Hillbilly Elegy - Jan 25

________(外婆有自己的看法): that Mom had tried to detract attention from her cheating and financial problems.

And ________(周旋在几个男朋友中间), switching partners every few months.

There would be fighting or running away from fights; when ________(事情变得特别糟糕), Mom would ________(在我们身上爆发怒气) or even slap or pinch us. I didn’t like it—who would?—but this new behavior was just strange. Though ________(妈妈曾经做过很多事), she hadn’t been a partier.

Football cards were ________(我的命中克星 /我的软肋), so I agreed to join her.

This infuriated her more, so she pulled over to ________(把我往死里打).

Eventually Mom broke down the woman’s door and dragged me out as I screamed and ________(抓住任何能抓的东西)—the screen door, the guardrails on the steps, the grass on the ground.

Two police cruisers ________(停下车来), and the cops who got out put Mom in handcuffs.

I had begun to ________(打瞌睡) when ________(车门打开), and Lindsay crawled into the cruiser with me and clutched me to her chest so tightly that I couldn’t breathe.

________(脸上带着一种无声的、可怕的愤怒).

Mom was ________(交纳保释金后出狱) and prosecuted for ________(家暴罪行).

My grandparents were paying a lot of money for the town’s ________(最有能力的) lawyer.

The people who ran the courthouse were different from us. The people ________(被他们所支配) were not.

Identity is an odd thing, and I didn’t understand at the time why I ________(意识到与这些陌生人之间的关系).

It is a testament to the class consciousness of my youth that my friends’ ________(第一时间想到的是) the cost of an airplane flight.

Despite the early departure, I ________(完全没有睡觉) on the six-hour flight from Cincinnati to San Francisco.

The flight attendant took notice, and by the time we ________(到达) Colorado, I was making regular visits to the cockpit (this was before 9/11), where the pilot gave me brief lessons in flying an airplane and ________(告知我最新的进程).

During one trip we went to the Castro District of San Francisco so that, ________(用我表姐的话来说) Rachael, I could learn that gay people weren’t out to molest me.

We ate the same foods, watched the same sports, and ________(信奉一样的宗教).

So, for a time, I dutifully answered, ________(如数家珍地告诉人们我们家错综复杂关系网) that I’d grown accustomed to. I had ________(同父异母/同母异父的弟弟) and half sister whom I never saw because my biological father had given me up for adoption.

I had many stepbrothers and stepsisters by one measure, but only two if you ________(将计算限制于) the offspring of Mom’s husband of the moment.

________(她为了我所做出的英雄行为) was ________(传奇).

She was above it all, the “one true adult in the house,” as Papaw would say, and ________(我的第一道防线/我的第一保护人), even before Mamaw.

Lindsay had learned of a modeling recruitment event at a Dayton hotel, so Mom, Mamaw, Lindsay, and I ________(挤到外婆的别克车里) and headed north.

Lindsay was ________(非常激动), and I was, too. This was going to be her ________(重大转机) and, ________(引申开来/延伸开来), our whole family’s.

The ballroom was perfectly ________(20世纪70年代那种俗气的样子): ugly carpet, big chandeliers, and lighting just bright enough to prevent you from stumbling over your own feet.

I wondered how any ________(经纪人) could ever appreciate my sister’s beauty.