1.Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre 夏洛蒂·勃朗特《简·爱》
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.
那天，出去散步是不可能了。其实，早上我们还在光秃秃的灌木林中溜达了一个小时，但从午饭时起(无客造访时，里德太太很早就用午饭)便刮起了冬日凛冽的寒风，随后阴云密布，大雨滂沱，室外的活动也就只能作罢了。
《简·爱》是一部带有自传色彩的长篇小说，它阐述了这样一个主题：人的价值=尊严+爱。小说开头所展现给我们的场景便如女主人公的性格和遭遇：纯净如水中蕴含着矛盾和激情。
2.Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights 艾米莉·勃朗特《呼啸山庄》
1801. - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven.
1801年，我刚刚拜访过我的房东回来——就是那个将要给我惹麻烦的孤独的邻居。这儿可真是一个美丽的乡间。在整个英格兰境内，我不相信我竟能找到这样一个能与尘世的喧嚣完全隔绝的地方，一个厌世者的理想的天堂。
小说开头便透过一位房客的视角描绘呼啸山庄的美景，从而引出后文，一步步发现美景下的种种不谐调，使人产生强烈的探知欲望。
3.Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time 普鲁斯特《追忆似水年华》
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say "I'm going to sleep." And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me.
在很长一段时期里，我都是早早就躺下了。有时候，蜡烛才灭，我的眼皮儿随即合上，都来不及咕哝一句“我要睡着了”。半小时之后，我才想到应该睡觉。这一想，我反倒清醒过来。
这部影响深远的意识流小说，开篇便与众不同。主人翁在蒙胧与清醒的交错之间，千思百绪集于心头，水到渠成地引出下文。
4.Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude 马尔克斯《百年孤独》
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buenda was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs.
很多年以后，奥雷连诺上校站在行刑队面前，准会想起父亲带他去参观冰块的那个遥远的下午。当时，马孔多是个20户人家的村庄，一座座土房都盖在河岸上，河水清澈，沿着遍布石头的河床流去，河里的石头光滑、洁白，活像史前的巨蛋。
这部“再现拉丁美洲历史社会图景的鸿篇巨著”，一开篇便将读者拉入一个颇具魔幻色彩的境地。“遍布石头的河床像史前的巨蛋”，引人入胜，令人遐想。
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”腐国第一毒舌王尔德如是说。
欢迎大家留言交流自己喜欢的小说／名著，没准我也读过呢～
