【Chapter 2】P15-P16

    At first Connie suffered from the steady flow of resentment that came from village.The she hardened herself to it,and it became sort of refreshing,something live up to.It was not thatshe and Clifford were unpopular,they merely belonged to another species altogether from the villagers.

    起初，村里人持久的怨恨让康妮感觉痛苦。后来，她铁下心来，这种愤恨倒有些提神，成了一种有盼头的事。并非她和克里夫不受欢迎，只是他们与村民们不是同一类人罢了。

    Clifford left them alone,and she learned to do the same:she just went by without looking at them,and they stared as if she were a walking wax figure.When he had to deal with them,Clifford was rather arrogant and contemptuous.But he was neither liked nor disliked by the people:he was just part of things,like the coal pits and Wragby.

    克里夫不去理睬他们，康妮也学着他的样子：她经过村子时目不斜视，村民则瞪着他她看着，好像她是一个行走的蜡人。每当克里夫不得不跟村民打交道的时候，他是相当傲慢和轻蔑的。但人们既不喜欢他也不讨厌他：他只是世事的一部分，像煤矿和勒格贝一样。

    But Clifford was really extremely shy and self-conscious now that he was crippled.He hated seeing anyone except just the personal servants,for he had to sit in a wheelchair.,

    但现在残废了，克里夫真的极其害羞和敏感。除了自己的仆人，他谁也不愿见，因为他得坐在轮椅上。

    Connie and he were attached to one another.But she could not help feeling now how little connection he really had with people.He was not in actual touch with anybody.Connie felt that she herself didn't really touch him.

    康妮和他互相依恋。可她也不禁感觉到他和周围的人的真正的联系实在太少。他和任何人都没有实质的接触。康妮觉得连她也没有真正接触到他。

    Yes he was absolutely dependent on her,he needed her every moment.Big and strong as he was,he was helpless.He would wheel himself about in a wheelchair,and he had a sort of bath-chair with a motor attachment,in which he could puff slowly round the park.But alone he was like a lost thing.He needed Connie to be there,to assure him he existed at all.

    可他却绝对地依赖她，没有一刻不需要她。尽管他高大强壮，但却很无助。他可以自己摇着轮椅兜圈子。他有个浴缸模样的轮椅，上面装着一个发动机，坐在上面可以慢慢地在院子里四处移动。可一个人的时候，他像丢了魂似的。他需要康妮在身边，确认自己的存在。

    Still he was ambitious.He had taken to writing stories about people he had known.They were curiously true to modern life,to the modern psychology,that is.And Clifford was extremely sensitive about the stories.He wanted everybody to think them good.They appeared in the most modern magazines,and where praised and blamed as usual.But to Clifford the blame was torture.It was as if the whole of his being were in his stories.

    他仍然雄心壮志，他开始写故事，写他熟悉的人。这些故事和现代生活，确切的说，是和现代人的心理出奇的相像。而克里夫对这些故事极其敏感。他想让所有人承认他的故事。这些故事出现在最现代的杂志上，受到得赞扬和批评如往常一样。可对克里夫来说，谴责就是折磨，似乎他存在的全部意义都在他的故事里。

    to be continued...