大学英语读书笔记 A Tale of Two Cities

第一篇：A tAle of Two Cities

A tAle of Two Cities

As my desk-mAte told me About the love story of the book, i wAs AttrActed by it. so it is the reAson why i wAnt to reAd this book And shAre it with you.

‘A tAle of Two Cities’ is one book of ‘chArles dickens’, A 19th century english writer who often criticize the society of englAnd And reAlism. the novel is mAinly About exposing the society contrAdiction before the french revolution And indicAting the fAte of englAnd which will be the sAme As frAnce. it is obvious thAt the Two Cities Are pAris And london And the story hAppened between these Two Cities. it hAppened in one evening of december, 1757. dr. mAnAtee wAs forced to pAy A home visit by mArquis st. evremonde. At the home of mArquis st. evremonde the honest And kind doctor sAw the merciless killing AffAir, ‘mArquis st. evremonde brothers rAped A beAutiful peAsAnt womAn just for momentAry cArnAl pleAsure And killed her whole fAmily And A teenAger who wAs hurt by the sword’. the doctor refused to receive the bribery And sent A messAge to the government to impeAch the mArquis st. evremonde. but it wAs so unfortunAtely thAt the messAge wAs hold by the mArquis st. evremonde. so he wAs sent to prison. his wife died Two yeArs lAter And his dAughter lucie mAnAtee wAs brought up by his good friend jArvis lorry And wAs token cAre of by miss pross.18 yeArs lAter, his dAughter found him And took him AwAy from the prison to englAnd with the help of jArvis lorry. they lived A hAppy live there. during the dAy stAying in london, lucie encountered chArles dAnnAy And fell in love with eAch other. when dr. mAnAtee found thAt chArles dAnnAy wAs the son of mArquis st. evremonde, he didn’t breAk up this couple of love. but he forgAve chArles dAnnAy with his kindheArtedness. becAuse chArles dAnnAy wAs A good mAn who wAs different from his fAther. he escApes from his fAmily with chAnging

his nAme And gAve up inheriting the fAmily’s big fortune.

dr. mAnAtee’s old servAnts, the defrAgs, were the leAder of the french revolution. his hotel wAs the point of revolutionAry Activities. they hAted vicious AristocrAts And wrote down All bAd things these AristocrAts hAd done to tAke revenge in the lAter dAys. becAuse of it, chArles dAnnAy wAs innocently involved in And wAs sent to prison Two times. the first time he wAs fortunAtely sAved by lAwyer. As he wAs Arrested bAck to the prison, the pArAlegAl, sydney cArton, who Also loved lucie volunteered to get into the prison to substitute dAnnAy to die becAuse of he wAs so similAr to mr. dAnnAy. in the end dAnnAy And lucie lived with eAch other hAppily. i like this moving story, especiAlly the selfless sydney cArton. on the guillotine, cArton cAlmly dedicAted himself for the love, fulfilling others. the humAn nAture of these kind people in the novel stAnds in stArk contrAst to those AristocrAts.

……此处隐藏9125个字……s of stAgnAtion hAve. And, we cAn deAl with the deficit intelligently, by shAred sAcrifice, with All pArts of the nAtion's fAmily contributing, building pArtnerships with the privAte sector, providing A sound defense without depriving ourselves of whAt we need to feed our children And cAre for our people.

we cAn hAve A future thAt provides for All the young of the present, by mArrying common sense And compAssion. we know we cAn, becAuse we did it for neArly 50 yeArs before 1980.

And we cAn do it AgAin. if we do not forget. if we do not forget thAt this entire nAtion hAs profited by these progressive principles. thAt they helped lift up generAtions to the middle clAss And higher: gAve us A chAnce to work, to go to college, to rAise A fAmily, to own A house, to be secure in our old Age And, before thAt, to reAch heights thAt our own pArents would not hAve dAred dreAm of.

thAt struggle to live with dignity is the reAl story of the shining city. And it's A story, lAdies And gentlemen, thAt i didn't reAd in A book, or leArn in A clAssroom. i sAw it, And lived it. like mAny of you. i wAtched A smAll mAn with thick cAlluses on both hAnds work 15 And 16 hours A dAy. i sAw him once literAlly bleed from the bottoms of his feet, A mAn who cAme here uneducAted, Alone, unAble to speAk the lAnguAge, who tAught me All i needed to know About fAith And hArd work by the simple eloquence of his exAmple. i leArned About our kind of democrAcy from my fAther. And, i leArned About our obligAtion to eAch other from him And from my mother. they Asked only for A chAnce to work And to mAke the world better for their children And they Asked to be protected in those moments when they would not be Able to protect themselves. this nAtion And this nAtion's government did thAt for them.

And thAt they were Able to build A fAmily And live in dignity And see one of their children go from behind their little grocery store in south jAmAicA on the other side of the trAcks where he wAs born, to occupy the highest seAt in the greAtest stAte of the greAtest nAtion in the only world we know, is An ineffAbly beAutiful tribute to the democrAtic process.

And, lAdies And gentlemen, on jAnuAry 20, 1985, it will hAppen AgAin. only on A much, much grAnder scAle. we will hAve A new president of the united stAtes, A democrAt born not to the blood of kings but to the blood of pioneers And immigrAnts. And we will hAve AmericA's first womAn vice president, the child of immigrAnts, And she, she, she will open with one mAgnificent stroke, A whole new frontier for the united stAtes. now, it will hAppen.

it will hAppen - if we mAke it hAppen; if you And i cAn mAke it hAppen.

And i Ask you now - lAdies And gentlemen, brothers And sisters - for the good of All of us - for the love of this greAt nAtion, for the fAmily of AmericA - for the love of god. pleAse, mAke this nAtion remember how futures Are built.

thAnk you And god bless you.