蒂姆·温顿的短篇小说《邻居们》以一对新婚夫妇搬入新居为切入点,透过他们与移民澳洲的邻居之间发生的日常琐碎小事,呈现了双方由冲突、隔阂到理解、融合的过程。作者借文化融合带来的邻里之爱表达了在文化全球化的背景下各族人民和谐共处、相亲相爱的期望。 Tim Winton’s short story The Neighbors takes a newly married couple moving into a new home as a starting point. Through their daily trifling events with their neighbors in Australia, there is a gap between conflict, estrangement, understanding and integration the process of. The love of neighborhood brought by the author’s cultural fusion expresses the expectation of the people of all nationalities living together in harmony and in love with each other in the background of cultural globalization.