This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.
污秽感饥饿感太强—那我就顺便记录一下读的过程中我都吃了些什么... SFO: Greek yogurt and some bland pasta salad; Guu with Garlic: Japanese tapas and awesome yuzu sake; Christmas market: hot red wine and German ham hock sandwich; Sura...污秽感饥饿感太强—那我就顺便记录一下读的过程中我都吃了些什么... SFO: Greek yogurt and some bland pasta salad; Guu with Garlic: Japanese tapas and awesome yuzu sake; Christmas market: hot red wine and German ham hock sandwich; Sura: pretty decent Korean food (great kimchi); Kirin: dim sum and tea; on the flight back: a tangerine. Food will keep me going and away from street.(展开)
整个九月份一直揣在包里，在地铁和公交车站读完了这本书。 薄薄的小册子，两百来页 很便携，纸质也很棒，印刷排版令人舒适。 第一次读George Orwell的作品，我一下子就喜欢上他了。他的戏谑、冷嘲热讽，总能让我联想起一些往事，也让我想起钱钟书，还有鲁迅。 (Within certain limits,) it is actually true that the less money you ha...整个九月份一直揣在包里，在地铁和公交车站读完了这本书。 薄薄的小册子，两百来页 很便携，纸质也很棒，印刷排版令人舒适。 第一次读George Orwell的作品，我一下子就喜欢上他了。他的戏谑、冷嘲热讽，总能让我联想起一些往事，也让我想起钱钟书，还有鲁迅。 (Within certain limits,) it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. (展开)
I was trying to find 1984 by Orwell in the library, instead I found this little book. This is the first published work by George Orwell, and was a loosely autobiographic novel. It chronicles the time he spent in Paris as a Plongeur (an employee charged with...
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这两个月用下班的时间一点一点地看完这本书。 奥威尔一直是我的大爱，某种程度上《动物农庄》道出了我对政治的看法。最近从图书馆借了他的散文集Essay看，有种“多年未见，一见旧情仍在”的感觉，于是赶快找来这本Down and Out in Paris and London看（我称这书为《失魂落魄记...
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And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. One room was let to two different lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of...
2017-07-06 14:01
And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. 引自 chapter I One room was let to two different lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker. 引自 chapter I The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. 引自 chapter I
I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he mar...
2014-12-02 16:26
I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he marries, his wife must work too. Except by a lucky chance, he has no escape from this life, save into prison. At this moment there are men with university degrees scrubbing dishes in Paris for ten or fifteen hours a day. One cannot say that it is mere idleness on their part, for an idle man cannot be a PLONGEUR they have simply been trapped by a routine which makes thought impossible. If PLONGEURS thought at all, they would long ago have formed a union and gone on strike for better treatment. But they do not think, because they have no leisure for it; their life has made slaves of them.引自 Chapter XXII
We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to ...
2014-12-02 16:12
We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to trip over it.
'Now, you cow,' I said, 'move it yourself.'
Poor old woman, it was too heavy for her to lift, and she sat down, put her head on the table and burst out crying. And I jeered at her. This is the kind of effect that fatigue has upon one's manners.引自 Chapter XXI
The only person who never forgot Us manners was the PATRON. He kept the same hours as the rest of us, but he had no work to do, for it was his wife who really managed things. His sole job, besides ordering the supplies, was to stand in the bar smoking cigarettes and looking gentlemanly, and he did that to perfection.
2014-12-02 15:39
The only person who never forgot Us manners was the PATRON. He kept the same hours as the rest of us, but he had no work to do, for it was his wife who really managed things. His sole job, besides ordering the supplies, was to stand in the bar smoking cigarettes and looking gentlemanly, and he did that to perfection.引自 Chapter XX
"The Paris slums are a gathering place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work. "
2014-04-06 02:52
"The Paris slums are a gathering place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work. "
And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. One room was let to two different lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of...
2017-07-06 14:01
And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. 引自 chapter I One room was let to two different lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker. 引自 chapter I The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. 引自 chapter I
I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he mar...
2014-12-02 16:26
I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he marries, his wife must work too. Except by a lucky chance, he has no escape from this life, save into prison. At this moment there are men with university degrees scrubbing dishes in Paris for ten or fifteen hours a day. One cannot say that it is mere idleness on their part, for an idle man cannot be a PLONGEUR they have simply been trapped by a routine which makes thought impossible. If PLONGEURS thought at all, they would long ago have formed a union and gone on strike for better treatment. But they do not think, because they have no leisure for it; their life has made slaves of them.引自 Chapter XXII
We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to ...
2014-12-02 16:12
We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to trip over it.
'Now, you cow,' I said, 'move it yourself.'
Poor old woman, it was too heavy for her to lift, and she sat down, put her head on the table and burst out crying. And I jeered at her. This is the kind of effect that fatigue has upon one's manners.引自 Chapter XXI
And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. One room was let to two different lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of...
2017-07-06 14:01
And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. 引自 chapter I One room was let to two different lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker. 引自 chapter I The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. 引自 chapter I
I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he mar...
2014-12-02 16:26
I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he marries, his wife must work too. Except by a lucky chance, he has no escape from this life, save into prison. At this moment there are men with university degrees scrubbing dishes in Paris for ten or fifteen hours a day. One cannot say that it is mere idleness on their part, for an idle man cannot be a PLONGEUR they have simply been trapped by a routine which makes thought impossible. If PLONGEURS thought at all, they would long ago have formed a union and gone on strike for better treatment. But they do not think, because they have no leisure for it; their life has made slaves of them.引自 Chapter XXII
We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to ...
2014-12-02 16:12
We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to trip over it.
'Now, you cow,' I said, 'move it yourself.'
Poor old woman, it was too heavy for her to lift, and she sat down, put her head on the table and burst out crying. And I jeered at her. This is the kind of effect that fatigue has upon one's manners.引自 Chapter XXI
The only person who never forgot Us manners was the PATRON. He kept the same hours as the rest of us, but he had no work to do, for it was his wife who really managed things. His sole job, besides ordering the supplies, was to stand in the bar smoking cigarettes and looking gentlemanly, and he did that to perfection.
2014-12-02 15:39
The only person who never forgot Us manners was the PATRON. He kept the same hours as the rest of us, but he had no work to do, for it was his wife who really managed things. His sole job, besides ordering the supplies, was to stand in the bar smoking cigarettes and looking gentlemanly, and he did that to perfection.引自 Chapter XX
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江苏人民出版社/凤凰出版社集团2006版
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And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. One room was let to two different lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of...
1 有用 Nussknacker 2018-12-02
污秽感饥饿感太强—那我就顺便记录一下读的过程中我都吃了些什么... SFO: Greek yogurt and some bland pasta salad; Guu with Garlic: Japanese tapas and awesome yuzu sake; Christmas market: hot red wine and German ham hock sandwich; Sura... 污秽感饥饿感太强—那我就顺便记录一下读的过程中我都吃了些什么... SFO: Greek yogurt and some bland pasta salad; Guu with Garlic: Japanese tapas and awesome yuzu sake; Christmas market: hot red wine and German ham hock sandwich; Sura: pretty decent Korean food (great kimchi); Kirin: dim sum and tea; on the flight back: a tangerine. Food will keep me going and away from street. (展开)
0 有用 Mel. 2012-04-22
english 课程必读.
0 有用 曼仔 2012-02-06
没读之前不喜欢奥威尔，读了之后倒觉得奥威尔不乏可爱之处。是个很坦率，很可爱的男人。读一个作家的早年之作，可以知道奥威尔如何成为奥威尔。
0 有用 黑五 2019-10-01
很多词都不常用。流浪汉的生活。
0 有用 Turquoise 2013-01-25
四天读完，对我来说是奇迹，kindle看英文效率真心高。orwell文字简单深刻，有点余华的味道。
0 有用 ilovelit 2020-10-10
整个九月份一直揣在包里，在地铁和公交车站读完了这本书。 薄薄的小册子，两百来页 很便携，纸质也很棒，印刷排版令人舒适。 第一次读George Orwell的作品，我一下子就喜欢上他了。他的戏谑、冷嘲热讽，总能让我联想起一些往事，也让我想起钱钟书，还有鲁迅。 (Within certain limits,) it is actually true that the less money you ha... 整个九月份一直揣在包里，在地铁和公交车站读完了这本书。 薄薄的小册子，两百来页 很便携，纸质也很棒，印刷排版令人舒适。 第一次读George Orwell的作品，我一下子就喜欢上他了。他的戏谑、冷嘲热讽，总能让我联想起一些往事，也让我想起钱钟书，还有鲁迅。 (Within certain limits,) it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. (展开)
0 有用 ... 2020-07-29
至此我心中的三大最爱“短篇”已经形成：这本的巴黎部分，DFW的A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again 和 Capote的A Christmas memory.
0 有用 Axinzia 2020-04-18
2019-03-11 读过 今年跑了几次伦敦每次都匆匆总被撺掇去巴黎约了塞浦路斯，仍旧没存下钱，生活也负琐碎的压力也离底层遥远除了之言片句法国词外无法感同身受。是奥威尔擅长诡辩，还是贫穷让人成为狡辩者。
0 有用 教练，我想抬杠 2020-02-02
他对贫困的洞察比duflo等早几十年。他的书可以每年拿出来重新读一下，警示自己。
0 有用 帕丁顿喵 2020-01-19
看了原版才知道译本删减了这么多。