Animal Farm
Chapter 3 (3-3)
All through that summer the work of the farm/ went like clockwork.
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be.
Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.
With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat.
There was more leisure too, inexperienced though the animals were.
They met with many difficulties, for instance, later in the year, when they harvested the corn, they had to tread it out in the ancient style and blow away the chaff with their breath, since the farm possessed no threshing machine, but the pigs with their cleverness and Boxer with his tremendous muscles always pulled them through.
Boxer was the admiration of everybody.
He had been a hard worker even in Jones's time, but now he seemed more like three horses than one; there were days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders.
From morning to night he was pushing and pulling, always at the spot where the work was hardest.
He had made an arrangement with one of the cockerels/ to call him in the mornings half an hour earlier than anyone else, and would put in some volunteer labour at whatever seemed to be most needed, before the regular day's work began.
His answer to every problem, every setback, was “I will work harder!” - which he had adopted as his personal motto.
comprehension
- "Pulled them through" 是一个英语习语，意思是帮助某人或某事成功地度过困难或危机。
translation
- 整个夏天，农场的工作井然有序地进行着。
- 动物们快乐无比，因为他们从未想过能有这样的幸福生活。
- 每一口食物都带来了强烈的愉悦，因为这是真正属于他们自己的食物，由他们自己生产，为自己而生产，不再由一个吝啬的主人配给。
- 那些无用的寄生人类不见了，每个动物都能吃到更多。
- 尽管动物们缺乏经验，但也有了更多的休闲时间。
- 他们遇到了许多困难，比如，那年晚些时候收割玉米时，由于农场没有脱粒机，他们不得不用古老的方式踩踏玉米，用嘴巴吹掉谷壳，但猪们凭借他们的聪明才智和鲍克瑟的巨大力气总是能够帮助他们度过难关。
- 鲍克瑟是大家钦佩的对象。
- 从早到晚，他总是在最艰苦的地方推拉负重。
- 他与一只公鸡约定，每天早晨比别的动物早半小时叫醒他，然后他会在正式开始一天的工作前，自愿在最需要的地方投入额外的劳动。
- 他对每一个问题、每一次挫折的回答都是“我要更加努力工作！”——这已经成为了他的座右铭。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "all through",
"trans": [
"在整个时间段内"
],
"usphone": "'ɔːl θruː'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "clockwork",
"trans": [
"adj. 平稳的，有规律的；装有发条的；重复的；可预测的；",
"n. 发条装置；钟表装置"
],
"usphone": "'ˈklɑːkwɜːrk'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "conceive",
"trans": [
"v. 构思，设想；使受孕，怀孕"
],
"usphone": "'kənˈsiːv'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "acute",
"trans": [
"adj. 急性的，剧烈的；严重的，危险的；灵敏的；敏锐的，有洞察力的；锐角的；带尖音符的；（声音）高的，尖的"
],
"usphone": "'əˈkjuːt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "dole",
"trans": [
"v. 按份额发放",
"n. 失业救济金；（食物、衣服或金钱等）慈善品；<古>命运，定数；<古>悲伤，忧伤"
],
"usphone": "'doʊl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "grudging",
"trans": [
"adj. 勉强的；吝啬的"
],
"usphone": "'ˈɡrʌdʒɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "parasitical",
"trans": [
"adj. 寄生的；食客的"
],
"usphone": "'ˌpærəˈsɪtɪkl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "inexperienced",
"trans": [
"adj. 无经验的；不熟练的"
],
"usphone": "'ˌɪnɪkˈspɪriənst'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "tread",
"trans": [
"v. 踩；踏；践踏；踩碎",
"n. 步法；步态；脚步声；（轮胎的）胎面"
],
"usphone": "'tred'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "chaff",
"trans": [
"n. 糠；谷壳；无价值的东西",
"vi. 开玩笑；打趣",
"vt. 开玩笑；逗趣"
],
"usphone": "'tʃæf'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "threshing",
"trans": [
"n. 脱粒；打谷",
"v. （用机器）使脱粒；打谷；推敲；（使）剧烈扭动，翻滚（***** 的现在分词）"
],
"usphone": "'ˈθreʃɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "admiration",
"trans": [
"n. 钦佩，赞美，欣赏；赞美对象"
],
"usphone": "'ˌædməˈreɪʃ(ə)n'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "rest on",
"trans": [
"依赖于，依靠于"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "mighty",
"trans": [
"adj. 强大的，巨大的；（动作）用力的，需用力的",
"adv. 很，非常，十分"
],
"usphone": "'ˈmaɪti'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "hardest",
"trans": [
"adj. 极难的；困难的( ****的最高级 )；硬的；有力的；努力的"
],
"usphone": "'ˈhɑːrdɪst; ˈhɑːrdəst'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "arrangement",
"trans": [
"n. 商定，约定；安排，筹备；整理，排列，布置；改编"
],
"usphone": "'əˈreɪndʒmənt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "cockerel",
"trans": [
"n. （未满一年的）小公鸡；好斗的年轻人"
],
"usphone": "'ˈkɑːkərəl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "setback",
"trans": [
"n. 挫折，阻碍；（建筑）壁阶；<美>（建筑物的）缩进距离"
],
"usphone": "'ˈsetbæk'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "adopt as",
"trans": [
"采用，选定"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "motto",
"trans": [
"n. 座右铭，格言，警句；格言主题"
],
"usphone": "'ˈmɑːtoʊ'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]