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1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)

“叫我以赛马利。”——赫尔曼•梅尔维尔《白鲸》

2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
“凡有产业的单身汉，总要娶位太太，这已经成了一条举世公认的真理。”——简•奥斯汀《傲慢与偏见》

3. A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
“一声尖叫划过天际。”——托马斯•品钦《万有引力之虹》

4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa)
许多年后，面对行刑队，奥雷良诺•布恩地亚上校将会回想，他父亲带他去见识冰块的那个遥远的下午。——加西亚•马尔克斯《百年孤独》

5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)
洛丽塔，我生命之光，我欲念之火。我的罪恶，我的灵魂。洛一丽一塔：舌尖向上，分三步，从上颚往下轻轻落在牙齿上。洛一丽一塔。 ——弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫《洛丽塔》

6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)
幸福的家庭家家相似，不幸的家庭各各不同。——列夫•托尔斯泰《安娜•卡列尼娜》

7. riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. —James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939)

长河沉寂地流向前去，流过夏娃和亚当的教堂，从弯弯的河岸流进，流经大弧形的海湾，沿著宽敞的大道，把我们带回霍斯堡和郊外。——詹姆斯·乔伊斯《芬尼根守灵夜》

8. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
四月间，天气寒冷晴朗，钟敲了十三下。——乔治•奥威尔《一九八四》

9. 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. —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
“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，那时跟现在非常相像，某些最喧嚣的权威坚持要用形容同的最高级来形容它。说它好，是最高级的；说它不好，也是最高级的。” ——查尔斯•狄更斯《双城记》