【Chapter 1】P1-P2

    Ours is essentially a tragic age,so we refuse to take it tragically.The disaster has happened ,we are among the destruction,but we've got to live,no matter how many skies have fallen.

    我们生活的时代本来就是一个悲剧性的时代，因此我们拒绝再去悲观地看待它们。灾难已经发生，我们的家园遭到破坏，然而，就是天一次次地塌下来，我们还得继续生活下去。

    This was more or less Constance Chatterley's position now that the war had brought the roof down over her head.She realized that one must live and learn.

    这大约就是康斯坦斯·查泰莱的立场，既然战争已经爆发，天已经塌了下来。她意识到人必须学着去对付灾难。

    She married Clifford Chatterley in 1917,when he was home for a month on leave.Then he went back to the war ,only to be shipped over to England again six months later,more or less in bits.Constance,his wife ,was then twenty-three years old,and he was twenty-nine.

    1917年，她嫁给了克里夫·查泰莱。克里夫当时从部队回家休假一个月。随后，克里夫重返战场，结果六个月以后又被运回英格兰，整个人严重伤残。她的妻子康斯坦斯当时二十二岁，他二十九岁。

    He didn't die,and the bits seemed to grow together again;but the lower half of his body,from the hips down,would be paralyzed forever.

    他没有死，而且伤残的躯体似乎又重新长到了一起；但是他的下半身，从臀部往下的部分却永远的瘫痪了。

    In 1920 the couple returned to Clifford 's home,Wragby,Clifford's father had recently died and Clifford was now the master of the house and bore a new title,Sir Clifford,and Constance was Lady Chatterley.They came to start housekeeping and married life in the rather depressing home of the Chatterley's on a rather inadequate income.Clifford had a sister,but she had departed.Otherwise there was no near relatives.The elder brother was dead in the war.Crippled forever,knowing he could never have any children,Clifford came home to the smoky Midlands to keep the Chatterley's name alive while he could.

    1920年，夫妻两回到了克里夫的家-勒格贝。克里夫的父亲刚刚去世，克里夫现在成了房子的主人，而且继承了父亲的头衔-克里夫爵士，康斯坦斯也成了查泰莱夫人。靠着微薄的收入，它们在查泰莱沉闷的家中开始了操持家务的婚姻生活。克里夫有个姐姐，但她早已离开。除了她之外，没有别的近亲。哥哥死于战争。他永远的残废了，知道自己再也不会有小孩了，克里夫回到烟雾弥漫的内地只是为了在有生之年能延续家族的香火。

    to be continued...