258.英文正文（258）

innewspeak，euphonyoutweighedeveryconsiderationotherthanexactitudeofmeaning。regularityofgrammarwasalwayssacrificedtoitwhenitseemednecessary。andrightlyso，sincewhatwasrequired，aboveallforpoliticalpurposes，wasshortclippedwordsofunmistakablemeaningwhichcouldbeutteredrapidlyandwhichrousedtheminimumofechoesinthespeaker’smind。thewordsofthebvocabularyevengainedinforcefromthefactthatnearlyallofthemwereverymuchalike。almostinvariablythesewords—goodthink，minipax，prolefeed，sexcrime，joycamp，ingsoc，bellyfeel，thinkpol，andcountlessothers—werewordsoftwoorthreesyllables，withthestressdistributedequallybetweenthefirstsyllableandthelast。theuseofthemencouragedagabblingstyleofspeech，atoncestaccatoandmonotonous。andthiswasexactlywhatwasaimedat。theintentionwastomakespeech，andespeciallyspeechonanysubjectnotideologicallyneutral，asnearlyaspossibleindependentofconsciousness。forthepurposesofeverydaylifeitwasnodoubtnecessary，orsometimesnecessary，toreflectbeforespeaking，butapartymembercalledupontomakeapoliticalorethicaljudgementshouldbeabletosprayforththecorrectopinionsasautomaticallyasamachinegunsprayingforthbullets。histrainingfittedhimtodothis，thelanguagegavehimanalmostfoolproofinstrument，andthetextureofthewords，withtheirharshsoundandacertainwilfuluglinesswhichwasinaccordwiththespiritofingsoc，assistedtheprocessstillfurther。