@No society can be great without great individuals, and I should not think much of a world which had secured universal safety at the price of universal mediocrity. AI think, however, that universal security, if it were attained by the kind of means that I have spoken of, would so much diminish envy and fear of eccentricity that the recognition of possible exceptional merit would not encounter the psychological resistance which it now has to meet in the great majority of mankind. 【思考訓練の場としての英文解釈2・P37 / Bertrand Russell: New Hopes for a Changing World】
A文、think+叙想法過去。
But students of Orwell believe he would have been astonished at the closeness and the extent of the scrutiny of his private life. 【The Independent: Big Brother: How MI5 kept watch on Orwell, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 / 第26段落】
Whether he would have changed his mind had he known the Big Brother tendencies of the country he ultimately sought to defend is unclear. Professor Crick said: "Orwell rather over-cooked his own image as the plain man who solely wrote about his own experience. He read everything he could on the Nazis and Communists. That was the basis for the world he describes in 1984. I think he would have been rather surprised to know he was being watched in Britain." 【The Independent: Big Brother: How MI5 kept watch on Orwell, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 / 第32段落】
>>963 @Meanwhile the fact that there is no danger of conquest makes possible the denial of reality which is the special feature of Ingsoc and its rival systems of thought.
ATo tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies― all this is indispensably necessary.
BThat is the fact that you have got to re-learn, Winston.
CWinston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and safety. He was alone: no telescreen, no ear at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to glance over his shoulder or cover the page with his hand.
1.My brother works for a company. It makes computers. My brother works for ( ). 2.My sister married a carpenter. She knew his family very well. My sister married ( ). 3.A woman bumped into me at the station. Her hair was gray. A woman ( ). 4.You lost a key yesterday. Have you found it? Have you found the ( )?
>>972 a company that makes computers a carpenter, whose family she knew very well whose hair was gary bumped into me at the station key that you lost yesterday
1,He answered me polirely. = He gave me a ( )( ). 2,Look at the picture closely. = Have a ( )( ) at this picture. 3,There was little hope of that they would return safely. = There was little hope of ( )( )( ).