近年来，美国的脱口秀节目成为了一个学习英语的素材，许多明星嘉宾被邀请参与节目，主持人幽默风趣，可谓是学习娱乐两不误的好素材呀！今天我们的特辑介绍和一位著名的美国脱口秀主持人有关——Trevor Noah！许多同学亲切地称他为崔娃，嘿嘿。下面这一段是对他的简单介绍：
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, television and radio host and actor. He currently hosts The Daily Show, a late-night television talk show on Comedy Central.
可能许多同学都看过他的节目《每日秀》、单口喜剧特辑等等(感兴趣的同学可以去b站搜索一下哦)，因为他曾经在节目中评论美国与中国的5G竞争，还被央视报道过呢！（别紧张，正面教材）
崔娃很开心
今天我们介绍的是他才刚刚推出的全新自传——《天生有罪》Born A Crime，他在这本自传中讲述了自己的“特殊身份”以及从小到大的经历，更是叙述了种族隔离时期的南非自己与母亲艰难生活的日子。以下关于书籍语料来源于goodreads.com, penguinrandomhouse.ca，我们一起来看一下：
the cover if the book
Review of the book
The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime New York Times bestseller about one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.
Little Trevor
The eighteen personal essays collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.
同时我在阅读和搜索资料时选出了三段比较有意思的原文摘抄给大家：
Quotes from the book
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
那么今天的分享就到这里啦！希望大家可以去看看崔娃和这本书呀！这本书的中英文版都可以在亚马逊或者Kindle商店可以找到哦！
来看看吧！
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