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《新概念英语第三册》 A Chance in a Million一课中有这么一段句话：In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences——most of them wildly improbable. 这正是小说的魅力：源于生活，却高于生活。一部好的小说一定要有一个引人入胜，让人欲罢不能的开头。看看下面这十个最经典的小说开头，是不是让你瞬间有了抓起书来一口气读完的冲动呢？ 1. You better not never tell nobody but God。除了上帝，对谁都要守口如瓶，切记。 ——The Color Purple《紫色》 2. They shoot the white girl first。他们先开枪打死了那个白人女孩。 ——Paradise《天堂》 3. Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu。军医孔林每年夏天都要回农村老家跟妻子淑玉商量一次离婚。 ——Waiting《等待》 4. 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。 | 
