Animal Farm
Chapter 5
The whole farm was deeply divided on the subject of the windmill.
Snowball did not deny that to build it would be a difficult business.
Stone would have to be carried and built up into walls, then the sails would have to be made and after that there would be need for dynamos and cables. (How these were to be procured, Snowball did not say.)
But he maintained that it could all be done in a year.
And thereafter, he declared, so much labour would be saved that the animals would only need to work three days a week.
Napoleon, on the other hand, argued that the great need of the moment/ was to increase food production, and that if they wasted time on the windmill they would all starve to death.
The animals formed themselves into two factions under the slogan, “Vote for Snowball and the three-day week” and “Vote for Napoleon and the full manger.”
Benjamin was the only animal who did not side with either faction.
He refused to believe either that food would become more plentiful or that the windmill would save work.
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on that is, badly.
translation
- 关于风车这个问题，整个农场都陷入了深深的分歧。
- 雪球并不否认建造风车是一项艰巨的工程。
- 必须搬运石头，砌墙，然后制造风帆，接着还需要发电机和电缆（雪球并没有说这些东西如何获得）。
- 但他坚持认为这一切可以在一年内完成。
- 之后，他宣称，这样就可以节省大量的劳动力，动物们只需要一周工作三天。
- 拿破仑则认为，当前最迫切的需求是提高粮食产量。他主张，如果把时间浪费在风车上，他们最终都会饿死。
- 动物们分成了两派，分别以“投票支持雪球和每周三天工作”和“投票支持拿破仑和充足的饲料槽”为口号。
- 本杰明是唯一一个没有站在任何一派的动物。
- 他不相信粮食会变得更加丰富，也不相信风车会节省劳动力。
- 他说，无论有没有风车，生活都会像过去一样继续下去，也就是说，糟糕的生活。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "divided",
"trans": [
"adj. 分裂的，有分歧的；分配的，分享的",
"v. （使）分开，分散；分配，分享；是……的分界线，分隔（******e 的过去式和过去分词）"
],
"usphone": "'dɪˈvaɪdɪd'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "deny",
"trans": [
"v. 否认；拒绝承认；拒绝给予"
],
"usphone": "'dɪˈnaɪ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "business",
"trans": [
"n. 事务，职责；私事；事情；商业，买卖，生意；商务，公事；公司，企业；行业，职业；消费；系列事件"
],
"usphone": "'ˈbɪznəs'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "sail",
"trans": [
"n. 油布，篷帆布；帆状物，功能似帆的物体；帆；乘船航行；（用作交通工具的）帆船的使用；（潜艇的）瞭望塔；（风车的）翼板；（旗鱼或一些史前爬行动物的）脊鳍；（僧帽水母等的）帆器",
"v. （人）航行；（船）航行；启航；驾驶（船只）；飘过，（轻快地）移动"
],
"usphone": "'seɪl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "cable",
"trans": [
"n. 电缆；钢缆，缆绳；电报；有线电视",
"v. 给……安装有线电视；给……发电报"
],
"usphone": "'ˈkeɪb(ə)l'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "procure",
"trans": [
"v. <正式>（设法） 获得，取得；为（某人）拉皮条，给（某人）做淫媒；<法律>说服，使（某人）做某事；<古>导致"
],
"usphone": "'prəˈkjʊr'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "maintain",
"trans": [
"v. 保持，维持；维修，保养；断言，主张；赡养，抚养；<旧>支持，维护"
],
"usphone": "'meɪnˈteɪn'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "thereafter",
"trans": [
"adv. <正式>其后，此后"
],
"usphone": "'ˌðerˈæftər'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "on the other hand",
"trans": [
"另一方面：用于引出与前述相对或不同观点的陈述。",
"相反地：用于引出与前述相反的观点或情况。"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "formed",
"trans": [
"adj. 成形的",
"v. 构成；创立；使成形；制作（**** 的过去式和过去分词）"
],
"usphone": "'fɔːrmd'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "faction",
"trans": [
"n. 派系，宗派；派系之争，内讧；纪实与虚构相结合的电影（或书等）"
],
"usphone": "'ˈfækʃ(ə)n'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "slogan",
"trans": [
"n. 口号，标语；广告语；<史>苏格兰高地的战斗呐喊"
],
"usphone": "'ˈsloʊɡən'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "manger",
"trans": [
"n. 马槽；牛槽；饲料槽"
],
"usphone": "'ˈmeɪndʒər'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "side with",
"trans": [
"支持；站在……的一边"
],
"usphone": "'saɪd wɪð'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "either",
"trans": [
"pron. （两者之中）任意一个；两者都（不）",
"conj. 或者，要么；两者都（不），既（不）",
"adv. 也（不），亦（不）；而且，还",
"det. （两者中的）每个，各方",
"adj. （两者中的）每个的，各方的"
],
"usphone": "'ˈiːðər'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]