Words and phrases

Teddy and I got along like a house on fire, one of those friends where you start hanging out and from that day forward you’re never apart.

like a house on fire  very quickly, successfully, or strongly

get along like a house on fire 一见如故

例如：I like to visit my neighbor because our two children get along like a house on fire. 

我要去拜访一下邻居，我们的两个孩子一见如故。

Madonna's new CD is selling like a house on fire.

麦当娜的新CD正在热卖，就像房子着火一样火爆、迅猛。

It was grainy, black-and-white security-camera footage, but you could see what was happening plain as day.

grainy  这里的意思是 照片有颗粒的，模糊不清的

例句：...grainy black and white photos.模糊不清的黑白照片

It's also possible that the original picture was blurry or grainy.还有可能原始图片就模糊或有纹理。

其他意思：表面或质地粗糙的;粒面的 having a rough surface or texture, or containing small bits of something     例如：the grainy tree trunk...粗糙的树干

We bolted, heading for the doors.

bolt  最常见意思门闩；螺栓， 动词作“闩上”解时,其宾语多为门或窗之类的名词。

bolt的基本意思是指由于着急或慌张而急于离开某地,因此具有“奔,窜”之意; 用于吃食物时则具有“狼吞虎咽”的意味。

这里的意思是奔窜着逃跑

例句：I saw a man bolt out of our backyard.

我看到一个男人从我们家的后院窜出去。

My heart was pounding.

pound 作“磅”解时是重量单位,是可数名词,可缩写为lb。

pound作“英镑”解时是英国的货币单位,一英镑等于100便士,是可数名词,可用符号￡表示。

作名词意思有（汽车）扣押所；宠物收留所

pound的基本意思是“连续地击打”,可指人击打对手,也可指海浪等“连续地拍打海岸”,还可指“心连续地跳”。这里的意思就是“心连续地跳”

例句 I could feel my heart pounding as I went on stage to collect the prize.

上台领奖时我感到心怦怦直跳。

He pounded on the door demanding to be let in.他不停地大力敲门要进去。

You’ll miss part of it, someone might translate on the fly to give you the gist, you pick up the rest from the context, and you just figure it out.

on the fly  它本来的意思是在飞行〔行驶〕中，其他意思有(计算机)运行中

 这里的意思是 匆忙地【美】（informal）

例句：A student scrambling to finish some homework on the school bus is working on the fly. 

A teacher who instructs the class without planning a lesson is teaching on the fly.

For a moment my mom thought she’d caught me red-handed, but Teddy’d given me a solid alibi.

red-handed 染血的；在犯罪现场的

alibi 不在场证明   搭配这里用的 a solid alibi

例句:The false alibi threw the police off the scent.那个不在犯罪现场的伪证使警方失去了线索。

Thoughts

I kept waiting for it to be a trick, for them to turn and say, “It’s you!” They didn’t. At a certain point, I felt so invisible I almost wanted to take credit. I wanted to jump up and point at the TV and say, “Are you people blind?! That’s me! Can you not see that that’s me?!” But of course I didn’t. And they couldn’t. These people had been so fucked by their own construct of race that they could not see that the white person they were looking for was sitting right in front of them.

感觉Trevor的生活好像一部电影，在南非的特殊环境下，有开头的追逐逃离枪口戏，母亲的反叛励志故事，父子情，Trevor作为混血儿的各种成长故事，初恋......现在又有盗窃和友情情节。人生多磨难啊，当然也有一些美好，而这也造就了现在的他。

由于摄像头模糊不清的黑白画面，Teddy was dark.Trevor was light. 并且Teddy被抓并没有供出Trevor，结果其他人误以为是一个白人男孩，但是如果仔细看，是能看出来的。然而，这些人被脑海中根深蒂固的种族，肤色偏见所蒙蔽了。也照应了这章的题目“colorblind”。

说到偷窃，看过一个研究说“多数孩子会在儿童时期的某个时刻偷过东西，偷窃实际上和睡眠、乱发脾气等一样是孩子成长过程中常遇到的行为问题”。小孩在这个阶段还没完全形成明确的价值观。这时孩子正在建立良知的阶段，知道这样做不对，但他们还是很难抵御拥有所喜欢东西的诱惑。

虽然他们有错，但是外界的引导就显得重要了。以前看过一些新闻，例如一个十岁的女孩疑因偷窃巧克力被店主罚站和羞辱之后，又被要求家长前来解决问题，然而她家境贫困，父母都是为了供养两个孩子上学辛苦打工，结果没能凑够赔偿金的母亲现场出手打了孩子，最后女孩跳楼自杀了。

想想就唏嘘不已！比较起来，Trevor是幸运的，他逃脱了，也得到了教训。Teddy最后被学校直接退学，有些可惜。虽然他们有错，但是感觉往往外界对他们惩罚过重了，不够宽容吧。不知Teddy最后如何。想到这个自杀的女孩，经过各方的羞辱，心理突然脆弱，然而可能家里的贫穷，父母的无视，没有以正确的方式去引导去处理，结果带来巨大的伤害。

毕竟，“每一个孩子，都是一棵新生的小树苗，有的生命力顽强，也有的是经不起风吹雨淋的打击，只有正确的教导和呵护，才会有可能茁壮的成长。”

希望Teddy最后能得到正确的教导和呵护，茁壮的成长！

Summary

At Sandringham, Trevor got to know Teddy, and they got along like a house on fire. They often hung out together. One night they were at the mall. Walking past a stationery shop that sold chocolates, they realized that if they put their arms through the trellis they could reach this rack of chocolates just inside. After they stole some of them, they found these were alcohol-filled chocolates. They loved these alcohol-filled chocolates, so they did this several times. However, One day, when they were doing this again, they were witnessed by mall cops. They ran immediately, with mall cops coming at them. At last, Trevor escaped, but Teddy was arrested for shoplifting. As a result, Teddy was expelled by school. Teddy told police that another kid wasn’t  Trevor. The picture on the camera screen wasn’t great, and Trevor's facial features were a bit blurry, so they didn't think it was him.