Hillbilly Elegy - Jan 22

Harlan County, for example, which was ________(声名鹊起) in an Academy Award–winning documentary about coal strikes, ________(因为人员迁移流失了30%的人口).

Hop on a northbound highway in Kentucky or Tennessee the day after Thanksgiving or Christmas, and virtually every ________(汽车牌照) you see comes from Ohio, Indiana, or Michigan—cars full of hillbilly transplants returning home for the holidays.

The four who left died ________(在社经地位这架梯子的更高阶层上) than the four who stayed.

As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: “It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers ‘out of place’ in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites. Rather, these migrants ________(打乱了一套宽泛的假设) held by northern whites about how white people appeared, spoke, and behaved . . . the disturbing aspect of hillbillies was their racialness.

And years later even a mention of how the city government ________(聚集起来整人) the chicken man could inspire Mamaw’s trademark vitriol: “Fucking zoning laws.

The move to Middletown created other problems, as well. In the mountain homes of Jackson, ________(所谓隐私，仅仅流于法条理论，而疏于执行).

Family life was something people ________(现学先用) with a lot of help from their neighbors.

________(他们疯了).

Decades later she would remember how isolated she felt in the slow suburban crawl of midcentury Middletown.

On politics, for example, Mamaw had one opinion—“They’re all ________(一群骗子)”—but Papaw became a committed Democrat.

He ________(与...相安无事) Armco, but he and everyone like him hated the coal companies in Kentucky thanks to a long history of ________(工人斗争).

________(这种态度/意见延伸给了奶奶): All politicians might be crooks, but if there were any exceptions, they were undoubtedly members of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition.

They knew that life was a struggle, and though the odds were a bit longer for people like them, that ________(事实不能成为失败的借口).

“Never be like these fucking losers who think ________(形势对他们不利),” my grandma often told me. “You can do anything you want to.”

Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely ________(赶上了) the native population in terms of income and poverty level.

They always ________(一只脚已踏入新生活，另一只脚却还留在旧日子).

My mom’s generation was the first to grow up in the industrial Midwest, far from the ________(【猜测】重口音) and one-room schools of the hills.

So important was this road in the massive hillbilly migration that Dwight Yoakam ________(写了一首歌) about northerners who castigated Appalachian children for learning the wrong three R’s: “Reading, Rightin’, Rt. 23.” Yoakam’s song about his own move from southeastern Kentucky could have come from Mamaw’s.

I can’t help but wonder how many additional aunts and uncles I’d have today were it not for my grandparents’ difficult ________(早期过渡阶段), no doubt intensified by Papaw’s years of ________(酗酒).

Looking back, I realize, that to most outsiders, a statement like that must ________(APPEAR/SEEM 听起来) as insane.

That’s what Scots-Irish Appalachians do when people ________(管/干涉你的孩子).

“But yeah, like everyone else in our family, they could ________(平白无故谋杀) ________(一冲动).”

By the mid–1960s, Papaw’s drinking had become habitual; Mamaw began to ________(将自己封闭起来，远离外部世界).

“Hoarder” hadn’t entered everyday parlance, but Mamaw ________(suitable for a particular job or purpose), and her tendencies only worsened as she withdrew from the world.

Garbage piled up in the house, with an entire bedroom devoted to trinkets and debris that had ________(没有任何价值).

To hear of this period, one ________(有种...的感觉) that Mamaw and Papaw led two lives.

This was the life that everyone else saw, and ________(不论以哪种标准) it was quite successful.

At that age, you’re just so ________(只顾着自己的事情) that you hardly recognize the change.

________(那是一段艰难的时期).

Hillbilly culture at the time (and maybe now) blended a robust sense of honor, devotion to family, and bizarre sexism into a sometimes explosive mix.

But if she knew of anyone criticizing so much as her socks to an outsider, she’d ________(勃然大怒).

“It’s mine, ________(我买了它),” he’d reply nonchalantly.

Other times Mamaw would insist on staying, so Mom and Aunt Wee would ________(准备迎接一个漫长的夜晚).

One Christmas Eve, Papaw came home drunk and demanded a fresh dinner. When that failed to ________(实现/成形), he picked up the family Christmas tree and threw it out the back door.

________(“囤积癖”这个词还没有成为日常用语).