One Day is a novel by David Nicholls, published in 2009. Each chapter covers the lives of two protagonists on 15 July,St. Swithin’s Day, for twenty years. The novel attracted generally positive reviews, and was named 2010 Galaxy Book of the Year.[1] Nicholls adapted his book into a screenplay; the feature film, also titled One Day, was released in August 2011.
《真愛挑日子》（One Day）是[[大衛·尼科爾斯]]（David Nicholls）在2009年出版的一部小說。文中以每年聖斯威森節(7/15, St. Swithin’s Day)開始並貫串兩位主角人生長達20年。這本小說獲得多數正面評價，並評為2010年年度最佳銀河書(Galaxy Book of the Year)。尼克斯將他的書改編成劇本，以同名電影《真愛挑日子》（One Day）於2011年8月上映。
Dexter and Emma spend the night together following their graduation from Edinburgh University in 1988. They talk about how they will be once they are 40. While they do not become romantically involved completely, this is the beginning of their friendship. The novel visits their lives and their relationship on July 15 in successive years in each chapter for 20 years.
1988年，Dexter和Emma兩人在[[愛丁堡大學]]的畢業典禮後結識並共處了一夜，兩人談論著彼此到了40歲會過著怎樣的生活。兩人沒有發生關係，但是約定要做對方的好朋友。這部小說的每一章節探視連續20年間的7月15日這天Dexter和Emma兩人的生活與感情發展。
Emma wants to improve the world and begins writing and performing plays, which remain unsuccessful, while Dexter travels through the world, drinking and hooking up with women. Eventually both move to London where Emma becomes a waitress in Kentish Town at a Tex-Mex restaurant, while Dexter becomes a successful television presenter.
Emma想做些事讓這世界更好，所以開始著手寫作及表演一些短劇，卻一直沒有不是很成功，也不出名。而Dexter則四處旅行、飲酒狂歡和到處獵豔。後來兩人都搬到倫敦，Emma在一家肯特郡的[[Tex-Mex]]餐廳當服務生，Dexter則成了成功的電視節目主持人。
While there are various attempts from both sides to start a relationship, coincidences stop Emma and Dexter from getting together and while they have relationships with other people, they stay best friends, both secretly longing for the other. They are drawn together closer through a holiday together and the death of Dexter’s mother.
雖然雙方都嘗試著要和對方交往，種種的巧合使兩人遲遲無法在一起；而當其中一方有交往中的對象時，他們卻是彼此最好的朋友，且兩人都心儀著彼此。在一次的假期與Dexter的媽媽往生後，兩人的心變得更貼近。
Emma breaks up with her boyfriend, Ian, after realising she is creating a life with someone she doesn’t love. During this time Emma is able to find a job as a teacher, after various years of struggle, despite a "double-first degree". Dexter meanwhile develops a drinking and drug problem and watches his career collapse. The friendship between Emma and Dexter grows more and more difficult, after Emma is constantly hurt by Dexter who attempts to hide his feelings for her from both her and himself. After being treated rudely by Dexter at a restaurant, Emma breaks up the friendship.
Emma意識到自己和一個自己不愛的男人生活在一起，她就和男友Ian分手了。這期間，儘管有雙主修的學歷，Emma仍經過了一番努力而得到一份老師的工作。同時，Dexter有酒癮跟服藥問題，他也眼睜睜地看著自己的節目主持人生涯瓦解、結束。Dexter和Emma試圖隱藏自己對彼此的感情，而Dexter也一次次的傷害Emma的心，使得Emma和Dexter之間的友誼變得越來越糟。兩人在餐廳的見面因為Dexter的羞辱與粗魯對待，Emma跟Dexter絕交了。
At the wedding of Emma’s former roommate, Emma and Dexter meet again. Emma admits that she wants Dexter back. At this point of time she has just ended an affair with the headmaster of the school she teaches in, Dexter has fallen in love with another woman, Sylvie, who is pregnant. At this reunion, Dexter invites Emma, who is disappointed by the situation, to his wedding.
在Emma的前室友的婚禮上，Emma和Dexter再次相遇，Emma承認他很希望能跟Dexter和好。而此時Emma才剛和她任職的學校的校長分手，令Emma震驚、難過的是此時Dexter竟有了心愛的女人──Sylvie，她還懷了Dexter的孩子，。這次的相聚，Dexter也邀請了Emma來參加他與Sylvie的婚禮。
Emma tries to overcome her problems and begins to write, while Dexter is unemployed and overwhelmed by his role as a father after his divorce from Sylvie, who was having an affair. Emma leaves to go to Paris in the hope of writing a sequel to her first successful children’s novel. When Dexter visits her in Paris, he learns that she met someone and likes him and for the first time admits his feelings to her. After talking about their relationship, Emma chooses Dexter.
Emma試著克服自己遇到的困難並且開始再次寫書；Dexter則沒有工作，且在跟有外遇的Sylvie離婚後，他也快被身為一位父親的身分給壓得喘不過氣來。Emma離開倫敦並前往巴黎，希望能找到一些靈感來為她的第一本成功的兒童小說寫續集。在Dexter去巴黎拜訪Emma時，便得知她有了對象，但Dexter也第一次對Emma傳達了自己一直愛著她的想法。最後，Emma選擇了Dexter。
Emma and Dexter form a relationship and are happy together, and get married, but Emma wants a child. The couple find themselves frustrated by the failing attempts to have a child. Dexter, however, is able to open a deli-cafe and finds himself on his way back to being successful again. On the anniversary of the day they met after graduation and the day they got together, Emma and Dexter have an appointment to see a house. While travelling there, Emma has a bike accident and dies.
Emma和Dexter兩人結婚後，便快樂地生活在一起，Emma希望他們兩人能有愛的結晶，可是卻遲遲沒有好孕降臨。而Dexter有了自己經營的輕食咖啡館，經營地有聲有色。在2006年7月15日這一天，兩人約好要去看一間房子，當他們到時，Emma因為騎著腳踏車、出了一場車禍而死了。
After her death, Dexter finds himself in despair. He starts to drink again and provokes people in bars in order to get beaten. He is comforted by his ex-wife Sylvie, his father and his daughter. Three years after Emma’s death he travels together with his daughter to Edinburgh where he and Emma met and they climb the same hill together that Emma and Dexter climbed 19 years ago.
Emma的死讓Dexter對人生感到絕望。他又開始酗酒，還在酒吧裡跟人起爭執、想讓人痛扁他一頓。他的前妻Sylvie、他的父親以及他的女兒安慰他、帶他走出喪妻之痛。
Emma死後的第三年，Dexter回到19年前的愛丁堡，帶著她的女兒再次回到當初他與Emma相遇以及一同去走過的山丘。
The book ends with a vivid and lingering memory of what happened after that stay together 20 years before - their goodbye kiss after the evening, promise to stay in touch and goodbye.
本書在接近尾聲時，描述著20年前令Dexter和Emma記憶猶新、永遠忘不了的第一次道別──他們吻別、且承諾兩人要保持聯絡、說再見。
Writing in The Times, John O’Connell writes, "For, in spite of its comic gloss, One Day is really about loneliness and the casual savagery of fate; the tragic gap between youthful aspiration and the compromises that we end up tolerating. Not for nothing has Nicholls said that it was inspired by Thomas Hardy."[2] A critic inthelondonpaper observes that One Day "may be a love story, but it’s no fairytale: Nicholls doesn’t shy from the harsh side of growing up, the disillusionment, regrets, and random cruelty of life.".[3] According to Jonathan Coe (Guardian Books of the Year 2009), "It’s rare to find a novel which ranges over the recent past with such authority, and even rarer to find one in which the two leading characters are drawn with such solidity, such painful fidelity, to real life."
主要題材
《泰晤士報》（The Times）中，約翰‧奧康內爾(John O’Connell)寫到「儘管《真愛挑日子》是一部喜劇，但它是實上是講述孤單感及生活的殘酷，以年少時的願望跟對生活的妥協中而產生的悲劇縫隙。尼克斯曾說過他的靈感是來至湯瑪斯‧哈代(Thomas Hardy)。」
在《倫敦報》（The London Paper）中，有一評論家評述《真愛挑日子》「可能是一部愛情片，但它並非是如童話故事般的美好的愛情故事。尼克斯直接揭露成長的殘酷面、幻滅及人生的無常。」
強納森‧柯(Jonathan Coe)在《2009年衛報》（Guardian Books of the Year 2009）寫到「很少有小說跨越過去、現在做為時間軸；逼真的描述兩位主角艱難、困苦生活的更少。」
The novel attracted mainly positive reviews. Writing in The Guardian, Harry Ritchie called it "a very persuasive and endearing account of a close friendship - the delight Emma and Dexter take in one another, the flirting and the banter that sometimes hide resentment and sometimes yearning, the way the relationship shifts and evolves as the years pass."[4] Ritchie comments, "Just as Nicholls has made full use of his central concept, so he has drawn on all his comic and literary gifts to produce a novel that is not only roaringly funny but also memorable, moving and, in its own unassuming, unpretentious way, rather profound."[4] This story is reminiscent of Same Time, Next Year.
Elizabeth Day of The Observer also praises the novel, although criticising "its structural flaws", since "some of the most important events in their life are never recounted." Despite this, she concludes by commenting "there is no doubt that One Day is a beguiling read. But although I really liked it, I wanted desperately to love it because Nicholls is, I think, a far better writer than this format allows him to be."[5]
The Times deflected comparisons to When Harry Met Sally..., "saccharine" assumptions, and expectations that the "more literary" will snobbishly gratify themselves that they never read "’commercial’ romantic comedies with cartoons and squiggly writing on the cover. Well, be convinced: One Day is a wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad. It’s also, with its subtly political focus on changing habits and mores, the best British social novelsince Jonathan Coe’s What a Carve Up."[2]
Author Nick Hornby also praised the book on his blog, calling it "A big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable on-off love story." His blurb is used in some editions of the book, such as the U.S. paperback edition.[6]
In 2010, the novel was named Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the UK’s annual Galaxy National Book Awards ceremony, and was later granted the accolade of Galaxy Book of the Year.[1]
好評
這本小說獲得多數好評。在《衛報》（The Guardian）中哈利‧理奇(Harry Ritchie)稱它為「是一本用有說服力的、讓人喜歡的手法描述親密朋友間的關係－艾瑪、德特間的快樂時光，調情、逗弄，隨著時間關係的轉變，有時是從隱隱的忿概及思念中表現出來的。」
理奇評論「正如尼克斯以這個手法做為主要觀點，所以他以他的喜感和文學天賦不僅創作出了極為成功小說，他以自己的謙遜、不做作的方是創造出了令人難忘、動人而深刻的作品。」這段話使人聯想到《明年此時》（Same Time, Next Year）這部影片。
伊麗莎白‧戴(Elizabeth Day)在《觀察家報》（The Observer）也讚揚這部小說，雖然批評「結構性缺陷－並未對主角人生間一些重要事件給予描寫。」儘管如此，她評斷「無庸置疑的，《真愛挑日子》是一本誘人的讀物。儘管如此，我真得很喜歡它，我想對它狂熱的喜愛是因為尼克斯，我認為比起他的寫作手法，他是一個好作者才是主因。」
《泰晤士報》對比《當哈利碰上莎莉》（When Harry Met Sally…）「十分甜蜜的」假想、期待「更多的文字」能滿足的他們，讓他們永遠不會讀到以卡通和曲折寫法而成的「商品化」浪漫喜劇。要相信《真愛挑日子》是一本精彩好書－聰明、風趣、纖細、有同情心的，以及有時令人無法克制的悲傷。不僅如此，它巧妙的政策的聚焦在改變習慣或是其它更多的。是從喬納森‧科(Jonathan Coe)的《什麼是瓜分!》（What a Carve Up!）之後最好的英國社會小說。
作家尼克‧霍恩比(Nick Hornby)也在他的部落格上稱讚這本書，並稱它是「大而有吸引力、漂亮的虛構出一個易讀的斷斷續續的愛情故事。」他的誇詞被用在某些版本裡，像是美國平裝版。
2010年《真愛挑日子》在英國年度最佳銀河書頒獎典禮中被稱為是年度流行科幻小說，並在隔年授予年度最佳銀河書的榮譽。
Main article: One Day (2011 film)
At the time of the book’s publication, Nicholls wrote that he was adapting his novel as a film script. He acknowledged the difficulties in casting people who "could be both students and middle-aged! But I think we’ve found a way."[3]
The film was directed by Lone Scherfig for Random House Films and Focus Features, with a theatrical release in August 2011. Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgessportrayed Emma and Dexter, respectively.[7] Filming took place in England, Scotland and France.[8]
改編電影
文本：《真愛挑日子》(2011年上映)
當小說出版時，The Times尼克斯寫道，他改編他的小說為劇本。他承認在挑選演員上的困難「可能是學生及中年人！但我想我們已經想到辦法了。」
這部電影是由瓏‧雪兒菲格(Lone Scherfig)為蘭多姆出版公司(Random House Films)和焦點影業(Focus Features) 執導，並在2011年8月於電影院上映。由安海‧瑟威(Anne Hathaway)和吉姆‧史特格(Jim Sturgess)分別飾演艾瑪和達斯。拍攝地點位於英國、蘇格蘭、法國。