ANIMAL FARM Chapter X 英文

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Years passed. The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by. A time came 定语从句when there was no one 定语从句who remembered the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of the pigs.

Muriel was dead; Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher were dead. Jones too was dead–he had died in an inebriates’ home in another part of the country. Snowball was forgotten. Boxer was forgotten, except by the few 定语从句who had known him. Clover was an old stout mare now, stiff in the joints and with a tendency to rheumy eyes. She was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no animal had ever actually retired. The talk of setting aside a corner of the pasture for superannuated animals had long since been dropped. Napoleon was now a mature boar of twenty-four stone. Squealer was so fat 结果从句that he could with difficulty see out of his eyes. Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer’s death, more morose and taciturn than ever.

There were many more creatures on the farm now, though the increase was not so great 比较从句as had been expected in earlier years. Many animals had been born 定语从句to whom the Rebellion was only a dim tradition, passed on by word of mouth, and others had been bought 定语从句who had never heard mention of such a thing before their arrival. The farm possessed three horses now besides Clover. They were fine upstanding beasts, willing workers and good comrades, but very stupid. None of them proved able to learn the alphabet beyond the letter B. They accepted everything 定语从句that they were told about the Rebellion and the principles of Animalism, especially from Clover, 定语从句for whom they had an almost filial respect; but it was doubtful 主语从句whether they understood very much of it.

The farm was more prosperous now, and better organised: it had even been enlarged by two fields 定语从句which had been bought from Mr. Pilkington. The windmill had been successfully completed at last, and the farm possessed a threshing machine and a hay elevator of its own, and various new buildings had been added to it. Whymper had bought himself a dogcart. The windmill, however, had not after all been used for generating electrical power. It was used for milling corn, and brought in a handsome money profit. The animals were hard at work 分词状语building yet another windmill; 时间从句when that one was finished, so it was said, the dynamos would be installed. But the luxuries 定语从句of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream, the stalls with electric light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were no longer talked about. Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism. The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.

Somehow it seemed 表语从句as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer-except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Perhaps this was partly 表语从句because there were so many pigs and so many dogs. It was not 表语从句that these creatures did not work, after their fashion. There was, 比较从句as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organisation of the farm. Much of this work was of a kind 定语从句that the other animals were too ignorant to understand. For example, Squealer told them 宾语从句that the pigs had to expend enormous labours every day upon mysterious things called “files,” “reports,” “minutes,” and “memoranda”. These were large sheets of paper 定语从句which had to be closely covered with writing, and 时间从句as soon as they were so covered, they were burnt in the furnace. This was of the highest importance for the welfare of the farm, Squealer said. But still, neither pigs nor dogs produced any food by their own labour; and there were very many of them, and their appetites were always good.

春去秋来,年复一年。随着岁月的流逝,寿命较短的动物都已相继死去。眼下,除了克拉弗、本杰明、乌鸦摩西和一些猪之外,已经没有一个能记得起义前的日子了。
穆丽尔死了,布鲁拜尔、杰西、平彻尔都死了,琼斯也死了,他死在国内其他一个地方的一个酒鬼家里。斯诺鲍被忘掉了。鲍克瑟也被忘掉了,所不同的是,唯有几个本来就相识的动物还记得。克拉弗如今也老了,她身体肥胖,关节僵硬,眼里总带着一团眼屎。按退休年龄来说,她的年龄已超过两年了,但实际上,从未有一个动物真正退休。拨出大牧场一角给退休动物享用的话题也早就搁到一边了。如今的拿破仑已是一头完全成熟的雄猪,体重三百多磅。斯奎拉胖得连睁眼往外看都似乎感到困难。只有老本杰明,几乎和过去一个样,就是鼻子和嘴周围有点发灰,再有一点,自从鲍克瑟死去后,他比以前更加孤僻和沉默寡言。
现在,庄园里的牲口比以前多得多了,尽管增长的数目不象早些年所预见的那么大。很多动物生在庄园,还有一些则来自别的地方。对于那些出生在庄园的动物来说,起义只不过是一个朦朦胧胧的口头上的传说而已;而对那些来自外乡的动物来说,他们在来到庄园之前,还从未听说过起义的事。现在的庄园,除了克拉弗之外,另外还有三匹马,他们都是好同志,都很了不起,也都十分温顺,可惜反应都很慢。看起来,他们中间没有一个能学会字母表上“B”以后的字母。对于有关起义和动物主义原则的事,凡是他们能听到的,他们都毫无保留地全盘接受,尤其是对出自克拉弗之口的更是如此。他们对克拉弗的尊敬,已近乎于孝顺。但是,他们究竟是不是能弄通这些道理,仍然值得怀疑。
现在的庄园更是欣欣向荣,也更是井然有序了。庄园里增加了两块地,这两块地是从皮尔金顿先生那里买来的。风车最终还是成功地建成了,庄园里也有了自己的一台打谷机及草料升降机。另外,还加盖了许多种类不一的新建筑。温普尔也为自己买了一辆双轮单驾马车。不过,风车最终没有用来发电,而是用来磨谷子啦,并且为庄园创收了数目可观的利润。如今,动物们又为建造另一座风车而辛勤劳作,据说,等这一座建成了,就要安装上发电机。但是,当年谈论风车时,斯诺鲍引导动物们所想像的那种享受不尽的舒适,那种带电灯和冷热水的窝棚,那种每周三天工作制,如今不再谈论了。拿破仑早就斥责说,这些想法是与动物主义的精神背道而驰的。他说,最纯粹的幸福在于工作勤奋和生活俭朴。
不知道为什么,反正看上去,庄园似乎已经变得富裕了,但动物们自己一点没有变富,当然猪和狗要排除在外。也许,其中的部分原因是由于猪和狗都多吧。处在他们这一等级的动物,都是用他们自己的方式从事劳动。正像斯奎拉乐于解释的那样,在庄园的监督和组织工作中,有很多没完没了的事,在这类事情中,有大量工作是其它动物由于无知而无法理解的。例如,斯奎拉告诉他们说,猪每天要耗费大量的精力,用来处理所谓“文件”、“报告”、“会议记录”和“备忘录”等等神秘的事宜。这类文件数量很大,还必须仔细填写,而且一旦填写完毕,又得把它们在炉子里烧掉。斯奎拉说,这是为了庄园的幸福所做的最重要的工作。但是至今为止,无论是猪还是狗,都还没有亲自生产过一粒粮食,而他们仍然为数众多,他们的食欲还总是十分旺盛。

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