some animals are more equal than others" is the final, corrupted commandment in George Orwell's Animal Farm. It signifies the total betrayal of the revolution, highlighting how the pigs (led by Napoleon) established a hypocritical dictatorship, claiming superiority and better treatment while creating a totalitarian society.
Key Aspects of "More Equal" in Animal Farm:
The Transformation of Commandment: The original, radical equality ("All animals are equal") is altered to create a paradoxical hierarchy.
The Pigs' Privilege: The pigs grant themselves luxuries, such as sleeping in beds, wearing clothes, drinking alcohol, and eating better food, while the other animals work harder for less food.
Corruption of Power: The phrase is a stinging satire of how leaders in authoritarian regimes (specifically Stalinism) adopt the luxuries of the oppressors they replaced.
Elimination of Equality: It signifies that the concept of equality has been completely abandoned, replaced by a rigid, selfish, and oppressive class system.
This quote highlights the hypocrisy of the ruling pigs, who, while claiming equality, live like their former human oppressors.
some animals are more equal than others" is the final, corrupted commandment in George Orwell's Animal Farm. It signifies the total betrayal of the revolution, highlighting how the pigs (led by Napoleon) established a hypocritical dictatorship, claiming superiority and better treatment while creating a totalitarian society.
Key Aspects of "More Equal" in Animal Farm:
The Transformation of Commandment: The original, radical equality ("All animals are equal") is altered to create a paradoxical hierarchy.
The Pigs' Privilege: The pigs grant themselves luxuries, such as sleeping in beds, wearing clothes, drinking alcohol, and eating better food, while the other animals work harder for less food.
Corruption of Power: The phrase is a stinging satire of how leaders in authoritarian regimes (specifically Stalinism) adopt the luxuries of the oppressors they replaced.
Elimination of Equality: It signifies that the concept of equality has been completely abandoned, replaced by a rigid, selfish, and oppressive class system.
This quote highlights the hypocrisy of the ruling pigs, who, while claiming equality, live like their former human oppressors.
"One doesn't work for effects, and one doesn't set up in the artist business. One studies and learns and works and thinks to develop oneself as an intelligent, sensitive, and aware human being: and out of the always-increasing resources of intelligence, sensitivity, and awareness, the human being makes music."
"...happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."
--from "The Mayor of Casterbridge" By Thomas Hardy
今天2016.5.8 的，比較完整點，不過英文不好懂。這是小說的末段，句長或許另外有意思：
"And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."
She had not been able to forget it for days, despite Farfrae's tender banter; and now when the matter had .... And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was ...
這章的遺囑更是感人.....
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方寒星來信pointed out：「《成寒英語有聲書５－一語動人心》書中插圖」 其中，「（李振清博士）在師大英語系大二期間，因為勤讀英文小說，我逐漸領會到英美文學作品及其文字的優美，從而摹仿其文詞、句構、語意與意境。當時教小說選讀的是一位令我敬愛、英國文學造詣極深的翻譯名家，吳奚真教授。吳老師當年選讀哈代（Thomas Hardy）的名著《卡斯特橋市長》（The Mayor of Casterbridge）；這是我一生首次精讀，甚至背誦部分章節的英國文學作品，對日後的英文寫作有很大的影響。」
Maurizio Bellacosa, a professor of criminal law at Luiss University in Italy who has often argued cases before the Court of Cassation, said that the application of that doctrine in a shoplifting case “has a certain novelty.”
意大利國際社會科學自由大學(Luiss University)刑法教授毛里奇奧·貝拉科薩(Maurizio Bellacosa)經常討論上訴法庭中的案件，他說，在商店盜竊案件中應用這一原則“確實很新奇”。
INDIA'S retailers suffer the highest levels of theft, according to the “Global Retail Theft Barometer” survey of 41 countries. Losses from a combination of shoplifting, worker and supplier theft, and accounting errors amounted to 3% of all retail sales. This “shrinkage” cost global retailers almost $115 billion in 2009, up by 5.9% from the previous year. Much of this increase was caused by a rise in shoplifting, particularly in America and Europe. Branded clothes and fashion accessories were the most prized items globally, with items for the car and home-improvement goods a close second. In Europe the most pilfered grocery item is luxury cooked meat.
