【賞析】
本章中隨著兩人的交往，更加細致地刻畫了Julia， 她是一個比Winston更精明的人，其實在前兩章都是這個女孩在聰明機智地安排約會地點，就可以看得出雖然她比Winston年輕很多，但是她很精明，更能看清形勢，知道如何巧妙地得到自己想要的東西。在這兩章中我們可以更清楚地了解到Julia，she became alert and business-like….It paid, she said, it was camouflage. If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. 可以看出她非常清楚地知道如何偽裝和保全。在本章中對Julia有一段非常到位的概括….who had grown up in the world of the Revolution ,knowing nothing else ,accepting the Party as something unalterable ,like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it ,as a rabbit dodges a dog. 像Julia這樣的年青一代，很清楚天命難違，極權難抗，但他們有自己的活法，知道如何鉆空子和偽裝，去過自己想要的生活，所以我說，他（她）們有著“兔子一樣的精明”，縱然有獵狗窮追不舍，但兔子有兔子的手段，能逃一天算一天；The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same. 這句是多么經典的“兔子哲學”。Julia非常清楚這一體制的運作，所以才那么清楚地知道如何規避風險。例如，unlike Winston ,she had grasped the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual Puritanism . 她也非常清楚地知道自己所面臨的風險，但是她有及時行樂的灑脫和保全自己的聰明。She realized that she herself was doomed, that sooner or later the Thought Police would catch her and kill her, but with another part of her mind she believed that it was somehow possible to construct a secret world in which you could live as you chose. All you needed was luck and cunning and boldness. 所以在Julia身上我們看到的就是這樣的cunning 和boldness.
讀到這里，很想把Winston和Julia 拿來做比較，他們都憎恨這樣的極權社會，但是兩個人是兩種完全不同的活法。Winston沉浸在這種憤懣痛苦之中，通常都是在默默忍受，并不清楚自己何去何從，日子過得也很苦逼；而Julia也痛恨這樣的社會，但她選擇帶著枷鎖的舞蹈，縱然是被束手束腳，但是她在精神上應該要比Winston快樂。如果她只有boldness，那么她早就被抓玩完；如果她只有cunning，那么她的聰明想法將難于付諸實施。正因為她兩者兼備，她實現了她自己的活法：痛并快樂著，也正如她所愿，構筑了自己理想生活的秘密花園。
第四章最后一段很有意境，the paperweight was the room he was in ,and the coral was Julia ‘life and his own ,fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal . 我也突然想買個漂亮的紙鎮…….
【表達】
1、 ill-lit workshop 燈光昏暗的（twig-littered floor 灑滿樹枝的）
2、 she had won the gymnastics trophy two years running 連續兩年
3、 文中幾次出現 bloody stuff . bloody 在這里并不是指血腥的，而是 to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they are angry. 該死的; 氣惱時用來加重語氣
4、 They were so sour that it set your teeth on edge even to smell them .酸倒牙
