出自——英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》。
原文:这是一个最好的时代,也是一个最坏的时代;这是一个智慧的年代,这是一个愚蠢的年代;这是一个信任的时期,这是一个怀疑的时期。
这是一个光明的季节,这是一个黑暗的季节;这是希望之春,这是失望之冬;人们面前应有尽有,人们面前一无所有;人们正踏上天堂之路,人们正走向地狱之门。
小说原版:It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness.
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so.
far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
扩展资料:
1,创作背景
该小说创作于19世纪50年代,正处于英国资本主义经济快速发展时期,资本主义发展带来的种种罪恶和劳动人民生活的贫困化,导致下层群众中存在极端的愤懑与不满,英国社会处于爆发一场社会大革命的边缘。
这与18世纪末法国的社会现状极为相似,狄更斯通过对两个城市的对比,给当时的英国社会以借鉴及警醒。
据狄更斯在序言中所说的,1857年在狄更斯和他的孩子们、朋友们一起