Animal Farm
Chapter 9
All the other animals immediately raced back to the farmhouse to give Squealer the news.
Only Clover remained, and Benjamin who lay down at Boxer's side, and, without speaking, kept the flies off him with his long tail.
After about a quarter of an hour Squealer appeared, full of sympathy and concern.
He said that Comrade Napoleon had learned with the very deepest distress of this misfortune to one of the most loyal workers on the farm, and was already making arrangements to send Boxer to be treated in the hospital at Willingdon.
The animals felt a little uneasy at this. Except for Mollie and Snowball, no other animal had ever left the farm, and they did not like to think of their sick comrade in the hands of human beings.
However, Squealer easily convinced them that the veterinary surgeon in Willingdon could treat Boxer's case more satisfactorily than could be done on the farm.
And about half an hour later, when Boxer had somewhat recovered, he was with difficulty got on to his feet, and managed to limp back to his stall, where Clover and Benjamin had prepared a good bed of straw for him.
For the next two days Boxer remained in his stall.
The pigs had sent out a large bottle of pink medicine which they had found in the medicine chest in the bathroom, and Clover administered it to Boxer twice a day after meals.
In the evenings she lay in his stall and talked to him, while Benjamin kept the flies off him.
Boxer professed not to be sorry for what had happened.
If he made a good recovery, he might expect to live another three years, and he looked forward to the peaceful days that he would spend in the corner of the big pasture.
It would be the first time that he had had leisure to study and improve his mind.
He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.
translation
- 所有其他动物立即跑回农舍，把消息告诉了 Squealer。
- 只有三叶草还留在那儿，还有本杰明，他躺在拳击手身旁，默默地用长尾巴赶着苍蝇。
- 大约过了十五分钟，Squealer 出现了，满脸同情和关切。
- 他说拿破仑同志得知这位农场最忠诚的工人之一的不幸消息后，感到非常痛心，并且已经在安排将拳击手送往威灵顿医院接受治疗。
- 动物们对此感到有些不安。除了莫莉和雪球，其他动物从未离开过农场，他们不喜欢想象自己的病友被人类照顾。
- 然而，Squealer 很容易就让他们相信，Willingdon 的兽医比农场里的治疗更能令人满意地处理 Boxer 的情况。
- 大约半小时后，Boxer 稍微恢复了一些，他艰难地站了起来，勉强跛行着回到了自己的马厩，Clover 和 Benjamin 已经为他准备好了一张舒适的稻草床。
- 接下来的两天里，Boxer 一直待在自己的马厩里。
- 猪们送来了一大瓶粉红色的药水，是他们在浴室的药箱里找到的，Clover 每天饭后给 Boxer 喂服两次。
- 晚上，Clover 躺在 Boxer 的马厩里陪他说话，而 Benjamin 则帮他赶走苍蝇。
- Boxer 声称自己并不为发生的事情感到难过。
- 如果他能顺利康复，或许还能再活三年，他期待着将在大牧场的角落里度过宁静的时光。
- 这将是他第一次有闲暇时间来学习和提升自己的心智。
- 他说，他打算用余生来学习字母表中剩下的二十二个字母。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "distress",
"trans": [
"n. 忧虑，悲伤；贫困；危难，险情；（肉体的）剧痛",
"v. 使悲伤，使忧虑；使（家具，皮革）有仿磨损的痕迹"
],
"usphone": "'dɪˈstres'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "veterinary",
"trans": [
"adj. 兽医的",
"n. <旧>兽医"
],
"usphone": "'ˈvetərəneri'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "satisfactorily",
"trans": [
"adv. 令人满意地"
],
"usphone": "'ˌsætɪsˈfæktərəli'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "managed to",
"trans": [
"设法、努力"
],
"usphone": "''",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "chest",
"trans": [
"n. 箱子，盒子，柜子；胸部，胸膛；<英>金库，钱库",
"v. 以胸部推（球）"
],
"usphone": "'tʃest'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "professed",
"trans": [
"adj. 声称的；公开承认的；伪称的；自诩的；假充的；（修士）已宣誓入教的",
"v. 声称；断言；伪称；宣称信仰；传授；精通（****** 的过去式和过去分词）"
],
"usphone": "'prəˈfest'",
"ukphone": "''"
},
{
"name": "devote",
"trans": [
"v. 献身，致力；用于"
],
"usphone": "'dɪˈvoʊt'",
"ukphone": "''"
}
]