【渡渡阅读】这是一个最好的时代，这是一个最坏的时代——经典《双城记》
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来自于加拿大顶尖私校8年级的Apple是一个阅读狂人，2020年她读了60多本虚构类图书和一小部分非虚构类图书，平均每天阅读66页。在阅读方面她有不少既青涩又成熟的见解，2021年她将继续与大家分享适合中小学生的好书。
Charles Dickens writes about the French Revolution in his last novel, A Tale of Two Cities, alternating between London England and Paris France. He explains how wonderful ideals (“liberty, equality, fraternity”) the French Revolution turned so disastrous in the end in the highly entertaining form of a novel.
狄更斯在他的最后一部小说《双城记》中描写了法国大革命，《双城记》的场景交替出现在伦敦和巴黎之间。他以小说的形式，解释了法国大革命中那些美妙的理想(“自由、平等、博爱”)最终如何变成了灾难。
(我读的这版 A tale of two cities)
In this book, Dickens also explores human nature and how it changes in times of great crisis. All kinds of literary devices such as metaphors, personification, similes are included to create beautiful writing.
This may be difficult for first-time readers of Charles Dickens for the English used is slightly more archaic, for them, I would recommend starting with A Christmas Carol also by Charles Dickens (in fact it is Charles Dickens's first novel) which is much shorter and much easier to understand. While I was reading this book I used multiple websites for explanations and also participated in a class dedicated to this book, this is something I would also encourage others to try. All in all, this book is more difficult than other books recommended in this article because of its complex themes and slightly archaic language, but it is one that is definitely worth the read!
在这部作品中，狄更斯还探讨了人性以及它在重大危机时期的变化，书中多样的修辞手法，如隐喻、拟人、明喻等等的运用让这部作品更为出众。
对于第一次阅读狄更斯作品的读者来说，读起来可能会有点儿吃力，因为作者使用了古英语，所以我建议大家可以先由狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》入手（他的第一部小说）它更短、更容易理解。在阅读《双城记》时遇到不明白的地方我会上网搜索，还听过一个讲授这本书的课程，我也鼓励大家试一试。总之，这本书比我最近推荐的其他书更难，因为它复杂的主题和略显古老的语言，但它绝对值得一读!
Genres: Historical-Fiction, Classic
类型: 历史小说, 经典
Favorite Quotes:
喜欢的经典语句：
“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”
这是一个最好的时代，
这是一个最坏的时代；
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。
“I see a beautiful city and brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
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