[영어리딩] 동물농장(2) #Animal Farm
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All the animals were now present except Mosese, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind
the back door. When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were
waiting attentively, he cleared his throat and began:
"Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that I had last night.
But I will come to the dream later. I have something elseto say first. I do not think, comrades,
that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you
such wisdom as I have acquired. I have ahd a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone
in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand tha nature of life on this earth as well as any animal
now living. It is about this that I wish to speak to you.
"Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable,
laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in
our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our
strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with
hideous cruelty. No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure a after he is
a year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery : that is
the pain truth.
"But is this simply part of the order of nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that is
cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it? No, comrades, a thousand times no!
The soil of England is fertile, its climate is good, it is capable of affording food in abundance
to an enormously greater number of animals than now inhabit it. This single farm of ours
would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep - and all of them living in
a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining. Why then do we continue
in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen
from us by human begins. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed
up in a single word - Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene,
and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does
not lay eggs, he is too week to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.
Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimun
that will prevent them from starving. and the rest he keeps for himself. Our labour tills the soil,
our dung ferilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin.
You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during
this last year? And what has happened to that milk which should have been breeding up sturdy calves?
Every drop of it has gone down the throats of our enemies. And you hens, how many eggs have
you laid in this last year, and how many of those eggs ever hatched into chichens? The rest have all
gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men. And you, Clover, where are those four foals
you bore, who should have been the support and pleasure of your old age? Each was sold at a year old -
you will never see one of them again. In return for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields,
what have you ever had except your bare rations and a stall?
"And even the miserable lives we lead are not allwed to reach their natural span. For myself I do not grumble,
for I am one of the lucky ones. I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children. Such is the natural
life of a pig. But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. You young porkers who are sitting in front of me,
every ont of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year. To that horror we all must come - cows, pigs,
hens, sheep, everyone. Even the horses and the dogs have no better fate. You, Boxer, the very day
that those great muscles of your lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat
and boil you down for the foxhounds. As for the dogs, when they grow old and toothless, Jones ties a brick round
their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond.
"Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?
Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost overnight we could become rich
and free. What them must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race!
That is my message to you, comrades : Rebellion! I do not know when that Rebellion will come, it might be in
a week or in a hundred years, but I know, as surely as I see this straw beneth my feet, that sooner or later justice
will be done. Fix your eyes on that, comrades, throughout the short remainder of your lives!
And above all, pass on this message of mine those who come after you, so that future generations shall carry on
the struggle until it is victorious.
"And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when
they Man and the animals have a common interest, that of no creature except himself. And among us animals let
there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades."
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