داستان دو شهر
چارلز دیکنز
ابراهیم یونسی
نگاه
بهترین روزگار و بدترین ایام بود. دوران عقل و زمان جهل بود. روزگار اعتقاد و عصر بیباوری بود. موسم نور و ایام ظلمت بود. بهار امید بود و زمستان ناامیدی. همه چیز در پیشروی گسترده بود و چیزی در پیشروی نبود، همه بهسوی بهشت میشتافتیم و همه در جهت عکس ره میسپردیم - الغرض، آن دوره چنان به عصر حاضر شبیه بود که بعضی مقامات جنجالی آن، اصرار داشتند دراینکه مردم باید این وضع را، خوب یا بد، در سلسلهی مراتب قیاسات، فقط با درجهی عالی بپذیرند.
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, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.l
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