Hillbilly Elegy - Jan 27

Selby encouraged (but didn’t require) his students to obtain advanced ________(图形计算器).

It forced me to ________(上学) in a way I never had before.

I didn’t notice ________(这种变化的因果关系), how living with her turned my life around. I didn’t notice that my grades began to improve immediately after I ________(投入到[学习]).

________(如此多的顾客都被一种让人疯狂的压力支配着).

As my job taught me a little more about America’s ________(阶级分割), it also imbued me with a bit of resentment, directed toward both the wealthy and my own kind. The owners of Dillman’s were old-fashioned, so they allowed people with good credit to ________(赊账), some of which surpassed a thousand dollars.

I also learned how people ________(欺骗福利制度).

They’d ________(结账) their orders separately, buying food with food stamps, and beer, wine, and cigarettes with cash.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those ________(以...为生) government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

Most of us were struggling to get by, but we ________(将就[过日子]), worked hard, and hoped for a better life. But a large minority was content to ________(靠救济金过日子).

I’m far less angry today than I was then, ________(我第一次认识到) that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—________(并不像他们所说的那样).

Mamaw saw it as a betrayal, ensuring that “bad” people would move into the neighborhood and ________(拉低房价).

I can’t understand why people who’ve worked all their lives ________(生活拮据) while these deadbeats buy liquor and ________(手机话费) with our tax money.

These were bizarre views for my bleeding-heart grandma. And if she blasted the government for doing too much one day, she’d blast it for doing too little the next.

Sometimes she’d criticize the faceless rich, whom she saw as far too unwilling to carry their ________(应当承担的社会责任).

Mamaw could ________(口吐芬芳) like a Marine Corps drill instructor , but what she saw in our community didn’t just ________(激怒她) .

________(忍着), says the adage.

The problems of our community ________(切中要害).

________(不知道什么时候是个头).

There’s no embarrassment like waving to the neighbors right after the cops have ________(把你妈妈带走了).

These sorts of things ________(有着自己的节奏).

A mild screaming match might ________(招来别人从百叶窗里偷看) or peeking eyes behind the shades.

________(Wilson的书就好像是对我说话一样).

It’s about children who ________(因为母亲的毒瘾而不能拥有他们的玩具和衣服).

His mother ________(有的是时间), but she couldn’t keep a close enough watch on her child to prevent him from straying into the homes of strangers.

So Mamaw used my nephew’s diapers and kept a watchful eye on the neighborhood, always ________(留意着她的“小伙伴”的身影).

Her mother had never ________(干过一份工作) and seemed interested “only in ________(生孩子),” as Mamaw put it.