Both Hilda and Constance had had their tentative love-affairs by the time they were eighteen.

希尔达和康士丹斯婉妹俩，都曾在十八岁的时候初试爱情。

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This was more or less Constance Chatterley's position. The war had brought the roof down over her head. And she had realised that one must live and learn.

康斯坦斯·查泰莱大概就是处于这样的境地。战争把一切压到她的肩头。因此，她意识到必须生活、学习。

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She had left home last fall, at which point Constance had understood that she was free: her daughter would most likely never live at home again, and therefore Constance did not have to remain there, waiting.

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And then, hours later, when Constance had finally fallen asleep, the phone woke her.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

She called her surgeons magicians, but Constance had no idea how to gauge that assessment.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle