关于主题这是最好的时代,这是最坏的时代;这是笃信的时代,这是猜忌的时代;这是希翼的春天,这是无望的冬天。每次想到狄更斯《双城记》中的这几句,总不免苦笑,这是说维多利亚时期的英国还是现在的中国呢?我们无法附会作家的原意,可是除此,又当怎样面对如今这个在自大与卑微、深厚与鄙俗、智慧与无知之间严重分裂,而我们却生于斯长于斯,因绝对的爱而怒其不争的中国?唯一能确定的是,这还算是一个“大时代”——因 On the theme This is the best time, this is the worst time; this is the era of trust, this is the age of suspicion; This is the hope of the spring, this is the hopeless winter. Every time I think of these words in Dickens’s Twins, I can not help but smile. Does this mean that Britain in the Victorian era is still the present China? We can not agree with the original intention of writers, but besides, Big and humble, deep and vulgar, between wisdom and ignorance, and we were born in Sri Lanka, indignant in China because of absolute love. The only certainty is that this is still a “big era ”--because