Animal Farm
Chapter 8
A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered - or thought they remembered - that the Sixth Commandment decreed “No animal shall kill any other animal.”
And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this.
Clover asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel.
Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: “No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.”
Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals' memory.
But they saw/ now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was good reason for killing the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball.
Throughout the year the animals worked even harder than they had worked in the previous year.
To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour.
There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones's day.
On Sunday mornings Squealer, holding down a long strip of paper with his trotter, would read out to them lists of figures/ proving that the production of every class of foodstuff had increased by two hundred per cent, three hundred per cent, or five hundred per cent, as the case might be.
The animals saw no reason to disbelieve him, especially as they could no longer remember very clearly what conditions had been like/ before the Rebellion.
All the same, there were days when they felt that they would sooner have had less figures and more food.
translation
- 几天后，当处决所引发的恐惧渐渐平息，一些动物记起了 —— 或者说它们自以为记起了 —— 第六条戒律规定的是 “任何动物不得杀害其他任何动物”。
- 尽管谁也不敢在猪和狗能听到的地方提起这件事，但大家都觉得，已经发生的那些杀戮行为与这条戒律并不相符。
- 克拉弗让本杰明给她念一下第六条戒律，而本杰明像往常一样说他不愿插手这类事情，于是她就把穆丽尔叫来了。
- 穆丽尔给她念了那条戒律。上面写着：“任何动物不得无缘无故杀害其他任何动物。”
- 不知怎么的，动物们把最后这两个词从记忆中淡忘了。
- 但它们现在明白了，那条戒律并没有被违反；因为很明显，处死那些与斯诺鲍勾结的叛徒是有充分理由的。
- 在这一整年里，动物们干活比前一年还要卖力得多。
- 要重建风车，把风车的墙砌得比以前厚一倍，并且要在指定日期前完工，再加上农场里的日常工作，这可是一项极其艰巨的任务。
- 有些时候，动物们觉得自己的工作时间比以前更长了，而且吃得并不比琼斯当家那会儿好。
- 每逢星期天早晨，斯奎拉就会用蹄子摁住一张长长的纸条，向动物们宣读一连串的数据，证明各类食品的产量分别增长了百分之二百、百分之三百，或者百分之五百，具体情况因品类而异。
- 动物们找不出理由不相信他的话，尤其是因为它们已经不太清楚起义前的生活状况到底是什么样了。
- 尽管如此，有些日子里，它们还是觉得，与其听那些数字，倒不如多来点实实在在的食物。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "caused by",
"trans": [
"归因于"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "care to",
"trans": [
"愿意，想要"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "square with",
"trans": [
"与……一致",
"使与……一致",
"获得（某人）的认可"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "meddle",
"trans": [
"v. 干涉，管闲事，干预他人之事；瞎搞，乱弄"
],
"usphone": "'ˈmed(ə)l'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "somehow or other",
"trans": [
"莫名其妙地；以某种方法；以某种方式",
"设法；想办法"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "slip out",
"trans": [
"滑出，悄悄离开，不经意地说出"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "previous",
"trans": [
"adj. 以前的，先前的；（时间或顺序上）稍前的；<非正式>过早的，过急的",
"n. <英，非正式>前科，犯罪记录"
],
"usphone": "'ˈpriːviəs'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "together with",
"trans": [
"除了……之外，还有……；与……一起"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "tremendous",
"trans": [
"adj. 巨大的，极大的；极好的，精彩的；令人望而生畏的，可怕的"
],
"usphone": "'trəˈmendəs'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "holding down",
"trans": [
"按住，压制"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "strip",
"trans": [
"n. 带；（陆地、海域等）狭长地带；带状水域；队服",
"v. 夺；脱掉大部分衣服；扒光…的衣服；进行脱衣表演",
"adj. 脱衣舞的；被剥去外皮的"
],
"usphone": "'strɪp'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "proving",
"trans": [
"n. 证明；检查；校对",
"v. 证明；校对；发酵（****e 的现在分词）"
],
"usphone": "'ˈpruːvɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "foodstuff",
"trans": [
"n. 食品，食物；粮食，食料"
],
"usphone": "'ˈfuːdstʌf'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "as the case might be",
"trans": [
"视情况而定：表示根据具体情况来决定。"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "all the same",
"trans": [
"仍然；还是；尽管如此"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]