求《双城记》经典开头英文版中文翻译：那是最美好的时代,那是最糟糕的时代;那是智慧的年头,那是愚昧的年头;那是信仰的时期,

充满机会
也充满罪恶
你看看你现在所处的时代就能完全理解这句话了

在吧里已经回答过你了,不过还是再贴一遍吧
发表在双城记吧的两篇：《A tragedy of the history》、《Miss Pross VS. Madame Defarge》 by solomon518
发表于2008.12.20
文我放参考资料里,自己注意版权问题~~

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.
那是最美好的时代,那是最糟糕的时代；那是智慧的年头,那是愚昧的年头；那是信仰的时期,那是怀疑的时期；那是光明的季节,那是黑暗的季节；那是希望的春天,那是失望的冬天；我们全都在直奔天堂,我们全都在直奔相反的方向--简而言之,那时跟现在非常相象,某些最喧嚣的权威坚持要用形容词的最高级来形容它.说它好,是最高级的；说它不好,也是最高级的.

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时之圣者也,时之凶者也.
此亦蒙昧世,此亦智慧世.
此亦光明时节,此亦黯淡时节.
此亦笃信之年,此亦大惑之年.
此亦多丽之阳春,此亦绝念之穷冬.
人或万物具备,
人或一事无成.
我辈其青云直上,
我辈其黄泉永坠.
当时有识之士咸谓人间善恶
或臻至极,亦必事有所本,势无可绾.
但居之习之可也.
那是最美好的时代,那是最糟糕的时代；那是智慧的年头,那是愚昧的年头；那是信仰的时期,那是怀疑的时期；那是光明的季节,那是黑暗的季节；那是希望的春天,那是失望的冬天；我们全都在直奔天堂,我们全都在直奔相反的方向--简而言之,那时跟现在非常相象,某些最喧嚣的权威坚持要用形容词的最高级来形容它.说它好,是最高级的；说它不好,也是最高级的.

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Sydney Carton
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Character List
Sydney Carton
A London lawyer who had great potential but has fallen into a life of alcoholism and vice.He serves as an informal legal advisor to Stryver,and he looks remarkably like Charles Darnay.
Roger Cly
A British spy who swears that his only motive is patriotism.
Jerry Cruncher
An odd-job man for Tellson's Bank whose side job is to act as a "resurrection man," which involves digging up dead bodies and selling their parts to scientists.
Monsieur Ernest Defarge
Former servant of Doctor Manette and currently a revolutionary who helps orchestrate the French Revolution from his wine-shop in the Parisian suburb of Saint Antoine.He assumes the name of Jacques Four when engaging in revolutionary activity.
Monsieur Theophile Gabelle
A French postmaster whose harassment by revolutionaries causes Charles Darnay to return to Paris.
Gaspard
A resident of Saint Antoine who is executed for the murder of Monseigneur.
Jacques One,Jacques Two,and Jacques Three
French revolutionaries associated with Defarge.
Jacques Five
Another associate of Defarge; he mends roads.
Jarvis Lorry
A respectable elderly gentleman who is a confidential clerk at Tellson's Bank.He is also an old friend of Doctor Manette.He carried Lucie Manette on the passage back to London after her father was imprisoned.
Dr.Alexander Manette
A Parisian doctor who was imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years,he is a loving father to Lucie Manette.
Solomon Pross a.k.a.John Barsad
A spy and informer who serves as a turnkey in the Conciergerie in Paris; brother of Miss Pross.
Monseigneur a.k.a.Marquis Evrémonde
A proud and brutal French aristocrat who shows no regard for the lower classes.His twin brother (now dead) was Charles Darnay's father,making Darnay next in line to inherit when Monseigneur is murdered by revolutionaries.
Charles Saint Evrémonde a.k.a.Charles Darnay
A French emigrant to England who renounces his French title and inheritance.After being acquitted of charges that he acted as a spy,he marries Lucie Manette.
Mr.Stryver
An ambitious London lawyer with a large ego.He is an old friend of Sydney Carton's who informally pays him to assist him.
Tom
Coachman of the Dover mail coach.
Mrs.Cruncher
The wife of Jerry Cruncher,she is a religious woman whose husband accuses her of praying against him.
Madame Thérèse Defarge
Monsieur Defarge's ruthless wife and the ringleader of the Saint Antoine female revolutionaries.She constantly knits a register of those who deserve to die at the hands of the revolution.
Lucie Manette
Doctor Manette's daughter,who was born in France but brought to London at a young age.She was a ward of Tellson's Bank and thought she was an orphan until Mr.Jarvis Lorry took her to Paris to meet her father.She marries Charles Darnay.
Miss Pross
Lucie Manette's loyal,red-faced maid.
Marquise Saint Evrémonde
Wife of Monseigneur's twin brother and mother of Charles Darnay.
Lucie Saint Evrémonde
Young daughter of Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette.
The Vengeance
A nickname for a friend of Madame Defarge who is a leading revolutionary in Saint Antoine.

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"狄更斯的每一本小说都是如此,只有《双城记》例外；《双城记》的写作风格是灰黯的,不事修饰的,因此许多读者都不愿意在狄更斯的正宗里给它一席之地.”
是这句吧
我的这本是《狄更斯评论集》 上海译文出版社
1981年8月第1版 1982年8月第2次印刷
罗经国编选 乔佖译 选自《狄更斯和二十世纪》第187-197页
查了一下 狄更斯和二十世纪 好像没有全译本 只有这样的选译本 LZ实在不行只能找原版了

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你有人人网账号吗,这找到了,不过在下没账号,复制不了全部,是06年的高考作文
详见网址http://blog.renren.com/share/235030238/7088777117
人给重庆和成都作了个精妙的比喻：重庆是成渝线上九点钟出发的火车,精神的鸣着汽笛；成都是晚上六点钟进站的火车,慢慢的疲惫的.是的,细细想来,重庆是走着的,成都是停着的.
你看那意气风发的朝天门,偏要执拗的长成一艘战舰,身子直直地插到长江中去——那是它正在急行.而成都呢?整个城市都氤氲着一股撩人的茶香——汩汩地从那些高密度的茶馆里溢出.是龙井?是碧螺春?不知.只是那香气像只手似的把你直往茶馆里拽,非等你坐停当了不可.
重庆的山也是走着的.缙云金佛仙女山,一座座不安分的绵亘着；成都的山是“停”着的.在这个地面被盘古悉心打磨过的城市,只有龙泉驿那边的几座丘陵称得上是山,稳稳的停在那里,等人们踏上它青色的肌肤.重庆的水是走着的,两条江是它行走的纤夫；而成都的府南河、浣花溪等都太平静,水似乎都凝固了,痴痴的望着那片少云的天空.
走与停,两种不同的生存方式和人生哲学,早已深深地镌在居民的骨髓里.重庆人豪放精神,神色永远匆匆,成都人闲静安逸,不知忙碌为何物.
求采纳

上世纪与林纾同时闻名的翻译家魏易翻译得好.狄更斯(Charles Dickens)《二城故事》：“时之圣者也,时之凶者也.此亦蒙昧世,此亦智慧世.此亦光明时节,此亦黯淡时节.此亦笃信之年,此亦大惑之年.此亦多丽之阳春,此亦绝念之穷冬.人或万物具备,人或一事无成.我辈其青云直上,我辈其黄泉永坠.”魏易《二城故事》中华书局1913年版

It is a far, far better thing that I can do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better peace that I go to, than I have ever known.
摘自《A Tale of Two Cities》,世图2003年11月版的.书上那句话的后半句中间没有逗号,但是呢,印像中高中英语课本上好像有这个逗号,所以就自作主张地给加上.（自己也觉得汗……MS我好无聊的说……）
PS：请问你给的译文是谁的译本?

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.
那是最美好的时代,那是最糟糕的时代；那是智慧的年头,那是愚昧的年头；那是信仰的时期,那是怀疑的时期；那是光明的季节,那是黑暗的季节；那是希望的春天,那是失望的冬天；我们全都在直奔天堂,我们全都在直奔相反的方向

"A tale of two cities" is one of Dickens's most important representative works.The novel profoundly exposed the society contradiction before the French Revolution,intensely attacks the aristocratic social class is dissolute and cruel,and sincerely sympathizes with the depressed classes.The novel also described many magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked Bastille and so on,which displayed people's GREat strength.The novel has portrayed many different people.Doctor Manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually ,Lucie is beautiful and gentle ,Charles is graceful and noble,Lorry is upright and honest ,Sydney is semblance of indifferent,innermost feelings of warm,unconventional but also selfless and lofty,Miss Pross is straightforward and loyal,Evremonde brothers are cruel and sinister.The complex hatred is hard to solve,the cruel revenge has made more hatreds,loves rebirth in the hell edge,but take the life as the price.