get credit for take up
lay off fall into disrepute be
concerned with not so much...as... result
from react to ward off be
committed to The sale of Alaska was ______ an American coup ______ a matter of expediency for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to defend its own continental coastline.
出售阿拉斯加与其说是美国出人意料的战略行动，不如说是沙皇俄国因为缺乏资金并且无力守卫海岸线而做出的权宜之计。