As she came nearer he saw that her right arm was in a sling, not noticeable at a distance because it was of the same colour as her overalls.
A sling is an object made of ropes, straps, or cloth that is used for carrying things.
Probably she had crushed her hand while swinging round one of the big kaleidoscopes on which the plots of novels were ‘roughed in’.
If you rough a drawing in, you draw the basic lines, without the detail.
They were perhaps four metres apart when the girl stumbled and fell almost flat on her face.
If an event or attempt falls flat or falls flat on its face, it is unsuccessful.(不是这里的意思)
A sharp cry of pain was wrung out of her.
wring: to twist
Winston stopped short.
suddenly stop.
While he stood at the urinal he managed, with a little more fingering, to get it unfolded.
A urinal is a bowl fixed to the wall of a men's public toilet for men to urinate in.
For a moment he was tempted to take it into one of the water-closets and read it at once.
water-closet: A flush toilet.
He went back to his cubicle, sat down, threw the fragment of paper casually among the other papers on the desk, put on his spectacles and hitched the speakwrite towards him.
hitch: to hook or entangle
For several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory hole.
incriminating: tending to suggest guilt
What was even worse than having to focus his mind on a series of niggling jobs was the need to conceal his agitation from the telescreen.
niggling: Causing slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort, or anxiety.
He had hoped to be alone for a little while during the lunch hour, but as bad luck would have it the imbecile Parsons flopped down beside him, the tang of his sweat almost defeating the tinny smell of stew, and kept up a stream of talk about the preparations for Hate Week.
tang: a strong, sharp taste or smell
He was particularly enthusiastic about a papier-mâché model of Big Brother’s head, two metres wide, which was being made for the occasion by his daughter’s troop of Spies.
papier mâché: pieces of paper mixed with glue or with flour and water, used to make decorative objects or models.
The irritating thing was that in the racket of voices Winston could hardly hear what Parsons was saying, and was constantly having to ask for some fatuous remark to be repeated.
a loud unpleasant noise.
It consisted in falsifying a series of production reports of two years ago, in such a way as to cast discredit on a prominent member of the Inner Party who was now under a cloud.
under a cloud: Under suspicion or discredited.
He wolfed another tasteless meal in the canteen, hurried off to the Centre, took part in the solemn foolery of a ‘discussion group’, played two games of table tennis, swallowed several glasses of gin and sat for half an hour through a lecture entitled ‘Ingsoc in relation to chess’.
wolf: eat hastily
His soul writhed with boredom, but for once he had had no impulse to shirk his evening at the Centre.
writhe: to make large twisting movements with the body.
Obviously she had been frightened out of her wits, as well she might be. Nor did the idea of refusing her advances even cross his mind.
advance: An approach made to someone with the aim of initiating sexual or amorous relations.
But the physical difficulty of meeting was enormous. It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.
=checkmate
For the messages that it was occasionally necessary to send, there were printed postcards with long lists of phrases, and you struck out the ones that were inapplicable.
strike out: remove from a list
If there was any relief, it was in his work, in which he could sometimes forget himself for ten minutes at a stretch.
continuously or without any interruptions
When he came into the canteen she was sitting at a table well out from the wall, and was quite alone.
very far away from
He might have flinched altogether from speaking if at this moment he had not seen Ampleforth, the hairy-eared poet, wandering limply round the room with a tray, looking for a place to sit down.
limp: to walk slowly and with difficulty because of having an injured or painful leg or foot.
The stuff they were eating was a thin stew, actually a soup, of haricot beans.
another name for French bean
Winston was in Victory Square before the appointed time. He wandered round the base of the enormous fluted column, at the top of which Big Brother’s statue gazed southward towards the skies where he had vanquished the Eurasian aeroplanes (the Eastasian aeroplanes, it had been, a few years ago)in the Battle of Airstrip One.
Having flutes or grooves; ridged.
The girl nipped nimbly round the lions at the base of the monument and joined in the rush.
to go somewhere quickly or be somewhere for only a short time
Winston, at normal times the kind of person who gravitates to the outer edge of any kind of scrimmage, shoved, butted, squirmed his way forward into the heart of the crowd.
A confused struggle or fight.
The trucks were still filing past, the people still insatiably gaping.
proceed in line
In the last truck he could see an aged man, his face a mass of grizzled hair, standing upright with wrists crossed in front of him, as though he were used to having them bound together.
hair that is grey or partly grey.
But at the last moment, while the crowd still hemmed them in, her hand felt for his and gave it a fleeting squeeze.
to surround someone and prevent them from moving or doing what they want to do
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