| 单词 | memory hole |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmemory hole memory hole n. (in G. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: see quot. 1949) a slot through which documents recording past events, etc., can be disposed of, as part of the manipulation of memories of the past; also figurative. ΚΠ 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 40 When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. 1956 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 50 331 This precept is..the most difficult to abridge, to ‘correct’ later, and even if next week it is suppressed it cannot easily be evaporated in a ‘memory hole’. 1989 Dillons Bks. Aug. 16/4 I suspect that all the difficult material has simply disappeared into a ‘memory hole’. < as lemmas |
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