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发表于2025-03-04
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奥威尔原名埃里克阿瑟布莱尔(Eric Arthur Blair),1903年生于印度。
1907年他举家迁回到英格兰。1917年,他进入伊顿公学。1921年后来到缅甸加入Indianimperial Police,1928年辞职。随后的日子里他贫病交加,此间他当过教师、书店店员,直到1940年,他成为New English Weekly 的小说评论员,他才有了稳定的收入养家糊口。1936年间,他访问了兰开夏郡和约克郡,1936年底,他来到西班牙参加西班牙内战,其间他受伤。二战期间(1940-1943),他为BBS Eastern Service工作,并在此间写了大量政治和文学评论。1945年起他成为Observer的战地记者和Machester Evening News的固定撰稿人。
1945年,他出版了《动物农场》,1949年出版了《1984》。奥威尔患有肺结核,于1950年死去。
Let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about.
评分one of the most famous manifestos for the use of clear and precise language
评分读起来太过瘾。奥威尔意在抨击巧言令色的政客如何用不规范的语言来歪曲掩盖事实或为自己的目的提供正当化的理由,其实放在其他学术领域也同样适用。可以当作学术写作书。
评分1.What am I trying to say? 2.What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? 5. Could I put it more shortly? 6. Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly? PS: Politics is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable...
评分有意思的小册子,奥威尔批判的东西如今学界和政界依旧沿用,而本人这种学术界底层更是无力摆脱。最后的书评其实有一些启发意义。
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing...
评分 评分The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing...
评分 评分Politics and the English Language pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025