Another excellent piece touches on a comparable issue: the list of suspected communistsympathisers that Orwell supplied to the British authorities in 1949. Again, Mr Garton Ash isscrupulously fair, highlighting Orwell s sincere fear of communistinfiltration, as well as his fumbling feelings for Celia Kirwan, the British official involved.
另一篇杰作则涉及到一个与前例有可比性的话题:奥威尔于1949年向英国当局提交的那份共产主义疑似同情者的名单。加顿阿什再一次地表现出了一丝不苟的公正态度,在文中强调了奥威尔对共产主义渗透行为的真切恐惧,以及他对希莲柯雯所抱有的为爱所醉之情。
Some of the reworked articles are commendable journalism, but do not quite stand the testof time. Mr Garton Ash s observations from his trip to Iran in 2005 seem a bit whiskery now.It is nostalgic to read about the fall of crony capitalism in Ukraine five years ago. But thereader is left hankering to know what Mr Garton Ash thinks about the mess that hassucceeded it. A fiercer editor might have left out such pieces, and pruned the author soccasional lapses into self-indulgence . Thatmay not matter in individual newspaper columns. It jars when collected in a book.
在经过重新修订的文章中,有一些是可圈可点的资讯稿件,不过它们并不能完全经受住时间的考验。加顿阿什从其2005年伊朗之行中得出的观察结论在今天看来已有几分过时;他关于五年前权贵资本主义在乌克兰垮台的文章,如今读来确实令人怀念往昔;但读者们想了解加顿阿什对于政权更迭之后的乱局有何见解的渴望却未得到满足。换做一位下手更狠的编辑,此类文章大概会被略去,而作者偶然的败笔也会被修剪成随性之举的模样。对于个别的报纸专栏而言,出现这一问题可能无伤大雅;但汇集成书后,它便显得甚为刺眼。
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