Hillbilly Elegy - Jan 25

I learned about ________(千禧年预言) and convinced myself that the world would end in 2007.

Dad’s church encouraged all of this because it doubted the wisdom of secular science and the morality of secular music.

I’d heard people joke that if you played Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” backward, you’d hear some ________(邪恶倾向), but a member of Dad’s church spoke about ________(关于Zeppline的传说/迷思) as if it were actually true.

Evolution and the Big Bang became ideologies to ________(to deal with a problem or difficult situation), not theories to understand. Many of the sermons I heard spent as much time criticizing other Christians as anything else.

I admired my uncle Dan above all other men, but when he spoke of his Catholic acceptance of evolutionary theory, ________(我的崇拜开始夹杂着些许疑虑).

My new faith had ________(让我开始去留意找到那些异教徒). Good friends who interpreted parts of the Bible differently ________([对我]产生不良影响). Even Mamaw ________(失宠) because her religious views didn’t conflict with her affinity for Bill Clinton.

________(关于纽约艺术展的讨论在网上沸沸扬扬) that featured images of Christ or the Virgin Mary covered in feces.

As a young teenager thinking seriously for the first time about what I believed and why I believed it, I had an acute sense that ________(真正的基督教徒越来越少[猜测]).

I was eight or nine, maybe younger, and I stumbled upon a broadcast by some ________(用地狱火来传教的 [地狱火 - 不忠诚的人将下地狱经历磨难]) preacher.

In my new church, on the other hand, I heard more about the ________(支持同性恋的游说) and the war on Christmas than about any particular character trait that a Christian should ________(立意/追求) have.

________(世界陷入了道德败坏的境地)—________(倒向) Gomorrah.

________(世界末日) were the natural finish for a culture sliding so quickly toward the abyss.

Nor did I realize that the religious views I developed during my early years with Dad were ________(为...播下种子) an outright rejection of the Christian faith.

Her response, more than anything I’ve ever heard, is ________(烙印在我的脑海里). The hillbilly accent that she usually hid ________(从她的嘴里透露出来).

After a couple of hours of conversation, he would ________(漫步走到某个地方) Mamaw’s house and spend the morning watching TV or playing cards.

If he left at all before dinnertime, he might briefly visit his friend Paul’s ________(五金店).

________(后面的事情已经不记得了): I think I ________(转述了外婆的话); we picked her up down the street and sped over to Papaw’s house, no more than a few minutes’ drive away.

Mom ran to the back door, screamed, and ________(绕到前门), both to tell Mamaw that he was hunched over in his chair and to ________(抓起一块石头).

She then broke and went in through a window, unlocked and opened the door, and ________(径直走向) her father.

We all hugged her before ________(挤到车里) and heading back to Mamaw’s. The adults gave me the unenviable task of ________(找到林赛) and giving her the news.

________(这时候手机还没有出现), and Lindsay, being a seventeen-year-old, was ________(很难联系到).

I trudged down the street and opened our door. She was walking down the stairs but ________(突然停下来) when she saw my face, red and blotchy from crying all day.

Lindsay was a teenager when Papaw died, ________(正处于[青春期那种]别别扭扭的组合的高峰期) of thinking you know everything and caring too much about how others perceive you.

He always smelled of mildew, because he washed his clothes but let them dry “naturally,” meaning packed together in a washing machine.

For me and Lindsay, the fear of imposing ________(追随着我们的认知), infecting even the food we ate.

We were ________(被训练成某种状态) that we couldn’t really depend on people—that, even as children, asking someone for a meal or for help with a ________(破破烂烂的) automobile was a luxury that we shouldn’t indulge in too much lest we fully ________(积累了大量的善意) serving as a safety valve in our lives.