Charles Dickens

查尔斯·狄更斯

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth.

查尔斯·1812年2月7日，狄更斯出生于朴茨茅斯。

Finances were a constant concern for his family. The expenses of having a large family were too much for his father's salary.

金钱问题一直是他家的隐患，他父亲的工资支撑不了一大家子的开销。

Charles' education was unplanned, but he supplemented（填补） it with constant reading, particularly of the eighteenth-century novels in his father's small library.

查尔斯每天都在上学，但他总是通过读书来弥补，经常在父亲的小图书馆里读18世纪的小说。

He was poorly clothed, ill-fed, forced to live in the cheapest place.

他衣衫褴褛，吃不饱，被迫住在最简陋的房子里。

At age 12, Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a factory to help support the family.

查尔斯十二岁时辍学，到一家工厂工作，帮助维持家庭生计。

Charles was deeply marked by these experiences.

这些经历影响了查尔斯。

虽然读者在他死后才知道这种童年贫困，但它对狄更斯后来的社会改革观和他通过小说创造的世界产生了巨大的影响。

He knew those kinds of feelings. He was lost at that time when he worked hopelessly in the factory. That period was so bitter to the sensitive boy.

他知道那些糟糕的经历。在工厂工作的日子里，看不到未来的希望，这段时间他迷茫了。那个敏感的孩子太痛苦了。

Luckily the situation improved within a year. Charles was released from his duties at the factory.

幸运的是，一年之内情况有所好转，查尔斯解除了在工厂的工作。

He worked for a time as a junior clerk(初级文员) in a lawyer's office. After that, he worked as a reporter in the law courts, and later in parliament（议会）, for London newspapers.

1833年，他开始写小说，并在期刊上发表短篇小说和散文。1837年，他出版了喜剧小说《匹克威克报》，这使他成为当时英国最受欢迎的作家。

He was an acute（敏锐的） observer of people and their places because he was attracted by life and conditions in the mid-nineteenth century London.

因为他对19世纪中期伦敦的生活环境非常感兴趣，他能敏锐地观察人和事。

He wrote 19 novels all his life and in many of them, Dickens gave a realistic picture of all classes of England society, showing deep sympathy for the poor and unfortunate, exposing the injustice and inhumanity of the bourgeoisie(资产阶级).

狄更斯一生写了十九部小说。他的许多小说生动地描绘了英国社会的每一个阶层，表达了对穷人和不幸的人的深切同情，揭示了资产阶级的不公正和不人道。

Many of his novels, like Olive Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, drew attention to the unsatisfactory social conditions that existed in England over 100 years ago.

他的许多小说，如《雾都孤儿》·尼古拉斯·尼克贝、《远大前程》、《双城记》都揭示了一百多年前英国社会发生的不平等现象。

Dickens criticized capitalist(资本主义) society and he wished to see improvement in the living conditions of the poor. However, he failed to find any effective means to achieve that end.

狄更斯指责资本主义社会，希望穷人的生活条件能得到改善。然而，他从未找到有效的方法来实现这一目标。