Torrents of Spring is about a young 22-year-old Russian landowner named Dimitry Sanin who falls deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt. After fighting an abortive duel with a rude soldier and winning the heart of the local girl who is the main object of his infatuation, the love-sick protagonist decides to sell off his estate in Russia in order to work at the girl's family's pastry shop and be close to his newfound love. Before he can be happily married, however, he goes away to attend to a business matter and falls prey to the allures of an older and more sophisticated woman.This literary work, as an unhappy love story, is often understood by readers as a description of Turgenev's own failure in finding romantic love. The story is partly autobiographical with the main character Sanin representing Turgenev himself during his younger days when the author visited Frankfurt and other European cities outside his native Russia.
俄国作家屠格涅夫的小说《春潮》，描述了男主人公萨宁与美丽的意大利姑娘吉玛在法兰克福相识与相恋的故事。二人相识、相恋，然而就在结婚的前夕，突然发生了状况，萨宁与朋友波洛佐夫的太太亲密接触了几天之后，背叛了吉玛，沦为了波洛佐夫太太的爱情奴隶。作品充分展现了吉玛的美丽善良，萨宁的软弱怯懦，以及波洛佐夫太太的表里不一。三十年后，回首从前，萨宁悔恨不已，然而青春如奔流的潮水，已经一去不复返。