Chiara, I could tell, was equally smitten. Her sister as well. Even the crowd of tennis bums who for years had come early every afternoon before heading out to the beach for a late swim would stay much later than usual hoping to catch a quick game with him.
 
我看得出奇亚拉对奥利弗也同样痴迷。她妹妹也是。数年来每天下午早早就来，然后去海边晚泳的那群网球迷也逗留得比平常晚些，希望跟他打上几手。
 
With any of our other summer residents I would have resented it. But seeing everyone take such a liking to him, I found a strange, small oasis of peace. What could possibly be wrong with liking someone everyone else liked? Everyone had fallen for him, including my first and second cousins as well as my other relatives, who stayed with us on weekends and sometimes longer. For someone known to love spotting defects in everyone else, I derived a certain satisfaction from concealing my feelings for him behind my usual indifference, hostility, or spite for anyone in a position to outshine me at home. Because everyone liked him, I had to say I liked him too. I was like men who openly declare other men irresistibly handsome the better to conceal that they’re aching to embrace them. To withhold universal approval would simply alert others that I had concealed motives for needing to resist him. Oh, I like him very much, I said during his first ten days when my father asked me what I thought of him. I had used words intentionally compromising because I knew no one would suspect a false bottom in the arcane palette of shadings I applied to everything I said about him. He’s the best person I’ve known in my life, I said on the night when the tiny fishing boat on which he had sailed out with Anchise early that afternoon failed to return and we were scrambling to find his parents’ telephone number in the States in case we had to break the terrible news.
 
换作其他任何一个夏季住客，我一定会对此深恶痛绝。看到每个人都这么喜欢他，我却感到一种奇异、微小的平和与欣慰。喜欢一个大家都喜欢的人，怎么可能有错？人人倾心于他，包括我那些来度周末或做客的远近亲戚。我爱挑人毛病是出了名的，因此，我把对他的感情隐藏在惯有的冷淡、敌意或刻意刁难家里每一个地位凌驾于我之上的人之下，反而从中获得一些满足感。因为每个人都喜欢他，所以我也必须说我喜欢他。我就像那种公开宣称其他男人帅得不得了，以便更好地隐藏自己太想拥抱他们的渴望的男人。如果大家都予以认可而我却不，只会让别人警觉我肯定暗藏了某种不得不抗拒他的动机。喔，我非常喜欢他——在他到访的最初十天，父亲问我对他有何看法，我说这么说的。我用词刻意折中，因为我知道没有人会怀疑在我谈论他时所使用的晦涩语调下隐藏了什么。“他是我这辈子认识的人当中最好的。”——有天下午他和安喀斯开小船出海，到了晚上还没回来；当晚我们忙着翻找他父母在美国的电话号码，以防不幸需要通报噩耗，我当时这么说。

《请以你的名字呼唤我》