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A Tale of Two Cities

Dickens

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.

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of

England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of

France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of

loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual

revelations were conceded to England at that favored period, as at this. Mrs. Soth cott had

recently attained her five-and- twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in

the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements

were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost

had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of

this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere

messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People,

from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more

important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the

chickens of the Cock-lane brood.

France, less favored on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield

and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and

spending it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself besides,

with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his

tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled

down in the rain to do hon our to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view

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at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards. It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of

France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death,

already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to comedown and be sawn into boards, to make a

certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history. It is likely

enough that in the rough outhouses old some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris,

there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, be spattered with rustic

mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had

already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer,

though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about

with muffled tread: the rather, for as much as to entertain any suspicion that they were

awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.

一：初译稿

双城记

那是最美好的时代，

也是最糟糕的时代；

它充满智慧，

同时也显得愚 钝。

在那个年代里，

有

信仰，有怀疑；有光明，有黑暗；它是充满希望的春天，也是布满失望的冬天。眼前，

可以说人们拥有一切，

也可以说人们一无所有；

在走向 天堂的同时，

人们也在走向地狱

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< br>总而言之，

那时和现在极为相似，

以至于最火热的作家对 它的评价，

好的坏的，

都是用的最

高级 的对比词。

在英格兰，

这里有一个大 下巴的国王和一个面容平庸的王后；

在法兰西，

这里有一个大< /p>

下巴的国王和一个面容靓丽的王后。

两国王都揽括了其国家的全部 财富，

对于他们来说，

帝

王之业万世永 存是再清楚不过的事。

那是公元

17 75

年，灵魂启示在那个受欢迎的时期和现在一样，在英格兰风行一时。骚

斯科特太太刚过了她幸福的

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岁生日，王室一个有 先知的士兵宣布那位太太已做好安排，

准备使伦敦和威敏斯特沦陷，

从而为树立威严形象打好基石。

即使公鸡巷的幽灵们在大声说

出其预言后消失了

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年，去年的幽灵们说的语言也和她差不 多，只不过少了一些超自然性

罢了。

前不久，

< br>英国国王和百姓得到一些来自美国国会的消息，

说来奇怪，

这些消息对于人

类的影响竟然比任何团体哪怕是公鸡巷幽灵们的预言还要巨大。

法兰西，

其灵异事件大体不如她那以盾和三 叉戟为标志的姐妹那么受喜爱，

法兰西在往

下坡滚动，