Animal Farm
Chapter 5
Once again this argument was unanswerable.
Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back, then the debates must stop.
Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying: “If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.”
And from then on he adopted the maxim, “Napoleon is always right,” in addition to his private motto of “I will work harder.”
By this time the weather had broken and the spring ploughing had begun.
The shed where Snowball had drawn his plans of the windmill had been shut up and it was assumed that the plans had been rubbed off the floor.
Every Sunday morning at ten o'clock the animals assembled in the big barn to receive their orders for the week.
The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun.
After the hoisting of the flag, the animals were required to file past the skull in a reverent manner before entering the barn.
Nowadays they did not sit all together as they had done in the past.
Napoleon, with Squealer and another pig named Minimus, who had a remarkable gift for composing songs and poems, sat on the front of the raised platform, with the nine young dogs forming a semicircle round them, and the other pigs sitting behind.
The rest of the animals sat facing them in the main body of the barn.
Napoleon read out the orders for the week in a gruff soldierly style, and after a single singing of Beasts of England, all the animals dispersed.
translation
- 这个论点再次无法回答。
- 当然，动物们不希望琼斯回来；如果每个星期天早上举行辩论会有可能使他回来，那么这些辩论必须停止。
- 经过一段时间的思考，拳击手表达了大家的普遍感受：‘如果拿破仑同志这么说，那一定是正确的。
- 从那时起，拳击手采纳了这样一条格言：‘拿破仑总是对的’，并且继续坚持他的座右铭‘我会更加努力工作’。
- 到了这个时候，天气已经转暖，春季耕种工作已经开始。
- 斯诺鲍曾经画下风车草图的那个小屋如今已上锁，人们推测那些图样早已从地板表面抹去。
- 每周日上午十点，动物们会聚集在大谷仓里，接受一周的工作安排。
- 老少校的头骨，现在已经被清理得干干净净，从果园里挖出来，立在旗杆脚下的一个树桩上，枪旁边
- 升旗仪式结束后，动物们被要求以恭敬的方式依次走过头骨，然后才能进入谷仓。
- 如今他们不再像过去那样坐在一起了。
- 拿破仑和斯奎拉以及另一只叫米尼莫斯的猪坐在高台的前部，米尼莫斯在创作歌曲和诗歌方面有着非凡的天赋。九条小狗围在他们周围形成一个半圆，其他猪则坐在后面。
- 其余的动物则坐在谷仓主体部分，面对着他们。
- 拿破仑用一种粗哑的、军人般的风格宣读了一周的任务，唱完一遍《英格兰之兽》后，所有动物便散去了。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "unanswerable",
"trans": [
"adj. 无法回答的；没有责任的；不能回答的；无法争辩的"
],
"usphone": "'ʌnˈænsərəbl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "think things over",
"trans": [
"仔细考虑：在做决定之前，对事情进行深思熟虑。"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "voiced",
"trans": [
"v. 表达（****e 的过去式和过去分词）；说出",
"adj. 浊音的；有声的"
],
"usphone": "'vɔɪst'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "general",
"trans": [
"adj. 全体的；普遍的；总的；正常的",
"n. 将军；（陆军、海军陆战队或美国空军）上将"
],
"usphone": "'ˈdʒen(ə)rəl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "in addition to",
"trans": [
"除了……之外"
],
"usphone": "'ɪn əˈdɪʃn tu'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "spring ploughing",
"trans": [
"春耕"
],
"usphone": "'sprɪŋ ˈplaʊɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "shut up",
"trans": [
"na. 关住；监禁；密封；停止",
"网络 闭嘴；住口；关闭"
],
"usphone": "'ʃʌt ʌp'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "assumed",
"trans": [
"v. 认为，假定，假设；装出，作出；承担，就职（****e 的过去式和过去分词）",
"adj. 假定的，假设的；篡夺的"
],
"usphone": "'əˈsuːmd'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "rubbed",
"trans": [
"v. 擦（*** 的过去式和过去分词）；摩擦；搓"
],
"usphone": "'rʌbd'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "skull",
"trans": [
"n. 颅骨，头骨；<非正式>脑袋，头脑",
"v. <非正式>击中（某人的）头"
],
"usphone": "'skʌl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "flesh",
"trans": [
"n. （人或动物的）肉；（人体的）皮肤；果肉；肉体",
"v. 使充实，使具体（**** out）；<文>激起……的杀性，使投入血战；刮掉（皮上的）肉"
],
"usphone": "'fleʃ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "disinter",
"trans": [
"vt. 掘出；发掘；显露"
],
"usphone": "'ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːr'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "stump",
"trans": [
"n. 树桩；残端；树墩；残肢",
"v. 〈非正式〉犯愁；困惑；把…难住；一筹莫展"
],
"usphone": "'stʌmp'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "hoisting",
"trans": [
"v. 升高；举起（**** 的 ing 形式）",
"n. 提升；起重"
],
"usphone": "'ˈhɔɪstɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "file past",
"trans": [
"排队通过：以严肃、常常是宗教或深情的目的，在一条队伍或行列中移动。"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "reverent",
"trans": [
"adj. 虔诚的；恭敬的；尊敬的"
],
"usphone": "'ˈrevərənt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "manner",
"trans": [
"n. 态度，举止；礼貌；方式；（文学或艺术的）风格；习俗；<正式>种类；（语法）方式状语，方式副词"
],
"usphone": "'ˈmænər'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "gift",
"trans": [
"n. 天赋；才能；礼物；赠品",
"v. 白送；白给"
],
"usphone": "'ɡɪft'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "composing",
"trans": [
"v. 写作（*****e 的 ing 形式）；组成；",
"n. 组成；[印刷]排字",
"adj. 起镇静作用的"
],
"usphone": "'kəmˈpoʊzɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "poems",
"trans": [
"n. 诗歌，诗集（**** 复数形式）"
],
"usphone": "'ˈpoʊəmz'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "semicircle",
"trans": [
"n. 半圆，半圆形"
],
"usphone": "'ˈsemisɜːrk(ə)l'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "gruff",
"trans": [
"adj. 低沉沙哑的；生硬的；冷淡的；态度生硬的"
],
"usphone": "'ɡrʌf'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "soldierly",
"trans": [
"adj. 军人的；适于军人的；英勇的"
],
"usphone": "'ˈsoʊldʒərli'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "dispersed",
"trans": [
"v. 分散；传播（****** 的过去分词）",
"adj. 散布的；被分散的；被驱散的"
],
"usphone": "'dɪˈspɜːrst'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]