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读书笔记0228《光荣与梦想-The glory and the

读书笔记0228《光荣与梦想-The glory and the

作者: 哈瓦那 | 来源:发表于2017-02-28 22:21 被阅读14次

    打卡 第14天,kindle的阅读进度是2204/29553(四本),进度很慢,难度挺大的。

    1. Those people in little white houses among the orange trees were appalled by the advancing army of dust-blown, indigent farmers who, as Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote, seemed to represent “the threat of social revolution by a rabble of crazed bankrupts and paupers—a horrid upheaval from below, led by a Peter the Hermit, which could only end in driving all wealth and respectability from the State.”

    rabble:暴民、乌合之众 a disorderly crowd of people

    Pauper: an old-fashioned word for someone who is poor

    horrid:causing horror

    upheaval:动荡 ,变动。

    2. squalid:foul and run-down and repulsive 肮脏的,污秽的

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