'And I'll make you a mint julep.

“给你做一杯薄荷酒。

Stone liked to drink mint juleps, but was bothered by the straws.

斯通喜欢喝薄荷冰酒，但对吸管感到困扰。

? But all I had was a mint julep ?

{\an9}? 可有 薄荷冰酒 ?

Like crushed ice in a mint julep, boundaries dissolve.

就像薄荷酒中的碎冰一样，边界消失了。

And Kentucky bourbon is the base of a famous Derby drink: the mint julep.

肯塔基波本威士忌是一种著名的德比酒的基础：薄荷酒。

They were made out of stocks of rye grass and sometimes they fell apart in your julep.

它们是用黑麦草做成的，有时它们会在你的酒中散开。

He was as crotchety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recipe in his head.

他像个老处女一样对他的黑啤酒胡思乱想，按照他脑子里的食谱衡量一切。

The notion originated with Daisy's suggestion that we hire five bathrooms and take cold baths, and then assumed more tangible form as 'a place to have a mint julep.'

黛西先有个建议，提议们浴室去洗冷水澡，后来改为比较切实可行的方案——找个“喝杯凉薄荷酒的地方”。

Unfortunately, the tray is now too fine a work of art to put back on its low table, where the convivial and the careless will set down their damp silver julep cups.

不幸的是，这个托盘现在已经成为一件精美的艺术品，无法放回矮桌上，欢乐的人和粗心的人会把他们潮湿的银制酒杯放在那里。

'Now see here, Tom, ' said Daisy, turning around from the mirror, 'if you're going to make personal remarks I won't stay here a minute. Call up and order some ice for the mint julep.'

“你听着，汤姆，”黛西说，一面从镜子前面掉转身来，“如果你打算进行人身攻击，就一分钟都不待。打个电话要点冰来做薄荷酒。”

Therein lies his unpredictability, and beyond the half-truth of its fact is a mental and emotional turmoil past the comprehension of the most old-school southern aristocrat who ever slurred his witticisms over a mint julep.

他的不可预测性就在于此， 而在其事实的半真半假之外， 是一种精神和情感上的动荡， 这是最守旧派的南方贵族无法理解的， 他曾在薄荷酒上含糊其辞。