Animal Farm
Chapter 3
The pigs had set aside the harness-room as a headquarters for themselves.
Here, in the evenings, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other necessary arts from books which they had brought out of the farmhouse.
Snowball also busied himself with organising the other animals into what he called Animal Committees.
He was indefatigable at this.
He formed the Egg Production Committee for the hens, the Clean Tails League for the cows, the Wild Comrades' Re-education Committee (the object of this was to tame the rats and rabbits), the Whiter Wool Movement for the sheep, and various others, besides instituting classes in reading and writing.
On the whole, these projects were a failure.
The attempt to tame the wild creatures, for instance, broke down almost immediately.
They continued to behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity, simply took advantage of it.
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days.
She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach.
She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.
The reading and writing classes, however, were a great success.
By the autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree.
translation
- 猪们把马具室留作他们自己的指挥部。
- 在这里，他们晚上从农舍里拿来的书籍学习铁匠、木工和其他必要的技艺。
- 雪球还忙于组织其他动物，成立他所说的动物委员会。
- 他在这方面不知疲倦。
- 他为母鸡成立了蛋品生产委员会，为奶牛成立了清洁尾巴联盟，为老鼠和兔子成立了野生动物同胞再教育委员会（其目标是驯化它们），为绵羊成立了更白羊毛运动，还有其他各种委员会，此外还开设了读写课程。
- 总的来说，这些项目都失败了。
- 例如，驯化野生动物的尝试几乎立刻就失败了。
- 他们继续像以前那样行事，当他们慷慨地对待他们时，他们只是利用了他们的慷慨。
- 猫加入了再教育委员会，并在其中非常活跃了几天。
- 有一天，有人看到她坐在屋顶上，和一些正好在她够不到的地方的麻雀说话。
- 她告诉他们，现在所有动物都是同志，任何麻雀都可以来停在她的爪子上；但麻雀们还是保持着距离。
- 然而，读写课程非常成功。
- 到了秋天，农场上几乎每只动物都有一定程度的识字能力。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "set aside",
"trans": [
"网络. 留出；取消；挑出，留出",
"na. 搁置；拨出；驳回"
],
"usphone": "'set əˈsaɪd'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "blacksmithing",
"trans": [
"n. 锻造；手工锻造；铁器加工"
],
"usphone": "'ˈblæksmɪθɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "carpentering",
"trans": [
"n. 木工；木工活；木器",
"vt. 以木工制作……（****** 的现在分词）",
"vi. 做木工活（****** 的现在分词）"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "'ˈkɑːpəntərɪŋ'"
},
{
"name": "indefatigable",
"trans": [
"adj. 不知疲倦的；不屈不挠的；有耐性的"
],
"usphone": "'ˌɪndɪˈfætɪɡəbl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "league",
"trans": [
"n. 联盟，同盟；（体育项目）联合会，社团；联赛；级别，水平；里格（旧时长度单位，约等于5公里）",
"v. （与……）组成联盟，加入联盟"
],
"usphone": "'liːɡ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "tame",
"trans": [
"adj. 驯服的，不怕人的；平淡无奇的，枯燥乏味的；听使唤的，温顺的；<美> （植物）经栽培的；（土地）经开垦的",
"v. 驯化，驯服；制服，控制；开垦，开辟；使变得平淡"
],
"usphone": "'teɪm'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "wool",
"trans": [
"n. 羊毛，动物毛；毛线，绒线；毛料，毛织物；金属（或矿）丝"
],
"usphone": "'wʊl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "instituting",
"trans": [
"vt. 实行，开始；建立，制定；任命（*****e 的现在分词）"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "on the whole",
"trans": [
"总体而言"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "generosity",
"trans": [
"n. 慷慨，大方"
],
"usphone": "'ˌdʒenəˈrɑːsəti'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "advantage",
"trans": [
"n. 有利条件，优势；优点；利益；（局末平分后）占先，优势分",
"v. 有利于，有助于"
],
"usphone": "'ədˈvæntɪdʒ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "sparrow",
"trans": [
"n. 【鸟】麻雀；〈美〉个子小的人"
],
"usphone": "'ˈspærəʊ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "literate",
"trans": [
"adj. 有读写能力的，受过良好教育的；熟练的，通晓的；精通文学的",
"n. 有文化的人"
],
"usphone": "'ˈlɪtərət'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "degree",
"trans": [
"n. 度，度数（温度单位）；（角的）度，度数；学位课程，学位；程度；音级；次，次数；（形容词或副词的）级；共济会职务；<旧>社会地位，官衔"
],
"usphone": "'dɪˈɡriː'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]