作為既正宗又地道的英語文學，英國小說可謂是英語好學僧的最愛。《簡愛》、《呼嘯山莊》、《大衛•科波菲爾》等英文名著也是英語學霸的傍身利器。最近，英國廣播公司（BBC）為了搞清楚歪果仁對英國文學的看法，特別調查了82位來自全球各地的書籍評論家，列出了一份英國最經久不衰的小說書單。其中前10部最受歡迎的經典名著都有哪些？你又看過幾部？沒看過的，2016年可要抓緊啦！不過，如果你感覺一口氣讀完壓力山大，至少其中的十個名句先收藏起來~
喬治•艾略特 George Eliot
A novel of great characters, it's an even greater novel of ideas and ideals.Middlemarch is the greatest social and psychological novel ever written in English.
這部小說人物角色卓越，更精妙之處在於其想法與理念。《米德爾馬契》是迄今最偉大的用英文寫就的社會和心理學小說。
……for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
世上善的增長，一部分也有賴於那些微不足道的行為，而你我的遭遇之所以不致如此悲慘，一半也得力於那些不求聞達，忠誠地度過一生，然後安息在無人憑弔的墳墓中的人們。
維吉尼亞•伍爾芙 Virginia Woolf
Subtle, beautiful, staggeringly intelligent and flat-out original. A masterpiece of modernism, its stream-of-consciousness, richness of language and perceptions has continued to reveal itself.
細膩美妙、智慧驚人，極其新穎獨到。現代派的大師之作，運用意識流寫法，其語言豐富、觀察敏銳，不言自明。
What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.
生命的意義是什麼？如此而已——一個十分簡單的問題；一個隨著年華的消逝會向你越逼越近的問題。那偉大的啟示從來沒有出現。也許那偉大的啟示永遠也不會出現。 出現的是日常生活中小小的奇蹟、啟發、仿佛在黑暗中意外地擦亮了的火柴。
維吉尼亞•伍爾芙 Virginia Woolf
If the most precious gift of the novel as a medium is the power it has to break into the prison of human consciousness, to expose the gossamer weave of thought and feeling and memory that makes up our innermost lives, then Woolf's fourth novel stands alone at the pinnacle.
如果說小說作為媒介最天才之處在於其破除人類意識的囹圄、暴露人們那些構成內在世界的細若蛛絲的思緒、情感和記憶，那麼伍爾芙的這第四部小說就是孤立巔峰之作。
……but that somehow in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things, here there, she survived. Peter survived, lived in each other, she being part, she was positive, of the trees at home; of the house there, ugly, rambling all to bits and pieces as it was; part of people she had never met; being laid out like a mist between the people she knew best, who lifted her on their branches as she had seen the trees lift the mist, but it spread ever so far, her life, herself.
但是不知何故在倫敦的大街上，在這裡、在那裡，經歷了人世盛衰，她倖存下來了，彼得倖存下來了，活在彼此的心中。她堅信自己是故鄉樹林的一部分，是那棟醜陋的、破敗不堪的房屋的一部分，是那些素未謀面的人們的一部分。她如薄霧一般在最熟悉的人們中間鋪散開來，這些人把她擎在他們的枝蔓上，正如她曾見過的樹木託著薄霧，而她卻蔓延得如此遙遠，她的生活、她自身。
查爾斯•狄更斯 Charles Dickens
Great Expectations might be the quintessential British novel. To re-read Dickens' classic as an adult is to discover its wit and brio, its influence, and its truth. It has all the elements of classic Dickens — endearing, flawed characters; a plot that skewers the politics of the time; subplots that skewer morality and culture; a love story; and a wonderful storyline.
《遠大前程》或許是最地道的英國小說。成年讀者重溫狄更斯經典，就會發現其智慧與精彩、影響與真理。《遠大前程》有狄更斯經典的所有元素，討人歡喜卻不完美的角色、主要故事情節能牽住時局、副線情節串起道德與文化，是部情節精彩的愛情故事作品。
I love her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all.
我愛她是違背常理，是妨礙前程，是失去自製，是破滅希望，是斷送幸福，是註定要嘗盡一切的沮喪和失望的。可是，一旦愛上了她，我再也不能不愛她。
夏洛蒂•勃朗特 Charlotte Brontë
Brontë's revolutionary 1847 Gothic romance about a young woman seeking a richer and more passionate life on her own still resonates with modern readers.
勃朗特這部哥德式愛情傳奇出版於1847年，內容革新，講述了一個年輕女性追尋更為充實激情的生活，至今仍能引起現代讀者的共鳴。
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit...
你以為我貧窮、低微、不美、緲小，我就沒有靈魂，沒有心嗎？你想錯了，我和你有一樣多的靈魂，一樣充實的心。如果上帝賜予我一點美，許多錢，我就要你難以離開我，就像我現在難以離開你一樣。我現在不是以社會生活和習俗的準則和你說話，而是我的心靈同你的心靈講話。
查爾斯•狄更斯 Charles Dickens
Bleak House is among Dickens novels, uniquely original in its alternation of first-person past-tense chapters with a concurrent third-person account in present tense.
《荒涼山莊》是狄更斯的小說之一，以第一人稱過去時所寫的章節與第三人稱現在時的敘述並行，兩者間的切換新穎獨到。
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
愛情能持之以恆才是一件好事；可是，如果在別的方面沒有恆心，那麼愛情方面的恆心也就一文不值，毫無意義了。
艾米莉•勃朗特 Emily Brontë
Readers admire Wuthering Heights because of "its layered narrative structure", because it is a work of incredible imagination, and because it is far more than a love story. The story shows "the eternal rocks beneath" our fleeting desires.
讀者推崇《呼嘯山莊》是因為其「層層疊疊的敘述結構」和豐富驚人的想像力，更因為《呼嘯山莊》超越了愛情故事本身，展現了我們轉瞬即逝的欲望之下「永恆的震撼」。
He shall never know how I love him; and that not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
他永遠也不知道我是這麼愛他，並不是因為他長的英俊，而是因為他比我更像我自己。不管我們的靈魂是什麼做的，他的和我的是完全一樣的。
查爾斯•狄更斯 Charles Dickens
David Copperfield is populated by some of the most vivid characters ever created. They are as much a part of readers' world, and their way of thinking about the world, as people they have actually met.
這部小說雲集了眾多鮮活的人物，他們有的仿佛就生活在讀者身邊，他們看待世界的方式也和讀者在現實中遇到的人相似。
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
年收入二十英鎊，如果每年花銷十九鎊十九先令六便士，結果是幸福。年收入二十英鎊，如果每年花銷二十英鎊六便士，結果是痛苦。
瑪莉•雪萊 Mary Shelley
This pioneering work of science fiction and Gothic horror developed an indelible "monster" of a theme that has endured for centuries: of the scientist as a "modern Prometheus".
這部先鋒作品集科幻和哥德式恐怖於一身，營造了一個難以磨滅的「惡魔」主題，即科學家中的「現代普羅米修斯」，幾世紀以來經久不衰。
Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good — misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
別忘了，我是你創造出來的啊，我應該是你的「亞當」啊。但是現在我卻像一個被貶謫下界的天使，無緣無故被你剝奪了快樂。我看到處都充滿了幸福，可是單單我一個被排除在外。我本性也是仁慈、善良的，都是痛苦讓我變成了惡魔。請你讓我獲得幸福吧，這樣我就會重新變成品德高尚的人。
威廉•梅克皮斯•薩克雷
William Makepeace Thackeray
This novel features probably the greatest anti-heroine in English literature, Becky Sharp, and a plot that revolves around class, social climbing and a financial crisis that will seem eerily familiar to modern readers.
這部小說的主角或許是英國文學史上最知名的非正統派女主角——貝奇•夏普，小說的情節圍繞階級、躋身上流社會以及引發現代讀者奇異的熟悉感的金融危機。
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
這世界是一面鏡子，每個人都可以在裡面看見自己的影子。你對它皺眉，它還給你一副尖酸的嘴臉。你對著它笑，跟著它樂，它就是個高興和善的伴侶；所以年輕人必須在這兩條道路裡面自己選擇。