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The next thing I was conscious of was the sound of Charlie's cruiser turning onto the bricks of the driveway. I sat up in surprise, realizing the light was gone, behind the trees, and I had fallen asleep. I looked around, muddled, with the sudden feeling that I wasn't alone.
接下來我聽到了查理的巡邏車碾上車道的磚塊的聲音。我吃驚地坐起來，發覺光線已經消失在了樹叢后。我方才睡著了。我茫然地環顧四周，忽然意識到我不是一個人。
"Charlie?" I asked. But I could hear his door slamming in front of the house.
“查理？”我出聲詢問道。但我能聽到從房子前頭傳來的他關門的聲音。
I jumped up, foolishly edgy, gathering the now-damp quilt and my book. I ran inside to get some oil heating on the stove, realizing that dinner would be late. Charlie was hanging up his gun belt and stepping out of his boots when I came in.
我跳起來，急躁得有些可笑，收拾起已經有些潮濕的褥子和書。我沖進屋里，往鍋里放了點油，開始加熱，意識到晚餐要推遲了。當我進來的時候，查理正在把武裝帶掛起來，脫下靴子。
"Sorry, Dad, dinner's not ready yet — I fell asleep outside." I stifled a yawn.
“抱歉，爸爸，晚餐還沒好——我在屋外睡著了。”我的話被呵欠打斷了。
"Don't worry about it," he said. "I wanted to catch the score on the game, anyway."
“別擔心，”他說。“總之，我想先看看賽事的比分情況。”
I watched TV with Charlie after dinner, for something to do. There wasn't anything on I wanted to watch, but he knew I didn't like baseball, so he turned it to some mindless sitcom that neither of us enjoyed. He seemed happy, though, to be doing something together. And it felt good, despite my depression, to make him happy.
為了找些事干，晚飯后我和查理一起看電視。沒什么我想看的節目，但他知道我不喜歡棒球，所以他換了臺，切換到某個我們都不怎么喜歡的情景喜劇。但他還是很開心，因為我們能待在一起做點什么。如果不去管我的失落的話，讓他高興是件不錯的事。
"Dad," I said during a commercial, "Jessica and Angela are going to look at dresses for the dance tomorrow night in Port Angeles, and they wanted me to help them choose… do you mind if I go with them?"
“爸爸，”插播廣告的時候我說道。“杰西卡和安吉拉打算明天晚上去天使港去找舞會穿的衣服，她們想讓我幫忙挑選……你介意我跟她們一起去嗎？”
"Jessica Stanley?" he asked.
“杰西卡·斯坦利？”他問道。
"And Angela Weber." I sighed as I gave him the details.
“還有安吉拉·韋伯。”我嘆了口氣，給了他更加詳盡的信息。
He was confused. "But you're not going to the dance, right?"
他很困惑：“可你不打算去舞會，對吧？”
"No, Dad, but I'm helping them find dresses — you know, giving them constructive criticism." I wouldn't have to explain this to a woman.
“我不去，爸爸。但我可以幫她們找衣服——你知道，給她們一點有建設性的意見。”如果是跟一個女人說話，我就不用解釋這些了。
《暮光之城》與圖書題目相得益彰的是，“暮光之城”系列別具匠心的封面設計則很好地傳達出了每本書內在的深遠寓意。斯蒂芬妮·梅爾指出《暮色》封面上的蘋果代表“創世紀” 內善惡樹上的禁果。象征貝拉和愛德華之間人類與吸血鬼禁忌的愛戀。在書的開頭引用了“創世紀”217頁的內容：“只是分別善惡樹上的果子，你不可吃，因為你吃的日子必定死。”這同時也代表了貝拉如何分辨善惡——選擇是否吃下那顆禁忌的果實，這比喻了選擇跟愛德華在一起或遠離他。
