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by Margaret Mitchell |
《亂世佳人》/《隨風而逝》 |
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Chapter 1 |
第一章 |
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Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin –– that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns. … |
斯嘉麗·奧哈拉長得並不美，但男人受惑於她的嫵媚時便難得能醒覺，就像塔爾敦家的一對孿生兄弟那般。她的臉上既有法國裔的沿海貴族母親的纖秀相貌，又有浮華俗氣的愛爾蘭人父親的粗獷面容，兩相混合卻各自分明，但那下頦尖尖、顎骨方挺的一張臉很是奪目動人。她的眼珠淡綠，不攙一絲褐色，在硬黑睫毛的裝點下，眼角微微翹起。兩眼上方有濃烏眉毛微掠上揚，如一道斜線嶄然刻畫在她木蘭花似的白皙皮膚上——那樣的皮膚最受南方婦女珍惜，要用女裝小帽、蒙面薄紗、露指手套小心翼翼呵護著它免遭喬治亞地方的烈日曝曬。 …… （Tr. Allen Zhuang） (2020-05-02)_(2020-09-05)_(2022-0621) |
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