George Orwell
/ˌdʒɔːdʒ ˈɔːwel/
/ˌdʒɔːrdʒ ˈɔːrwel/
- (1903-50) an English writer of essays and novels. He was born in India and educated at Eton. His first job was with the British police in Burma (1922-7), but he reacted against his background and spent the next few years living with very little money in Paris and London. He wrote about his experiences among poor people there in Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). His next book, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), described working-class life in Britain during the Depression. He joined the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and wrote about this in Homage to Catalonia (1938). His two best-known novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were written in the 1940s. In their different ways, they both show his disappointment with the results of socialist revolutions, especially in the Soviet Union.
乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell）：（1903-50）英国杂文和小说作家。他出生于印度，在伊顿大学接受教育。他的第一份工作是在缅甸的英国警察（1922-7），但他在背景下做出了反应，并在接下来的几年中以很少的钱生活在巴黎和伦敦。他写了关于他在巴黎和伦敦的唐老鸭穷人中的经历（1933年）。他的下一本书《通往威根码头的道路（1937）》描述了大萧条时期英国工人阶级的生活。他加入了西班牙内战的共和党，并在《向加泰罗尼亚致敬》（1938年）中对此作了论述。他的两本最著名的小说《动物农场》和《十九四十八》写于1940年代。他们都以不同的方式对社会主义革命的结果表示失望，特别是在苏联。