Chapter 5

The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,' he said. 'We're getting the language into its final shape--the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we've finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We're destroying words--scores of them,hundreds of them, every day. We're cutting the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition won't contain a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050.'     第十一次修订是最具决定性的修订，而最终的善恶也不过简单的六个字，实际上只是一个字。

In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words--in reality, only one word.

极具讽刺的是Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.' 即使是Winston 的朋友也会消失不见One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear.