理查德·杰弗里斯是英国著名的自然派作家,其散文名篇《捡橡果的孩子》以客观、真实的笔调描绘了一个乡村小男孩的悲剧一生。杰弗里斯同情小男孩不幸身世的同时,揭露了转型期的英国社会中人性和人际关系异化,同时表达了向自然回归和重建和谐健康人际关系的深层意蕴。 Richard Jeffreys is a well-known British naturalist writer, whose essay “The Boy Who Picked Acorns” portrays the tragic life of a country boy in an objective and realistic way. At the same time of his unfortunate life experience, Jeffries revealed the alienation of human nature and human relations in the transitional British society and at the same time expressed the deep meaning of returning to nature and rebuilding a harmonious and healthy interpersonal relationship.