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Politics and the English Language - George Orwell

Politics and the English Language

George Orwell

出版社

Penguin Classics

出版时间

2013-01-03

ISBN

9780141393063

评分

★★★★★

标签

写作乔治·奥威尔PoliticsEnglish

书籍介绍
这只是一本薄薄的小册子，却常被读者读成'被打脸'的羞耻记录——翻到第三页嫌自己的论文该砍掉一半，翻完发现毕业论文毛病全中。奥威尔的锋利不在于理论，而在于他逼你承认：那些你以为'高级'的表达，不过是逃避思考的借口。书中点名批判的病症至今未愈，反而因AI批量生产的文字垃圾而愈发猖獗。它最戳人的地方，是那句'语言会腐蚀思想'的反向警告——不是你想清楚了才写清楚，而是写不清楚，往往是因为你根本没想清楚。它适合两类人：立场'中立'的记者，和认真做学术的人；也适合任何愿意承认自己'写得很烂'的人。薄，快，痛快，且让人坐立不安。
作者简介
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
AI导读
核心看点
  • 奥威尔论写作风格与政治真相的深刻关联
  • 揭示陈词滥调如何掩盖政治谎言与压迫
  • 提供六条实用建议以恢复语言清晰与真诚
读者共识
  • 奥威尔笔触犀利，读来爽快且令人警醒
  • 核心观点穿越时空，对中文写作同样适用
  • 虽观点不新鲜，但真诚与克制仍值得推崇
精彩摘录
  • "I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift,nor the battle to the strong,neither yet bread to the wise,nor yet riches to men of understanding,nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 翻译很优美： 我又发现一件事，在这世上，善于赛跑的不一定得奖，勇敢的不一定打胜仗，聪明的人不一定有饭吃 ，机智的人不一定"
  • "....there is no real need for any of the hundreds of foreign phrases now current in the English language. Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones"
  • "In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.† Words like romantic, plastic, values, human, dead, sentimental, natural, vitality, as used in art criticism, are strictly mean"
  • "In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides.Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he m"
  • "When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer."
  • "A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I put i"
  • "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 our ink. In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” All issues a"
  • "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupts thought."
用户评论
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
听君一席话，胜读十年书
第一次读奥威尔的时候对作者简介中“文体家”这一头衔颇感疑惑，如今理解了。联系“新话”，语言当然是政治的反映——并起到强烈的正反馈作用。追求一种晓畅、易懂而又精确的文风，好过任语言在陈腐的修辞与辞藻堆砌中腐烂。
第一篇的嘲讽毫不留情，第二篇review犀利吐血…
"Words like romantic, plastic,values, human, dead, sentimental, natural, vitality, as used in art criticism, are strictly meaningless."
大快人心，下次读不懂东西就自信跳过。“The German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years as a result of dictatorship.”无新事发生。
某天晚上听时事政治评论节目时提到的一本书立刻上网去找了，写得太好啦！提到的一些情况之前有见过所以深有同感
某老师扬起脸讲，文章要平实流畅，别把文章写成奥威尔举的反例里那样的nonsense。听了让人要连滚带爬去书店买小册子贡起来的程度。读了之后感觉以前写的essay真的很多可有可无的废话。
Pick out words for the sake of their meaning and invent images in order to make the meaning clearer. The sole aim of a metaphor is to call up a visual image. While the political phraseology functions just the other way around, it blurs the meaning, using specified words to avoid calling up mental pictures.
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