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《兒子和情人(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.