This article provides a cognitive-comparative analysis of conceptual metaphors in the English source text of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 and its Uzbek translation. Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) pioneered by Lakoff and Johnson, the study examines how abstract emotion-related domains are mapped onto concrete source domains across both languages. By analyzing specific textual units, this paper demonstrates how universal cognitive models manifest through culturally distinct linguistic frameworks, revealing the strategies used by translators to preserve cognitive equivalence.