翻開第二章，原來敲門的是Winston的鄰居Parsons太太。她的外貌和她屋里陳設，我反復讀了好幾遍，覺得奧威爾的用詞很有意思，這些生動形象的詞匯讓我仿佛身臨其境地來到了外表蒼老的Parsons那凌亂骯臟的家。
She was a woman of about thirty, but looking much older. One had the impression that there was dust in the creases of her face.
Everything had a battered, trampled-on look, as though the place had just been visited by some large violent animal. Games impedimenta--hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out--lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.
There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building, but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which--one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how--was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.
The kitchen sink was full nearly to the brim with filthy greenish water which smelt worse than ever of cabbage.
接下來讓我印象深刻的是清亮號響過后的廣播，軍隊在印度南部取得了輝煌的勝利，然而Winston確認為這是個壞消息——因為巧克力的供應量從每天30克減少為20克。這個片段讓我瞬間聯想到季羨林先生在《留德十年》里寫到的德國二戰期間希特勒的百般惑眾和老百姓食物供應的短缺狀況。
在第二章的結尾，Winston在藏他那寶貝日記本以及做記號為判斷是否有人動過的細節時，像極了諜戰片里中共地下黨員做臥底時的狀態。比如《潛伏》里的余則成和《黎明之前》里的劉新杰，哈。
He put the diary away in the drawer. It was quite useless to think of hiding it, but he could at least make sure whether or not its existence had been discovered. A hair laid across the page-ends was too obvious. With the tip of his finger he picked up an identifiable grain of whitish dust and deposited it on the corner of the cover, where it was bound to be shaken off if the book was moved.
第三章，Winston夢見了母親。夢的最后以一段夢境中的美景結束，我很喜歡這一段，這里越是描述當時的美好，也就越反襯了現實的殘酷。
Suddenly he was standing on short springy turf, on a summer evening when the slanting rays of the sun gilded the ground. It was an old, rabbit-bitten pasture, with a foot-track wandering across it and a molehill here and there. In the ragged hedge on the opposite side of the field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women's hair. Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.
此外，我對那個體操時間出現的女人也印象很深刻，源自于奧威爾對她外形和動作的刻畫。
A youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.
He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and--one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency--bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.
寫到這里，我發現自己的重點幾乎都集中在吸引我的那些簡單又到位的描述性文字上，不由自主地回避了沒太讀明白的有關政治背景的一些內容和隱喻。明天繼續體會吧。
