Part 1- 3句

1, She believed if you spare the rod, you spoil the child.

语音上有一种对仗美感，押韵。

同时有种我们中国古话不打不成材的感觉

2, The family would see me and invite me in.（介词）

3, It was a wonderful experience to have, but the downside was that it sheltered me from reality.

Part 2- 3词

1, give sb a leg up

原文： If you're black in South Africa, speaking English is the one thing that can give you a leg up.

在中文中我们常讲助我一臂之力而英文中则选用 give sb a leg up （不要忘记介词）

仿写：Learing English is a hard thing for me, but I do know it can give me a leg up in the future.

2, be well versed in

原文：As a naughty child, I was well versed in Xhosa threats.

be well versed in 是 be good at /do well in 的另一个版本的表达

值得一提的是单词 verse(n.)

1, Music

a set of lines that forms one part of a song, poem, or a book such as the Bible or the Quran

2, Literature

words arranged in the form of poetry

in versel

这个单词给人的感觉就是整整齐齐，在音乐作品的韵律在诗歌中对仗

也不难理解 be well versed in 是擅于的意思了

3, no-man's-land

原文：I stood there awkwardly by myself in this no-man's-land in the middle of the playground.

无人区

引申用法：

例句： Smarter entrepreneurs are increasingly doing two things to make sure they don't get caught in "No Man's Land".

Part 3- 感想

语言真的是一个神奇的东西，上帝创造了那么多语言，逐个的把我们分割成不同的语系，以致于我们之间的交流存在障碍。这样就很好的把我们划分成一个又一个的小群体。

惊讶于作者的外祖父母，因为作者的肤色而赋予他的种种“特权”，又庆幸于当时的作者并不知道真的原因。"Trevor doesn't get beaten because Trevor is Trevor." 也佩服于作者妈妈在当时的环境下游刃有余的掌握多种语言和不同的人进行沟通，也正是妈妈的智慧，作者也得益于不同语言的切换。这对作者之后的生活起到了巨大的帮助。Maybe I didn't look like you, but if I spoke like you, I was you. 在进入学校之后，作者已经切身感受到了color的影响，也做出了一些决定，到底下面会怎么继续发展呢，越来越期待后面的章节。