The Blue Plaque
 

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- Lesson 31

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- Lesson 32

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- Lesson 33

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- Lesson 34

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- Lesson 35

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- Lesson 36

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- Lesson 37

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- Lesson 38

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- Lesson 39

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- Lesson 40
VOCABULARY
to be born - urodzić się
India - Indie
civil servant - urzędnik państwowy, urzędnik służby cywilnej
to bring - tu: przywieźć
when he was a year old - kiedy miał rok
to educate - tu: kształcić się, pobierać naukę
Eton - ekskluzywna prywatna szkoła w Anglii
to win a scholarship - zdobyć stypendium
to be unable - nie móc, nie być w stanie
to go on to university - kontynuować naukę na uniwersytecie
instead - zamiast
Imperial Police - Policja Imperialna
to serve as an officer - służyć jako officer
several years - szereg lat
to resign - podać się do dymisji
to travel back to - wrócić do
to return - wrócić, powrócić
disgusted - zdegustowany
colonialism - kolonializm
eventually - w końcu, wreszcie (NIE: ewentualnie)
precarious - niebezpieczny, najeżony niebezpieczeństwami, niepewny
to begin a career - zacząć karierę
freelance writer - pisarz/publicysta niezależny, pracujący na zlecenie
pen name - pseudonim literacki
to take the pen name - przyjąć pseudonim literacki
to seem - wydawać się
unpretentious - bezpretensjonalny
name - imię
river - rzeka
to run through - (o rzece) płynąć przez
part - część
Suffolk - hrabstwo we wschodniej Anglii
countryside - wieś, wiejska okolica
particularly - szczególnie
to love - kochać, ukochać
Lesson 31
George Orwell


Eric Blair was born in India, where his father was a civil servant, in 1903 and brought to England by his mother when he was a year old.

Educated at Eton, to which he had won a scholarship, he was unable to go on to university and instead joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, serving as an officer for several years before resigning and travelling back to England.

He returned from Burma, disgusted by colonialism and eventually began a precarious career as a freelance writer, taking the pen name George Orwell.

George seemed to him an unpretentious English name and the River Orwell ran through a part of the Suffolk countryside which he particularly loved.

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