Vocabulary
1.chaff 谷糠;麸皮
**分清良莠;去芜存菁 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 饲料甜菜
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.
威廉斯串通其弟进行走私活动。
5.crept creep [When people or animals creep somewhere, they move quietly and slowly.]
6.huddled about 蜷缩，缩成一团 [ 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.
