A virile new Britain cannot continue indefinitely to be traduced in the eyes or rather ears, of the world by the effete languors of Langham Place, brazenly masquerading as ‘standard English’. When the Voice of Britain is heard at nine o'clock, better far and infinitely less ludicrous to...
奥威尔在《政治和英语》一文中，列举了当时英语写作几大弊病：僵死的隐喻；东拼西凑，添枝加叶；装腔作势的措辞；不知所云的词语。虽然这里讲的是半个世纪以前的英语文风，但是读过奥威尔对这些问题的注解之后，就会发现在当下我们的语言里，上述的其中一些问题仍然存在。奥威尔认为“语言的败坏是可以医治...
Politics and the English Language 汉译 摘要: 董乐山 译 In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Where it is not true, it will generally be found that the writer is some kind of rebel, expressing his private opinions, and not a “party line”. Orthodoxy, of...
Politics and English Language 政治与英语语言.doc,George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946 Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by con
Politics and the English Language and Other Essays的创作者 ··· 乔治·奥威尔 作者 作者简介 ··· 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...
...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 (查看原文) ...
We have seen language recently used in the politics of persuasion, used for good or ill – depending on your viewpoint.我们看见语言最近用在说服政治上，用在好事或者疾病上（用在好坏上）这都取决于你的观点。
最新版Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English提供的解释是language, behavior, or attitude that are politically correct are carefully chosen so that they do not offend or insult anyone,指谨慎,不得罪人;其名词political correctness的释义更明白:language, behavior, and at...
aThe world is as equal-only death. You don't too sad. This is the natural law, Like flower, blossom, neither。 世界是作为相等的只死亡。 您没有太哀伤。 这是自然法则,象花,开花,两者都不。[translate] a'Super PACs' and More: Politics, Money and Language ‘超级PACs’和更多: 政治、金钱和...