Animal Farm
Chapter 2 (15-17)
The animals had their breakfast, and then Snowball and Napoleon called them together again.
“Comrades,” said Snowball, “it is half-past six and we have a long day before us.
Today we begin the hay harvest.
But there is another matter that must be attended to first.”
The pigs now revealed that during the past three months/ they had taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book which had belonged to Mr.Jones's children and which had been thrown on the rubbish heap.
Napoleon sent for pots of black and white paint and led the way down to the five-barred gate that gave on to the main road.
Then Snowball (for it was Snowball who was best at writing) took a brush between the two knuckles of his trotter, painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar of the gate and in its place painted ANIMAL FARM.
This was to be the name of the farm from now onwards.
After this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be set against the end wall of the big barn.
They explained that by their studies of the past three months/ the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles/ of Animalism to Seven Commandments.
These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after.
With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to balance himself on a ladder) Snowball climbed up and set to work, with Squealer a few rungs below him holding the paint-pot.
The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away.
comprehension
- "Gave on to" 是一个表达，意味着某物通向另一个地方或面向另一个区域。
translation
- 动物们吃过早餐之后，雪球和拿破仑再次召集他们集合起来。
- “同志们，” 雪球说，“现在是六点半，我们还有一整天的时间。
- 今天我们开始收割干草。
- 但是首先还有一件事情要处理。”
- 现在猪们透露，过去三个月他们从琼斯先生孩子们的一本旧拼写书中学会了阅读和写作，这本书被扔到了垃圾堆里。
- 拿破仑派人拿来了几桶黑漆和白漆，自己带头走向通往主路的五栅门。
- 然后雪球（因为他擅长写作）用他的蹄子两个关节之间夹着一把刷子，把大门的顶栏上的 MANOR FARM 擦掉，代之以 ANIMAL FARM。
- 从现在开始，这将是农场的名字。
- 之后他们回到农场建筑，雪球和拿破仑派人拿来了一把梯子，他们让梯子靠在大谷仓的尽头墙上。
- 他们解释说，通过过去三个月的学习，猪们已经成功地将动物主义的原则简化为七条戒律。
- 这七条戒律现在将被刻在墙上；它们将构成一个不可更改的法律，所有的动物农场的成员必须永远遵循。
- 雪球费了一番劲爬上梯子（因为一头猪在梯子上保持平衡并不容易），开始工作，而斯奎拉则在他下面几档处拿着油漆桶。
- 戒律用白色的大字写在涂有焦油的墙上，即使站在三十码外也能读得到。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "harvest",
"trans": [
"v. 收割，收获；采集，搜集；收采（人的器官、细胞等）",
"n. 收获；收获量，捕获量；成果，收获"
],
"usphone": "'ˈhɑːrvɪst'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "attend",
"trans": [
"v. 随同，陪同；经常去，定期去(学校、教堂等)；伴随……而至，（作为结果）伴随；出席，参加；注意，专心；处理，照料；致力于"
],
"usphone": "'əˈtend'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "reveal",
"trans": [
"v. 揭示，透露；表明，证明；展示，显示；（通过神或超自然手段）启示",
"n. （电视节目最后的）揭示；门侧，窗侧"
],
"usphone": "'rɪˈviːl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "spelling",
"trans": [
"v. （用字母）拼写，拼出；招致，意味着（通常指坏事）；替换，顶替（**** 的现在分词形式）",
"n. 拼写，拼写能力；拼法，拼读"
],
"usphone": "'ˈspelɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "send for",
"trans": [
"na. 遣人去拿；派人去叫[请]；乞求",
"网络 派人去找；寄回"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "lead the way",
"trans": [
"带路：作为第一个人去某个地方。",
"引领潮流：在某个领域中成为开创者。"
],
"usphone": "'liːd ðə weɪ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "knuckle",
"trans": [
"n. 关节；指关节；指节；膝关节；肘",
"vi. 开始认真工作",
"vt. 用指关节敲打"
],
"usphone": "'ˈnʌkl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "paint out",
"trans": [
"描绘，描述",
"涂抹，覆盖"
],
"usphone": "'peɪnt aʊt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "onwards",
"trans": [
"adv. 向前；在前面"
],
"usphone": "'ˈɑːnwərdz'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "ladder",
"trans": [
"n. 梯子；（职位晋升的）阶梯，（发展的）阶段；<英>（织物）抽丝，脱线；（体育竞赛中的）阶梯晋级赛；梯状物",
"v. （裤袜等）抽丝"
],
"usphone": "'ˈlædər'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "set against",
"trans": [
"网络 使平衡；使抵消；使敌视",
"na. 比较；对照；使对抗；使反对"
],
"usphone": "'set əˈɡenst'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "commandment",
"trans": [
"n. 戒律；法令"
],
"usphone": "'kəˈmændmənt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "inscribe",
"trans": [
"vt. 题写；题献；铭记；雕"
],
"usphone": "'ɪnˈskraɪb'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "unalterable",
"trans": [
"adj. 不能改变的；坚定不移的"
],
"usphone": "'ʌnˈɔːltərəb(ə)l'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "ever after",
"trans": [
"网络 从此以后一直；情话童真；灰姑娘；",
"na. 以后老是"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "set to",
"trans": [
"na. 动手做；认真着手；打起来；吃起来",
"网络 动手干；设置精确的速率数值；开始认真干起来"
],
"usphone": "'ˌset ˈtuː'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "rung",
"trans": [
"n. 梯级；车辐；(地位等的上升)一级；〈罕〉(船的)地板料",
"v. “ring”的过去分词"
],
"usphone": "'rʌŋz'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "paint pot",
"trans": [
"油漆罐",
"泥浆孔"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "tarred",
"trans": [
"v. 涂焦油于；怂恿（*** 的过去式和过去分词）",
"adj. 涂了焦油的"
],
"usphone": "'tɑːrd'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "yard",
"trans": [
"n. 码；院子；场地；(学校的)运动场",
"v. 把(家畜)赶进栏里"
],
"usphone": "'jɑːrd'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]