是时候重读奥威尔了？
He likes Orwell but prefers Jack London.
他喜欢奥威尔，但更喜欢杰克·伦敦。
What will you see in the Orwell diaries?
从奥威尔的日记里，我们能看到什么？
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。
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。
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。”
Words are important. Orwell argues that language should be “an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought.”
Orwell强调语言应该是“一种表达想法而非用来隐匿或粉饰的手段”。
Clift-on Suspension Bridge, the old Severn Bridge, the Orwell Bridge: they have an unquenchable optimism, a soaring of the human spirit.
克里弗顿吊桥、古老的萨尔文桥、奥维尔桥，它们都彰显了一种难以消逝的乐观和翱翔的人类精神。
Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in his book Down and Out in Paris and London, what has changed?
在乔治•奥威尔约80年前以史诗笔法在《巴黎伦敦落魄记》中写下穷困潦倒者的生活后，有什么改变了吗？
Five minutes inside the soup-kitchen in Hackney, east London, and I immediately understand what Orwell meant - that the "typical tramp" does not exist.
在伦敦东面哈克尼的汤棚里呆了五分钟，我立刻明白了奥威尔那句“‘典型的流浪汉’不存在”是什么意思。
In 1927 Orwell, on leave to England, decided not to return to Burma, and on Jan. 1, 1928, he took the decisive step of resigning from the imperial police.
1927年奥威尔返回英国决定不回缅甸，1928年1月1日他从皇家警察辞职。
Written in 1949 by British author George Orwell while he lay dying of tuberculosis, the book chronicles12 the grim future of a society robbed of free will, privacy and truth.
该书由英国作家乔治·奥威尔1949年所著，当时奥威尔因患肺结核，卧病在床，已病入膏肓。书中记述了一个没有自由意志、没有个人隐私、没有真理存在的社会的灰暗前景。
My personal impression of this experience - a sense of amazement that you can enter a George Orwell novel and come out the other side, especially when that novel is titled ‘1984′!
对此行我个人的体会好像是一次奇特的体验: 我竟然可以进入一本GeorgeOrwell (乔治·奥威尔) 的小说并从另一头安然走出尤其是这本小说的名字就叫做《1984》!
My personal impression of this experience - a sense of amazement that you can enter a George Orwell novel and come out the other side, especially when that novel is titled ‘1984′!
对此行我个人的体会好像是一次奇特的体验: 我竟然可以进入一本GeorgeOrwell (乔治·奥威尔) 的小说并从另一头安然走出尤其是这本小说的名字就叫做《1984》!
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