英语排比与对偶浅析

排比(Parallelism)和对偶(Antithesis)是英语修辞中两种重要修辞手法。英国著名的小说大师狄更斯(Charles Dickens)在其小说《双城记》(A Tale of Two Cities)的开头部分,运用了一系列的对偶和排比结构,生动形象地概括了当时的欧洲社会状况: (1) 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 Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; We had everything before us, We had