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I tried on a couple of different tops, not sure what to expect tonight. As I concentrated on what was coming, what had just passed became insignificant. Now that I was removed from Jasper's and Edward's influence, I began to make up for not being terrified before. I gave up quickly on choosing an outfit — throwing on an old flannel shirt and jeans — knowing I would be in my raincoat all night anyway.
我換了好幾套不同的搭配，還是不能確定今晚應該穿什么。當我把注意力集中在將要發生的事上時，剛剛發生的一切變得無關緊要起來。一旦我脫離了賈斯帕和愛德華的影響，我就開始補上剛才沒驚嚇的份了。我立刻放棄挑選出一套外出服的打算——隨便丟了一件舊的法蘭絨恤衫和一條牛仔褲——知道自己整夜都會待在自己的雨衣里。
The phone rang and I sprinted downstairs to get it. There was only one voice I wanted to hear; anything else would be a disappointment. But I knew that if he wanted to talk to me, he'd probably just materialize in my room.
電話響了起來，我沖下樓去接。我想聽的聲音只有一個，任何別的聲音都會令我失望。但我知道如果他想和我說話的話，他也許會直接出現在我的房間里。
"Hello?" I asked, breathless.
“你好？”我屏住呼吸，問道。
"Bella? It's me," Jessica said.
“貝拉？是我。”杰西卡說道。
"Oh, hey, Jess." I scrambled for a moment to come back down to reality. It felt like months rather than days since I'd spoken to Jess. "How was the dance?"
“哦，嗨，杰西。”我掙扎了片刻，才回到現實中來。感覺像是我有幾個月而不是幾天沒和杰西說話了。“舞會怎么樣了？”
"It was so much fun!" Jessica gushed. Needing no more invitation than that, she launched into a minute-by-minute account of the previous night. I mmm'd and ahh'd at the right places, but it wasn't easy to concentrate. Jessica, Mike, the dance, the school — they all seemed strangely irrelevant at the moment. My eyes kept flashing to the window, trying to judge the degree of light behind the heavy clouds.
“非常有趣！”杰西卡滔滔不絕地說道。無需更進一步的邀請，她就開始一五一十地講述起前天晚上的所有細節。我在恰當的時候“嗯嗯”和“啊啊”，但很難專心。杰西卡，邁克，舞會，學校——此時此刻，這一切似乎都陌生得不可思議。我的眼睛不停地瞟著窗外，試圖從厚重的云層里看出天色的早晚。
"Did you hear what I said, Bella?" Jess asked, irritated.
“你聽到我說的了嗎，貝拉？”杰西惱怒地問道。
"I'm sorry, what?"
“抱歉，什么？”
"I said, Mike kissed me! Can you believe it?"
“我說，邁克吻了我！你能相信嗎？”
《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。
