Orwellian
Orwellian 英 [ɔ:'weliən] 美
n. 奥威尔式；奥威尔现象 adj. George Orwell的笔调或用字的；受严格统治而失去人性的社会的
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- n. 奥威尔式；奥威尔现象
- adj. George Orwell的笔调或用字的；受严格统治而失去人性的社会的
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1. I instantly thought of the Orwellian newspeak at my own Manhattan school where achievement tests were the order of the day.
我立刻想到奥威尔式新语，在我自己所在的曼哈顿学校，成就测试是每日必行。
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2. Libyans found themselves in an Orwellian nightmare where even small utterances of protest could lead to disappearances, prolonged incarceration without any form of legal redress and torture.
利比亚人发现自己身处一个奥威尔式的噩梦之中，即使一点小小的异见都会被灭绝，不经任何形式的合法审判即遭投入监牢、忍受酷刑。
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3. Even the author’s pseudonym (his real name being Eric Arthur Blair) became a chilling adjective: “Orwellian” is applied to any characteristic display of totalitarian might.
连作者的笔名（他的真名是埃里克·阿瑟·布莱尔）也成为令人心寒的形容词：“奥威尔式”用来表示任何极权主义才可能特有的表现。
- Orwellian (adj.) 1950 (first attested in Mary McCarthy), from English author George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair, 1903-1950), especially in reference to his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." It has come to be used in reference to the totalitarian systems he satirized and inveighed against.
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