and coming home a hero. Well, it ain’t. No, sir! It’s going hungry, and getting the measles and pneumonia from sleeping in the wet. And if it ain’t measles and pneumonia, it’s your bowels. Yes sir, what war does to a man’s bowels—dysentery and things like that—"

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小姐太太们听得有点脸红了。麦克雷先生让人们记起一个更为粗野的时代，像方丹奶奶和她的令人难为情地大声打的嗝儿那样，而那个时代是人人都想忘掉了。

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The ladies were pink with blushes. Mr. McRae was a reminder of a cruder era, like Grandma Fontaine and her embarrassingly loud belches, an era everyone would like to forget.

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“快去把你爷爷拉过来，”这位老先生的一个闺女轻轻对站在旁边的小女孩说。接着她又向周围那些局促不安的夫妇们低声嘟囔：“我说呢，他就是一天比一天不行了。你们相信吗，今天早晨他还跟玛丽说——她才１６岁呢——’来吧，姑娘……’”这以后声音便成了耳语听不清了，这时那位小孙女正溜出去，想把麦克雷先生拉回到树荫下去坐下。

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"Run get your grandpa," hissed one of the old gentleman’s daughters to a young girl standing near by. "I declare," she whispered to the fluttering matrons about her, "he gets worse every day. Would you believe it, this very morning he said to Mary—and she’s only sixteen: ’Now, Missy...’" And the voice went off into a whisper as the granddaughter slipped out to try to induce Mr. McRae to return to his seat in the shade.

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姑娘们兴奋地微笑着，男人们在热烈地争论，所有的人都在树下乱转，他们中间只有一个人显得很平静，那就是瑞德·巴特勒。思嘉的视线落到他身上，他靠着大树站在那儿，双手插在裤兜里。因为威尔克斯离开了他，他便独自站着，眼看大家谈得越来越热火，也不发一言。

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Of all the group that milled about under the trees, girls smiling excitedly, men talking impassionedly, there was only one who seemed calm. Scarlett’s eyes turned to Rhett Butler, who leaned against a tree, his hands shoved deep in his trouser pockets. He stood alone, since Mr. Wilkes had left his side, and had uttered no word as the conversation grew hotter.

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他那两片红红的嘴唇在修剪得很短的黑髭须底下往下弯着，一双黑溜溜的眼睛闪烁着取乐和轻蔑的光芒——这种轻蔑就像是在听小孩子争吵似的。多么令人不快的微笑呀，思嘉心想。他静静地听着，直到斯图尔特·塔尔顿抖着满头红发、瞪着一双火爆眼睛又一次重申：“怎么，我们只消一个月就能干掉他们！绅士们总是会战胜暴徒的。一个月——喏，一个战役——”

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The red lips under the close-clipped black mustache curled down and there was a glint of amused contempt in his black eyes—contempt, as if he listened to the braggings of children. A very disagreeable smile, Scarlett thought. He listened quietly until Stuart Tarleton, his red hair tousled and his eyes gleaming, repeated: ”Why, we could lick them in a month! Gentlemen always fight better than rabble. A month— why, one battle—”

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“先生们，”瑞德·巴特勒用一种查尔斯顿人的死板而慢悠悠的声调说，仍然靠大树站在那儿，两手照旧插在裤兜里，”让我说一句好吗？”

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"Gentlemen," said Rhett Butler, in a flat drawl that bespoke his Charleston birth, not moving from his position against the tree or taking his hands from his pockets, "may I say a word?"

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他的态度也像他的眼睛那样流露着轻蔑的神情，这种轻蔑带有过分客气的味道，这就使那些先生们自己的态度显得滑稽可笑了。

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There was contempt in his manner as in his eyes, contempt overlaid with an air of courtesy that somehow burlesqued their own manners.