狄更斯是十九世紀英國最偉大的作家，他在自己的作品中，以高超的藝術手法，描繪了包羅萬象的社會圖景，塑造出眾多令人難忘的人物形象。他的三十多年來的創作生涯，為英國文學和世界文學作出了卓越的貢獻，他的代表作《雙城記》深刻描寫18世紀封建制度下日漸腐敗的歐洲貴族，鮮明地將貴族長期殘害百姓、草營人命的惡行公諸于世。狄更斯生動地刻畫出平民百姓受苦受難的悲慘生活。人民生活在困苦無助、饑寒交迫、貧病連連、受盡欺壓的困境中，他們心中郁積了對貴族的刻骨深仇，終于引發了推翻政權、爭取自由的法國大革命。

雙城記經典語錄

　　1.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 Psent period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

　　那是最美好的時代，那是最糟糕的時代;那是智慧的年頭，那是愚昧的年頭;那是信仰的時期，那是懷疑的時期;那是光明的季節，那是黑暗的季節;那是希望的春天，那是失望的冬天;我們全都在直奔天堂，我們全都在直奔相反的方向--簡而言之，那時跟現在非常相象，某些最喧囂的權威堅持要用形容詞的最高級來形容它。說它好，是最高級的;說它不好，也是最高級的。

　　2.It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

　　我現在已做的遠比我所做過的一切都美好;我將獲得的休息遠比我所知道的一切都甜蜜。

　　3.Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

　　縱然傷心，也不要愁眉不展，因為你不知是誰會愛上你的笑容。

　　4.To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

　　對于世界而言，你是一個人;但是對于某個人，你是他的整個世界。

　　5.Don‘t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn‘t willing to waste their time on you.

　　不要為那些不愿在你身上花費時間的人而浪費你的時間。

　　6.Just because someone doesn‘t love you the way you want them to, doesn‘t mean they don‘t love you with all they have.

　　愛你的人如果沒有按你所希望的方式來愛你，那并不代表他們沒有全心全意地愛你。

　　7.Don‘t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.

　　不要著急，最好的總會在最不經意的時候出現。

　　8.Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.

　　在遇到夢中人之前，上天也許會安排我們先遇到別的人;在我們終于遇見心儀的人時，便應當心存感激。

　　9.Don‘t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.

　　不要因為結束而哭泣，微笑吧，為你的曾經擁有。

　　10.If you love someone， let it be and set him/her free，if he/she comes back to you，it"s meant to be.

　　如果你愛一個人，隨遇而安，讓他/她自由的飛，如果最后他/她還是回到你身邊，那就是命中注定的。

　　11.I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

　　我愛你，不是因為你是一個怎樣的人，而是因為我喜歡與你在一起時的感覺。

　　12.No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won‘t make you cry.

　　沒有人值得你流淚，值得讓你這么做的人不會讓你哭泣。

　　13.The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can‘t have them.

　　失去某人，最糟糕的莫過于，他近在身旁，卻猶如遠在天邊。