摘要
阿道司·赫胥黎（Aldous Huxley，1894～1963），英国作家，出生于萨里郡的名门：父亲是编辑兼诗人，母亲是批评家马修·阿诺德（MatthewArnold）的侄女，著有《天演论》（Evohaion and Ethics）大生物学家托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎（Thomas Henry Huxley）是他的祖父。赫胥黎从小受到良好的教育，早年人伊顿公学，打算从事医学，因严重眼疾而辍学，后入牛津大学攻读文学并开始创作诗歌。
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A SQUAT grey building of only thirty- four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State＇s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the lay2） windows, hungrily seeking sonle draped figure, some pallid shape of academic goose- flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.
