In reality very little was known about the proles. It was not necessary to know much. So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were not important.
事实上关于无产者的事情大家也知之甚少。也没有必要知道太多，只要他们持续的工作和繁衍，他们的其他活动并不重要。
Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty.
就像放养在阿根廷大平原上的家畜一样，他们回归了那种让他们感到自然的生活方式，一种先祖们的生活方式。他们降生、他们生长在阴暗处，他们在12岁的时候去工作，他们经历简短的美丽的花期以及性渴望，他们在20岁结婚，在30岁步入中年，大多数在60岁死去。
