Can You Identify These 8 Opening Lines?
How many will you get right?
你能答对几个？
1、"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
“这是最好的时代，这是最坏的时代。” —— 查尔斯·狄更斯 《双城记》
2、"Call me Ishmael."
“叫我以西玛尔吧。” —— 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔 《白鲸》
3、"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
“幸福的家庭总是相似的，而不幸的家庭则各有各的不幸。” —— 列夫·托尔斯泰《安娜·卡列娜》
4、"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
“一个单身男人拥有大量的财富，一定需要一个妻子，这是一个举世公认的真理。” —— 简·奥斯汀《傲慢与偏见》
5、"You better not never tell nobody but God."
“除了上帝，对谁都要守口如瓶，切记。” —— 艾丽斯·沃克《紫色》
6、"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap,but I don't feel like going into it ,if you want to know the truth."
如果你对我的故事充满好奇，你第一件想要知道的事情一定是我生于何处，童年如何，以及在生下我之前父母的罗曼史，还有大卫·科波菲尔式废话。但是坦白地讲，这些我都不想写。—— 杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格《麦田里的守望者》
7、"Where's Papa going with that ax?"
“爸爸拿着那把斧头去哪儿了？” —— 埃尔文·布鲁克斯·怀特《夏洛特的网》
8、"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
“那是四月里一个明媚寒冷的日子，钟声敲响了十三点。” —— 乔治·奥威尔《1984》
2026年1月14日于经典龙苑
