在想象中，她无比尊贵；在现实中，她根本无足轻重。她充斥于诗集的字里行间；却在历史中无迹可寻。她主宰小说中的帝王和征服者的人生，却像奴隶般听命于现实中的未成年男子，只要那男孩的父母能强使她套上婚戒。文学作品中，多少富于灵感的动人词句、最隽永深刻的思想都由她说出，而真实生活中，她认不得几个字，更别提读写，只能算是丈夫的私有财产。
Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband.
《一间自己的房间》(A Room of One’s Own)
弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫 （Virginia Woolf)
译者：于是｜中信出版社 source
Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband.
《一间自己的房间》(A Room of One’s Own)
弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫 （Virginia Woolf)
译者：于是｜中信出版社 source
“在日常生活中，一个人开口说话前总会稍顿一下，或者说需要沉思一下。但一个党员受命对一个政治的或伦理的问题下判断发言时，应有能量像机枪发射子弹那么自然地发射出正确的见解。他本来就训练有素，掌握着的新语可说是万无一失的工具。这些词语听来刺耳，形式看来有点刻意求丑，但这倒是跟英社精神非常协调。新语的结构让党员发言时有个依靠。”
For the purposes of everyday life it was no doubt necessary, or sometimes necessary, to reflect before speaking, but a Party member called upon to make a political or ethical judgement should be able to spray forth the correct opinions as automatically as a machine gun spraying forth bullets. His training fitted him to do this, the language gave him an almost foolproof instrument, and the texture of the words, with their harsh sound and a certain wilful ugliness which was in accord with the spirit of Ingsoc, assisted the process still further.
乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell）
《1984》附录：《大洋邦新语要义》（1984: Appendix. The Principles of Newspeak）
译者：刘绍铭｜北京十月文艺出版社 source
For the purposes of everyday life it was no doubt necessary, or sometimes necessary, to reflect before speaking, but a Party member called upon to make a political or ethical judgement should be able to spray forth the correct opinions as automatically as a machine gun spraying forth bullets. His training fitted him to do this, the language gave him an almost foolproof instrument, and the texture of the words, with their harsh sound and a certain wilful ugliness which was in accord with the spirit of Ingsoc, assisted the process still further.
乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell）
《1984》附录：《大洋邦新语要义》（1984: Appendix. The Principles of Newspeak）
译者：刘绍铭｜北京十月文艺出版社 source
“首先，他跟凯瑟琳惊人地相似，这种联系太可怕了。不过，你可能以为这是最能捕获我想象力的东西，但其实它却是最不起眼的，因为还有什么不能让我联想到她呢？还有什么不能让我回忆起她呢？我无法低下头看这块地面，因为她的五官模样就印在石板上！每一朵云彩，每一根树梢——夜晚在空气间弥漫，白天闪现在每一个物体表面，我被她的形象层层包围着！最寻常不过的男人和女人，他们的面孔——我自己的五官——都以某种相似之处或系着我。整个世界就是一部可怕的备忘录合集，提醒我她确实存在过，提醒我已经失去了她！”
《呼啸山庄》（Wuthering Heights）
艾米莉·勃朗特（Emily Bronte）
译者：李晖｜生活·读书·新知三联书店 source
《呼啸山庄》（Wuthering Heights）
艾米莉·勃朗特（Emily Bronte）
译者：李晖｜生活·读书·新知三联书店 source
这幅画的寓意是权力的种种罪恶，表现了罪恶如何从大人物的手中像链子那样一环扣一环往下传到小人物身上。人在被人抓住的同时也抓住了别人。假如权力是一声呼喊的话，那么人的一生就活在别人交换的回声之中。强者的回声会震聋无助者的耳膜。但是还有一个细节值得注意：达西万斯把这个链子画成了一个圆圈。女奴镜子姑娘的左手手腕被她的主人小公主紧紧抓着，而她的右手呢却抓住了汉扎塔贝古姆的左手手腕。这三个不幸的人站成了一圈，通过这个圆圈画家就暗示抓握或者说权力的效仿也可以是反向的。女奴有时候可以监禁皇家公主。历史可能既往上又往下伸出它的爪子。强者的耳膜也可能被弱者的呼喊声震聋。
萨尔曼·鲁西迪（Salman Rushdie）
《佛罗伦萨的神女》（The Enchantress of Florence）
译者：刘凯芳丨北京燕山出版社 source
萨尔曼·鲁西迪（Salman Rushdie）
《佛罗伦萨的神女》（The Enchantress of Florence）
译者：刘凯芳丨北京燕山出版社 source