Vocabulary
1.chaff?谷糠;麩皮
?**分清良莠;去蕪存菁?If you?separate the wheat from the chaff?or?sort the wheat from the chaff, you decide which people or things in a group are good or important and which are not.
2.mangel?飼料甜菜
3.escort [?If you?escort?someone somewhere, you accompany them there, usually in order to make sure that they leave a place or get to their destination.]
4.be in league ?[If you say that someone is?in league with?another person to do something bad, you mean that they are working together to do that thing.]
e.g.Williams operated the smuggling scheme in?league?with his brother.
威廉斯串通其弟進(jìn)行走私活動(dòng)炸宵。
5.crept creep [When people or animals?creep?somewhere, they move quietly and slowly.]
6.huddled about?蜷縮辟躏，縮成一團(tuán) [?If you?huddle?somewhere, you sit, stand, or lie there holding your arms and legs close to your body, usually because you are cold or frightened.]
Expression
1.The stormy weather was followed by sleet and snow, and then by a hard frost which did not break till well into February.?
2.Starvation seemed to stare them in the face.
3.Every night, he came creeping in under cover of darkness and performed all kinds of mischief.?
4. Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball.
5.Snowball were some kind of invisible influence, pervading the air about them and menacing them with all kinds of dangers. [If something?pervades?a place or thing, it is a noticeable feature throughout it.]
6.he cast a very ugly look at Boxer.
7.Napoleon appeared to change countenance. [?If someone will not?countenance?something, they do not agree with it and will not allow it to happen.]
8.Presently the tumult died down.
9.The animals were taken aback. [unpleasantly surprised, suddenly puzzled or shocked I was taken aback when she said that she didn]
10.feeling this ?to be in some way a substitute for the words she was unable to find.
?[?If you?substitute?one thing?for?another, or if one thing?substitutes for?another, it takes the place or performs the function of the other thing.]
The memory is temporary, and easily be cheated by imagine. Animals have witnessed deaths, but they can not remember the early times. The tragedy ending seemed to stare them in the face.
