Politics and the English Language

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。

出版者:Penguin Classics

作者:[英] 乔治·奥威尔

页数:32

出版时间:2013-1-3

价格:GBP 1.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780141393063

图书标签:写作乔治·奥威尔EnglishPolitics文学Language英文原版学术

读后感

Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...  

Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...  

Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...  

用户评价

“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. 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. ”

奥维尔真的刚。周边教授全部被他拿出来鞭挞，这小册子超有趣。when the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

一言以蔽之，"let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about." 奥威尔总是这么正三观！！btw企鹅????的小书也太可爱啦 <33

经济学人也不符合乔治奥威尔的标准 哼

一言以蔽之，"let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about." 奥威尔总是这么正三观！！btw企鹅????的小书也太可爱啦 <33