水在《圣经》中象征生命,在希腊神话中表现出爱的意象,对劳伦斯的小说创作有着深刻的影响。在《圣经》的开篇创世记中描写了神的灵运行在水面,把水聚集成海,创造大地,使伊甸流出的河水滋润园子,让水多多滋生有生命的物。在这里水象征万物生命之源。古希腊神话对水的叙述更注重 Water symbolizes life in the Bible and shows the image of love in Greek mythology, which has a profound impact on Lawrence’s novel creation. In the opening verse of the Bible, it is written that the Spirit of God is running on the surface of the water, gathering water into the sea, creating the earth, moisturizing the garden by the water flowing out of Eden, and multiplying the water with more and more living things. Here water symbolizes the source of all things. Ancient Greek myths pay more attention to water