儿子和情人(英文版)

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《儿子和情人(英文版)》:Individual longings clash with the harshrealities of life in a poor coal-mining town in D.H. Lawrence's Sons andLovers. GertrudeCoppard is a well-to-do woman whose heartleads her to Walter Morel, a miner who isunable to offer her the lifestyle she has alwaysknown. Love cannot blunt the sharpfrustrations of their meager existence, and thetwo people drift apart. Gertrude focuses herenergies on her children, young William andhis brother Paul.A semi-autobiographical story, Sons andLovers is a strikingly honest and stark look atthe relationships that wither and those thatthrive, for better or for worse, in the extremeand unforgiving realm of working-class life.“THE BOTTOMS"succeeded to ”Hell Row."HeU Row was a blockof thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on GreenhiELane. There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits twcfields away The brook ran under the alder trees, scarcely soiled bythese small mines, whose coal was drawn to the surface by donkey.,that plodded wearily in a circle round a gin. And all over thecountryside were these same pits, some of which had been worked irthe time of Charles II, the few colliers and thedonkeys burrowin~down like ants into the earth, making queermounds and little black places among the corn-fields and the meadows. And the Cottages ofthese coal-miners, in blocks and pairs-here andthere, together with odd farms and homes ofthe stockingers, straying over the Parish, formedthe village of Bestwood.

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《儿子和情人》产生于20世纪初叶，背景是英国诺丁汉郡矿工们的生活。矿工瓦尔特原本性格开朗，充满活力，后因酗酒而日渐沉沦。妻子格特鲁德失望之余，转而将希望寄托在两个儿子身上，长子威廉又不幸早夭，遂对次子保罗产生了强烈的感情。面对情感变态的母亲，以及两个各有其不同恋爱观的女友，年轻的保罗一时颇感迷惘。
　　具有半自传性的《儿子和情人》生动、广泛地描绘了现代工业文明背后普通工人的境遇，然而角度的确十分独特，作者意在探索两性之间的关系，正如评论家所指出的，小说中表现了作者内心隐藏着的俄狄浦斯情结，其中的主线之一便是以劳伦斯与杰茜的私情为蓝本。此书初步显示了劳伦斯作为现代性爱小说之父，风靡文坛90年，魅力不减，至今仍为广大读者所喜爱。

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She hurried out of the side garden to the front, where she could stand as if in an immense gulf of white light, the moon streaming high in face of her, the moonlight standing up from the hills in front, and filling the valley where the Bottoms crouched, almost blindingly. There, panting and half weeping in reaction from the stress, she murmured to herself over and over again: 'The nuisance！ The nuisance！'She became aware of something about her. With an effort she roused herself to see what it was that penetrated her consciousness. The tall white lilies were reeling in the moonlight, and the air was charged with their perfume, as with a presence. Mrs. Morel gasped slightly in fear. She touched the big, pallid flowers on their petals, then shivered. They seemed to be stretching in the moonlight. She put her hand into one white bin: the gold scarcely showed on her fingers by moonlight. She bent down to look at the binful of yellow pollen; but it only appeared dusky. Then she drank a deep draught of the scent. It almost made her dizzy.Mrs. Morel leaned on the garden gate, looking out, and she lost herself awhile. She did not know what she thought. Except for a slight feeling of sickness, and her consciousness in the child, herself melted out like scent into the shiny, pale air. After a time the child, too, melted with her in the mixing-pot of moonlight, and she rested with the hills and lilies and houses, all swum together in a kind of Swoon.Over them, and right across the garden. Following it with her eye roused her. A few whiffs of the raw, strong scent of phlox invigorated her. She passed along the path, hesitating at the white rosebush. It smelled sweet and simple. She touched the white ruffles of the roses. Their fresh scent and cool, softleaves reminded her of the morning-time and sunshine. Shewas very fond of them. But she was tired, and wanted tosleep. In the mysterious out-of-doors she felt forlorn. There was no noise anywhere. Evidently the child

作者简介

　　D.H. Lawrence（1885-i93o）wasborn into a coal-mining family inEngland, he befriended a localfamily whose interest in literaturematched his own. Encouraged bythis support and connection,Lawrence began to write poemsand short stories as he returnedto work, this time as a teacher.　　With his career taking off,Lawrence endured several yearsof personal ups and downs,including the death of his motherand the beginning of arelationship with a marriedwoman, who, once divorced,would become his wife. Poorhealth cut short his prolificwriting, but the works thatLawrence created, such as Sonsand Lovers, Women in Love, LadyChatterley's Lover, The Lost Girl,and The Rainbow, brought a newenergy to eoth century literature.