Guilliver's Travel-Part IV: A Voyage to Houyhnhnms

skipper (小商船等的)船長;(飛機的)機長 found my wife and family in good health
foundered (船)浸水而沈沒

I had several men who died in my ship of calentures熱帶地方的熱病,中暑,

buccaneers海盜;(十七世紀時掠奪西班牙船隻及殖民地的)西印度海盜[C]

debauched 誘惑my other men, and they all formed a conspiracy to seize the ship, and secure把...弄牢;關緊 me

plunder掠奪,劫掠,搶劫

expostulated勸告;告誡

lading貨物

In this desolate孤寂的,淒涼的condition I advanced forward

discomposed使不安;使煩惱

thick hair, some frizzled卷曲, and others lank

buff暗黃色的

nimbly敏捷地;機靈地

agility敏捷;靈活

pudenda陰門;女陰

dugs雌性哺乳動物的乳房(或乳頭)[C]

maimed使殘廢;使受重傷;割去...的肢體

felt the smart痛苦,難受,

almost stifled使窒息,悶住;悶死with the filth

persecutors迫害者

neighed (馬)嘶

cadence節奏;節拍

confer商談,協商together

endued賦予...(才能、天資);授予with a proportionable degree of reason

who was a dapple有斑點的,花斑的gray,

lappet耳垂of my coat

between his hoof and his pastern (馬等足部之)骹

judicious有見識的;明斷的;明智而審慎的

they must needs be magicians

bay棗紅馬

orthography正字法;拼字法

slacken變緩慢;變遲緩;減弱my pace

wattled用枝條編成 across

rack and manger秣桶,馬槽

nags老馬;駑馬

hams(動物的)臀部