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For the wealthy and fashionable, New York society in the 1870s was governed by a maze of rules: when one should wear a black tie or make an afternoon call; whom one could invite to an evening gathering or sit beside at the opera; who was welcome and who was not.

对于富人和时尚人士来说，19世纪70年代的纽约社交界充斥着各种规矩：何时应该打黑领带，或者何时适宜进行下午拜访；可以邀请谁参加晚上的聚会，或者听歌剧时可以挨着谁坐；哪些人受欢迎，哪些人不受欢迎。

Countess Ellen Olenska, the wife of a Polish count, has spent many years in Europe and now returns alone to her New York home. She hopes to escape the pain of her unhappy marriage, but she does not understand the rules of New York society. Newland Archer knows them thoroughly, while his fiancée—the young May Welland—lives by them because she cannot imagine any other way of life.

埃伦·奥兰斯卡伯爵夫人是一位波兰伯爵的妻子，曾在欧洲生活多年，现在孤身一人回到了她在纽约的家。她希望摆脱自己不幸婚姻带来的痛苦，但她不了解纽约社交界的各种规矩。而纽兰·阿彻则深谙于此；他的未婚妻——年轻的梅·韦兰——也按照这些规矩生活着，因为她无法想象还有其他的生活方式。

Newland, May, and Ellen become entangled in a battle of love, honor, and duty. In that battle, powerful emotions hide behind polite smiles, everything is left unspoken, and a meaningful glance across a crowded room says more than a thousand words.

纽兰、梅和埃伦陷入了一场爱情、名誉和责任的战斗之中。在这场战斗中，礼貌的微笑背后隐藏着强烈的情感，一切尽在不言中，而那穿过拥挤房间的意味深长的一瞥，更是胜过千言万语。