读书笔记0225《光荣与梦想-The glory and the dream》

打卡 第十一天，kindle的阅读进度是1937/29553（四本），昨晚没来得急更新。

1. To upper-middle-class critics, the symbol of the reliefer would forever be a man leaning on a shovel or a rake, and their greatest triumph was the distortion of an obscure word.

reliefer：查不到

leaning：倾向、偏好

rake：〔长柄〕耙子:

distortion：扭曲

obscure：模糊的

2. underwrite

（同意）负担〔活动、商业计划等〕的费用，以金钱支持:

3. Walter Lippmann wrote of the NRA that “The excessive centralization and the dictatorial spirit are producing a revulsion of feeling against bureaucratic control of American economic life.”

revulsion:厌恶，憎恶

Excessive:means beyond what is typical or normal. When something isexcessive, there's way too much.