| 词汇 | big brother is watching you |
| 词源 | Big Brother is watching you. Big Brother has come to mean a dictator or a dictatorship, a person or a political system that controls people’s minds and lives so that there is nothing pri- vate and personal anymore. The reference is of course to the character Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty- Four (1949). See big willie. |
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