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