打卡 第18天，kindle的阅读进度是2649/29553（四本）。

three-tenths：3/10

as members of the locked-out generation

locked-out:prevent employees from working during a strike

undertaker：one whose business is the management of funerals

by the third year of the Roosevelt administratio the country had drawn back from the abyss.

drawn back: pull back or move away or backward

abyss: a bottomless gulf or pit 深渊

leapfrog：跳背游戏，越级提升

conspicuous: obvious to the eye or mind

dwindle:become smaller or lose substance

free enterprise: an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods

and resources and to determine prices

methinks: 我想；我以为；据我看来

convention: 习俗；常规；惯例 (某职业、政党等成员的)大会,集会

hip and thigh: 臀部和大腿