Oliver Barrett IV, a Harvard student from a wealthy WASP family, fell in love with Jennifer, a Radcliffe music major, daughter of a pastry chef of Italian descent. Jennifer returned his love. The two of them started talking about marriage, thinking they were made for each other. Abanker and a squeamish parent, Oliver Barrett III refused to give his blessing to the proposedalliance. Oliver and Jennifer thereupon went ahead on their own, contented with their "love in a cottage."
出生于富裕的上层白人家庭的哈佛学生奥利佛·巴雷特第四爱上了意大利裔糕点师的女儿拉德克利夫学院音乐专业的学生詹妮弗。詹妮弗以爱相报。他们开始谈婚论嫁，认为他俩是天生的一对。银行家奥利弗·巴特雷第三是个过分拘谨的家长，他不同意这一提议中的婚姻。奥利佛与詹妮弗随即自己作主结了婚，甘愿过“清贫而和谐的婚姻生活。”
We join the novel in Chapter 13, three years after Oliver married Jennifer regardless of his father's fierce opposition. One day, they received an invitation from Oliver's parents to the old man's sixtieth birthday party. Jennifer preferred accepting the invitation, regarding it as agood opportunity for a reconciliation between father and son. But Oliver wouldn't give it a thought. Thus the two of them had a violent quarrel...
我们要读的是小说中第十三章，离奥利佛不顾父亲激烈反对与詹妮弗结婚已有三年。一天，他们收到奥利佛父母发来的邀其参加老人六十寿庆的请帖。詹妮弗认为应该接受邀请，把这视为父子和解的一个好机会。但奥利佛不愿考虑此事。于是他们之间发生了激烈争吵。
Love Story
爱情故事
Erich Segal
埃里克·西格尔
CHAPTER 13
第十三章