蒂姆·温顿是澳大利亚享有盛誉的当代作家,其短篇小说《邻居们》以一对新婚夫妇搬入新居为线索,讲述了多元文化背景下他们与邻居们从误解到沟通,最终实现文化融合的生动故事。本文试从焦虑、接受和融合这三个阶段分析了《邻居们》中新婚夫妇逐渐融入新文化的过程与原因,并揭示了人性的真善美。 Tim Winton is Australia’s pre-eminent contemporary writer whose short story Neighbors draw clues into the new home of a newlywed couple about how they and their neighbors misunderstood and communicated with each other in the multicultural context to eventually achieve cultural integration Vivid story. This paper attempts to analyze the process and reason why newlyweds in the “neighbors” gradually integrate into the new culture from the three stages of anxiety, acceptance and integration, and reveal the truth, the goodness and the beauty of human nature.