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I shivered, imagining only too clearly what he described — the alley at night, the frightened girl, the dark man behind her. And Edward, Edward as he hunted, terrible and glorious as a young god, unstoppable. Would she have been grateful, that girl, or more frightened than before?
我顫抖著，太過清晰地想象出了他所描述的情景——深夜的小巷，受驚的女孩，尾隨著她的那個陰暗的男人。還有愛德華，正在狩獵的愛德華，可怕又威武，宛如一個年輕的神明，不停地追趕著。那個女孩，她會更加感激，還是更加驚恐呢？
"But as time went on, I began to see the monster in my eyes. I couldn't escape the debt of so much human life taken, no matter how justified. And I went back to Carlisle and Esme. They welcomed me back like the prodigal. It was more than I deserved."
“但隨著時間的推移，我開始從自己的眼中看見了那個怪物。不管我的行為多么正義，我都無法逃避自己奪走了那么多人命的罪過。然后我回到了卡萊爾和艾思梅的身邊。他們熱切地歡迎我這個游子歸來。這遠比我應得的還要多。”
We'd come to a stop in front of the last door in the hall.
我們停在了走廊盡頭的最后一扇門前。
"My room," he informed me, opening it and pulling me through.
“我的房間。”他向我介紹道，打開門，然后把我拉進去。
His room faced south, with a wall-sized window like the great room below. The whole back side of the house must be glass. His view looked down on the winding Sol Duc River, across the untouched forest to the Olympic Mountain range. The mountains were much closer than I would have believed.
他的房間朝南，有整整一面墻的落地窗，就像樓下的那個大房間一樣。這棟屋子的后墻一定全是玻璃。他的視野囊括了那條蜿蜒的Sol Duc河，一直穿過那片未被涉足過的密林，直到奧林匹亞山脈。這片山脈比我相信的還要更近些。
The western wall was completely covered with shelf after shelf of CDs. His room was better stocked than a music store. In the corner was a sophisticated-looking sound system, the kind I was afraid to touch because I'd be sure to break something. There was no bed, only a wide and inviting black leather sofa. The floor was covered with a thick golden carpet, and the walls were hung with heavy fabric in a slightly darker shade.
西面的墻上擺滿了一個接一個架子的CD。他房間里的庫存比一家音像店里的還多。角落里是一套看上去久經世故的音響系統，是那種我不敢輕易觸碰的音響，因為我知道我一定會打壞什么東西的。這里沒有床，只有一張寬大的讓人動心的黑色皮沙發。地上鋪著厚厚的金色的地毯，墻上貼滿了一種厚重的顏色稍深的織物。
《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。
