打卡 第十天，kindle的阅读进度是1816/29553（四本），看到这里，民众看到曙光。
1. Hoover strode across the room and loomed above him menacingly. In his most cutting voice he said。
Loom： has two distinct meanings. First, it's a tool for weaving. Second, it means to appear or stand over someone in a threatening way.
dmenacingly：胁迫地,险恶地
cutting：好几个意思，这里的意思是(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character。另外见的比较多的形容词 Cutting-edge：the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field 尖端科技。
2. The financial heart of the country had stopped beating.
这句话着实写的生动形象。
3. The sky was the color of slate;
slate：石板，但是还有个意思：a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices，候选人。
4. FDR是啥意思？
哈哈，全名：Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. Hatless and coatless, he threw back his great shoulders and repeated the oath after Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.
Hatless、coatless:没戴帽子和没穿衣？
oath：誓言，宣誓，（表示愤怒、惊异等的）咒骂
6. A friend told him that if he succeeded he would go down in history as the greatest American President and that if he failed he would be known as the worst. FDR replied, “If I fail I shall be the last one.” But he had no intention of failing. His Hundred Days had begun.
go down in history：载入史册
罗斯福的回答是：如果我失败了，我应该是最后一个。
7. he remarked at one point, “I think I am a bit shell-shocked.”
shell-shocked：吓坏了，糊涂了。shell指炸弹。
8. In Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s felicitous phrase, FDR was a “natural President.” Few men in history have dominated their times as he did. He ran his administration as a one-man show, and loved to exercise authority。
评价FDR的one-man show，和 love to exercise authority， 很有权术。
9. Anne O’Hare McCormick observed in the New York Times that “no President in so short a time has inspired so much hope.”
高度赞扬FDR
10. 几个单词
syndicated：a group of people or companies who join together in order to achieve a particular aim 企业联合组织
dessert：a dish served as the last course（道菜） of a meal 甜品
undersecretary：副部长，次长，副国务卿，次官（政府部长的副职），根据每个国家不一样。
