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明年5月28日到6月6日之间,倘若你去访问肯特郡罗彻斯特市的梅德威镇,很可能会发现自己置身于身着维多利亚时代服装的人群之中。男人们头戴高礼帽,身穿短马裤,女人们头戴有边无带的帽子,身着有衬架支撑的裙子,欢呼雀跃地走过街道。他们从四面八方汇集而来,庆祝英格兰的一个最新的传统节日——狄更斯节。只要是对狄更斯的生平有所了解的人,就会明白肯特郡的这个城镇出现这一新节日的原因了。狄更斯在其父尚未因负债而被关进伦敦监狱之前,曾在肯特郡度过最快乐的童年时光。后来,他又选择了肯特郡作为度蜜月之地。他最喜爱的住所——盖茨山庄,也是他去世的地方,就位于罗彻斯特市外四英里之处。这位作家在他的小说中一次又一
Between May 28 and June 6 next year, if you visit Medway in Rochester, Kent, you may find yourself in a crowd wearing Victorian costumes. Men were wearing top hats, shorts, women wearing headscarves and wearing skirts lined with chests to cheerfully walk the streets. They come together from all directions and celebrate one of England’s newest traditional festivals, the Dickens Festival. Anyone who knows something about Dickens’ life knows the reason for the new festival in this town of Kent. Dickens had the happiest childhood in Kent before his father was locked into London jail for debt. Later, he chose Kent as a honeymoon. His favorite residence, Gates, is where he died, just four miles outside of Rochester. The writer is time after time in his novels