Animal Farm
Chapter 3
“Comrades!” he cried.
“You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?
Many of us actually dislike milk and apples.
I dislike them myself.
Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.
Milk and apples(this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig.
We pigs are brainworkers.
The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us.
Day and night we are watching over your welfare.
It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.
Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty?
Jones would come back!
Yes, Jones would come back!
Surely, comrades,” cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, “surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?”
Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back.
When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.
The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious.
So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone.
translation
- “同志们！”他喊道。
- “我希望你们不要以为，我们猪这样做是出于自私和特权的精神？”
- “我们中的许多人实际上不喜欢牛奶和苹果。”
- “我自己也不喜欢。”
- 我们拿走这些东西的唯一目的，是为了保证我们的健康。
- 牛奶和苹果（同志们，这已经被科学证明）含有对猪的健康绝对必要的物质。
- 我们猪是脑力劳动者。
- 这个农场的整个管理和组织都依赖于我们。
- 我们日夜看护着你们的福利。
- 我们喝那牛奶，吃那苹果，是为了你们的利益。
- 你们知道，如果我们猪没能尽到我们的职责，会发生什么吗？
- 琼斯会回来！
- 是的，琼斯会回来！
- “同志们，”斯奎拉几乎是哀求地叫着，一边跳来跳去，摇着尾巴，“肯定没有谁想看到琼斯回来吧？”
- 现在如果说有一件事是动物们完全确定的，那就是他们不希望琼斯回来。
- 当问题以这种方式呈现给他们时，他们再无话可说。
- 保持猪的健康的重要性是显而易见的。
- 因此，经过进一步的讨论，大家一致同意牛奶和被风吹落的苹果（以及苹果成熟时的主要收成）应该单独留给猪。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "selfishness",
"trans": [
"n. 自私自利；自我中心；任性"
],
"usphone": "'ˈselfɪʃnəs'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "privilege",
"trans": [
"n. 特权，特殊待遇；荣幸，光荣；（富人或上层阶级的）权势；（律师、医生及其他专业人士的）保密权；言行免责权（尤指议员的权利）；<史>（授予个人，公司，某地的）特许经营权；（生活）优越",
"v. <正式> 给予特权，特别优待；特免，免除（某人）"
],
"usphone": "'ˈprɪvəlɪdʒ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "sole",
"trans": [
"adj. 仅有的；唯一的；独占的；专有的",
"n. 鞋底；脚掌；脚底（板）；袜底",
"v. 给（鞋）换底"
],
"usphone": "'soʊl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "preserve",
"trans": [
"v. 保护，维护；保持，维持；腌制，保存（食物）；禁止他人捕猎",
"n. 果酱，腌菜；（某人或某个团体的）专属领域，独有活动；动物保护区，外人禁入的猎地"
],
"usphone": "'prɪˈzɜːrv'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "well-being",
"trans": [
"n. 健康；安乐；康乐"
],
"usphone": "'ˈwel biːɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "welfare",
"trans": [
"n. 福利救济，社会福利；幸福，安康；（给失业者和穷人的）福利救济金",
"adj. 福利的；接受社会救济的"
],
"usphone": "'ˈwelfer'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "sake",
"trans": [
"n. 利益，好处；目的；为了便于讨论（for the **** of argument）；（强调重要或表示恼火）看在上帝分上，天哪（for God's/goodness'/Christ's/heaven's/Pete's etc. ****）；日本米酒，日本清酒"
],
"usphone": "'seɪk'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "pleadingly",
"trans": [
"adv. 诉愿地；祈求地"
],
"usphone": "'ˈpliːdɪŋli'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "whisk",
"trans": [
"v. 拂，掸；搅动；挥动；迅速带走",
"n. 搅拌器；扫帚；毛掸子"
],
"usphone": "'wɪsk'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "light",
"trans": [
"n. 角度，（事物呈现的）状态；光，光线；光源（如电灯）；",
"v. （使）照亮；（使）燃烧，点燃；用光指引；点烟"
],
"usphone": "'laɪt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "obvious",
"trans": [
"adj. 明显的，显然的；明确表示的，毫不掩饰的；平淡无奇的，缺乏想象力的；合情合理的，当然的"
],
"usphone": "'ˈɑːbviəs'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "further",
"trans": [
"adj. 更多的，进一步的；（距离上）更远的，较远的",
"adv. 更远地，再往前地；进一步；此外，而且",
"v. 促进，推进"
],
"usphone": "'ˈfɜːrðər'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "reserve",
"trans": [
"v. 保留；预订；预留；拥有",
"n. 保留；自然保护区；预备队；矜持",
"adj. 后备的"
],
"usphone": "'rɪˈzɜːrv'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]