.A Tale of Two Cities (excerpt)狄更斯在双城记一书的开头就说，“这是一个最好的时代，也是一个最坏的时代”。妙哉斯言！这段文字中多个平行句所表达的希望与绝望、光明与黑暗、理想与现实一直深深地打动读者。文中句型的反复、形式上的对偶、内容上的对比、总体结构上的平行（排比），都值得我们细细体味。It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age ofwisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it wasthe epoch of incredulity; it was the season of light, it was the season ofdarkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we hadeverything before us, we had
