George Orwell. 《1984》DAY 11/20
Part2 9-then you can explain it to me as you go
文章開始細節描寫這本書
A heavy black volume, amateurishly bound, with no name or title on the cover.書很簡單,簡單得很平凡
書的第一章Ignorance is Strength
three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low.人大體的分成三類
subdivide把....進一步分成小的部分
the essential structure of society has never altered.不管人怎么分,社會的基本結構從未改變
讀書讓Winston很享受The sweet summer air played against his cheek.
From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children孩子的叫喊聲都不再顯得嘈雜
It was bliss, it was eternity.一句話道明作者讀書時的心情。永恒的幸福
所以一下子跳躍到第三章War is Peace(也是這一天的重點內容,講述何為戰爭,以及戰爭的具體體現)
But in a physical sense war involves very small numbers of people, mostly highly-trained specialists, and causes comparatively few casualties.
be too evenly matched,勢均力敵
in a material sense,從實際意義上說
self-contained economies,自給自足的經濟
bottomless reserve of cheap labour.永不枯竭的廉價勞動力儲備
shattering令人震驚的
The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him.書給予慰藉
counterpane床罩
戰爭的目的是保持社會基本結構,是對勞動力的破壞,把剩余財富都消耗完,這樣人民才不會想到反對目前的統治,深刻的剖析了老大哥一系列的手段。