PART 1- 3句

1, For starts, despite the fact that black people made up 80 percent of South Africa's population, the territory allocated for the homelands was about 13 percent of the country's land.

2, But as shitty as our car was, it was a car.

3, The thing that always amazed me about her life was that no one showed her. No one chose her. She did it on her own. She found her way through sheer force of will.

PART 2- 3词

1, camouflage （n&v）

原文： Half-colored and half-black, she figured, like us. We'd be camouflaged there.

中文释义：伪装之后隐藏

英文释义： to hide sth, especially by making it look the same as the things around it, or by making it seem like something else:

camouflage sth with sth

例句：During the war, the soldiers usually were camouflaged with leaves.

2, fanfare

原文：There was none of the fanfare of a picnic basket or plates or anything like that, only baloney and brown bread and margarine sandwiches wrapped up in butcher paper.

中文释义：喇叭或号角的吹奏声吹牛吹嘘

此处用来描写没有野餐时没有音乐

也用来表示(v.) 热热闹闹的宣布与名词含义相同不难理解（有种被关注的感觉）

引申：

例句：I have to say it doesn't bother me in the slightest, bacause I prefer to start out without too much fanfare.

3, knockoff

原句： She came home with some knockoff brand, Abidas.

假货，仿制品

PART 3- The Second Girl

把生活活成自己的，作者的母亲在身体力行的实践着这句话。简直就是一个冒险家，坚定的有着自己的信仰，从不屈从于外界，我就是要活成我想要的样子，我才不管你们这些人怎么想。相比于其他同时代的人，作者的妈妈的思想简直超脱于那个时代。相比于对作者的好奇，更好奇于他的母亲。这样强大而又富有思想的一位女性。No one showed her. No one chose her. She did it on her own. She found her way through sheer force of will. 让作者把英语当作 the first language, 和作者搬出去住，每逢有空便到处开车带他出去逛，去看看这个“世界”。

正如作者所言"As mondestly as we lived at home, I never felt poor because our lives were so rich with experience."

PART 4- Summary

After reading the first five chapters, I have known that Trevor was born to black and white parents during aparthied, which meant he was born a crime. And apartheid also kept hom away from his fathers, sometimes even his mother. For his safety, most of his childhood was indoors, reading books, playing with toy, and making up imaginary worlds.

His mother was a woman full of intelligence, she taught Trevor English, read books, and led him see the world. Growing up the way he did, he learned how to use different languages to protect himself and had wider horizons.

Needless to say, life is not always easy, but it is not all that complicated either. Just as Trevor's mother siad, "Let the pian sharpen you, but don't hold on to it."