风车倒塌

类别:经典文学

一场暴风雨摧毁了风车,拿破仑将责任推给斯诺鲍,并借机加强统治,农场动物们在恐惧中互相猜疑。

时长 78 秒 · 语速 142 wpm

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One night, a great storm hit the farm. 一个晚上,一场大风暴袭击了农场。

The wind screamed and the building shook. 狂风呼啸,建筑物摇摇欲坠。

In the morning, the animals came out and stopped in horror. 早上,动物们出来后,惊恐地停住了脚步。

The windmill was gone. 风车不见了。

All their work lay in a pile of broken stone. 他们所有的心血都变成了一堆碎石。

Months of pain, destroyed in a few hours. 几个月的辛劳,在短短几个小时内毁于一旦。

The animals were heartbroken. 动物们心碎了。

Napoleon walked slowly around the ruins. 拿破仑缓慢地绕着废墟走了一圈。

Then he spoke in a low, angry voice. 然后他用低沉而愤怒的声音说道。

Do you know who did this? 你们知道是谁干的吗?

he said. 他说。

Snowball. 是雪球。

Snowball came in the night to destroy our work. 雪球在夜里来摧毁我们的劳动成果。

This traitor wants to ruin us all. 这个叛徒想把我们都毁了。

There was no proof, but the animals believed him. 尽管没有证据,动物们还是相信了他。

Snowball became the reason for everything bad. 雪球成了所有坏事的罪魁祸首。

We will build again, Napoleon said. “我们会重建的,”拿破仑说。

We will not let Snowball win. 我们绝不会让雪球得逞。

After this, Napoleon grew even more cruel. 此后,拿破仑变得更加残忍。

He said that Snowball had secret friends on the farm, and he wanted to find them. 他说雪球在农场里有秘密同伙,他想把他们找出来。

When something is broken, it is easy to blame a ghost. 当事情搞砸了,很容易把责任推给一个幽灵。

A ghost cannot argue back. 幽灵是无法反驳的。

Cold and afraid, the animals began to watch one another. 动物们又冷又怕,开始互相监视。

Anyone might be called a traitor. 任何人都可能被指控为叛徒。

Soon, Napoleon would ask some of them a terrible question. 很快,拿破仑就会向他们中的一些动物提出一个可怕的问题。