The winter of 1946-47 was one of the coldest of the century. Postwar Britain was bleaker even than wartime, and he had always suffered from a bad chest.

1946到1947年的冬季是20世纪最冷的时期之一，战后的英国比战争时期还要寒冷刺骨，而奥威尔的胸腔一直有问题。

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I love hulking edifices of buildings, from the Brutalism of Postwar Britain to the futurism of the USSR. Buildings with a strong presence that command attention and exert power.

我偏爱巨大建筑物，不管是二战后的英国建筑还是苏联未来主义风格，它们都拥有强有力的冲击力和力量感。

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With food and clothing still being rationed in postwar Britain, royal dressmaker Norman Hartnell sought to convey a message of national renewal, instead of focusing on opulent materials.

在战后的英国粮食和布匹仍旧实行配给制的情况下，当时的御用服装设计师诺曼·哈特奈尔就寻求的是传达出国家新生的讯息上而不是把注意力集中在奢华的材质上。

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Early postwar Britain was notable for cartelisation, nationalisation, weak competition policy, and protectionism.

FORBES: Correcting The Economist on long run growth

Americans have a strong impulse for course corrections and a sense that their greatness could be lost, but let's say for argument's sake that the U.S. is a declining superpower along the lines of postwar Britain.

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The 1970s marked the climax of Britain's postwar decline, in which "the English disease" overweening trade-union power was undermining the economy by strikes and inflationary wage settlements.

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