《双城记》经典语录：英文原文与中文翻译
A Tale of Two Cities
从查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》中选出的15句经典语录，英文原文下附中文翻译。每一句都直接摘自原书。整本书可以免费阅读，配有翻译、朗读和词典。
He opened it in the light of the coach-lamp on that side, and read—first to himself and then aloud: “‘Wait at Dover for Mam’selle.’ It’s not long, you see, guard. Jerry, say that my answer was, Recalled to life.”
他就着那一边车灯的光把信拆开，先自己看，然后念出声来：「在多佛等候小姐。」你看，并不长，卫兵。杰里，就说我的答复是：复活。
出自“CHAPTER II. The Mail”
The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.
时候总会来到，那时这酒也要泼在街石上，那酒渍会在许多人身上染成红色。
出自“CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop”
“Is it possible!” repeated Defarge, bitterly. “Yes. And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done—done, see you!—under that sky there, every day. Long live the Devil. Let us go on.”
「这可能吗！」德法热痛苦地重复道。「是的。我们活在多么美好的世界里，既然这可能，既然许多别的这类事也可能，而且不仅可能，还做出来了，你看，就在那片天空下，天天都在做。魔鬼万岁。我们走吧。」
出自“CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop”
“It is a long time,” repeated his wife; “and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.”
「时间很长，」他妻子重复道，「什么时候又不长呢？复仇和报应本来就需要很长时间，这是规律。」
出自“CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting”
“The wives and mothers we have been used to see, since we were as little as this child, and much less, have not been greatly considered? We have known their husbands and fathers laid in prison and kept from them, often enough? All our lives, we have seen our sister-women suffer, in themselves and in their children, poverty, nakedness, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery, oppression and neglect of all kinds?”
「从我们像这孩子这么小，不，比这还小的时候起，我们见惯的那些妻子和母亲，难道就很少被人放在心上吗？我们难道不是常常知道她们的丈夫和父亲被关进监狱，和她们分开吗？我们一辈子不是都看见我们的姐妹女人，她们自己，还有她们的孩子，受着贫穷、衣不蔽体、饥饿、干渴、疾病、苦难、压迫和种种冷落吗？」
出自“CHAPTER III. The Shadow”
“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, ‘I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!’ your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?”
「如果你今晚能真心地对自己孤独的心说：『我没有为自己保住任何人的爱和依恋，感激或尊敬；我没有在任何人的心里赢得一个温柔的位置；我没有做过任何值得人记住的善事或有用的事！』那么你的七十八岁就会是七十八重沉重的诅咒，不是吗？」
出自“CHAPTER IX. The Game Made”
“That’s well. I have known such energy as yours do great things before now—though never,” he added, with a smile and a sigh together, “such great things as this. But try! Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.”
「那就好。我见过像你这样的劲头做出过大事，不过，」他带着微笑和叹息一起说道，「从没做出过这样大的事。可是试试吧！人生被我们糟蹋时虽然不值什么，却值得这一番努力。要不是这样，放下它也不费什么。」
出自“CHAPTER XI. Dusk”
“What I have been thinking as we came along, and what I am still thinking now, as I look into your kind strong face which gives me so much support, is this:—If the Republic really does good to the poor, and they come to be less hungry, and in all ways to suffer less, she may live a long time: she may even live to be old.”
「我们一路来时我在想的，现在望着你这张善良坚强的脸，给了我这么多支持，我仍在想的，就是这个：如果共和国真的对穷人有益，让他们不那么饥饿，在各方面都少受些苦，她也许能活很久，甚至可能活到老。」
出自“CHAPTER XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever”
She kisses his lips; he kisses hers; they solemnly bless each other. The spare hand does not tremble as he releases it; nothing worse than a sweet, bright constancy is in the patient face. She goes next before him—is gone; the knitting-women count Twenty-Two.
她吻他的嘴唇，他吻她的嘴唇，他们庄严地互相祝福。他松开那只空着的手时，它没有颤抖，那张忍耐的脸上只有一种甜美明亮的坚贞。她走在他前面，去了，编织的妇女们数到二十二。
出自“CHAPTER XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever”
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.
英格兰王位上坐着一位大下巴的国王和一位相貌平庸的王后，法国王位上坐着一位大下巴的国王和一位面容姣好的王后。在两国，那些掌管国家面包和鱼塘的权贵们都看得比水晶还清楚：天下事总的来说已经永远定下来了。
出自“Book the First, Recalled to Life”
“There is a great crowd coming one day into our lives, if that be so,” Sydney Carton struck in, in his moody way.
「要是那样，总有一天会有一大群人闯进我们的生活，」西德尼·卡顿用他那郁郁寡欢的口气插嘴说。
出自“CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People”
A wonderful corner for echoes, it has been remarked, that corner where the Doctor lived. Ever busily winding the golden thread which bound her husband, and her father, and herself, and her old directress and companion, in a life of quiet bliss, Lucie sat in the still house in the tranquilly resounding corner, listening to the echoing footsteps of years.
有人说过，医生住的那个角落是个回声奇妙的地方。露西坐在那安静的房子里的这个静静回响的角落，始终忙碌地编织着那根金线，把她丈夫、她父亲、她自己，还有她那位年老的导师和伴侣，系在一种宁静的幸福生活里，听着岁月回响的脚步声。
出自“CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps”
“Ah! But it’s not my business. My work is my business. See my saw! I call it my Little Guillotine. La, la, la; La, la, la! And off his head comes!”
「啊！可这不是我的事。我的事就是我的活计。看我的锯子！我叫它我的小断头台。啦，啦，啦，啦，啦，啦！他的脑袋就掉下来了！」
出自“CHAPTER V. The Wood-Sawyer”
Before that unjust Tribunal, there was little or no order of procedure, ensuring to any accused person any reasonable hearing. There could have been no such Revolution, if all laws, forms, and ceremonies, had not first been so monstrously abused, that the suicidal vengeance of the Revolution was to scatter them all to the winds.
在那个不公正的法庭面前，几乎没有或根本没有程序规则，保证任何被告得到任何合理的申辩。如果一切法律、形式和礼仪不是先被那样骇人听闻地滥用，以致革命那自杀式的复仇要把它们统统抛散到风中，也就不可能发生这样一场革命。
出自“CHAPTER IX. The Game Made”
“She has a fine head for it,” croaked Jacques Three. “I have seen blue eyes and golden hair there, and they looked charming when Samson held them up.” Ogre that he was, he spoke like an epicure.
「她这颗脑袋正合适，」雅克三号嘶哑地说。「我在那儿见过蓝眼睛和金头发，参孙把它们举起来时，看上去真迷人。」他虽是个吃人恶魔，说起话来却像个美食家。
出自“CHAPTER XIV. The Knitting Done”
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