The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

清晰语言的最大敌人是不真诚。当一个人的真实目标和他宣称的目标之间存在差距时,他就会本能地转向冗长的词语和陈腐的习语,就像墨鱼喷出墨汁一样。

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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

这是否意味着我拒绝一切权威?打消念头。在靴子的问题上,我听从制鞋商的权威。

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

一个作家要得到一个女人,只要说他是个作家就行了。它是春药。