本宝宝今天来分享十句名著里的经典开篇，嘻嘻。
Tale of Two Cities 双城记
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.
那是最美好的时代，那是最糟糕的时代；那是睿智的年月，那是蒙昧的年月；那是信心百倍的时期，那是疑虑重重的时期；那是阳光普照的季节，那是黑暗笼罩的季节。
【词语辨析】
age, epoch, era, period, times都有“时期、时代”的意思，它们的区别是什么？
age——常指具有显著特征或以某杰出人物命名的历史时代或时期。
epoch——正式用词，侧重指以某重大事件或巨大变化为起点的新的历史时期。
era——书面语用词，指历史上的纪元、年代，可与epoch和age互换，侧重时期的延续性和整个历程。
period——最普通用词，概念广泛，时间长短不限，既可指任何一个历史时期，又可指个人或自然界的一个发展阶段。
times——侧重某一特定时期。
Harry Potter 哈利·波特
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
家住女贞路4号的德思礼夫妇总是得意地说他们是非常规矩的人家，谢谢您的关心。他们从来不是跟神秘古怪的事沾边的人，因为他们根本不相信那些邪门歪道。
Peter Pan 彼得·潘
All children, except one, grow up.
所有的孩子都要长大的，只有一个例外。
Flipped 怦然心动
All I've ever wanted is for Juli Baker to leave me alone. For her to back off — you know, just give me some space.
我只有一个愿望：让朱莉·贝克别来烦我。快点给我走开！—— 我只想让她离我远点。
back off
①放弃；放手；停止（指手画脚） She started to criticize me, then she suddenly backed off.她开始批评我，后来突然停了下来。
②后退 I saw the knife and backed off. 我看见那把刀吓得后退了几步。
Forrest Gump 阿甘正传
Let me say this: being an idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they says folks are supposed to be kind to the afflicted, but let me tell you—it ain't always that way. Even so, I got no complaints, coz I reckon I’ve done live a pretty interesting life, so to speak.
我要说一句，各位看官：当白痴的滋味可不像巧克力。别人会嘲笑你，对你不耐烦，态度恶劣。呐，人家说，要善待不幸的人，可是我告诉你——事实不一定是这样。话虽如此，我并不埋怨，因为我自认生活过得很有意思，可以这么说。
afflict 使痛苦；使苦恼；折磨
It is an illness that afflicts women more than men.患这种疾病的女性多于男性。
【词语辨析——afflict和inflict】
inflict的意思是“使蒙受(损失、灾难)，伤害，坏人受到应有的惩罚、报应”；
afflict的意思是“某人不幸染上疾病”或“精神上遭受打击”，其过去分词常和介词with连用。
One Hundred Years of Solitude 百年孤独
Many years later as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
多年以后，面对行刑队，奥雷里亚诺·布恩迪亚上校将会回想起父亲带他去见识冰块的那个遥远的下午。
Everything I Never Told You 无声告白
Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.
莉迪亚死了。可他们还不知道。
Metamorphosis 变形记
When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.
一天早晨，格里高尔·萨姆沙从不安的睡梦中醒来，发现自己躺在床上变成了一只巨大的甲虫。
Metamorphosis 彻底的变化
Under the new editor, the magazine has undergone a metamorphosis.在新主编的领导下，这份杂志彻底改头换面了。
The Catcher in the Rye 麦田里的守望者
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
你要是真的想听我聊，首先想知道的，大概就是我在哪儿出生，我糟糕的童年是怎么过来的，我爸妈在我出生前是干什么的，还有什么大卫·科波菲尔故事式的屁话，不过说实话，那些我都不想说。
lousy 糟糕的，差劲的 lousy food/service 糟糕的食物／服务
The Old Man And The Sea 老人与海
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
那老人独驾轻舟，在墨西哥湾暖流里捕鱼，如今出海已有八十四天，仍是一鱼不获。
双语来自原著~
笔记来自：维尼的笔记本
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