大家在看小说的时候，如果翻开书本看到一个很妙的开头，下一秒就会继续读下去。看看下面那些世界级经典小说的绝妙开头，哪一个让你有了抓起书来一口气读完的冲动呢？你是否从中可以学到一些开场白的技巧呢？
Catcher in the Rye《麦田里的守望者》 by J. D. Sailinger (塞林格）
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
如果你对我的故事充满好奇，你第一件想要知道的事情一定是我生于何处，童年如何，以及在生下我之前父母的罗曼史，还有David Copperfield 是怎样一个烂人。但是坦白地讲，这些我都不想写。
One Hundred Years of Solitude 《百年孤独》 by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (马尔克斯）
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad , Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
多年以后，奥雷连诺上校站在行刑队面前，准会想起父亲带他去参观冰块的那个遥远的下午.
The great Gastsby 《了不起的盖茨比》 by F. S. Fitzgerald (菲茨杰拉德）
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
当我还年轻，阅历尚浅的时候，我父亲教导我一句话，我至今念念不忘。“你想批评别人之前，”他说，“记住不是每个人都像你那么好命.”
The old man and the sea 《老人与海》 by Earnest Hemingway (海明威）
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week.
他一个老人，划着小船独自在墨西哥湾中捕鱼；八十四天了还没有捕到过一条鱼。最初的四十天里，小男孩一直都跟着他，而四十天后，男孩的父母便告诉孩子：这老人的运气肯定是跌倒了谷底，简直就是倒霉透顶了。于是男孩在他父母亲的命令下，转到了另外一条船上去捕鱼，结果不出一个星期，就捕到了三条大鱼。
Pride and Prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》 by Jane Austen (简·奥斯汀）
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
毫无疑问，单身钻石王老五都渴望有娇妻相伴.
A Tale of Two Cities 《双城记》 by Charles Dickens (狄更斯）
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darckness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
那是美好的时代，那是最糟糕的时代；那是智慧的年头，那是愚昧的年头；那是信仰的时期，那是怀疑的时期；那是光明的季节，那是黑暗的季节；那是希望的春天，那是失望的冬天。
