Animal Farm
Chapter 7
“That was part of the arrangement!” cried Squealer.
“Jones's shot only grazed him. I could show you this in his own writing, if you were able to read it.
The plot was for Snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight/ and leave the field to the enemy.
And he very nearly succeeded, l will even say, comrades, he would have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic Leader, Comrade Napoleon.
Do you not remember how, just at the moment when Jones and his men had got inside the yard, Snowball suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him?
And do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of ‘Death to Humanity!’ and sank his teeth in Jones's leg?
Surely you remember that, comrades?” exclaimed Squealer, frisking from side to side.
Now when Squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it.
At any rate, they remembered that at the critical moment of the battle Snowball had turned to flee.
But Boxer was still a little uneasy. “I do not believe that Snowball was a traitor at the beginning,” he said finally.
“What he has done since is different. But I believe that at the Battle of the Cowshed he was a good comrade.”
translation
- “那是安排的一部分！” 斯奎拉喊道。
- “琼斯那一枪只是擦伤了他而已。要是你们识字的话，我可以把他自己写的东西拿给你们看。
- 其阴谋是想让斯诺鲍在关键时刻发出逃跑的信号，进而把战场拱手让给敌人。
- 而且他差一点就成功了，同志们，我甚至可以说，要不是我们英勇的领袖拿破仑同志，他就已经得逞了。
- 你们难道不记得了吗？就在琼斯及其手下进入院子的那一刻，斯诺鲍突然转身逃走了，而且许多动物都跟着他跑了呢。
- 而且你们难道也不记得了吗？就在那恐慌蔓延、似乎一切都要完蛋的关键时刻，拿破仑同志猛地冲上前去，大喊一声 “消灭人类！”，然后狠狠地咬住了琼斯的腿。
- 同志们，你们肯定记得那件事吧？” 斯奎拉一边大声说着，一边来回蹦跳着。
- 现在，当斯奎拉把当时的情景描绘得如此绘声绘色时，动物们似乎都觉得自己记得有这么回事了。
- 不管怎样，它们都记得在战斗的关键时刻，斯诺鲍转身逃跑了。
- 但拳击手仍然有点不安。“我不相信斯诺鲍一开始就是个叛徒。” 他终于说道。
- “他后来的所作所为是另一回事了。但我认为在牛棚之战中，他是一位好同志。”
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "graze",
"trans": [
"n. 擦伤",
"v. 吃草；放牧；擦过；擦伤，擦破；<非正式>经常吃零食而不吃正餐，吃很多零食；<美，非正式>随意地尝试（或体验、浏览）"
],
"usphone": "'ɡreɪz'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "plot",
"trans": [
"n. 阴谋；密谋；故事情节；布局",
"v. 密谋；暗中策划；（在地图上）画出；绘制（图表）"
],
"usphone": "'plɑt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "flight",
"trans": [
"n. 逃走；飞行；班机；(尤指乘坐飞机的)旅行",
"v. （熟练地踢、击或掷）使（球）在空中飞行"
],
"usphone": "'flaɪt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "field",
"trans": [
"n. 场；字段；领域；田",
"v. 接；使参加竞选；使参加比赛；担任守场员",
"adj. 田间的；野外的；实地的"
],
"usphone": "'fiːld'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "heroic",
"trans": [
"adj. 英雄的，英勇的；矢志不渝的，艰苦卓绝的；巨大的；男主角的；（雕像）大于真人（或实物）但不及其两倍大的",
"n. 勇敢果断的行为；哗众取宠的愚蠢行为；英雄诗体"
],
"usphone": "'həˈroʊɪk'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "fled",
"trans": [
"v. 逃走（***e 的过去分词）；消逝"
],
"usphone": "'fled'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "turned and fled",
"trans": [
"掉头就逃"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "panic",
"trans": [
"n. 恐慌，惊慌；人心惶惶，惶恐不安；忙乱，慌乱；粟，稷，糜子",
"adj. 恐慌的",
"v. （使）恐慌，（使）惊慌失措"
],
"usphone": "'ˈpænɪk'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "exclaim",
"trans": [
"v. 呼喊，惊叫，大声说"
],
"usphone": "'ɪkˈskleɪm'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "frisking",
"trans": [
"n. 雀跃",
"v. 搜身；嬉戏；雀跃（***** 的现在分词）"
],
"usphone": "'ˈfrɪskɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "graphically",
"trans": [
"adv. 形象地，生动地；以图表形式"
],
"usphone": "'ˈɡræfɪkli'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "at any rate",
"trans": [
"无论如何，不管怎样。"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "traitor",
"trans": [
"n. 叛徒，卖国贼"
],
"usphone": "'ˈtreɪtər'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]