“这是一个最好的时代,这是一个最坏的时代。”当狄更斯在《双城记》的开场白里写下这句话的时候,他可能不会想到,在一百多年后的今天,这个用来描述18世纪后期19世纪初期西欧国家状况的句子,会在21世纪的今天人尽皆知并广为流传。人们从这句话里读出了更多的味道,引申出更多的意义,以至于解读出一些或许连狄更斯本人都未曾想表达的情愫。 “This is the best time, it is the worst time.” “When Dickens wrote this opening remark in” Twins ", he probably would not have imagined that after a hundred years Today, this sentence, which describes the state of western Europe in the early part of the 18th century and the early 19th century, is well known and widely circulated in the 21st century. People read more of the flavor from the phrase, drawing more meaning so that they might interpret some of the feelings that even Dickens himself had never wanted to express.