【书籍分享】A Year in the Life of Downton Abbey

唐顿系列书分享
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3438452066 the world of downton abbey 这本算是科普书，偏重第一季第二季
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3425282135 the chronicles of downton abbey 这本是详述各角色的，偏重前三季
A Year in the life of Downton Abbey 这本更科普，偏重第三季和第四季。内容上和前两本有重复，但是也有新的内容。

a year in the life of downton abbey
本书时间是1924年。讲述了唐顿庄园一整年从1月到12月的生活。

仅分享和夫人有关的片段
编剧序言：
In the series, we mention Patou and Lucile and Molyneux and various others, and all these designers had their followings. Lucile was glamorous but safe, Patou more daring, Molyneux definitively chic,and so on.
这三个时装设计师的名字看起来是不是很陌生，但是事实上。。。

patou


Lucile

Molyneux
事实证明夫人这个富二代永远都是富二代，56岁了都要追求绝对时髦，人家大设计师还从巴黎专程赶来给她试衣服。。骄奢淫逸到没治了。

January – the year ahead
.1月
1st Jan morning.
Lord and Lady Grantham slumber too, together in their bed, perhaps forestalling the moment when they open their eyes to a world that has been changing at a pace that often leaves them feeling bewildered rather than excited.

The differences between 1912 and 1924 are marked…..
By contrast, what we witness at Downton Abbey is a world that still prefers to move slowly. The drama comes as we watch our friends and see how they each react in their own ways to these modern intrusions.
Some are sympathetic,some fight against them, others actively encourage them along.
面对翻天覆地的变化，夫人一直积极推动唐顿跟上时代的潮流。

1st Jan 1924
Once Robert, Tom and Edith are down for breakfast, the maids move swiftly upstairs to make their beds and clean their bedrooms, before doing the same for Cora and Mary once they are up and dressed –as married women, they enjoy breakfast in bed.
The day will be an easy one for the family, a few guests to entertain before the morrow’s shoot, but no business to attend to or errands to run. There will be a long lunch, a walk in the afternoon,another dinner in the evening.
1924年第一天的日程安排。。这书简直不能更无聊。。

In many respects, Carson and Mrs Hughes are the mirror reflection oftheir master and mistress, Lord and Lady Grantham, as the parents of the servant family.
卡森休斯就是楼上的老爷夫人。这段前两本书也都提到过。

Husbands who did not wish to worry their wives about household budgets.
这句在前两本书里也提过了。

But quite apart from the fact that it was nicer at home if you liked the people you lived with, whether as employer or employee, there was also the matter of pride at stake. Lord and Lady Grantham need to remain at the top of the social ladder by ensuring any noble or important guests that come to stay are impressed by the grandeur and comfort in which they live.
楼上楼下应通力合作让来访客人感受到唐顿之壮观和舒适，使老爷夫人稳坐社会最高阶层。

One of the most compelling aspects of these large houses, with so many servants hurryng about, is the lack of privacy. For example, servants did not always knock on the door before entering a room,either because they knew they were expected or because they were in and out so often it would have slowed things down too much to do so. Married couples conducted their relationships almost entirely in a public space and some would argue that this kept them going for longer than they might have done had they only had each other to look at and talk to.
楼下仆人从不敲门，总是直接开。。这也就是为什么唐顿总会发生辣么多锁门就可以避免的事情。。。
夫妻没有两人空间，几乎每时每刻都是在公共场合都有下人围观

February – the children
二月
Parents expected a certain amount of reverence from their children and perhaps weren’t interested in them until they really had something to say. Julian reflected this in a line he gives to Robert, when Cora asks him to stay and see the children. ‘Just as soon as they’reable to answer back,’ he replies.
这段纯粹是提到夫人。没其他意思。
虽然老爷貌似是对外孙女要求老高的那个，但是他也是抢着抱她玩的那个夫人最喜欢做的事情就是看着孙辈慈祥地笑不抢人家当爸妈的活

March - Farming
Spotlight on Locations:
The scene wraps and the actors for the next scene begin rehearsing. Elizabeth McGovern (Cora), rather disconcertingly dressed in a pink fluffy dressing gown, hairnet and Ugg boots, holds her script and blocks her movements, an industry phrase for working out exactly where she will stand and move to within the scene.
这段是此书作者（也就是编剧的侄女），在第五季现场探班的时候见到薯条的场景。薯条穿着奇怪，粉红色浴袍、戴着发网、穿着UGG靴子，拿着剧本，设计她下一场戏要怎么走该站哪。

April-Travel
四月
In upper-class tradition, Robert almost certainly would have completed a Grand Tour as a young man, travelling all over Europe to educate himself in the great art and architecture of France,Italy,Spain and beyond. Cora, of course, came across from American the 1880s as a young Buccaneer ( the name given to heiresses who travelled to Europe in the hope of landing a titled husband).
每次说夫人的内容都是废话。1888年夫人从美国来到英国，希望用钱换头衔。
老爷年轻的时候曾游遍欧洲、观赏欧洲各地的艺术建筑。但是我想说老爷真是对艺术一点都不擅长也没兴趣。。。夫人秒了他。