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There was so much to think through, so much I still wanted to ask. But, to my great embarrassment, my stomach growled. I'd been so intrigued, I hadn't even noticed I was hungry. I realized now that I was ravenous.
我有太多的事情要思考，還有很多的問題要問。但是，讓我尷尬不已的是，我的胃咆哮起來。我太好奇了，甚至沒有注意到自己餓了。現在我才意識到，我已經餓壞了。
"I'm sorry, I'm keeping you from dinner."
“對不起，我一直沒讓你去吃晚餐。”
"I'm fine, really."
“我很好，真的。”
"I've never spent much time around anyone who eats food. I forget."
“我從沒和需要吃東西的人一起度過這么長的時間。我忘了。”
"I want to stay with you." It was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as I spoke how my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him.
“我只想和你待在一起。”在黑暗中這話更容易說出口。當我說的時候，我知道自己的聲音會背叛我，把我絕望的迷戀向他表露無遺。
"Can't I come in?" he asked.
“我不能進去嗎？”他問道。
"Would you like to?" I couldn't picture it, this godlike creature sitting in my father's shabby kitchen chair.
“你愿意嗎？”我根本想象不出這樣的畫面，這樣宛如神祗的人物坐在我父親那張破爛的餐椅上。
"Yes, if it's all right." I heard the door close quietly, and almost simultaneously he was outside my door, opening it for me.
“是的，如果可以的話。”我聽到他那邊的門安靜地關上了，而幾乎就在同一時刻，他出現在了我這一側的門外，為我打開門。
"Very human," I complimented him.
“很像人類。”我恭維他。
"It's definitely resurfacing."
“這只是表面工夫。”
He walked beside me in the night, so quietly I had to peek at him constantly to be sure he was still there. In the darkness he looked much more normal. Still pale, still dreamlike in his beauty, but no longer the fantastic sparkling creature of our sunlit afternoon.
在這個夜晚，他靜靜地走在我身旁，他太安靜了，以至于我不得不時不時偷看他，確認他還在那里。在黑暗中，他看起來更正常些。依然蒼白，依然俊美得宛如夢境，但不再是我們的陽光燦爛的下午里，那個奇妙的閃閃發光的造物。
He reached the door ahead of me and opened it for me. I paused halfway through the frame.
他比我先走到門前，然后替我開了門。我正要跨進門框里，卻半路停住了。
"The door was unlocked?"
“門沒鎖？”
"No, I used the key from under the eave."
“不，我用的是屋檐下的鑰匙。”
《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。
