imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950)

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？

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 George Orwell (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》!

I don「t think there is a coincidence in the fact that most people that watch Big Brother don」t know the works of George Orwell in the first place...

而实际上看《老大哥》的大部分人起初都是没听说过乔治·奥威尔的作品的。

1984 by George Orwell — Many of Orwell「s predictions of postmodern life have come true, though some are a couple of decades late.

《1984》，乔治·奥威尔(1984byGeorge orwell)。乔治对后现代生活所做的种种预言很多都成了现实，尽管有的比他估计的时间晚了几十年。

George Orwell took the liberty to tell us how what the world look like if despotic and oppressive regimes took the upper hand.

乔治·奥威尔大胆的告诉我们在专横暴虐的政权下这个世界会变成怎样。

He cited a newspaper article recounting that there are now 32 closed-circuit cameras within 200 yards of the London flat in which George Orwell wrote his book 「1984」.

他引用了一片报纸的文章，该文重新计算了目前在伦敦200码之内就有32个电子眼，而这些在乔治·奥威尔写的一本书《1984》里。

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。」

After a thought of 「God, George Orwell was right」, some of us angrily packed up and left - we weren」t comfortable working in a classroom with cameras.

感叹完「天啊！乔治·奥威尔是对的」之后，我们中的一些人生气地收拾东西离开了教室——我们不能在一个有摄像头的教室里安心学习。

It would have George Orwell rotating longitudinally in his subterranean post-life enclosure.

就算是乔治·奥威尔听了这个，也会在棺材(subterranean post-lifeenclosure)里「腾」地一下坐起来(rotatinglongitudinally )。

WHEN George Orwell wrote in 1941 that England was 「the most class-ridden country under the sun」, he was only partly right.

1941年，乔治「奥威尔写到英国是」地球上最注重阶级身份的国家「时，他只说对了一部分。」

Futurism favors the bold: Look more than 30 years ahead, as George Orwell did in 1984 or Arthur C. Clarke in 2001, and critics will forgive your inaccuracies.

未来主义青睐勇敢者：看30多年里前，像乔治·奥威尔在1984年或阿瑟c .克拉克在2001年所做的那样，评论家会原谅你的预测不準确。

Futurism favors the bold: Look decades ahead, as George Orwell did in 1984 and Arthur C. Clarke in 2001, and critics will forgive your inaccuracies.

勇敢是未来主义者的专利：展望数十年后，正如乔治·奥威尔，以及阿瑟·克拉克眼里的1984和2001，对于其中不準确之处，批评者们不会介意。