And he also lent her a remarkable new novel.
艾伦借给琼一本新小说，
It was by his friend Fred Clayton, though under a pseudonym, and had been published in January 1943.
是他的朋友弗雷德·克莱顿在1943年1月以笔名出版的书。
The Cloven Pine, as it was called, in a cryptic reference to Ariel's imprisonment by Sycorax in The Tempest,
书名叫《邪恶之松》，似乎隐约地影射了《暴风雨》中爱丽儿被西考拉克斯所囚禁，
vented groans about politics and sex which were closer to Fred's experiences and problems than to Alan's,
书中从弗雷德的经历出发，发泄了对政治和性的抱怨。
Fred having set his plot in the Germany of 1937 and 1938, and drawing upon his complex and conflicting reactions to the Vienna and Dresden of a little earlier.
弗莱德将情节背景设置在1937到1938年的德国，在其中表现了他早前对维也纳和德莱斯顿的复杂思考。
He had tried to understand the collapse of the ideals of 1933.
弗莱德试图理解1933年的理想泯灭。
On one level, he showed German individuals, no less and no more lovable than English individuals.
一方面，他表明德国人作为个体的人，与英国人是同样可敬的。
On another, he showed the system, the Nazi system.
另一方面，他描绘了整个体系，整个纳粹体系。
And while he portrayed himself as the Englishman, asking how Germans could believe such things, he tried to see himself and English attitudes through German eyes.
他把自己写成英国人，质问德国人为什么会有那样的信仰，他试图通过德国人的眼睛，来看待他自己和英国人。
In an internationalist gesture, The Cloven Pine was dedicated jointly to George, his younger brother, and to Wolf, one of the boys in Dresden that he had known.
他写这本书，献给他的弟弟乔治，以及沃尔夫，这是他在德莱斯顿认识的一个男孩。
'Freedom and consistency of mind', he had the German boy of his story think to himself, analysing English liberalism, 'They were illusions!
"自由，以及自洽"，他借故事中的一个德国男孩，来分析英国的自由主义，"全都是幻觉！
What freedom or consistency was there in this Self, a thing of moods that did not understand one another. ...'
那里所谓的自由和自洽，就是不去同情别人的感受……"
It was the conclusion of a King's liberal, trying hard to comprehend the absolute denial of Self.
这是一个国王学院的自由主义者得出的结论，他试图去理解对自我的绝对否定。