1984 Book 1 Chapter 7

这一章读下来给我印象最深的便是Winston十几年前的那种草木皆兵的状态，与他现在内心的蠢蠢欲动形成了鲜明对比。

Winston开始“付诸行动”——为O'Brien去写日记。这位O'Brien是被他想象出来的还是真实存在的，亦或已经消失？不然为什么Winston觉得这日记像是一封没人会读却又有特定接收对象的信。

It was like an interminable letter which no one would ever read, but which was addressed to a particular person and took its colour from that fact.

但不管怎样他鼓起勇气想要去捍卫那些真实的东西。

Truisms are true, hold on to that!

篡改历史、诬陷同志、洗脑灌输等党内行径，加之曾被他寄希望的群众的作为，都让Winston深刻地意识到：

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

我终于开始期待Winston的这本日记，他能否以此开始反击，还是很快将沦为牺牲品，现在还只有胡乱猜测。

此外，本章有两个有关群众的比喻也令我觉得震撼，因为不可思议。其一是对挣脱了羁绊却一盘散沙的群众神态的描述：

When he had reached the spot it was to see a mob of two or three hundred women crowding round the stalls of a street market, with faces as tragic as though they had been the doomed passengers on a sinking ship.

其二是对群众地位的对等形容：

Proles and animals are free.