HtHaE

Question 1

mingle

Answer 1

The list mingled US and British territories together, giving no hint as to which was which.

Question 2

demote

Answer 2

give (someone) a lower rank or less senior position, usually as a punishment
- Why did Roosevelt demote Philippines?

Question 3

round down/up

Answer 3

If Philippines was being rounded down to foreign, Hawaii was being rounded up to American.

Question 4

siren

Answer 4

The air-raid siren continued to wail.

Question 5

wail

Answer 5

cry, moan, lament

-The air-raid siren continued to wail.

Question 6

unabashedly

Answer 6

blatantly
(به طرز گستاخانه‌ای) آشکارا، بدون شرم
- They unabashedly called those territories colonies.

Question 7

envision

Answer 7

That’s how most people envision that country.

Question 8

superimpose

Answer 8

place or lay (one thing) over another, typically so that both are still evident
- The whole island chain, if superimposed on the mainland, would stretch from Florida to California.

Question 9

by odds off

Answer 9

با شانس

If you lived there, you were more likely to be colonized than black, by odds of 3 to 2.

Question 10

trod

Answer 10

walk in a specified way

- He warned that the US is traveling the same path that was trod by the British Empire.

Question 11

slip from the view

Answer 11

• One thing that often slips from the view is actual territory.

Question 12

wager

Answer 12

• I would wager, very much.

Question 13

sideline

Answer 13

• The problem is that those books are sidelines.

Question 14

tip

Answer 14

نکته، راس، نوک

- Pear harbour was just the tip of the iceberg.

Question 15

perspectival

Answer 15

• The book’s main contribution is not archival, but perspectival.

Question 16

launching point

Answer 16

• Displacement of Native Americans is not the main story but it’s the launching point.

Question 17

revolt

Answer 17

شورش

- It was born in an anti-imperialist revolt.

Question 18

consoling

Answer 18

دلداری‌(تسلی)دهنده،

- This part of the history of the US is consoling.

Question 19

conceive

Answer 19

understand, figure out, realize

- Rather than conceiving it as a contiguous bulb, we should take seriously it’s overseas holdings.

Question 20

in keeping with

Answer 20

• In keeping with local use, I have placed accent over the name.

Question 21

plagued by

Answer 21

گرفتارشده توسط

- They were plagued by debt.

Question 22

rapture

Answer 22

a feeling of intense pleasure or joy
شور، وجد، خلسه
- It didn’t take long for them to reconsider their rapture.

Question 23

venture

Answer 23

dare to do sth

- The presence of rivals made it difficult for them to venture beyond their city’s defended perimeter.

Question 24

hardscrabble

Answer 24

دارای زندگانی سخت و مشکل
involving hard work and struggle.
- For those people who used to hardscrabble life, there was a paradise.

Question 25

vanish

Answer 25

• Oases in the desert often vanish upon inspection.

Question 26

mirage

Answer 26

سراب

- The meadows were no mirage, but those meadows were the hunting grounds of natives.

Question 27

confine

Answer 27

keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, quantity, or time)
- They were confined to their few rudimentary structures and beset on all sides.

Question 28

beset

Answer 28

احاطه کردن، به ستوه آوردن

- They were confined to their few rudimentary structures and beset on all sides.

Question 29

turn on full blast

Answer 29

• He was an early drop from a faucet that was about to be turned on full blast.

Question 30

before the year was out

Answer 30

• Many of them lost heart and returned home before the year was out.

Question 31

underwhelm

Answer 31

fail to impress or make a positive impact on (someone); disappoint.

• American voters seem underwhelmed by the choices for president.

Question 32

blaze his trail

Answer 32

روشن کردن مسیر(ردپا)
- By blazing his trail through the wilderness, he opened a channel through which thousands would soon poor, dragging their enslaved blacks along with them.

Question 33

enslave

Answer 33

make someone slave
- By blazing his trail through the wilderness, he opened a channel through which thousands would soon poor, dragging their enslaved blacks along with them.

Question 34

show up

Answer 34

• His story showed up in European literature.

Question 35

rever

Answer 35

حرمت کردن، تکریم کردن

- Though celebrated abroad, he wasn’t much revered at home.

Question 36

wear black armband

Answer 36

• They wore black armbands in Boone’s honor.

Question 37

disregard

Answer 37

the action or state of disregarding or ignoring sth

- The disregard in which he was held may come as a surprise.

Question 38

expansive

Answer 38

• It was an expansive nation from the start.

Question 39

wrest

Answer 39

قاپیدن

• US founders have wrested liberty from an oppressive empire.
• While he was disoriented, I wrested the gun from his grasp and threw it far away.

Question 40

oppressive

Answer 40

ستمگر

- US founders have wrested liberty from an oppressive empire.

Question 41

infamy

Answer 41

shame, discredit, notoriety, scandal

- The day of bombing of Hiroshima will live in infamy.