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"I'm sorry." His voice burned with regret. I knew he wasn't just apologizing for the words that had upset me.
“我很抱歉。”他的聲音被懊悔灼燒著。我知道，他不只是在為刺痛了我的那些話道歉。
The darkness slipped by us in silence.
黑暗在沉默中從我們中間飛掠而過。
"Tell me something," he asked after another minute, and I could hear him struggle to use a lighter tone.
“和我說說話。”又過了一分鐘，他要求道。我能聽出來，他竭力讓自己的語氣更輕柔些。
"Yes?"
“說什么？”
"What were you thinking tonight, just before I came around the corner? I couldn't understand your expression — you didn't look that scared, you looked like you were concentrating very hard on something."
“今天晚上，在我轉過拐角以前，你在想什么？我不明白你的表情——你看上去并不那么害怕，看起來就像是在聚精會神地想著某件事。”
"I was trying to remember how to incapacitate an attacker — you know, self-defense. I was going to smash his nose into his brain." I thought of the dark-haired man with a surge of hate.
“我在努力回想著要怎樣挫敗攻擊我的人——你知道，防身術。我本來打算猛擊他的鼻子，把它打進他的腦袋里的。”我想起了那個黑發(fā)男人，不由得一陣厭惡。
"You were going to fight them?" This upset him. "Didn't you think about running?"
“你打算反抗他們？”這讓他不安起來。“你沒想過逃跑嗎？”
"I fall down a lot when I run," I admitted.
“我跑步的時候老是摔倒。”我坦白道。
"What about screaming for help?"
“那為什么不大聲求救呢？”
"I was getting to that part."
“我正要那樣做。”
He shook his head. "You were right — I'm definitely fighting fate trying to keep you alive."
他搖了搖頭。“你是對的——我確實是在和命運抗爭，努力讓你活下來。”
I sighed. We were slowing, passing into the boundaries of Forks. It had taken less than twenty minutes.
我嘆了口氣。我們開始減速了，穿過了福克斯的邊界。總共才花了不到二十分鐘的時間。
"Will I see you tomorrow?" I demanded.
“我明天能見到你嗎？”我請求道。
"Yes — I have a paper due, too." He smiled. "I'll save you a seat at lunch."
“能——我也有一篇論文到期要交。”他微笑著。“午餐的時候我會給你留個座位的。”
It was silly, after everything we'd been through tonight, how that little promise sent flutters through my stomach, and made me unable to speak.
這太愚蠢了。在我們經(jīng)歷了今晚的每一件事以后，這個小小的承諾居然能讓我如此忐忑不安，讓我說不出話來。
《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(nèi)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(chuàng)世紀” 內(nèi)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(chuàng)世紀”217頁的內(nèi)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。
