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内容简介:
‘Politics and the English Language’ is widely considered Orwell’s most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.’All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.’Language is a political issue, and slovenly use of language and cliches make it easier for those in power to deliberately use misleading language to hide unpleasant political facts. Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology, and it is no accident that ‘Politics and the English Language’ was written after the close of World War II.
作者简介:
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
原文摘录:
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift,nor the battle to the strong,neither yet bread to the wise,nor yet riches to men of understanding,nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
翻译很优美：
我又发现一件事，在这世上，善于赛跑的不一定得奖，勇敢的不一定打胜仗，聪明的人不一定有饭吃 ，机智的人不一定富有，能干的人不一定身居高位。时运左右一切。
当代英语会写成这个样子：
objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activetiese exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity ,but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariable be taken into account .
翻译如下：
对当代现象进行客观思考必然得出如下结论：即一切竞争性活动之成败与否，并不趋向与内在能力一致，而必须把相当不可预测的因素考虑在内。
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Dawn
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2011-04-27 17:06:16
—— 引自第12页
….there is no real need for any of the hundreds of foreign phrases now current in the English language. Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones (查看原文)
庸是俗與塵
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2012-06-27 12:44:06
—— 引自第4页