一个好的开端是怎么样的？
1.托尔斯泰的《安娜卡列尼娜》Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“幸福的家庭都大同小异，不幸的家庭则各有各的不幸”/ All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
2.查尔斯·狄更斯《双城记》A Tale of Two Cities
“这是最好的时代，这是最坏的时代；这是智慧的时代，这是愚蠢的时代；这是信仰的时代，这是怀疑的时代；这是光明的季节，这是黑暗的季节；这是希望之春，这是绝望之冬；我们应有尽有，我们一无所有；我们一起走向天堂，我们一起走向地狱”/This is the best time, this is the worst time; This is the age of wisdom, this is the age of stupidity; This is the age of faith, this is the age of doubt; This is the season of light, this is the season of darkness; This is the spring of hope, this is the winter of despair; We have everything, we have nothing; We go to heaven together, we go to hell together
3.加西亚·马尔克斯《百年孤独》Hundred years of solitude
“许多年之后，面对行刑队，奥雷里亚诺·布恩地亚上校将会回想起，他父亲带他去见识冰块的那个遥远的下午。”/Many years later, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano bundia will recall the distant afternoon when his father took him to see the ice.
4.玛格丽特杜拉斯《情人》 The lover
“我已经老了。有一天，在一个公共大厅里，一个男子向我走来，对我说：“我认识你，我曾经爱过你，那时你还很年轻，但与那时相比，我更爱你现在饱经风霜的容颜。”/I'm old. One day, in a public hall, a man came up to me and said to me, "I know you. I once loved you. You were still young at that time, but I love your weather beaten face more than at that time.
5.阿尔贝·加缪《局外人》outsider
“今天，妈妈死了。也许是昨天，我不知道。”/Today, my mother died. Maybe yesterday, I don't know.
6.菲茨杰拉德《了不起的盖茨比》The Great Gatsby
我年纪还轻，阅历不深的时候，父亲教导过我一句话，我至今还念念不忘。“每逢你想要批评任何人的时候，”他对我说，“你就记住，这个世界上所有的人，并不是个个都拥有你那些优越条件。”/When I was younger and less experienced, my father taught me something that I still remember. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world don't have the advantages that you've had.
7.马塞尔普鲁斯特《追忆似水年华》In Search of Lost Time
“在很长一段时期里，我都是早早就躺下了。”/For a long time, I went to bed early.
8.卡夫卡《变形记》The metamorphosis
“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。”/One morning, Gregor Samsa awoke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant beetle in his bed.
9.埃里奇西格尔《爱情故事》Love story
“一个女孩二十五岁就死了，你能说她什么呢？”/What can you say about a girl who dies at 25?
10.海明威《老人与海》The old man and the sea
“他是个独自在湾流中一条小船上钓鱼的老人，至今已去了八十四天，一条鱼也没逮住。”/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.
11.海明威《永别了，武器》Farewell, weapon
“那一年，树叶早早地飘落了。我们站在房子前，看着队伍行进在大路上，尘土飞扬，树叶被微风吹起，又落下。战士们越走越远，一会儿，大路上除了落叶，又一无所有了。”/That year, the leaves fell early. We stood in front of the house, watching the procession go down the road, the dust flying, the leaves blowing and falling in the breeze. The soldiers walked farther and farther, and soon there was nothing on the road but fallen leaves.
12.奥尔罕·帕慕克《我的名字叫红》My name is Red
“我是一个死人。”/I'm a dead man.
13.陈忠实《白鹿原》White Deer Plain
“白嘉轩后来引以为豪壮的是一生里娶过七房女人。”/Bai Jiaxuan was proud of having married seven women in his life.
14.张爱玲《半生缘》Eighteen Springs
“日子过得真快，尤其对于中年以后的人，十年八年都好象是指顾间的事。可是对于年轻人，三年五载就可以是一生一世。”/Time flies, especially after middle age, when ten or eight years seem to mean nothing. But for young people, three or five years can be a lifetime.
15.金庸《射雕英雄传》修订版Legend of the Condor Heroes
“钱塘江浩浩江水，日日夜夜无穷无休地从临安牛家村边绕过，东流入海。江畔一排数十株乌桕树，叶子似火烧般红，正是八月天时。村前村后的野草刚起始变黄，一抹斜阳映照之下，更增了几分萧索。两株大松树下围着一堆村民，男男女女和十几个小孩，正自聚精会神地听着一个瘦削的老者说话。”/Qiantang River water, endless day and night from Lin 'an Niujia village side bypass, east into the sea. Many of the Chinese tallow trees in the riverside exercise are as red as fire, so it is the August day. The weeds in front of the village and behind the village just began to turn yellow, under the reflection of a set sun, a bit more bleak. A group of villagers, men, women and a dozen children, were gathered round two large pines, listening attentively to a gaunt old man.
16.哈金《等待》Wait
“每年夏天，孔林都回到鹅庄同妻子淑玉离婚。”/Every summer, Kong Returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife shuyu.
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