Animal Farm
Chapter 10
One day in early summer Squealer ordered the sheep to follow him, and led them out to a piece of waste ground at the other end of the farm, which had become overgrown with birch saplings.
The sheep spent the whole day there browsing at the leaves under Squealer's supervision.
In the evening he returned to the farmhouse himself, but, as it was warm weather, told the sheep to stay where they were.
It ended by their remaining there for a whole week, during which time the other animals saw nothing of them.
Squealer was with them for the greater part of every day.
He was, he said, teaching them to sing a new song, for which privacy was needed.
It was just after the sheep had returned, on a pleasant evening when the animals had finished work and were making their way back to the farm buildings, that the terrified neighing of a horse sounded from the yard.
Startled, the animals stopped in their tracks.
It was Clover's voice.
She neighed again, and all the animals broke into a gallop and rushed into the yard.
Then they saw what Clover had seen.
translation
- 初夏的某一天，Squealer 命令绵羊跟随他，把它们带到农场另一头的一块荒地上，那片地已经长满了桦树幼苗。
- 在 Squealer 的监督下，绵羊们整整一天都在那里啃食树叶。
- 傍晚，他自己回到了农舍，但因为天气温暖，便让绵羊们留在原地。
- 结果它们在那里一待就是整整一周，在此期间，其他动物完全没有见到过它们。
- 在那段时间里，Squealer 几乎每天大部分时间都和它们待在一起。
- 他说，他正在教它们学唱一首新歌，而这需要在私下进行。
- 就在绵羊们回来的不久之后，一个宜人的傍晚，动物们结束了工作正往农场的建筑走去时，院子里突然响起了一声惊恐的马嘶声。
- 动物们吓了一跳，立刻停下了脚步。
- 那是 Clover 的声音。
- 她又嘶叫了一声，所有动物立刻奔跑起来，冲向院子。
- 接着，它们看到了 Clover 所看到的景象。
vocabulary
[
{
"name": "birch",
"trans": [
"n. 桦木；桦树；桦条",
"vt. 用桦条鞭打"
],
"usphone": "bɜːrtʃ",
"ukphone": ""
},
{
"name": "sapling",
"trans": [
"n. 树苗；年轻人"
],
"usphone": "ˈsæplɪŋ",
"ukphone": ""
},
{
"name": "pleasant",
"trans": [
"adj. 令人愉快的，惬意的；礼貌而友善的，和蔼可亲的"
],
"usphone": "ˈplez(ə)nt",
"ukphone": ""
},
{
"name": "neigh",
"trans": [
"v. （马）嘶鸣；发马嘶般的声音",
"n. 马嘶声"
],
"usphone": "neɪ",
"ukphone": ""
},
{
"name": "startle",
"trans": [
"v. 使吓一跳，使惊奇",
"n. 惊愕，惊恐"
],
"usphone": "ˈstɑːrt(ə)l",
"ukphone": ""
}
]