Per aspera ad astra.
🔖 这是我的第 2,158 篇原创
开 篇段落是读者接触作品的第一印象，也是决定小说情感氛围和叙事风格的重要组成部分，说"开篇决定生死，细节决定成败"，一点也不为过。
从今天开始，分五期和小伙伴们一起欣赏34部畅销小说的开篇。
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
- The Hobbit (1937) by J.R.R.Tolkien
在地底的洞府中住着一个霍比特人。这不是那种让人恶心的洞，脏兮兮湿乎乎的，长满虫子，透着一股子泥腥味儿；也不是那种满是沙子的洞，干巴巴光秃秃的，没地方好坐，也没东西好吃。这是一个霍比特人的洞，而霍比特人的洞就意味着舒适。
- J·R·R·托尔金《霍比特人》(1937)
类型：奇幻
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You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
你如果没读过《汤姆·索亚历险记》，就不知道我是谁。不过，那也无所谓。那本书是马克·吐温写的，他写的差不多都是实情。
-马克·吐温《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》(1884)
类型：冒险，海明威评价这本书：所有现代美国文学都源于这本书。
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This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
- Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut
这是在一个快要死去的星球上两个孤苦伶仃、瘦骨嶙峋、年纪相当老的白人见面的故事。
- 库尔特·冯内古特《冠军早餐》(1973)
类型：幽默讽刺
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
凡是有财产的单身汉，必定需要娶位太太，这已经成了一条举世公认的真理。
- 简·奥斯丁《傲慢与偏见》(1813)
类型：爱情
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They're out there.
Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
他们在外头。
穿白色制服的黑男孩们起得比我早，他们公然在大厅里性交，然后在我能抓到他们前把大厅都擦干净。
- 肯·克西《飞跃疯人院》
类型：反体制
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It was a pleasure to burn.
- Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
烧东西乐趣无穷。
- 雷·布雷德伯利《华氏451度》(1953)
类型：科幻，反乌托邦
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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
- The Princess Bride (1973) by William Goldman
这是全世界我最爱的一本书，尽管我从未读过它。
- 威廉·高德曼《公主新娘》(1973)
类型：奇幻
*被《纽约客》誉为"20世纪最迷人的小说开场之一"
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
- 1984 (1949) by George Orwell
这是四月里的一天，天气晴朗却又寒冷，时钟敲了十三下。
- 乔治·奥威尔《1984》(1949)
类型：反乌托邦
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