「你难道看不出来，新话的全部目的就是收窄思想的范围？到最后，思想罪根本无从再犯——因为将无词可用来想它。」 "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
——乔治·奥威尔《一九八四》（1949）。说这话的语言学家赛麦，正在编第十一版新话词典：他的工作不是造词，是销词。 — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Syme, the philologist speaking, is at work on the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak dictionary: his job is not to coin words, but to destroy them.
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彻底地懂——懂到与所懂之物合为一体；海因莱因笔下火星语的「饮」，喝进去才算懂。 To understand so completely that you merge with the understood — Martian for "to drink," in Heinlein's book.
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匣子可以放到云上：换设备接着用、给别人看，都凭匣号。 The box can live in the cloud — the name alone picks it up elsewhere or shows it to a friend.
匣号 ，云上同步中。 Box , syncing.