A lifelong Londoner (and a poet), Mr Chivers knows the local history and geography well.

奇弗斯毕生都是伦敦人(也是一位诗人)，他对当地的历史和地理了如指掌。

In " London Clay" Tom Chivers delves into the capital's streets and uncovers some of these stories.

在《伦敦黏土》一书中，汤姆·奇弗斯深入研究了伦敦的街道，揭开了其中的一些故事。

Chivers decides okay, let me take a set of straight women, self-declared straight women and show them just four types of photographs and see what happens.

Chivers 决定好吧， 让我拍一组异性恋女性，自称异性恋女性， 只给她们看四种类型的照片， 看看会发生什么。

Mr Chivers overlays a street map with colours representing the different substrata - " half eccentric artwork, half primary-school science project" - which becomes a springboard for his digressions.

奇弗斯先生用代表不同底层结构的不同颜色，描绘出一张街道地图——“既像古怪的艺术品，又像小学的科学项目”——这成了他离题的跳板。

Mr Chivers reflects on the death of his mother when he was a teenager, visiting her grave and recalling her efforts to preserve the site of a 16th-century theatre.

奇弗斯回忆起他十几岁时母亲去世时的情景，拜访母亲的坟墓，回忆起她为保护一处16世纪剧院遗址所做的努力。

Now here’s a bit of later Chivers research that both goes along with but also pulls us in a slightly different direction than that original set of studies.

现在这里有一些后来的 Chivers 研究，它们与最初的那组研究相一致，但也把我们引向了一个稍微不同的方向。

Their own compatriots—save those previously known or properly accredited—they treated with an even more pronounced disdain;so that, unless they ran across a Chivers, a Dagonet or a Mingott, their months abroad were spent in an unbroken tete-a-tete.

他们自己的同胞——除了那些以前认识的或适当认可的人——他们以更加明显的蔑视对待； 所以，除非他们遇到了奇弗斯、达戈内特或明戈特，否则他们在国外的几个月都是在一个完整的面对面的聚会中度过的.