读书笔记0228《光荣与梦想-The glory and the
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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