请教几道填空题，谢谢啦

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1.  The narratives that vanquished peoples have created of their defeat have, according to Schivelbusch, fallen into several identifiable types. In one of these, the vanquished manage to    ----     the victor’s triumph as the result of some spurious advantage, the  victors  being  truly  inferior  where  it  counts.  Often  the  winners          ----        this interpretation, worrying about the cultural or moral costs of their triumph and so giving some credence to the losers’ story.
Blank (i)         Blank (ii)
anoint            take issue with
construe       disregard
acknowledge    collude in
答案是 construe 和 collude in这个该怎么理解呢？


2.  That the President manages the economy is an assumption   --      the prevailing wisdom that dominates electoral politics in the United States. As a result, presidential elections have become referenda on the business cycle, whose fortuitous turnings are       --       the  President.  Presidents  are  properly  accountable  for  their executive and legislative performance, and certainly their actions may have profound effects on the economy. But these effects are   ---                    . Unfortunately, modern political  campaigns  are  fought  on  the  untenable  premise  that  Presidents  can deliberately produce precise economic results.
Blank (i)          Blank (ii)                                Blank (iii)
at odds with     justifiably personified in    usually long-lasting
peripheral to    erroneously attributed to    regrettably unnoticeable
central to        occasionally associated with    largely unpredictable
这个也不会，求大神解释下好吗，谢谢