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。
发表于2024-12-27
Politics and the English Language 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool George Orwell Polemic, 7. March 1947. Tolstoy’s pamphlets are the least-known part of his work, and his attack on Shakespeare* is not even an easy document to get hold of, at any rate in an English translation. Perhaps, there...
评分社会进程、政治局势会影响语言发展和表达的质量,抽象空洞的政治语言会让语言衰落,模仿约定俗成的词组和表达只会让个人陷入familiar dreary pattern; 不谈政治是不可能的,任何问题都是政治问题(all issues are political issues , and politics itself is a mass of lies e...
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...
评分图书标签: 写作 乔治·奥威尔 English Politics 文学 Language 英文原版 学术
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...
评分覺得把英語換成中文同樣適用,以及他寫小說厲害,吐槽也絲毫不輸(有些段落真的笑出聲). 不過看完之後真的引以為戒,提醒自己不要為了抖包袱而寫那麼多無用浮誇的詞語和句子.
评分覺得把英語換成中文同樣適用,以及他寫小說厲害,吐槽也絲毫不輸(有些段落真的笑出聲). 不過看完之後真的引以為戒,提醒自己不要為了抖包袱而寫那麼多無用浮誇的詞語和句子.
评分经济学人也不符合乔治奥威尔的标准 哼
Politics and the English Language 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书