In fact, whenever you bring it up in a debate about surveillance, people instantaneously dismiss it as inapplicable, and what they say is, "Oh, well in '1984,' there were monitors in people's homes, they were being watched at every given moment, and that has nothing to do with the surveillance state that we face."
事实上，在关于监视的讨论中 不论什么时候提到本书 人们都立即忽略它, 认为它行不通，他们说： “在《1984》里人们家里都是监视器， 他们无时无刻不被看着， 这和我们所面对的国家监控是不一样的.”