Animal Farm
Chapter 9
Boxer's split hoof was a long time in healing.
They had started their building of the windmill the day after the victory celebrations were ended.
Boxer refused to take/ even a day/ off work, and made it a point of honour/ not to let it be seen that he was in pain.
In the evenings he would admit privately to Clover that the hoof troubled him a great deal.
Clover treated the hoof with poultices of herbs which she prepared by chewing them, and both she and Benjamin urged Boxer to work less hard.
“A horse's lungs do not last for ever,” she said to him. But Boxer would not listen.
He had, he said, only one real ambition left - to see the windmill well under way before he reached the age for retirement.
At the beginning, when the laws of Animal Farm were first formulated, the retiring age had been fixed for horses and pigs at twelve, for cows at fourteen, for dogs at nine, for sheep at seven, and for hens and geese at five.
Liberal old-age pensions had been agreed upon.
As yet no animal had actually retired on pension, but of late/ the subject had been discussed more and more.
Now that the small field beyond the orchard had been set aside for barley, it was rumoured that a corner of the large pasture was to be fenced off and turned into a grazing-ground for superannuated animals.
For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays.
Boxer's twelfth birthday was due/ in the late summer of the following year.
translation
- 拳击手的裂蹄花了很长时间才痊愈。
- 他们在胜利庆典结束后的第二天就开始建造风车。
- 拳击手甚至拒绝请一天假休息，并把不让别人看出他在忍受疼痛当作一种荣耀。
- 到了晚上，他才会私下对三叶草承认，他的蹄子让他非常难受。
- 三叶草用草药为拳击手敷蹄子，她通过咀嚼这些草药来制作药膏，她和本杰明都劝拳击手别那么拼命干活。
- “马的肺可不是能用一辈子的。” 她对他说，但拳击手却不肯听从。
- 他说，他只剩下一个真正的愿望——那就是在自己退休前，看到风车顺利开工。
- 一开始，当《动物农庄》的法律刚刚制定时，退休年龄被规定为：马和猪为十二岁，牛为十四岁，狗为九岁，羊为七岁，母鸡和鹅为五岁。
- 已同意提供宽裕的退休养老金。
- 到目前为止，还没有动物真正领取退休金，但最近这个话题越来越常被讨论。
- 现在，果园外的小田地已被划作大麦地，传闻说，大草地的一个角落将被围起来，成为退休动物的牧场。
- 据说，对于一匹马来说，退休金将是每天五磅玉米，冬天则是十五磅干草，公共假日还可能会有一根胡萝卜或一个苹果。
- 拳击手的十二岁生日将在第二年的晚夏到来。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "heal",
"trans": [
"v. 痊愈，康复；（感情创伤）愈合，（情感）恢复常态；（使）（裂痕、创伤）弥合，（使）和好；止息（争斗），调停；修复（对土地的破坏）；减轻（痛苦）"
],
"usphone": "'hiːl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "the day after",
"trans": [
"第二天"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "make it a point",
"trans": [
"争辩或推广一个想法",
"在做某事时要小心谨慎"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "poultice",
"trans": [
"n. 膏状药；湿敷药物",
"vt. 敷糊药于"
],
"usphone": "'ˈpoʊltɪs'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "herb",
"trans": [
"n. 药草，香草；草本植物"
],
"usphone": "'ɜːrb'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "urge",
"trans": [
"v. 敦促，催促，力劝；竭力主张，强烈要求；驱赶，鞭策；鼓励，激励（~ sb. on）",
"n. 强烈的欲望，冲动；推动力"
],
"usphone": "'ɜːrdʒ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "last for ever",
"trans": [
"永恒"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "ambition",
"trans": [
"n. 抱负，追求的目标；雄心，野心；干劲",
"v. 追求，有……野心"
],
"usphone": "'æmˈbɪʃ(ə)n'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "well under way",
"trans": [
"进展顺利"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "formulated",
"trans": [
"vt. 规划；用公式表示；明确地表达（****** 的过去式和过去分词）"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "liberal",
"trans": [
"adj. （政治经济上）自由的；宽宏大度的；心胸宽阔的；开明的；",
"n. 理解且尊重他人意见的人；宽容的人；开明的人"
],
"usphone": "'ˈlɪb(ə)rəl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "pension",
"trans": [
"n. 养老金，退休金；（法国和其他一些欧洲国家的）廉价小旅店；<史>（给皇室宠臣、艺术家或学者以便他们能从事公益工作的）津贴，补助金",
"v. （尤指因年龄或疾病而）向（某人）支付养老金使其退休；（因陈旧或不再有用而）丢弃（某物）"
],
"usphone": "'ˈpenʃən'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "agreed upon",
"trans": [
"达成一致的"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "as yet",
"trans": [
"到目前为止或指定的时间为止"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "of late",
"trans": [
"最近，近来"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "turned into",
"trans": [
"换成了"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "superannuated",
"trans": [
"adj. 退休的；过时的；老朽的",
"v. 退休；变陈旧（******** 的过去分词）"
],
"usphone": "'ˌsuːpərˈænjueɪtɪd'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]