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发信人: in (robbe), 信区: English
标 题: Jellu-Bean
发信站: 大红花的国度 (Tue Jun 13 09:55:41 2000), 转信
发信人: tanso (哑哑·卖身求荣), 信区: EnglishWorld
标 题: Jelly-Bean by Fitzgerald (1)
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Dec 31 17:28:35 1999)
THE JELLY-BEAN
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I
Jo Powell was a Jelly-bean. Much as I desire to make him an appealing character
, I feel that it would be unscrupulous to deceive you on that point. He was a
bred-in-the-bone, dyed-in-the-wool, ninety-nine three-quarters per cent Jelly-
bean and he grew lazily all during Jelly-bean season, which is every season,
down in the land of the Jelly-beans well below the Mason-Dixon line.
Now if you call a Memphis man a Jelly-bean he will quite possibly pull a long
sinewy rope from his hip pocket and hang you to a convenient telegraph-pole.
If you call a New Orleans man a Jelly-bean he will probably grin and ask you
who is taking your girl to the Mardi Gras ball. The particular Jelly-bean
patch which produced the protagonist of this history lies somewhere between
the two--a little city of forty thousand that has dozed sleepily for forty
thousand years in southern Georgia, occasionally stirring in its slumbers and
muttering something about a war that took place sometime, somewhere, and that
everyone else has forgotten long ago.
Jim was a Jelly-bean. I write that again because it has such a pleasant sound
--rather like the beginning of a fairy story--as if Jim were nice. It somehow
gives me a picture of him with a round, appetizing face and all sorts of
leaves and vegetables growing out of his cap. But Jim was long and thin and
bent at the waist from stooping over pool-tables, and he was what might have
been known in the indiscriminating North as a corner loafer. "Jelly-bean" is
the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life
conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular--I am idling, I
have idled, I will idle.
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tanso最大的愿望,就是在明年夏天,和一个穿着
裙子的女孩吃饭……
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