从双城记吧转帖过来的一篇，好不好见仁见智，但是绝对是作者原创：
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这是我看完《双城记》后写的两篇英文读后感，并作为英语周记发给了我的English teacher，现在拿出来share一下
A tragedy of the history
Crazily,but truthfully,I finished reading the most part of the novel "A Tale of Two Cities" in just one day.Lost in the story,I felt like being together with the characters and experiencing the same exciting events.Soon it came to an end.To tell you my feelings,it's infinite sadness and a strong emotion that can drive me to cry.
The story is set in London and Paris at the time of the great French Revolution.It shows the causes of revolution and its effects on people's day-to-day lives.Before the revolution,the King and the aristocracy treated their people cruelly in France.The common people were extremely poor and miserable.The crops in the fields were poor as if even the land shared the misery of the people.And there were so heavy taxes that all the villagers had nothing to hand over at last.On the other hand,the aristocracy made their will as the law by using money and gold.There were no justice,no equality and no fairness.Just as what happened to Dr Manette,he wrote to the Minister to show the crime what Marquis Evremonde had done,resulting in himself being arrested and sent to the prison Bastille without any reason.
Then this situation of darkness was needed to be changed.As people such as the Defarges prepared and arranged,at length the Revolution came to break out.When the Bastille was captured and the King was tried and put to death as well as many other aristocrats,things didn't go on as what they had been expected.The sistuation stayed the same,or even worse.The prisoners from the Bastille were set free while more prisons were filled with people who had done no wrong again.People who once lived on the bottom of class took the charge now and their heart had been full of evil.The only thing they wanted to do was to revenge.And these so-called "patriots" would like to see more and more innocent prisoners going to the guillotine and that's their joy.As the novel wrote,"In everything they did were merciless,for they had been hardened in the fires of suffering and the touch of pity could make no mark on them".
Equality and fairness is what people seek,which led to the French Revolution.As a consequence,neither equality nor fairness was got after the revolution.And that's the tragedy of the history.I was heavyhearted when reading what Sydney Carton said before death and I burst into tears finally.
作者：solomon518 封 2008-12-20 20:42 回复此发言

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2 回复：我来晒一下自己写的英文读后感
第二篇
Miss Pross VS. Madame Defarge
From the first minute I read A Tale Of Two Cities forward,I have been in love with this book.The chapter which impressed me most is neither "The Great Escape" nor "Revolution",it's "The Knitting Is Finished",which I'd like to call Miss Pross PK Madame Defarge.
As Mr Lorry had driven a carriage in which lay Darnay and his families to escape from Paris,Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher,the ones who were left because the carriage couldn't be overloaded,had to order another carriage for themselves.When Miss Pross was preparing things alone in the house,a figure appeared unexpectedly,making her cry out.It was Madame Defarge,who came here aiming for Lucie and the child.Madame Defarge knew well that this woman was a trusted friend of the family and Miss Pross knew that the other woman was the family's enemy.Then the combat between two woman began.
Miss Pross was one of those woman who thought nothing of their own needs and who,through pure love and admiration,are ready to make themselves slaves to youth when they have lost it,to beauty which they have never had,and to bright hopes that have never shone upon their own dark lives.As Mr Lorry said,"there is nothing better in the world than the honest service of the heart".Since Miss Pross had become like a mother to Lucie and would have given her life for her,she would do everything she could to keep Madame Defarge in the house so that the carriage carrying Lucie could run farther.
Madame Defarge was a woman with a very keen eye,a strong face and a great calmness of manner.When the French Revolution broke out,it was her who led the woman and cut off the head of the governor of the prison.She had a strong,fealess and a kind of beauty that called attention to her qualities.She had grown up with a deep sense of wrong and a powerful hatred of the arisyocracy;any pity that she once may have had was now dead.To her,Darnay's family must be destroyed,the wife and child must follow the father.
Both were determined woman in their different ways.Hatred had made the heart of the Frenchwoman hard;love now filed the Englishwoman's with coyrage.It's very intereing to see that each woman spoke in her own language and neither understood a word of what the other said while each knew well the other's intention.
As a result of the combat,Madame Defarge died lying on ground and Miss Pross could hear nothing for the rest of her life.That's another tragedy in my heart.
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After reading "A tale of two cities"
双城记读后感
"A tale of two cities" is one of Dickens's most important representative works.The novel profoundly exposed the society contradiction before the French Revolution,intensely attacks the aristocratic social class is dissolute and cruel,and sincerely sympathizes with the depressed classes.The novel also described many magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked Bastille and so on,which displayed people's great strength.
双城记是狄更斯最重要的代表作之一。小说深刻揭示了法国大革命之前的社会矛盾，强烈抨击了贵族阶层的贪婪和残暴，和对最底层人民表达诚挚的同情。小说也描写了很多宏伟的景象，像人民起义摧毁巴士底狱等显示了（法国）人民的自强不息的（精神）
The novel has portrayed many different people. Doctor Manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually ， Lucie is beautiful and gentle ，Charles is graceful and noble，Lorry is upright and honest ，Sydney is semblance of indifferent, innermost feelings of warm,unconventional but also selfless and lofty，Miss Pross is straightforward and loyal，Evremonde brothers are cruel and sinister......The complex hatred is hard to solve, the cruel revenge has made more hatreds, loves rebirth in the hell edge,but take the life as the price.
小说中描写了各式各样的人物。诚实善良但却遭受迫害的马内特医生（Manette) ，美丽温柔的露易丝（Lucie)，礼貌绅士的查尔斯（Charles），正值坦率的劳瑞先生（LORRY)，外冷内热，放荡不羁却又自私傲慢的锡尼（Sydney)，直率忠诚的帕罗丝笑小姐（Pross)，残忍阴险的Evremonde兄弟。。。复杂难解的仇恨，残忍的报复使仇恨更加严重，再绝望中重生的爱情，却以生命作为代价。
As an outstanding writer,in Dickens's work,the language skill is essential.Each kind of rhetoric technique,like the analogy,the exaggeration,the contrast,the humorous,and the taunt are handled skillfully,and the artistry of the work is also delivered the peak.
作为一代杰出的作者，在狄更斯的作品中，语言技巧运用是必不可少的，各式各样的修辞手法，比如推理，夸大，对比，诙谐和讽刺被熟练地运用，作品的艺术性质也达到了巅峰。
"A tale of two cities" has its difference with the general historical novel, its character and the main plot are all fictionalizes.With the broad real background of the French Revolution,the author take the fictional character Doctor Manette's experience as the main clue,interweaves the unjust charge, love and revenge three independences but also incident cross-correlation stories together,the plot is criss-crossed,and the clue is complex.The author use insert narrates,foreshadowing,upholstery and so many techniques,causes the structure integrity and strictness,the plot winding anxious and rich of
theatrical nature,it displayed the remarkable artistic skill.the style "A tale of two cities" is solemnity and melancholy,fills indignantion,but lacks the humor of the early works.
“双城记”与其他历史小说有很大差别，小说中的角色和故事情节全部是以历史事件描写成小说形式。在法国大革命的宏大真实背景下，作者以虚构角色马内特医生的经历作为主线，将不公正的指控，爱情，报仇三个独立又相互关联的故事交织在一起，故事情节错综复杂，作者利用穿插故事，预示，修饰，等众多手法使故事结构完整严谨，故事情节曲折，扣人心弦，极具戏剧效果。充分显示了作者不同寻常的写作技巧。“双城记”的写作风格是严肃悲观，充满了愤慨，但缺少诙谐的（狄更斯）早期作品。
PS. 双城记读过几遍，中学时候读过中英双语缩写版，大学时读过牛津分级英文版，后来又读了原著。 确实写的不错，不过原著的看不太懂。