would sooner have done sth. 宁愿做过某事（实际上没有）
	> he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.


As soon as
	> As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings.

in order to
	> Everyone was quite ready to lose an hour’s sleep in order to hear what he had to say.

begin to
	> Before long the animals began to arrive and make themselves comfortable after their different fashions.

be capable of
	> It is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously greater number of animals than now inhabit it.

as a matter of
	> The animals had assumed as a matter of course that these would be shared out equally.

do you know what would happen if
	> Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty?

be to do 计划做什么
	> The pigeons whose instructions were to mingle with the animals on neighboring farms.

intend to 打算做什么
	> I intend to study abroad next year.

no intention of doing 无意如此
	> I had no intention of doing that.

enough to do足以做某事
	> I'm hungry enough to eat a horse.

it had come to 逐渐
	> It had come to be accepted that the pigs, who were manifestly cleverer than the other animals, should decide all questions of farm policy, though their decisions had to be ratified by a majority vote. 

were bound to 注定
	> If they could not defend themselves they were bound to be conquered.