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14. MIND OVER MATTER
第十四章 精神勝于物質(zhì)
He could drive well, when he kept the speed reasonable, I had to admit. Like so many things, it seemed to be effortless to him. He barely looked at the road, yet the tires never deviated so much as a centimeter from the center of the lane. He drove one-handed, holding my hand on the seat. Sometimes he gazed into the setting sun, sometimes he glanced at me — my face, my hair blowing out the open window, our hands twined together.
當(dāng)他把速度保持在合理水平時，他確實(shí)可以開得很好，我不得不承認(rèn)這一點(diǎn)。就像很多事情一樣，這似乎對他來說毫不費(fèi)力。他很少看路面，輪胎卻從未偏離過小路的正中間，一公分也沒有偏離過。他單手開著車，在座位上牽著我的手。有時候他會抬頭看向正在落下的太陽，有時他會看著我——我的臉，我飄拂在敞開的車窗外的頭發(fā)，我們交疊的手。
He had turned the radio to an oldies station, and he sang along with a song I'd never heard. He knew every line.
他打開了收音機(jī)，轉(zhuǎn)到一個老歌電臺，然后跟著一首我從未聽過的歌唱了起來。他知道每一個節(jié)拍。
"You like fifties music?" I asked.
“你喜歡五十年代的音樂？”我問道。
"Music in the fifties was good. Much better than the sixties, or the seventies, ugh!" He shuddered. "The eighties were bearable."
“五十年代的音樂很棒。比六十年代的，或者七十年代的還要棒，唷！”他顫抖了一下。“八十年代的還能忍受。”
"Are you ever going to tell me how old you are?" I asked, tentative, not wanting to upset his buoyant humor.
“你打算告訴我你多大了嗎？”我試探性問道，不想打破他正在興頭上的幽默氣氛。
"Does it matter much?" His smile, to my relief, remained unclouded.
“這很重要嗎？”讓我寬慰的是，他的笑容依然明朗。
"No, but I still wonder…" I grimaced. "There's nothing like an unsolved mystery to keep you up at night."
“不，但我還是想知道……”我扮了個鬼臉。“沒有什么能像一個未解之謎一樣讓你整夜睡不著覺。”
"I wonder if it will upset you," he reflected to himself. He gazed into the sun; the minutes passed.
“我懷疑這是否會讓你心煩。”他的回應(yīng)更像是自言自語。他看著太陽，時間一分一秒地過去了。
"Try me," I finally said.
“讓我試試看。”我最終說道。
He sighed, and then looked into my eyes, seeming to forget the road completely for a time. Whatever he saw there must have encouraged him. He looked into the sun — the light of the setting orb glittered off his skin in ruby-tinged sparkles — and spoke.
他嘆息著，然后看向了我的眼睛，那一刻他似乎完全忘記了路況。不管他看見了什么，那一定鼓勵了他。他看向太陽——那個正在落下的球體發(fā)出的光芒在他的肌膚上閃耀著，折射出略帶深紅色的微光——然后說話了。
《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(shè)計則很好地傳達(dá)出了每本書內(nèi)在的深遠(yuǎn)寓意。斯蒂芬妮·梅爾指出《暮色》封面上的蘋果代表“創(chuàng)世紀(jì)” 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(jì)”217頁的內(nèi)容：“只是分別善惡樹上的果子，你不可吃，因?yàn)槟愠缘娜兆颖囟ㄋ馈！边@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(shí)，這比喻了選擇跟愛德華在一起或遠(yuǎn)離他。
