Forget the upstairs/downstairs divide, this year’s Downton Abbey Christmas special will see the Crawleys and their servants living in different countries.
忘记楼上/楼下的区别吧，在今年的《唐顿庄园》(Downton Abbey)圣诞特辑中，克劳利一家和他们的仆人将在不同的国度度过。

Lord Grantham and his family are heading north to the Scottish Highlands to join the Dowager Countess’s great niece Lady Rose and her parents at Duneagle Castle.
格兰瑟姆伯爵(Lord Granthem)一家将前往苏格兰高地的Duneagle城堡，和老夫人的甥孙女罗斯小姐(Lady Rose)一家一起度假。

Initally, a warm welcome awaits, but the tensions between the family and their hosts soon become clear.
一开始，克劳利一家收到了热情的欢迎，但很快，客人和主人之间的矛盾就凸显了出来。

We’re promised that “salacious scandals, clandestine courtships and heartbreaks of seasons past” will all come to a head during the feature-length episode.
剧组人员告诉我们，在过去的三季中有的“淫荡的丑闻、私下的求爱、断肠伤心事”，圣诞特辑里一个都不会少。

And while it may well snow (it is Scotland, after all) don’t expect Christmas decorations or another stilted present-giving as the seasonal special is, in fact, set in September.
尽管特辑中可能会下雪（毕竟在苏格兰嘛……），别去期待什么圣诞装饰了，人们也不会假惺惺地互赠礼物——因为事实上，这一季的特辑是设定在九月的。 

But what of those left back at Downton? What do servants do when there's no-one to serve? Will Lord Grantham return to find they’ve had a massive party and smashed up the Abbey? Carson is of course determined to prevent this, but with the excitement of the approaching country fair, it's possible some of the staff could be tempted to push their luck.
那唐顿大后方会发生什么呢？当仆人们没有人好侍奉时会干嘛呢？格兰瑟姆伯爵回来时会发现他们在唐顿开了个大派对，个个喝得烂醉如泥吗？当然，卡森(Carson)一定会坚定地阻止这一切发生，但是对于即将来临的乡村集市，大家还是十分兴奋的，很可能有几个仆人会hold不住，交了好运又不停手，玩得大了点。

Speaking of luck, we hear a rumour that romance could be in the air for chirpy cook Mrs Patmore. And as far as we're concerned, that's better than any Christmas present.
说到好运，听说会有一场爱情等待着快人快语的厨娘帕特莫太太(Mrs Patmore)。我们觉得，这真是最好的圣诞礼物了！