Most of the Big Shore places were closed now, and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy朦胧的 moving glow白热光 of a ferry boat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher, the Inessential Houses began to melt（使）融化 away until gradually I became aware知道的 of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes. A fresh green breast乳房 of the New World. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and the greatest of all human dreams.
For a transitory, enchanted moment, man must have held his breath in the presence出席 of this continent. Compiled into an aesthetic美的 contemplation he neither understood nor desired.
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