Animal Farm
Chapter 3
As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly.
The dogs learned to read fairly well, but were not interested in reading anything except the Seven Commandments.
Muriel, the goat, could read somewhat better than the dogs, and sometimes used to read to the others/ in the evenings/ from scraps of newspaper/ which she found on the rubbish heap.
Benjamin could read as well as any pig, but never exercised his faculty.
So far as he knew, he said, there was nothing worth reading.
Clover learnt the whole alphabet, but could not put words together.
Boxer could not get beyond the letter D.
He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof, and then would stand staring at the letters/ with his ears back, sometimes shaking his forelock, trying with all his might to remember what came next and never succeeding.
On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.
Finally he decided to be content with the first four letters, and used to write them out once or twice every day/ to refresh his memory.
Mollie refused to learn any but the six letters which spelt her own name.
She would form these very neatly/ out of pieces of twig, and would then decorate them with a flower or two/ and walk round them admiring them.
translation
- 至于猪，他们已经能够完美地读写了。
- 狗学会了读得相当好，但除了七条戒律之外，他们对阅读其他东西不感兴趣。
- 山羊穆里尔的阅读能力比狗要好一些，有时她会在垃圾堆上找到的报纸碎片中读给其他动物听。
- 本杰明的阅读能力和任何一只猪一样好，但他从不运用这个能力。
- 他说，就他所知，没有什么值得阅读的。
- 克洛弗学会了整个字母表，但无法将字母组合在一起。
- 鲍克瑟无法超越字母D。
- 他会用他巨大的蹄子在地上划出A、B、C、D，然后站着盯着这些字母，耳朵向后倾，有时摇动前额的头发，竭尽全力想要记住接下来是什么，但从未成功过。
- 实际上，有几次他确实学会了E、F、G、H，但当他学会这些字母时，总是发现他已经忘记了A、B、C和D。
- 最后，他决定满足于前四个字母，并习惯于每天写一两次以刷新他的记忆。
- 莫莉拒绝学习除了拼写她名字的六个字母以外的任何字母。
- 她会用树枝碎片把这些字母拼得很整齐，然后会用一两朵花装饰它们，并绕着它们走一圈欣赏。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "scrap",
"trans": [
"n. 小块（纸、布匹等）；丝毫；一丁点；残羹剩饭",
"v. 废弃；取消；抛弃；报废"
],
"usphone": "'skræp'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "exercise",
"trans": [
"v. 运用，行使；运动，锻炼；使担忧，使烦恼；驯，遛",
"n. 运动，锻炼；（一套）动作，体操；练习，演练；运用；活动，任务；典礼；宗教仪式，礼拜"
],
"usphone": "'ˈeksərsaɪz'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "faculty",
"trans": [
"n. 天赋，才能；机能；（高等院校的）系，院；<美> 全体教员；<旧>（某行业，尤指医学行业的）全体从业人员；（尤指来自教会当权者的）特许证，许可证"
],
"usphone": "'ˈfæk(ə)lti'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "so far as",
"trans": [
"就……而言；就……来说"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "alphabet",
"trans": [
"n. 字母表；基本要素；初步，入门"
],
"usphone": "'ˈælfəbet'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "get beyond",
"trans": [
"超越"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "trace out",
"trans": [
"网络. 描绘出；轨迹为；计划出",
"na. 探寻踪迹；描摹；计划"
],
"usphone": "'treɪs aʊt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "forelock",
"trans": [
"n. 额发，额毛；栓",
"vt. 以开口栓栓住"
],
"usphone": "'ˈfɔːrlɑːk'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "occasion",
"trans": [
"n. 时机；理由；原因；某次",
"v. 使发生；造成；导致"
],
"usphone": "'əˈkeɪʒn'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "by the time",
"trans": [
"在……时候"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "spelt",
"trans": [
"v. 拼写（****l 的过去式）",
"n. 【植】(作饲料用的)斯佩耳特小麦"
],
"usphone": "'spelt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "neatly",
"trans": [
"adv. 整齐地；简单而聪明地"
],
"usphone": "'ˈniːtli'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "out of",
"trans": [
"prep. 来自；离开",
"网络. 从...中；由于；从……向外"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "piece",
"trans": [
"n. 块；片；条；段",
"v. 结合；接；拼合；修理"
],
"usphone": "'piːs'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "twig",
"trans": [
"n. 小枝，嫩枝；（剖）血管小支，神经小支",
"v. <英，非正式>顿悟，突然明白；<古>察觉，观察"
],
"usphone": "'twɪɡ'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]