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他引起了康妮的一种狂野的怜爱和温情，引起了她的一种狂野的渴望的肉欲。但是他没有满足她的肉欲，他的快感来得太快了。然后他萎缩在她的胸膛上，他的无耻的本能苏醒着，而她这时，却昏迷地，失望地，麻木地躺在那儿。 But then she soon learnt to hold him, to keep him there inside her when his crisis was over. And there he was generous and curiously potent; he stayed firm inside her, giving to her, while she was active...wildly, passionately active, coming to her own crisis. And as he felt the frenzy of her achieving her own orgasmic satisfaction from his hard, erect passivity, he had a curious sense of pride and satisfaction. 但是过了一会，她立刻觉得要紧紧地搂着他，使它留在她那里面，一任她动作着……一任她疯狂地热烈地动作着，直至她得到了她的最高快感。当地觉着她的疯狂的极度快感，是由他硬直的固守中得来的时候，他不禁奇异地觉得自得和满足。 Ah, how good!' she whispered tremulously, and she became quite still, clinging to him. And he lay there in his own isolation, but somehow proud. " 啊！多么好。"她颤战地低语着。她紧贴着他，现在她完全镇定下来了，而他呢，却孤寂地躺在那儿，可是带着骄傲神气。 He stayed that time only the three days, and to Clifford was exactly the same as on the first evening; to Connie also. There was no breaking down his external man. 他这次只住了三天，他对克利福的态度，和第一天晚上一样：对康妮也是一样，他的外表是毫无改变的。 He wrote to Connie with the same plaintive melancholy note as ever, sometimes witty, and touched with a queer, sexless affection. A kind of hopeless affection he seemed to feel for her, and the essential remoteness remained the same. He was hopeless at the very core of him, and he wanted to be hopeless. He rather hated hope. Une immense esperance a traverse la terre', he read somewhere, and his comment was:---and it's darned-well drowned everything worth having.' 他用着平时那种不平而忧郁的语调和康妮通信，有时写得很精彩。但总是渲染着一种奇异的无性爱的爱情。他好象觉得对她的爱情是一种无望的爱情，他们间原来的隔阂是不变的。他的深心处是没有希望的，而他也不愿有希望。他对于希望存有一种恨心。他在什么地方读过这句话："一个庞大的希望穿过了大地。"他添了一个注说："这希望把一切有价值的东西都扫荡无余了。" 
康妮实在并不了解他；但是她自己觉得爱他。她的心里时时都感觉到他的失望。她是不能深深地、深深地爱而不存在希望的。而他呢，因为没有希望在心里，所以决不能深爱。 So they went on for quite a time, writing, and meeting occasionally in London. She still wanted the physical, sexual thrill she could get with him by her own activity, his little orgasm being over. And he still wanted to give it her. Which was enough to keep them connected. 这样，他们继续了好久，互相通着信，偶尔也在伦敦相会。她依旧喜欢在他的极度快感完毕后，用自力得到的那种强烈的肉的快感。他也依旧喜欢去满足她。只这一点便足以维持他们间的关系。 She was terrifically cheerful at Wragby. And she used all her aroused cheerfulness and satisfaction to stimulate Clifford, so that he wrote his best at this time, and was almost happy in his strange blind way. He really reaped the fruits of the sensual satisfaction she got out of Michaelis' male passivity erect inside her. But of course he never knew it, and if he had, he wouldn't have said thank you! 她在勒格贝非常地快活。她用这种快活和满意去激励克利福，所以他在这时的作品写得最好，而且他几乎奇异地、盲目的觉得快活。其实，他是收获着她从蔑克里斯坚挺在她里面时，用自力得到的性的满足的果子。但是，他当然不知道这个的，要是知道了，他是决不会道谢的！ Yet when those days of her grand joyful cheerfulness and stimulus were gone, quite gone, and she was depressed and irritable, how Clifford longed for them again! Perhaps if he'd known he might even have wished to get her and Michaelis together again. 然而，当她的心花怒放地快乐而使人激励的日子过去了时，完全过去了时，她变成颓丧而易怒时，克利福是多么晦气啊！要是他知道个中因果，也许他还愿意她和蔑克里斯重新相聚呢。 Connie always had a foreboding of the hopelessness of her affair with Mick, as people called him. Yet other men seemed to mean nothing to her. She was attached to Clifford. He wanted a good deal of her life and she gave it to him. But she wanted a good deal from the life of a man, and this Clifford did not give her; could not. There were occasional spasms of Michaelis. But, as she knew by foreboding, that would come to an end. Mick couldn't keep anything up. It was part of his very being that he must break off any connexion, and be loose, isolated, absolutely lone dog again. It was his major necessity, even though he always said: She turned me down! 康妮常常预感到她和蔑克--人们这样叫他--的关系是不会有什么结果的。可是其他的男子好象不在她的眼里。她牵系着克利福。他需要她的大部分生命，而她也给他。但是她也需要一个男子给她大部分的生命，这是克利福没有给也不能给的。于是她不时地和蔑克里斯幽会。但是，她已经预知这是要完结的。和蔑克斯没有什么东西可以长久的。他的天性是要迫使他破坏一切关系而重新成为自由的、孤独的、寂寞的野狗的。在他看来，这是他的大需要，虽然他总是说：她把我丢弃了！ 
人们以为世界上是充满着可能的事的。但是在多数的个人经验上，可能的事却这样的少。大海里有许多的好色……也许……但是大多数似乎只是些沙丁鱼和鲱鱼。如果你自己不是沙鲱鱼，你大概便要觉得在这大海里好鱼是很少的。 Clifford was making strides into fame, and even money. People came to see him. Connie nearly always had somebody at Wragby. But if they weren't mackerel they were herring, with an occasional cat-fish, or conger-eel. 克利福的名声日噪起来，甚至赚着钱了。许多人来勒格贝看他。康妮差不多天天要招待客人。但是这些都是些沙丁鱼或鲱鱼，偶尔地也有一尾较稀罕的鲇鱼或海鳗。 There were a few regular men, constants; men who had been at Cambridge with Clifford. There was Tommy Dukes, who had remained in the army, and was a Brigadier-General. The army leaves me time to think, and saves me from having to face the battle of life,' he said. 有几个是常来的客，他们都是克利福在剑桥大学的同学。有一个是唐米·督克斯，他是服务军界的人，一个旅长，他说："军队生活使我有余暇去思想，而且免得我加人生活的争斗。" There was Charles May, an Irishman, who wrote scientifically about stars. There was Hammond, another writer. All were about the same age as Clifford; the young intellectuals of the day. They all believed in the life of the mind. What you did apart from that was your private affair, and didn't much matter. No one thinks of inquiring of another person at what hour he retires to the privy. It isn't interesting to anyone but the person concerned. 还有查理·梅，他是个爱尔兰人，他写些关于星辰的科学著作。还有一位也是作家，他叫韩蒙。他们都和克利福年纪相仿，都是当时的青年知识分子。他们都信仰精神生活。在精神生活范围以外的行为，是私事，是无关重要的。你什么时候上厕所，谁也不想打听，这种事除了自己外，谁也不感兴趣的。 And so with most of the matters of ordinary life...how you make your money, or whether you love your wife, or if you have affairs'. All these matters concern only the person concerned, and, like going to the privy, have no interest for anyone else. 就是日常生活上大部分的事情也是这样。你怎样弄钱，你是不是爱你的太太，你有没有外遇，所有这一切只是你自己的事，和上厕所一样，对他人是没有兴趣的。 
韩蒙是个身材高瘦的人，他有妻子和两个孩子，但是他和一个女打字员亲密得多了。他说："性问题的要点，便是里面并没有什么要点。严格地说，那就不是个问题。我们不想跟他人上厕所，那么为什么我们要理睬他人的床第间事？问题就是这儿。假如我们把床第间事看成和上厕所一样，那便没有什么问题了。这完全是无意义无要点的事；这仅仅是个不正当的好奇心的问题罢了。" Quite, Hammond, quite! But if someone starts making love to Julia, you begin to simmer; and if he goes on, you are soon at boiling point.'...Julia was Hammond's wife. " 说得对，韩蒙，你说得真对！但是如果有什么人跟朱丽亚求爱，你便要沸腾起来；如果他再追求下去，那你便要发作了……。"朱丽亚是韩蒙的妻子。 Why, exactly! So I should be if he began to urinate in a corner of my drawing-room. There's a place for all these things.' " 咳，当然呀！要是什么人在我的客厅里撤起尿来，我定要发作的。每个东西有每个东西的位置。" You mean you wouldn't mind if he made love to Julia in some discreet alcove?' " 这是说要是有人和朱丽亚躲在壁龛里恋爱起来，你便不介意么？" Charlie May was slightly satirical, for he had flirted a very little with Julia, and Hammond had cut up very roughly. 查理·梅的态度是有点嘲弄的，因为他和朱丽亚曾有过点眉目传情的事，而给韩蒙严峻地破坏了。 
那我自然要介意。性爱是我和朱丽亚两人间的私事；如果谁想插进来，自然我要介意的。" As a matter of fact,' said the lean and freckled Tommy Dukes, who looked much more Irish than May, who was pale and rather fat: As a matter of fact, Hammond, you have a strong property instinct, and a strong will to self-assertion, and you want success. Since I've been in the army definitely, I've got out of the way of the world, and now I see how inordinately strong the craving for self-assertion and success is in men. It is enormously overdeveloped. All our individuality has run that way. And of course men like you think you'll get through better with a woman's backing. That's why you're so jealous. That's what sex is to you...a vital little dynamo between you and Julia, to bring success. If you began to be unsuccessful you'd begin to flirt, like Charlie, who isn't successful. Married people like you and Julia have labels on you, like travellers' trunks. Julia is labelled Mrs Arnold B. Hammond---just like a trunk on the railway that belongs to somebody. And you are labelled Arnold B. Hammond, c/o Mrs Arnold B. Hammond. Oh, you're quite right, you're quite right! The life of the mind needs a comfortable house and decent cooking. You're quite right. It even needs posterity. But it all hinges on the instinct for success. That is the pivot on which all things turn.' 那清瘦而有雀斑的唐米·督克斯，比起苍白而肥胖的查理·梅来，更带爱尔兰色彩。他说："总而言之，韩蒙，你有一种很强的占有性和一种很强的自负的意志，而且你老想成功。自从我决意投身军界以来，我已经罕与世俗接触，现在我才知道人们是多么切望着成功和出人头地，我们的个性在这方面发展的多么过火！当然，象你这样的人，是以为得了一个女子的帮助是易于成功押。这便是你所以这样嫉的缘故。所以性爱在你看来是……你和朱丽亚之间的一种关系重大的发电机，是应该使你成功的东西。如果你不成功，你便要同失意的查里一样，开始向女人眉来眼去起来。象你和朱丽亚这种结过婚的人，都标着一种旅客手蕈上一样的标签，朱丽亚的标签上写的'韩蒙太太'，好象属于某人的箱子似的。你的标签上写是'韩蒙，由韩蒙太太转交'。啊，你是很对的，你是很对的！精神生活也需要舒适的家庭和可口的饭菜。你是很对的。精神生活还需要子孙兴眨呢！这一切都以成功与否为转移，成功便是一切事情的中轴。"
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