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Day 36

  1. My father’s family, meanwhile, ________(遍布) Chicago’s broader South Side and include ________(一堆姑婆和三代表亲), plus a few ________(游散的远亲) whose blood connection remain ________(模糊不清). We ________(和所有人都有来往).

  2. ________(卷发) little man

  3. ________(酷炫时髦)

  4. They wore ________(喇叭裤) and ________(高领毛衣).

  5. My grandfather was ________(相处起来没那么好玩).

  6. with ________(晚间新闻正在播报) on the television nearby

  7. He was galled by the day’s headlines: gall - 胆汁 (名词)；VEX (动词)

  8. ________(让全世界的黑人都背上恶名)

Day 37

  1. ________(经营得很好) a thriving Bible bookstore

  2. In her ________(下班时间)

  3. meekness: 温和

  4. his ________(接二连三的抱怨)

  5. There was something about my grandmother’s silence and passivity in her relationship with Dandy that ________(让我不爽).

  6. I was the only one in the family to ________(RETORT ON / 顶嘴) Dandy when he yelled.

  7. His stubbornness was something I recognized, something I’d inherited myself, though I hoped in a less ________(伤人感情的) form.

  8. There was also a softness in Dandy, which I ________(只在不经意的一瞥中见过).

  9. ________(聊天的时候不经意说了一个复杂的词)

  10. But then something would ________(激怒他) and he’d start snarling again.

  11. crankily: 任性的/暴躁的

  12. A ________(机智灵敏的) and intelligent kid

  13. He’d been ________(CHRISTENED/起外号叫) “the Professor” and ________(一早设定了将来有一天上大学的目标).

Day 38

  1. He also ________(成年/达到法定年龄) during the Great Depression.

  2. ________(他能做的选择永远都不会变多).

  3. ________(在50年间).

  4. ________(很难得到工作).

  5. ________(在保龄球馆摆放瓶子) and ________(做一些杂务的零活)

  6. Gradually, he ________(降低了期望), ________(放弃了上大学的梦想), thinking he’d ________(培训做某事) become an electrician instead. But this, too, was quickly ________(挫败).

  7. jitney: 小型公共汽车

  8. able-bodied: 身强力壮的

Day 39

  1. It pained them, I know, to be ________(扔在一边), to be ________(困在一份以自己的能力绰绰有余的岗位上), to watch white people ________(超过他们) at work, sometimes training new employees they knew might one day become their bosses

  2. And it ________(在他们每个人心中都滋生[怨恨]) at least a basic level of resentment and mistrust: You never quite knew what other folks saw you to be.

  3. He then went on to ________(走过了三十年) as a postal worker before retiring with a pension that helped allow him all that time to yell at the boo-boos on TV from the comfort of his recliner.

  4. But still, Dandy would remain unable to see his children’s accomplishments as ________(作为他[自身梦想]的一种延伸). As we saw every Sunday arriving at Parkway Gardens for dinner, my grandfather lived with the ________(他自己那破灭了的梦想留下的苦涩残渣).

  5. part of the ________(亲缘关系疏远的人群) that often turned up when my parents drove over for a visit

  6. As the adults drank coffee and laughed in the kitchen, ________(将出现同步的场景) as Craig and I joined whatever ________(一群孩子) came with those adults.

Day 40

  1. I’d jump double Dutch or try to ________(融入到任何进行中的玩笑话中).

  2. ________(在某一时刻)， one of the girls, a second, third, or fourth cousin of mine, ________(斜眼看我) and said, just ________(有点激动), “________(为什么) you talk like a white girl?”

  3. anthill: 蚁冢

  4. The question was ________(尖刻).

  5. But I knew ________(她指的是什么).

  6. I did speak different ________(FROM) some of my relatives.

  7. Our parents had ________(灌输给我们) the importance of using proper ________(措辞), of saying “going” instead of “goin” and “isn’t” instead of “ain’t”. We were taught to ________(完成) our words.

  8. They bought us a dictionary and a full Encyclopedia Britannica set, which ________(放在) a shelf in the stairwell to our department, its titles ________(蚀刻) in gold.

  9. Dandy, too, ________(是一个影响因子), meticulously correcting our grammar or ________(劝告) us to ________(清晰地发音) our words when we went over for dinner.

  10. We were expected not just to be smart but to own our smartness – to ________(拥有) it with pride – and this ________(反映在) how we speak.

Day 41

  1. white middle-class Kansans: 堪萨斯州人 /ˈkænzəs/

  2. I’d see this confusion ________(发生 UNFOLD) on the national stage among whites and blacks alike.

  3. I passed the rest of that day trying to say less to my cousin, feeling ________(扫兴) by her hostility, but also wanting her to ________(认为我是一个真诚的人) – not trying to ________(炫耀) some advantage.

  4. my parents’ laughter ________([笑声]轻松响亮) over the yard.

  5. I watched my brother ________(在..过程中) a sweaty game with a group of boys on the adjacent street corner.

  6. I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of ________(矫正) who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.