《一九八四》章节试读

《一九八四》的笔记-第209页

He had capitulated,that was agreed.He could not fight against the Party any longer.Besides,the Party was in the right.It must be so;how could the immortal,collective brain be mistaken?By what external standard could you check its judgements?Sanity was statistical.It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.Only!这段话尤为适合我们这种在集体至上的环境里长大的人。

《一九八四》的笔记-第127页

'...They can't get inside you.If you can feel that staying human is worth while,even when it can't have any result whatever,you've beaten them.'
They coud ont alter your feelings.They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought;but the inner heart,whose workings were mysterious even to yourself,remained impregnable.而最终你们还是被打败了。单从概念上来也许是上文描述这样，可是就如后来Winston被酷刑折磨时才明白，人是不可能为了另一个人痛苦的减轻期望自己的痛苦加倍的。

《一九八四》的笔记-第211页

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence,and as difficult to attain.

《一九八四》的笔记-第218页

"By itself,'he said,pain is not always enough.There are occasions when a human being will stand out against pain,even to the point of death.But for everyone there is something unendurable--something that cannot be comtemplated.Courage and cowardice are ont involved.It is merely an instinct which cannot be destroyed...'A devil in power.很不能接受Winston对O'Brien的种种好感。

《一九八四》的笔记-第178页

He thought:'If I could save Julia by doubling my own pain,would I do it?Yes,I would.'But that was merely an intellectual decision,taken because he knew that he ought to take it.He did not feel it.In this palce you could not feel anything,except pain and foreknowledge of pain.Besides,was it possible,when you were actually suffering it,so wish for any reason that you own pain should increase?...' 答案很悲观。

《一九八四》的笔记-第148页

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable.The aim of the High is to remain where they are.The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High.The aim of the Low,when they have an aim--for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittenly conscious of anything outside their daily lives--is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again.For long periods the High seem to be securely in power,but sooner or later there always comes a moment when they lose either their belief in themselves or their capacity to goven efficiently,or both.They are then overthrown by the Middle,who enlish the Low on their side by pretending to them that they are fighting for liberty and justice.As soon as they have reached their objective,the Middle thrust the Low back into their old position of servitude,and themselves become the High.Presently a new Middle group spilts off from one of the other groups,or from both of them,and the struggle begins over again.Of the three groups,only the Low are never even temporarily successful in achieving their aims.From the point of view of the Low,no historic change has ever meant much more than a chang in the name of their masters.一切历史，直到如今，仍然是这样。

《一九八四》的笔记-第230页

He pushed the picture out of his mind.It was a false memory.He was troubled by false memories occasionally.They did not matter so long as one knew them for what they were.Some things had happened,others had not happened. 真的勇士敢于直面淋漓的鲜血，可大多数人更善于自欺。无论是食品安全、拐卖人口、毒品犯罪，只要不发生到自己头上，只要看起来似乎离自己遥远，就可以当作没有发生，当作故事。

《一九八四》的笔记-第164页

The birds sang,the proles sang,the Party did not sing.All round the world,everytwhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure,made monstrous by work and childbearing,toiling from birth to death and still singing.Out of those mighty loins a race of conscious beings must one day come.You were the dead,theirs was the future.but you could share in that future if you kept alive the mind as they kept alive the body,and passed on the secret doctrine that two plus two make four.看完再来看这一段，sad.

《一九八四》的笔记-第149页

Socialism,a theory which appeared in the early nineteenth century and was the last link in a chain of thought stretching back to the slave rebellions of antiquity,was still deeply infected by the Utopianism of past ages.But in each variant of Socialism that appeared form about 1900 onwards the aim of establishing liberty and equality was more and more openly abandoned.The new movements which appeared in the middle years of the century,had the conscious aim of perpetuating unfreedom and inequality.这书怎么能在我国出版的？

《一九八四》的笔记-第161页

Being in a minority,even a minority of one,did not make you mad.There was truth and there was untruth,and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world,you were not mad.A yellow beam form the sinking sun slanted in through the window and fell across the pillow.He shut his eyes.The sun on his face and the girl's smooth body touching his own gave him a strong,sleepy,confident feeling.He was safe,everthing was all right.He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical'with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.在苦难和折磨面前，真理都是第一个被放弃的。

《一九八四》的笔记-第146页

Cut off from contact with the outer world,and with the past,the citizen is like a man in interstellar space,who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down.我猜这是为什么社会矛盾如此突出人们却还依旧碌碌的原因。

《一九八四》的笔记-第226页

"Sometimes,'she said,'they threaten you with something--something you can't stand up to,can't even think about.And then you say,"Don't do it to me,do it to somebody else,do it to So-and-so,"And perhaps you might pretend,afterwards,that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it.But that isn't true.At the time when it happens you do mean it.you think there's no other way of saving yourself,and you're quite ready to save yourself that way.You want it to happen to the other person.You don't give a damn what they suffer.All you care about is yourself.'...全书最黑暗最恐怖的内容。人毕竟是一种动物，有天生的缺陷，一旦抓住这个缺陷借以破坏掉其他所有人的属性，也就再没有做人的资格了。

《一九八四》的笔记-第201页

'...The word you are trying to think of is solipsism(唯我论).But you are mistaken.This is not solipsism.All this is a digression,'...'The real power,the power we have to fight for night and day,is not power over things,but over men'...'How does one man assert his power over another?'..."Exactly.By making him suffer.Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and puting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.'是的，这是权力。最常见的是父母对子女。

《一九八四》的笔记-第116页

By lack of understanding they remained sane.They simply swallowed everything,and what they swallowed did them no harm,because it left no residue behind,just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.前一阵看《朗读者》，这段文字似乎适用于于Hana这个人物。跟鲁迅笔下的角色一样，四体健全，麻木无知，一代一代生活繁衍下去。

《一九八四》的笔记-第171页

He was not certain that he would use the razor blade even if he got the chance.It was more natural to exist from moment to moment,accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it.自杀的问题。所以失范型自杀才是成功率最高的。活着是本能，再痛苦也是。

《一九八四》的笔记-第162页

The solid,contourless body,like a bock of granite,and the rasping red skin,bore the same relation to the body of a girl as the rose-hip to the rose.Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower?...She had her momentay flowering,a year,perhaps,of wild-rose beauty and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse,and then her life had been laundering,scrubbing,darning,cooking,sweeping,polishing,mending,scrubbing,laundering,first for children,then for grandchildren,over thirty unbroken years.At the end of it she was still singing.第一，这段文字很恐怖。第二，农村或者城市里，有很多这样坚韧的妇女，她们的生命力无可战胜。

《一九八四》的笔记-第99页

In this game that we're playing,we can't win.Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds,that's all.我也像Julia一样讨厌Winston这副死人的腔调。但这句话背后的事实很恐怖。

《一九八四》的笔记-第110页

Winston did not get up for a few minutes more.The room was darkening.He turned over towards the light and lay gazing into the glass paperweight.The inexhaustibly interesting thing was not the fragment of coral but the interior of the glass itself.It was as though the surfuce of the glass had been the arch of the sky,enclosing a tiny world with its atmosphere complete.He had the feeling that he could get inside it,and that in fact he was inside it,along with the mahogany bed and the gateleg table,and the clock and the street engraving and the paperweight itself.The paperweight was the room he was in,and the coral was Julia's life and his own,fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.这是读到目前最让我感动的一段，上一段是Winston的母亲和妹妹在坟墓里下沉的情景。
一种甜蜜的、乡愁式的静止，同时又是逃不掉的绝望。尤其是eternity这个词。

《一九八四》的笔记-第96页

You wanted a good time;'they',meaning the Party,wanted to stop you having it;you broke the rules as best as you could.这书我看得很慢，就是因为处处是现实，我看着压抑。但到了这里，我觉得不得不把这句话记下来。That's it.

《一九八四》的笔记-第199页

'We are the priests of power,God is power.The first thing you must realize is that power is collective.The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.Alone--free--the human being is always defeated.It must be so,because every human being is doomed to die,which is the greatest of all failures.But if he can make complete,utter submission,if he can escape from his identity,if he can merge himself in the Party so that he is the Party,then he is all-powerful and immortal.The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings.Over the body but,above all,over the mind.Power over matter--external reality,as you would call it--is not important.Already our control over matter is absolute.'权力狂追求的是不朽，伏地魔大人你说呢。

《一九八四》的笔记-第198页

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.We are not interested in the good of others;we are interested solely in power,pure power.Power is not a means,it is an end.

《一九八四》的笔记-第135页

'...There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime.We are the dead.Our only true life is in the future.But how far away that future may be,there is no knowing.At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little.We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual,generation to generation...'一切理想主义者都是如此生活。

《一九八四》的笔记-第185页

Reality exists in the human mind,and nowhere else.Not in the individula mind,which can make mistakes,and in any case soon perishes:only in the mind of the Party,which is collective and immortal.Whatever the Party holds to be the truth,is truth.It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. 其实我一直在想“少数服从多数”就是一种暴力。

《一九八四》的笔记-第213页

For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.You must know all the while that it is there,but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.能意识到的秘密是守不住的。