【老朋友】點擊手機右上角圖標【轉發分享】內容
Years passed. The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by.
春去秋來，年復一年。隨著歲月的流逝，壽命較短的動物都已相繼死去。
A time came when there was no one who remembered the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of the pigs.
眼下，除了克拉弗、班傑明、烏鴉摩西和一些豬之外，已經沒有一個能記得起義前的日子了。
Muriel was dead; Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher were dead.
穆麗爾死了，布魯拜爾、傑西、平徹爾都死了。
Jones too was dead--he had died in an inebriates' home in another part of the country.
瓊斯也死了，他死在國內其他一個地方的一個酒鬼家裡。
Snowball was forgotten.
斯諾鮑被忘掉了。
Boxer was forgotten, except by the few who had known him.
鮑克瑟也被忘掉了，所不同的是，唯有幾個本來就相識的動物還記得。
Clover was an old stout mare now, stiff in the joints and with a tendency to rheumy eyes.
克拉弗如今也老了，她身體肥胖，關節僵硬，眼裡總帶著一團眼屎。
She was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no animal had ever actually retired.
按退休年齡來說，她的年齡已超過兩年了，但實際上，從未有一個動物真正退休。
The talk of setting aside a corner of the pasture for superannuated animals had long since been dropped.
撥出大牧場一角給退休動物享用的話題也早就擱到一邊了。
Napoleon was now a mature boar of twenty-four stone.
如今的拿破崙已是一頭完全成熟的雄豬，體重三百多磅。
Squealer was so fat that he could with difficulty see out of his eyes.
斯奎拉胖得連睜眼往外看都似乎感到困難。
Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer about the muzzle,
只有老班傑明，幾乎和過去一個樣，就是鼻子和嘴周圍有點發灰，
and, since Boxer's death, more morose and taciturn than ever.
再有一點，自從鮑克瑟死去後，他比以前更加孤僻和沉默寡言。
There were many more creatures on the farm now,
現在，莊園裡的牲口比以前多得多了，
though the increase was not so great as had been expected in earlier years.
儘管增長的數目不象早些年所預見的那麼大。
Many animals had been born to whom the Rebellion was only a dim tradition, passed on by word of mouth,
很多動物生在莊園，還有一些則來自別的地方。對於那些出生在莊園的動物來說，起義只不過是一個朦朦朧朧的口頭上的傳說而已；
and others had been bought who had never heard mention of such a thing before their arrival.
而對那些來自外鄉的動物來說，他們在來到莊園之前，還從未聽說過起義的事。
The farm possessed three horses now besides Clover.
現在的莊園，除了克拉弗之外，另外還有三匹馬。
They were fine upstanding beasts, willing workers and good comrades, but very stupid.
他們都是好同志，都很了不起，也都十分溫順，可惜反應都很慢。
None of them proved able to learn the alphabet beyond the letter B.
看起來，他們中間沒有一個能學會字母表上「B」以後的字母。
They accepted everything that they were told about the Rebellion and the principles of Animalism,
對於有關起義和動物主義原則的事，凡是他們能聽到的，他們都毫無保留地全盤接受，
especially from Clover, for whom they had an almost filial respect.
尤其是對出自克拉弗之口的更是如此。他們對克拉弗的尊敬，已近乎於孝順。
But it was doubtful whether they understood very much of it.
但是，他們究竟是不是能弄通這些道理，仍然值得懷疑。
The farm was more prosperous now, and better organised.
現在的莊園更是欣欣向榮，也更是井然有序了。
It had even been enlarged by two fields which had been bought from Mr. Pilkington.
莊園裡增加了兩塊地，這兩塊地是從皮爾金頓先生那裡買來的。
The windmill had been successfully completed at last,
風車最終還是成功地建成了，
and the farm possessed a threshing machine and a hay elevator of its own, and various new buildings had been added to it.
莊園裡也有了自己的一臺打穀機及草料升降機，另外，還加蓋了許多種類不一的新建築。
Whymper had bought himself a dogcart.
溫普爾也為自己買了一輛雙輪單駕馬車。
The windmill, however, had not after all been used for generating electrical power.
不過，風車最終沒有用來發電。
It was used for milling corn, and brought in a handsome money profit.
而是用來磨穀子，它為莊園創收了數目可觀的利潤。