Animal Farm
/ˌænɪml ˈfɑːm/
/ˌænɪml ˈfɑːrm/
- a book (1945) by George Orwell in which some farm animals start a revolution against the farmer but are betrayed by their leaders, the pigs, and suffer even more than before. Animal Farm is a satire on the Russian Revolution and the struggle for power between Stalin and Trotsky, represented by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball. The most often quoted and adapted line from the book is ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’.
动物农场:乔治·奥威尔(George Orwell)撰写的一本书(1945年),其中一些农场动物开始了对农民的革命,但遭到其领导人猪的背叛,遭受的痛苦甚至比以前更大。动物农场是俄国革命和斯大林与托洛茨基之间权力争夺的讽刺,以猪拿破仑和雪球为代表。该书中最常引用和改编的文字是“所有动物都是平等的,但有些动物比其他动物更平等”。