Nineteen Eighty-Four 一九八四 Part 1, Chapter 4

With the deep, unconscious sigh which not even the nearness of the telescreen could prevent him from uttering when his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. Then he unrolled and clipped together four small cylinders ¹ of paper which had already flopped ² out of the pneumatic tube on the right-hand side of his desk., ,In the walls of the cubicle ³ there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit ⁴ protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits ⁵ existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals ⁶ in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap ⁷ of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses ⁸ of the building., ,Winston examined the four slips of paper which he had unrolled. Each contained a message of only one or two lines, in the abbreviated ⁹ jargon ¹⁰ -- not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words -- which was used in the Ministry ¹¹ for internal purposes. They ran:, , ,times 19.12.83 forecasts 3 yp 4th quarter 83 misprints verify current issue, ,times 14.2.84 miniplenty malquoted chocolate rectify, ,That jeep has four cylinders. 那辆吉普车有4个汽缸 。 来自《简明英汉词典》,Exhausted, he flopped down into a chair. 他筋疲力尽 ，一屁股坐到椅子上
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