打卡 第14天绍哎,kindle的閱讀進(jìn)度是2204/29553(四本)欺冀,進(jìn)度很慢碉碉,難度挺大的边苹。
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、烏合之眾 a disorderly crowd of people
Pauper: an old-fashioned word for someone who is poor
horrid:causing horror
upheaval:動(dòng)蕩 杜顺,變動(dòng)财搁。
2. squalid:foul and run-down and repulsive 骯臟的,污穢的