Chapter 1: The Narrator's Arrival
第1章：叙述者的到来
Nick Carraway, a young man from the Midwest, moved to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn the bond business. He rented a small house in West Egg, a fashionable area on Long Island, across the bay from East Egg where old money families lived.
尼克·卡拉威来自中西部，1922年夏天搬到纽约学习债券业务。他在长岛的时尚社区西蛋租了一所小房子，与居住在东蛋的老钱家族隔湾相望。
His neighbor, Jay Gatsby, lived in a magnificent mansion that hosted extravagant parties every weekend. Nick noticed Gatsby standing alone on his lawn, reaching out toward a green light at the end of a dock across the bay, which seemed to hold some mysterious significance.
他的邻居杰伊·盖茨比住在一座宏伟的豪宅里，每个周末都会举办奢华的派对。尼克注意到盖茨比独自站在草坪上，向着湾对岸码头尽头的绿灯伸出双臂，这似乎有着某种神秘的意义。
Nick visited his cousin Daisy Buchanan in East Egg, where he met her wealthy husband Tom and learned about their troubled marriage. Tom's arrogant nature and his involvement with another woman, Myrtle Wilson, hinted at the moral corruption beneath the glamorous surface of their lives.
尼克去东蛋拜访了他的表姐黛西·布坎南，在那里见到了她富有的丈夫汤姆，并了解到了他们岌岌可危的婚姻。汤姆傲慢的本性以及他与另一个女人梅特尔·威尔逊的关系，暗示了他们浮华表面下的道德腐败。