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寒夜客来茶当酒，竹炉汤沸火初红。岁月流转，暮寒冬深，我们与亲人相邀围炉煮茶，把盏言欢，倾听光阴镌刻的故事，静享亲情相伴的温暖。本期为大家推荐英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯创作的《圣诞故事集》中的代表作《人生的战斗》。让我们一起翻开书页，伴着梅花的幽香，品读书中浪漫唯美的爱情故事。律回春渐，新元肇启，祝愿大家在新的一年欢愉且胜意，万事皆可期。
《人生的战斗》是英国作家狄更斯的“圣诞小说”系列之一，创作于1845年。故事发生于一个重建在古老战场上的小镇，本着“人生就是一场闹剧，其中并无半点严肃或正经的东西”看待生活的杰德勒医生却拥有两个对人生抱持另一种看法的女儿，姐姐与妹妹相亲相爱，却同时恋着同一个青年，姐姐极力隐藏自己的情感，妹妹则选择出走来成全姐姐。该作是一篇动人的爱情故事，作者在其中寄予了对劳动人民的深切同情，寄托了劝人为善的美好希望。
查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens，1812-1870），英国杰出批判现实主义小说家，特别注意描写生活在英国社会底层的“小人物”的生活遭遇，深刻地反映了当时英国复杂的社会现实，为英国批判现实主义文学的开拓和发展作出了贡献。在艺术上，他以妙趣横生的幽默笔触、细致入微的心理分析，以及现实主义描写与浪漫主义气氛有机结合著称。凭借勤奋与天赋，狄更斯一生创作了大批经典著作，至今依然盛行，对英国文学发展起到了深远影响。
英国批判现实主义大师查尔斯·狄更斯
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也许，那个紧连着一所门口长满忍冬草的古老石头房子的小小果园比任何别的地方都起了更大的变化。一百多年前，在一个明朗的秋天早晨，那里到处充满着音乐和欢笑声，两个姑娘愉快地在草地上跳舞，五六个站在梯子上摘苹果的农妇停下来往下瞧着，同她们分享欢乐。这是一片既欢乐生动而又自然的景象：美好的天气，幽静的环境，两个自由自在、无忧无虑的姑娘在尽情愉快地跳着舞。
要是世界上不存在炫耀之类的事情——这是我个人意见，我希望你也会同意——我们或许会比现在生活得更加美好，我们之间或许会相处得比现在融洽得多。看着这两个姑娘跳舞真是迷人呢，除了梯子上那几个摘苹果的妇女，她们没有别的观众。她们很乐于让这些人高兴，可她们这会儿跳舞仅仅是为了自己欢乐（你至少可以这样设想）；就像她们禁不住要跳舞那样，你也会禁不住要夸奖她们，她们跳得多好呀！
……这一对姑娘在果树林里跳着，一直跳到光秃秃的小树丛尽头，然后又转回来，轻盈地绕着一圈又一圈，她们活泼快乐的舞步在阳光普照下产生的影响仿佛在不断扩大，就像水中那一圈圈扩大的波纹。她们那飘拂的头发和摆动的衣裙，脚下那片富有弹性的青草地，晨风中飒飒作响的树枝，闪亮的树叶和洒在柔软的青草地上斑斑点点的影子，掠过这整片风景地区并将远处的风车愉快地转动的和风——总之，那两个姑娘周围的所有这一切，连同正在地头耕耘的那个男人和他的一队牲口——此刻衬映在蓝天之下，仿佛是世上唯一的存在物——似乎也都翩翩起舞了。
Nowhere more altered, perhaps, about a hundred years ago, than in one little orchard attached to an old stone house with a honey-suckle porch: where, on a bright autumn morning, there were sounds of music and laughter, and where two girls danced merrily together on the grass, while some half-dozen peasant women standing on ladders, gathering the apples from the trees, stopped in their work to look down, and share their enjoyment. It was a pleasant, lively, natural scene; a beautiful day, a retired spot; and the two girls, quite unconstrained and careless, danced in the very freedom and gaiety of their hearts.
If there were no such thing as display in the world, my private opinion is, and I hope you agree with me, that we might get on a great deal better than we do, and might be infinitely more agreeable company than we are. It was charming to see how these girls danced. They had no spectators but the apple-pickers on the ladders. They were very glad to please them, but they danced to please themselves (or at least you would have supposed so); and you could no more help admiring, than they could help dancing. How they did dance!
… As they danced among the orchard trees, and down the groves of stems and back again, and twirled each other lightly round and round, the influence of their airy motion seemed to spread and spread, in the sun-lighted scene, like an expanding circle in the water. Their streaming hair and fluttering skirts, the elastic grass beneath their feet, the boughs that rustled in the morning air – the flashing leaves, their speckled shadows on the soft green ground – the balmy wind that swept along the landscape, glad to turn the distant windmill, cheerily – everything between the two girls, and the man and team at plough upon the ridge of land, where they showed against the sky as if they were the last things in the world – seemed dancing too.
——英文原文节选自“The Battle of Life” (Christmas Books, Ware : Wordsworth, 1995.），索书号：I561.44/D548c/W.ed
alter
v. 改变，变更
attach
vt. 缚上，系上，贴上；使依附，使隶属，使依恋
display
vt. 陈列，展览；显示
n. 陈列；展览；展示
influence
n. 影响；作用；势力，权势
vt. 影响，感化
elastic
adj. 弹性的
n. 松紧带；橡皮圈
balmy
adj. 芳香的；温和的；止痛的
（单词注释来自有道词典）
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