Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. 賽姆是語(yǔ)言學(xué)家,也是新話(huà)專(zhuān)家。
Syme had produced a strip of paper on which there was a long column of words, and was studying it with an ink-pencil between his fingers. 賽姆便掏出一張紙,上面有一長(cháng)串的字,他拿支墨水鉛筆研究起來(lái)。