Animal Farm
Chapter 7
The animals were stupefied.
This was a wickedness far outdoing Snowball's destruction of the windmill.
But it was some minutes before they could fully take it in.
They all remembered, or thought they remembered, how they had seen Snowball charging ahead of them at the Battle of the Cowshed, how he had rallied and encouraged them at every turn, and how he had not paused for an instant even when the pellets from Jones's gun had wounded his back.
At first it was a little difficult to see how this fitted in with his being on Jones's side.
Even Boxer, who seldom asked questions, was puzzled. He lay down, tucked his fore hoofs beneath him, shut his eyes, and with a hard effort managed to formulate his thoughts.
“I do not believe that,” he said. “Snowball fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed. I saw him myself. Did we not give him ‘Animal Hero, first Class,’ immediately afterwards?”
“That was our mistake, comrade. For we know now it is all written down in the secret documents that we have found that in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom.”
“But he was wounded,” said Boxer. “We all saw him running with blood.”
translation
- 动物们都惊呆了。
- 这是一种远比斯诺鲍毁坏风车更为恶劣的恶行。
- 但过了好几分钟，他们才完全明白过来。
- 他们都记得，或者自以为记得，在牛棚大战中，他们是怎样看见斯诺鲍在他们前面冲锋陷阵的，他又是怎样在每一个关键时刻给他们鼓劲、激励他们的，而且，当琼斯的枪子儿打伤他的脊背时，他又是怎样一刻也不停歇的。
- 起初，很难明白这与他站在琼斯那一边的说法如何能对得上号。
- 就连鲍克瑟这个很少提问题的家伙，也感到困惑不解。他卧了下来，把前蹄收在身子底下，闭上眼睛，费了好大劲才理清自己的思路。
- “我不信，” 他说，“斯诺鲍在牛棚大战中作战很勇敢。我亲眼看见的。战后我们不是马上就授予他‘一级动物英雄’勋章了吗？”
- “那是我们的失误，同志。因为我们现在知道了，这一切都白纸黑字地写在我们发现的那些秘密文件里，事实上，他当时是企图把我们引向毁灭呀。”
- “可他受伤了呀，” 鲍克瑟说，“我们都看见他流着血在跑呢。”
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "stupefied",
"trans": [
"adj. 目瞪口呆的；呆若木鸡的",
"v. 吓呆（stupefy 的过去分词）"
],
"usphone": "'ˈstupəˌfaɪd'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "wickedness",
"trans": [
"n. 邪恶；不道德"
],
"usphone": "'ˈwɪkɪdnəs'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "outdoing",
"trans": [
"v. 超过，胜过；比……做得更好（***** 的现在分词）"
],
"usphone": "'ˌaʊtˈduːɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "charging",
"trans": [
"v. 冲锋；要价；收费；指责；使承担（任务等）；给……充电；装载；命令；饰纹章于……（*****的现在分词）",
"n. 炉料；装料；充电；（篮球）进攻冲撞犯规"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "rallied",
"trans": [
"vt. 召集；重整（军队）；使……恢复（或振作）；<古>打趣（****y 的过去式和过去分词）",
"vi. 恢复，康复；重新振作；（价格等）回升；（军队）重整（****y 的过去式和过去分词）"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "every turn",
"trans": [
"每次尝试做某事时，不愉快的事情都会发生"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "fit in",
"trans": [
"na. 适合；调和；使适合"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "tuck",
"trans": [
"v. 把（布或纸张的边缘）塞入；把…...塞入，把…...藏入；用…...盖住，用…...围紧；使蜷缩，使收缩；在…...上做拉皮手术；大吃；在（衣服上）缝褶子，给…...打",
"n. （衣服或织物的）褶，打褶；（脸部或腹部的）整容小手术；食物,零食（尤指儿童在学校吃的糖果等）；（跳水、体操、下坡滑雪中的）抱膝"
],
"usphone": "'tʌk'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "formulate",
"trans": [
"v. 规划，制定；确切表达，认真阐述；用公式表示"
],
"usphone": "'ˈfɔːrmjuleɪt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "bravely",
"trans": [
"adv. 勇敢地；华丽地"
],
"usphone": "'ˈbreɪvli'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "lure",
"trans": [
"v. 引诱，诱惑",
"n. 诱惑（物），诱惑力；鱼饵，诱饵"
],
"usphone": "'lʊr'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]