animalfarm（动物庄园）英文原版笔记-第十章(3)

例如，斯奎拉曾和他们说过，猪每天都要把大量的精力花在诸如“档案”、“报告”、“会议记录”和“备忘录”这样一些神秘的事情上。
minute
2.N-PLURAL 复数名词会议记录 The minutes of a meeting are the written records of the things that are discussed or decided at it.
【搭配模式】：oft N of n
He"d been reading the minutes of the last meeting.
他刚才一直在阅读上次会议的记录。
memorandum n. (备忘的)记录
非正式商业书信,便函
复数形式 memoranda
第五句
The animals found the problem insoluble; in any case they had little time for speculating on such things now.
动物们觉得这个问题搞不清楚，不过他们现在也很少有时间去推敲这个问题。
insoluble adj. 不能解决的,不溶的
And when they heard the gun booming and saw the green flag fluttering at the masthead, their hearts swelled with imperishable pride, and the talk turned always towards the old heroic days, the expulsion of Jones, the writing of the Seven Commandments, the great battles in which the human invaders had been defeated.
尤其当他们听到枪声鸣响，看到旗杆上绿旗飘扬时，心中更是充满了难以抑制的豪情，此时他们的话题也会转向那史诗般的岁月：他们如何赶走琼斯，怎样题写七诫，以及在大战中如何击退人类侵略者。