英语短篇 | The Fox 狐狸.docxVIP

D.H.劳伦斯是二十世纪英国著名的文学家，《狐狸》是劳伦斯的一部中篇杰作，该书延续了他一贯的写作主旨，依然是探讨人与自然，男人与女人之间的关系。《狐狸》是一篇富含心理内容的作品，作者以一只狐狸作为贯穿全篇的象征，表现人类隐秘的潜在意识，同时作者通过男女主人公错综复杂的感情纠葛, 否定了女性生存模式狭隘的一面, 也批判了现代人男女失去平衡、角色混乱的现状, 启发了人们对现代男女关系的认识和女性后现代主义生存模式的探索。 The two girls were usually known by their surnames, Banford and March. They had taken the farm together, intending to work it all by themselves: that is, they were going to rear chickens, make a living by poultry, and add to this by keeping a cow, and raising one or two young beasts. Unfortunately, things did not turn out well. Banford was a small, thin, delicate thing with spectacles. She, however, was the principal investor, for March had little or no money. Banford’s father, who was a tradesman in Islington, gave his daughter the start, for her health’s sake, and because he loved her, and because it did not look as if she would marry. March was more robust. She had learned carpentry and joinery at the evening classes in Islington. She would be the man about the place. They had, moreover, Banford’s old grandfather living with them at the start. He had been a farmer. But unfortunately the old man died after he had been at Bailey Farm for a year. Then the two girls were left alone. They were neither of them young: that is, they were near thirty. But they certainly were not old. They set out quite gallantly with their enterprise. They had numbers of chickens, black Leghorns and white Leghorns, Plymouths and Wyandottes; also some ducks; also two heifers in the fields. One heifer, unfortunately, refused absolutely to stay in the Bailey Farm closes. No matter how March made up the fences, the heifer was out, wild in the woods, or trespassing on the neighbouring pasture, and March and Banford were away, flying after her, with more haste than success. So this heifer they sold in despair. Then, just before the other beast was expecting her first calf, the old man died, and the girls, afraid of the coming event, sold her in a panic, and limited their attentions to fo