【看了译文才懂的句子】

With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side,

手里提的一盏灯的环状光影也跟着晃来荡去。

but he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.

但他仍不失为一头相貌堂堂的猪，俨然一位睿智的忠厚长者，尽管事实上他的犬牙始终没有长出来。

【熟词生义】

1.draw

汲取;提取 To draw something such as water or energy from a particular source means to take it from that source.

drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery,

2.file

排成纵列行进 When a group of people files somewhere, they walk one behind the other in a line.

The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn,...

She paused as the group of children filed out of the house...

Slowly, people filed into the room and sat down.

3.trap

双轮轻便马车 A trap is a light carriage with two wheels pulled by horses in which people used to travel.

At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones’s trap, camemincing daintily in,...

3.atom

a very small amount of something

...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;...

The flu took every atom [=bit] of strength I had.

There is not an atom of truth to what he said.

【词组】

1.go round/around

to go or pass from one person to another person;

（消息或笑话）流传，传播 If a piece of news or a joke is going around, it is being told by many people in the same period of time.

Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals.

There's a rumor going around (the office) that the boss is about to get fired.

An amusing story is going around.

There's a nasty cold going around: I hope you don't catch it.

2.be ready to do/for sth

愿意的；乐意的；情愿的；甘愿的 If you are ready to do something, you are willing to do it.

Old Major... was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour’s sleep in order to hear what he had to say.

They were ready to die for their beliefs...

She was always ready to give interviews.

3.first-rate

If you say that something or someone is first-rate, you mean that they are extremely good and of the highest quality.

A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work.

a first-rate chef/book/education

The service was first-rate.