打卡 第十一天，kindle的閱讀進度是1937/29553（四本），昨晚沒來得急更新。

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：傾向、偏好

rake：〔長柄〕耙子:

distortion：扭曲

obscure：模糊的

2. underwrite

（同意）負擔〔活動、商業計劃等〕的費用，以金錢支持:

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:厭惡，憎惡

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