Hillbilly Elegy - Jan 29

________(正在出现一种文化运动，让白人工薪阶层将问题归咎于社会和政府), and that movement ________(获得支持) by the day.

Instead of encouraging engagement, conservatives increasingly foment the kind of detachment that has sapped the ambition of so many of my peers.

I have watched some friends ________(成长为成功的成年人) and others fall victim to the worst of Middletown’s temptations — premature parenthood, drugs, incarceration.

During my first round of law school applications, I didn’t even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford — the ________(传说中的) “ top three ” schools.

She was ________(翻台清理), simply because that was the only job available to her. On the next round, I ________(试一下耶鲁大学和哈佛大学).

Stanford’s law school application wasn’t the standard combination of ________(大学成绩单), LSAT score, and essays.

It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college.

Whatever virtues she possessed as a person, she was, ________(without reference to specific circumstances or practical experience), an outsider.

But when the time came, I ________(揉起来[纸]) and tossed it in the garbage.

It had a certain ________(氛围) — with its small class sizes and unique grading system, Yale ________(describe someone or something as) a low-stress way to jump-start a legal career.

It was late afternoon on an early spring day, 2010, when my phone rang and ________(电话号码显示了一个不熟悉的203区号).

In my first year, it was nearly ________(全奖).

Yale offered tens of thousands in ________(助学金).

Yale wasn’t just my dream school, it was also the cheapest option ________(所有选择里).

Yale Law School was like ________(书呆子界的好莱坞), and I never stopped feeling like an awestruck tourist.

While my friends in other law schools were overwhelmed with work and worrying about strict ________(正态分布 (比如GPA就用它来评级)) that effectively placed you in direct competition with your classmates, our dean asked us during orientation to ________(追寻我们的热情), wherever they might lead, and not worry so much about grades.

We called ourselves the island of misfit toys, as there was no real unifying force to our team — a conservative hillbilly from Appalachia, the supersmart daughter of Indian immigrants, a black Canadian with decades’ worth of ________(街头智慧)s, a neuroscientist from Phoenix, an aspiring civil rights attorney born a few minutes from Yale’s campus, and an extremely progressive lesbian with a fantastic sense of humor, among others — but we became excellent friends.

Another part of me thought I’d be able to ________(处理它/完成它) but only with extraordinary dedication.

This is a vomit of sentences masquerading as a paragraph.

________(这让我决心改变他的想法).

This place was so ________(UNACCEPTABLE) for what I expected of myself.

There was something bizarre about Yale’s ________(社交活动): the cocktail receptions and banquets that served as both ________(职业网络) and ________(个人相亲活动).

My closest friends had all seen some kind of ________(家庭冲突) in their life.

At Yale Law School, I felt like ________(我的宇宙飞船在奥兹国坠毁了).

Yale made me feel, for the first time in my life, that others viewed my life ________(with interest).

In other words, I was an anomaly.