When the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry.
TL Text 37:
وحين سمعت الدجاحات ذلك أطلقت صرخة عالية مريعة (مزرعة الحيوانات، الفصل السابع، ص 127).
In the example (37), one Sunday morning Squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. After learning that they must surrender their eggs, the hens stage a demonstration that only ends when they can no longer live without the rations that Napoleon had denied them. Nine hens die as a result of the protest. …show more content…
Having at the time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand..."
TL Text 40:
كانت شقيقتي -السيدة "جوجارجيري"- تكبرني بأكثر من عشرين عاما. وكان لها صيت في البلدة التي نسكن فيها بين جيراننا، حيث كان الجميع يعرف أنها ربتني على يديها. وكنت أحاول مع نفسي دائما أن أتوصل الى معنى هذا المصطلح –" على يديها"- وكنت على دراية تامة كم أن لها يدين ثقيلتين وغليظتين. (الامال العظيمة الفصل الثاني، ص 25-26).
According to example 5 above, Mrs. Joe took care of her little brother Pip; she also took him in and raised him instead of allowing him to be sent to the charity institution, which would have been his destination if she had not agreed to take him in when their parents died. She neither allowed him to be raised as an orphan nor permitted him to run wild. This gave Mrs. Joe a great reputation because she brought him up "by hand." However, "by hand" refers to Mrs Joe's using her hand corporally against the kids; Mrs. Joe brought up Pip with the aid of lavish corporal punishment, administered by slaps and cuffs rather than with the use of a cane, slipper or belt. In other words, he was physically abused by