Nineteen Eighty-Four 一九八四 Part 3, Chapter 5

At each stage of his imprisonment ¹ he had known, or seemed to know, whereabouts he was in the windowless building. Possibly there were slight differences in the air pressure. The cells where the guards had beaten him were below ground level. The room where he had been interrogated ² by O'Brien was high up near the roof. This place was many metres underground, as deep down as it was possible to go., ,It was bigger than most of the cells he had been in. But he hardly noticed his surroundings. All he noticed was that there were two small tables straight in front of him, each covered with green baize. One was only a metre or two from him, the other was further away, near the door. He was strapped ³ upright in a chair, so tightly that he could move nothing, not even his head. A sort of pad gripped his head from behind, forcing him to look straight in front of him., ,For a moment he was alone, then the door opened and O'Brien came in., , ,The door opened again. A guard came in, carrying something made of wire, a box or basket of some kind. He set it down on the further table. Because of the position in which O'Brien was standing ⁴. Winston could not see what the thing was., ,'The worst thing in the world,' said O'Brien, 'varies from individual to individual. It may be burial alive, or death by fire, or by drowning, or by impalement ⁵, or fifty other deaths. There are cases where it is some quite trivial thing, not even fatal.', ,He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。,He was interrogated by the police for over 12 hours. 他被警察审问了12个多小时 。