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1. saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

在未证明其清白前，圣徒总应被判定有罪。——《关于甘地的思考》

2．autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

自传只有在其披露了某些丢脸之事时才可信。——《萨尔瓦多·达利》

3. this age makes me so sick that sometimes i am almost impelled to stop at a corner and start calling down curse from heaven like jeremiah or ezra.

这时代有时让我如此厌恶，以至于几乎忍不住想站在街角开始像耶利米或以斯拉那样，大声喊出来自天国的诅咒。（*耶利米，公元前7世纪和6世纪的希伯莱大先知；以斯拉，公元前5世纪希伯来崇高的预粉放在红色小言家，在犹太人出走以色列以后把他们领回耶路撒冷。）

4．seen in the mass, five or ten thousand at a time, books were boring and even slightly sickening.

大批看到，同时看到五千或一万册在一起后，书本就令人心烦乃至微感恶心。

5．who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

谁控制了过去，谁就控制了未来；谁控制了现在，谁就控制了过去。 ——《一九八四》

6．the essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

作人的要旨是不去追求完美。

7． no one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

谁也不能在回首校园时代时真心真意地说那段日子完全不快乐。 ——《如此欢乐童年》

8．in times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

在普天下皆骗的时代，讲真话就是一种革对角绷着黑色命行为。

9．doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

“双重思想”意味着在一个人的脑子里同时具有两种相互矛盾的信念，而且两种都接受。——《一九八四》

10．freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. if that is granted, all else follows.

自由就是说二加二等于四的自由。若此成立，其他同理。——《一九八四》

11．all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

所有动物一律平等，但有些动物比其他动物更平等。——《动物农场》

12．advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

广告就是在拿根棍子在泔水桶里搅动产生的卡嗒声。

13．liberal - a power worshipper without power.

开明派——一个无权而崇尚权力的人。

14． most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

绝大多数人从生活中都得到了相当多的乐趣，但总的说来，生活就是受苦，只有年龄很小或者很蠢的人才会想像不是这样。