Vocabulary
1. taciturn 寡言少語的? [A?taciturn?person does not say very much and can seem unfriendly.]
2.fine upstanding 品行端正的?beasts
3.expand enormous labors
4.frugally [節(jié)儉的;儉省的?People who are?frugal?or who live?frugal?lives do not eat much or spend much money on themselves.]
She lives a?frugal?life.她生活儉樸
?5.saplings 幼樹?hummed 哼(曲子)neighing (馬)嘶鳴,嘶?hind (動物的腿)后面的?
6. haughty 倨傲無禮的 e.g.?spoke in a?haughty?tone.?
7. upside-down[?with the upper part where the lower part should be.]
e.g.they're habitually used to looking at the world?upside?down.?他們習(xí)慣把世界倒轉(zhuǎn)來看。
?8. consent 許可;允許
?jug 罐?
?mug 馬克杯(用來喝熱飲的有柄大杯子)/傻瓜;易受騙者
witticism 妙語;?
crept 匍匐爬行(creep的過去式
9. credited [If people?credit?someone?with?an achievement or if it?is credited to?them, people say or believe that they were responsible for it.] e.g.?
The screenplay for 'Gabriel Over the White House' is?credited to Carey Wilson.
電影《天使降臨白宮》的劇本出自凱里·威爾遜之手昂验。
10 sentiment 情感”捂敌,一般說來是好的 (sentimentality 是“過分的艾扮、假裝的或漫無限制的情感”既琴,是不好的。)
11.stiff?(酒)烈性的
?bon mot?妙語泡嘴;機(jī)智詼諧的言辭
worn off?逐漸消失
Expression
1. The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by.
2.It was not that these creature did not work, after their fashion. [以…方式;以…方法?If you do something?ina particular?fashion?or?after?a particular?fashion, you do it in that way.]
3.Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories.
4.There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives.
5.Things never changed, nor ever could be much better or much worse
6.They work diligently, hardly raising their faces from the ground, and not knowing whether to be more frightened of the pigs or of the human visitors.
7.Unfortune incidents had occurred, mistaken ideas had been current.
8. Nothing could be further from the truth!
Summary
The old generations died. Living ones find truth, but they dare not to trust their minds. The Seven Commandments have finally been disposed. Pigs like the past Jones, or even more brutal.