And who can argue with Orwell?
谁可以跟奥维尔争论呢？
Writers can learn much from Orwell.
作家们可以从奥威尔身上学到很多。
是时候重读奥威尔了？
在这里，就是奥维尔。
He likes Orwell but prefers Jack London.
他喜欢奥威尔，但更喜欢杰克·伦敦。
奥威尔指出了原因。
What will you see in the Orwell diaries?
从奥威尔的日记里，我们能看到什么？
The point is not that Orwell made things up.
关键是奥威尔没有杜撰各种经历，他是用文学的方式而非纯粹纪实的手法进行写作的。
Initially, Astor offered it to Orwell for a holiday.
起初，阿斯特建议奥威尔到这里度假。
Orwell praised Waugh publicly for his moral courage.
奥威尔曾公开赞扬沃夫的道德勇气。
But in another way Orwell was right, and continues to be.
但从另一方面来说；奥威尔是对的，而且直到今天仍然是对的。
Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC.
1941年至1943年间，奥威尔投身于BBC的宣传工作。
They even met, though only when Orwell was already on his deathbed.
他们甚至相互约见，只不过那时奥威尔已经垂危于病床之上。
In any case, Orwell didn't live to see the long-range social impact of his work.
无论如何，奥威尔都未能活着看到他的作品对社会的长期影响。
The secrecy that's attached to poverty is one of the first things that struck Orwell.
与贫困联系在一起的秘密是第一批震惊奥威尔的事实之一。
This is the point at which every right-thinking person in Britain scrambles for his Orwell.
在这一点上，每个思维正常的英国人都会快速翻看他手头的奥威尔的著作。
Or as George Orwell said: "the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world."
也许正如乔治·奥威尔所说：“客观真理本身正淡出这个世界。”
Perhaps, but had Orwell consulted his predecessors, he would have encountered different sentiments.
但是如果奥威尔真的咨询过他的前辈，他恐怕会听到一些不同的感想。
Orwell had worked for David Astor's Observer since 1942, first as a book reviewer and later as a correspondent.
自从1942年起，奥威尔一直为大卫·阿斯特的《观察家报》报工作，最初的身份是书评撰稿人，后来成为通讯记者。
If men would behave decently, the world would be decent "- that's how Orwell distilled Dickens's moral vision."
“如果每个人的行为体面，整个世界就会体面。”这是奥威尔提炼出来的狄更斯的道德愿景。
Orwell had fought in the Spanish civil war; his disillusion with that cause is chronicled in "Homage to Catalonia".
奥威尔曾参加西班牙内战；他对这一战事的醒悟历程被记载于《向加泰罗尼亚致敬》一书。
He added: "Our writers -charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, George Orwell and Ian McEwan -are the finest in the world."
他还补充道：“我国作家——查尔斯·狄更斯、夏洛蒂·勃朗特、乔治·奥威尔和伊恩·麦克尤恩——都是世界上最杰出的作家。”
Orwell, a gentle, unworldly sort of man, arrived with just a camp bed, a table, a couple of chairs and a few POTS and pans.
奥威尔，属于温和而脱俗的那类人，搬来时只有一张行军床、一张桌子、一些椅子和一些炊事用具。
Orwell complained that when working as a plongeur he felt as if his back were broken and his head "filled with hot cinders".
奥威尔抱怨说，他做洗碗工时，觉得背好像要断了，脑袋里“装满了滚烫的灰烬”。
"A certain phraseology is obligatory," said George Orwell, "if one wants to name things without calling up mental images of them."
“特定的措辞是必不可少的，”乔治·奥威尔说，“如果人们要命名事物而又不想唤起关于它们的心理意象的话。”
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