Hillbilly Elegy - Jan 22

And she ________(将她的不安宣泄到...) the most productive activity imaginable: ________((夫妻间的)冷暴力).

When Papaw passed out on the couch, she’d cut his pants with scissors so they’d ________((裤子)从裂口崩开口子) when he next sat down.

If Jimmy’s youth shielded him from the signs of their deteriorating marriage for a bit, the problem soon reached an obvious nadir.

Mamaw grabbed a flower vase, hurled it, and—she always ________(拥有超强的臂力)—hit Papaw right between the eyes.

Because Jimmy didn’t live with the family anymore, he was not to know about the ________(家庭内部的事情).

Perhaps Papaw’s alcoholism ________(战胜了他).

Papaw wanted Jimmy to get an education instead of ________(拼命工作) in the steel mill.

During her sophomore year of high school, Lori’s boyfriend stole some PCP, and the two of them returned to Mamaw’s to ________(吸食(毒品)).

Instead she called someone to take him to the hospital, where he spent five days ________(处于重症监护中).

The next year, at sixteen, Lori ________(高中辍学) and married.

Jimmy worked his way through night school and ________(谋到了一份销售的活) with Johnson & Johnson.

Unfortunately, ________(Vance一家也无法免于俗流(统计数据)), and Bev (my mom) ________(没那么好命).

But ________(安定下来) wasn’t quite her thing: She had learned the lessons of her childhood all too well.

When ________(她的生活也发展为前半生中的吵架和闹剧), Mom filed for divorce and began life as a single mother.

Mamaw and Papaw eventually ________(让他们一起行动).

They helped Lori ________(摆脱) her abusive marriage.

I was born in late summer 1984, just a few months before Papaw ________(给出它第一张也是唯一一张投票) for a Republican—Ronald Reagan.

Winning ________(大堆大堆铁锈地带的民主党选民) like Papaw, Reagan ________(以压倒性优势赢得了选举) in modern American history.

Reagan’s Democratic opponent, a well-educated Northern liberal, ________(与...形成强烈的文化对比) my hillbilly Papaw.

Mondale never had a chance, and after he ________(退出政治舞台), Papaw never again voted against his beloved “party of the workingman.”

Jackson, Kentucky, would always ________(赢得我的心), but Middletown, Ohio, had most of my time.

Its population had changed little since the 1950s, when the flood of migrants on the hillbilly highway ________([移民的浪潮]衰退为小股的流入).

“We saw ourselves as a really fine community, ________(与...同等水平) Shaker Heights or Upper Arlington.”

Middletown is one of the older incorporated towns in Ohio, built during the 1800s thanks to its proximity to the Miami River, which ________(直接注入) the Ohio.

Large homes mixed comfortably with ________(维护得当的公园) and ________(办公园区).

I dreamed that I’d own a house in Manchester Manor, ________(相对较新的发展区域) not a mile from the high school, where a nice home ________(只要少于1/5的价钱) of a decent house in San Francisco.