Words /I can't understand

Words /I can't understand
Message from valoris posted on 22-07-2019 at 12:58:18 (D | E | F)
Hi everybody!
I’d like to give my students the script of a listening activity on 18th century social classes. Can you please help me with the missing words of the transcription I wrote?

“They knew their place in the local hierarchy. _____________ , at least outwardly, towards those above them, pity those below them, and perhaps try against tremendous odds, to rise a __________ higher.”
You’ll find the audio file clicking here: Link
It lasts less than 15 seconds.
Thank you very much!
serenella

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Edited by lucile83 on 22-07-2019 23:29

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Re: Words /I can't understand from matrixhamdi, posted on 22-07-2019 at 15:23:12 (D | E)
Hello,
“They knew their place in the local hierarchy,deferred,at least outwardly, towards those above them, pity those below them, and perhaps try against tremendous odds,to rise a notch or two higher.”
Regards.

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Re: Words /I can't understand from gerondif, posted on 22-07-2019 at 15:59:47 (D | E)
Hello
The text is in the preterite.
Deferred, pitied, tried.

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Re: Words /I can't understand from valoris, posted on 22-07-2019 at 16:14:22 (D | E)
Thank you so much, matrixhamdi! I hadn’t thought that defer towards could have the same meaning as defer to someone…

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Re: Words /I can't understand from valoris, posted on 22-07-2019 at 16:16:04 (D | E)
Thank you, gerondif ;)

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Re: Words /I can't understand from matrixhamdi, posted on 22-07-2019 at 16:25:20 (D | E)
You are most certainly welcome.
As gerondif said, the text is in the preterite: pitied, tried.
Regards.

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