Vocabulary
1. precautions?防范
2.forsake?放棄;丟棄
4.timber?木料
5.carted [If you say that someone?is putting the cart before the horse, you mean that they are doing things in the wrong order.]
6.conciliatory?愿意和解的; 調(diào)停的;安撫的
7.chinks?裂縫
8.knot-holes?n.?木板上的節(jié)孔
9.wistful [Someone who is?wistful?is rather sad because they want something and know that they cannot have it.] e.g.He has a?wistful?look
10.mighty?(置于形容詞和副詞之前表示強(qiáng)調(diào))很葡幸，非常，十分
11.savage?(狗等)兇猛地攻擊钧嘶，撕咬
12.limp [?to walk slowly and with difficulty because of having an injured or painful leg or foot]
13.plough up?（通常指為種植作物而）犁（地），翻（土）
Expression
1.It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune.
2.It was surmounted by a portrait of Napoleon.
3.The animals blood boiled with rage when they heard of these things being done to their comrades.
4.Animals heard this with a certain bewilderment, but Squealer was soon able to convince them that their memories had been at fault.
5.In the teeth of every difficulty, in spite of inexperience, of primitive implements......
6.A murmur of dismay went round.
7.Slowly the breeze lifted it away. The windmill had ceased to exist.
8.A cry of lamentation went up.
Sum
The fierce battle did not wake them up. The silence aggravates the oppression.
