
【賞析】
如果找三個(gè)詞來(lái)串聯(lián)本章節(jié)的話,那就是helplessness, nostalgia和shock。
Winston 發(fā)現(xiàn)一位老人,想要通過(guò)他來(lái)了解過(guò)去的歷史,結(jié)果卻是差強(qiáng)人意,并沒(méi)有得到想要的信息。A sense of helplessness took hold of Winston .The old man’s memory was nothing but a rubbish-heap of details…..they were like the ant ,which can see small objects but not large ones . 眼光如同螻蟻,所及甚微啊。
倒是在雜貨鋪里,和店主的交談中,發(fā)現(xiàn)了不少歷史的舊物件,勾起了Winston的懷舊情緒。The room had awakened in him a sort of nostalgia, a sort of ancestral memory ….one could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues ,inscriptions , memorial stones , the names of streets –anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.承載歷史的建筑、書(shū)籍、雕像、石刻大多早已銷毀,只剩下統(tǒng)治階級(jí)篡改的歷史課本。在雜貨店看到的東西,讓W(xué)inston心生歡喜,似乎只有在這里,才能從這些舊物件上找到歷史的痕跡,所以期盼著下次再來(lái),買了那幅畫(huà),和Mr.Charrington再聊聊那首詩(shī)。Yes, he thought again, he would come back; he would buy further scraps of beautiful rubbish.
從雜貨店出來(lái),頓時(shí)驚出一身冷汗,竟然碰見(jiàn)篡改部門工作的一個(gè)女孩.Suddenly his heart seemed to turn to ice and his bowels to water. 心中萬(wàn)般驚嚇,甚至冒出滅口的念頭,直到后來(lái)的種種后怕,擔(dān)心被抓,甚至設(shè)想承認(rèn)“思想犯”要受到的種種折磨。
【表達(dá)】
1. The balminess of the April air had tempted him 宜人的四月天
2. The creaking camaraderie oiled by gin 想到酒肉朋友是不是也可以模仿這個(gè)friends oiled by liquor
3. Old bent creatures shuffling along on splayed feet 老家伙們邁著八字步走得拖拖拉拉,是不是很形象?
4. Children played in the puddles and then scattered at angry yells from their mother. 老媽一聲吼,泥娃四散逃。
5. Winston caught scraps of conversation as he approached. 零星聽(tīng)到了些他們的對(duì)話/ 另外一處出現(xiàn)scrap(a small piece of something that is left over):He would buy further scraps of beautiful rubbish
6. A black plume of smoke hung in the sky. plume的用法:a plume of smoke, dust, fire, or water is a large quantity of it that rises into the air in a column. 一縷煙霧、塵土; 一股水; 一道火光/ 看來(lái)升到空中成柱狀的一般都可以用plume這個(gè)詞。
7. The whole street was in commotion. Commotion: a lot of noise, confusion, and excitement. 騷動(dòng)
8. A few stall-keepers were selling tired-looking vegetables .蔫不拉幾的蔬菜,這個(gè)tired-looking的菜菜好生動(dòng)的說(shuō)。
9. They were talking at cross-purposes 各說(shuō)各的,對(duì)牛彈琴
10. I‘ll twist your bloody head off If you get fresh with me. get fresh with sb=to talk to someone in an impolite way or behave in a way which shows you do not respect them 別惹我哦
11. A twinge of fear went through him. twinge的用法:A twinge is a sudden sharp feeling or emotion, usually an unpleasant one. (通常指不快的)一陣強(qiáng)烈情感/
12.There were trays of nuts and bolts / there was a litter of odds and ends in the corner / 雜七雜八,零零碎碎的兩個(gè)表達(dá)。