Hillbilly Elegy - Jan 28

Set one foot on my fucking porch, and I’ll ________(炸掉它).

My greatest fear when I left for boot camp wasn’t that I’d be killed in Iraq or that I’d fail to ________(达到标准).

Marine Corps boot camp lasts thirteen weeks, each with a new ________(培训重点).

Mamaw wrote every day, sometimes several times, offering extended thoughts on what was wrong with the world in some and few-sentence ________(零零散散的想法) in others.

Most of all, Mamaw wanted to know how my days were going and ________(安慰我/让我安心).

Recruiters told families that what most of us needed were words of encouragement, and Mamaw delivered that ________(In large quantities).

Contrary to ________(传统观点), the military is not ________(一个落脚点) for low-income kids with no other options.

Whenever she received a letter from me, she would call my aunt or sister, demanding that someone come to her house immediately and interpret my ________(狗爬字).

About ________(训练一个月后), I had a nasty exchange with a drill instructor, who took me aside for a half hour, forcing me to ________(交替开合跳), ________(仰卧起坐), and ________(短距离冲刺跑) until I was completely exhausted.

When I read that outburst, I figured Mamaw had ________(把心里要说的话都说出来了).

________(你会领先的).

I prepared to answer, but ________(这明显是一个反问句), as he smacked the cake out of my hands and moved on to his next victim.

Marine Corps boot camp is ________(设置为...的用途) ________(生死攸关的挑战).

Mamaw and Papaw had saved me from succumbing entirely to that notion, and the Marine Corps ________(开辟出了新天地).

For the first time, ________(街角小理发店) — ________(正在消失的某一类人) even though I didn’t know it at the time — greeted me as an adult.

When he was about my age, he ________(应征入伍) to fight in Korea, so we ________(交流了) some barbs about the Army and the Marines.

I’d ________(减重了45磅), so many of the people I knew barely recognized me.

My friend Nate — who would later serve as one of my groomsmen — ________(看了我两眼[表示惊讶]) when I extended my hand at a local mall.

Perhaps I ________(举止有点不一样).

After a few uncomfortable seconds of ________(空气静止), she said only that she hoped the war would end before I had to leave.

She still took a dozen medications and ________(每个季度都要前往) to the hospital for various ailments.

I didn’t make a lot of money myself — probably a thousand dollars a month after taxes, though the Marines gave me a place to stay and food to eat, so ________(那笔钱能花很久).

________(扑克牌可以说已经融入我的血液).

I played ten hours a week on ________(小赌注的游戏桌).

Mamaw, naturally, worried that I had ________(染上赌博的习惯).

Just don’t ________(酗酒和泡妞).