Animal Farm
Chapter 9
In April, Animal Farm was proclaimed a Republic, and it became necessary to elect a President.
There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously.
On the same day it was given out that fresh documents had been discovered which revealed further details about Snowball's complicity with Jones.
It now appeared that Snowball had not, as the animals had previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the Battle of the Cowshed by means of a stratagem, but had been openly fighting on Jones's side.
In fact, it was he who had actually been the leader of the human forces, and had charged into battle with the words “Long live Humanity!” on his lips.
The wounds on Snowball's back, which a few of the animals still remembered to have seen, had been inflicted by Napoleon's teeth.
In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years.
He was quite unchanged, still did no work, and talked in the same strain as ever about Sugarcandy Mountain.
He would perch on a stump, flap his black wings, and talk by the hour to anyone who would listen.
“Up there, comrades,” he would say solemnly, pointing to the sky with his large beak - “up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud that you can see there it lies, Sugarcandy Mountain, that happy country where we poor animals shall rest for ever from our labours!”
He even claimed to have been there/ on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges.
Many of the animals believed him.
Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else?
A thing that was difficult to determine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses.
They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not working, with an allowance of a gill of beer a day.
translation
- 在四月，《动物农庄》被宣布为共和国，并且有必要选举一位总统。
- 只有一位候选人，那就是拿破仑，他被全体一致选为总统。
- 就在同一天，有消息称发现了新的文件，揭示了雪球与琼斯勾结的更多细节。
- 现在看来，雪球并不像动物们以前想象的那样，仅仅是通过一个诡计试图让牛棚之战失败，而是公然站在琼斯一方作战。
- 事实上，真正领导人类军队的正是他，他冲进战场时嘴里还喊着：“人类万岁！”
- 雪球背上的伤口，一些动物还依稀记得曾见过，实际上是拿破仑用牙齿咬出来的。
- 在盛夏时节，消失了好几年的渡鸦莫西斯突然重新出现在农场上。
- 他一点也没有改变，依然什么活也不干，还是老样子地谈论着糖果山。
- 他常常栖在树桩上，拍打着黑色的翅膀，成小时地对任何愿意听他讲的人滔滔不绝。
- “同志们，在那上面，”他会庄严地说着，用他的大喙指向天空，“就在那儿，就在你们看到的那片乌云的另一边，就是糖果山，那是一个幸福的国度，我们可怜的动物将在那里永远摆脱劳作，安息下来！”
- 他甚至声称自己在一次高飞时去过那里，亲眼见到了永远盛开的苜蓿田，还有长在篱笆上的亚麻籽饼和块状白糖。
- 许多动物都相信了他。
- 他们认为自己现在的生活既饥饿又辛苦，难道不理所当然且公平地相信在别处应该存在一个更美好的世界吗？
- 难以确定的一件事是猪们对莫西斯的态度。
- 他们都轻蔑地宣称他关于糖果山的故事是谎言，然而却允许他留在农场，不做任何工作，每天还给他一小杯啤酒作为补贴。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "proclaim",
"trans": [
"v. （正式）宣告，（公开）声明；强调，声称；（标志或通知）宣传，告知；清楚表明，显示"
],
"usphone": "'prəˈkleɪm'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "republic",
"trans": [
"n. 共和国，共和政体"
],
"usphone": "'rɪˈpʌblɪk'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "candidate",
"trans": [
"n. 候选人，申请者；有望体验（得到）……的人（物）；投考者，考生；攻读学位者"
],
"usphone": "'ˈkændɪdət'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "unanimously",
"trans": [
"adv. 全体一致地"
],
"usphone": "'juˈnænɪməsli'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "reveal",
"trans": [
"v. 揭示，透露；表明，证明；展示，显示；（通过神或超自然手段）启示",
"n. （电视节目最后的）揭示；门侧，窗侧"
],
"usphone": "'rɪˈviːl'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "complicity",
"trans": [
"n. 共谋；串通；共犯关系"
],
"usphone": "'kəmˈplɪsəti'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "by means of",
"trans": [
"通过，借助于"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "stratagem",
"trans": [
"n. 策略；计谋"
],
"usphone": "'ˈstrætədʒəm'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "inflict",
"trans": [
"v. 使遭受，使承受"
],
"usphone": "'ɪnˈflɪkt'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "raven",
"trans": [
"n. 大乌鸦；掠夺，劫掠；",
"adj. 乌黑的",
"vt. 掠夺；狼吞虎咽",
"vi. 掠夺；狼吞虎咽"
],
"usphone": "'ˈreɪv(ə)n'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "stump",
"trans": [
"n. 树桩；树墩；残端；残肢",
"v. 〈非正式〉犯愁；困惑；把…难住；一筹莫展"
],
"usphone": "'stʌmp'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "up there",
"trans": [
"na. 在那里；〔美俚〕天堂",
"突出的位置，重要的地位"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "solemnly",
"trans": [
"adv. 庄严地；严肃地"
],
"usphone": "'ˈsɑːləmli'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "beak",
"trans": [
"n. 鸟嘴，喙；鹰鈎鼻，尖鼻；<旧>法官，男教师"
],
"usphone": "'biːk'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "everlasting",
"trans": [
"adj. 永恒的；接连不断的"
],
"usphone": "'ˌevərˈlæstɪŋ'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "linseed",
"trans": [
"n. 亚麻籽"
],
"usphone": "'ˈlɪnsiːd'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "somewhere else",
"trans": [
"在其他地方，在某个别处"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "contemptuously",
"trans": [
"adv. 轻蔑地"
],
"usphone": "'kənˈtemptʃuəsli'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "allowance",
"trans": [
"n. 津贴，补助；限额，定量；折价，折扣；免税额；<美>零花钱；考虑到的事情；体谅，原谅；允许，认可；（赛马）减载量",
"v. 为（某人）提供津贴；定量供应（物品）"
],
"usphone": "'əˈlaʊəns'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "gill",
"trans": [
"n. 及耳（容量单位）；鳃；菌褶；（山谷中的）沟壑，峡流；",
"vi. 被刺网捕住",
"vt. 用刺网捕鱼；去除内脏"
],
"usphone": "'ɡɪl'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]