Words and phrases

1.It allows you to exist in a state of suspended animation.

animation 活泼；生气；兴奋；动画片；动画片制作

例句:He was full of colour and animation.他充满魅力,生机勃勃。

suspended animation 假死状态；不省人事；蛰伏状态；暂停生命

2.and the next thing you know somebody starts a fight and one of your friends pulls a gun and somebody’s getting shot

pull书中出现42次，它的意思也比较多，这里意思是拔出枪。

pull的基本意思是“拉,拖,扯”或“拔”,指不太费力地拖〔拉〕较轻的物体,有时还可引申表示“划(船)”。

pull还可表示“拉过来”,指用手把某物用力地向自己的方向拉并使其移动,有时也可指扣动扳机,拉开关等,引申还可表示“赢得”“招来”“吸引”。

pull用作不及物动词时,如果主语为物,其主动形式常含有被动意义。

例句:The tractor pulls well.这台拖拉机牵引力大。

pull用作名词时的基本意思是“拉,拉力”“拖”“拔”,没有复数形式,前面可以加不定冠词,后常接表示接触点或面的介词at或on。有时还可表示“抽(一口烟),喝(一口酒)”。

pull引申可表示“某人处于由此处向〔到〕某处移动的状态”,可作“爬,攀登”解,这时往往与介词to搭配,作此解时常用单数形式。

pull还可表示“影响力,吸引力”,但有时也可加不定冠词。常与介词with, of搭配。

例句:Some advertisements have no pull at all.有些广告毫无吸引力。

辨析：pull oneself together,     pull together

这两个短语的区别是:前者的意思是“控制感情”“振作精神”; 后者的意思是“齐心协力”。

3.I yanked the power cord out of the tower to shut the thing down.

yank 猛拉；猛拔  相当于强力的pull

yank at sth猛拉；猛拽    yank sth off猛地拉掉；猛力拽掉

yank sb/sth out; yank sb/sth 'out of sth (informal)把人或物﹙从…）猛力拉走

例句：He was yanked out of the house and bundled into a car.

他被人从房子里拽了出来塞进一辆汽车。

习语     yank sb’s 'chain (AmE,informal)拿某人开涮； 跟某人开玩笑:

让我想到pull one's leg

例句；Did you mean what you said, or were you just yanking my chain?

你是说真的呢，还是逗我玩？

4.“Spot fine” is the euphemism everyone uses.

Spot fine  a fine (= money you have to pay as a punishment) that is given to you at the time of breaking the law 当场罚款

5.Then she hung up.

hung up 这里意思：1.挂断电话

其他意思 ： 2.悬挂；3.耽搁     

4.(informal)~ (on/about sth/sb)

very worried about sth/sb;十分担忧

thinking about sth/sb too much想得过多

举例：老友记第九季   Phoebe is completely hung up on Mike. I mean, she'll say no..

菲比还无法忘记麦克。 我想她会拒绝的。

老友记第二季      I was totally hung up on my own stuff the other day.

因为那天我的心，完全在我自己的事情上头。

Thoughts

Every day we were out in the streets, hustling, trying to act as if we were in some way down with the gangs, but the truth was we were always more cheese than hood.

我一直在想这章的the cheese boys指什么，就是单纯地有点钱买得起奶酪？最后有了些想法，决定搜下全书，结果前面有提到有解释好像就是这样In any township in South Africa, if you had a bit of money, people would say, “Oh, you’re a cheese boy.” In essence: You’re not really hood because your family has enough money to buy cheese.好吧，可能就是与hood孩子的对比吧。所以这里的话也是如此，和他们混在一起，然而事实却是more cheese than hood.

I haven’t stolen a camera. I’ve stolen someone’s memories. I’ve stolen part of someone’s life.

他没有偷照相机，是一个朋友不知怎么弄来的（很可能是偷的），然后他从这朋友那买的。他之前也这样买过很多东西，周围的人也是这么做的。他之前和其他人一样认为这一切是生活所迫，理所应当的，不算犯罪的。然而这次是一个数码照相机，他发现了里面的某一家人的照片。正是这，让他觉得这相机好像有张脸，看着他，让他觉得这是不对的。想了想，照相机承载了人们的过去的历史---记忆。而别人的相机，别人的照片，也许这是让他觉得这与其他所偷东西不同的原因吧。他感觉偷了别人的记忆和部分人生。想起关于相机，记忆，时间，想到一段博尔赫斯的的话：“我希望时间会变成一个广场，照相机只是一个让我的所思暂时安生的处所，一个压扁的铁皮罐子。时间的广场可以容纳很多意外。时间之外的一切，也许只是多余的忧愁“。

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.

By the end of high school, Trevor's tuck-shop business had evolved into a mini-empire that included selling pirated CDs. He had two middlemen working for him, Bongani and Tom. And he felt so good as an outsider that he didn’t even think about dating. In September of grade twelve, the matric dance was approaching. One day, Tom promised Trevor that he could get Trevor a beautiful girl to go with Trevor to the dance in exchange for better pirated CDs. At first,he thought it was just kidding, but he did meet this beautiful girl. He and the girl were both shy. As the dance approached, he started getting nervous. He fixed his hair, bought new clothes and borrowed a car. He was an hour late picking her up. She was completely pissed off. And he realized she didn't speak any English and refused to get off the car. What's worse, twenty guys came running out into the parking lot to watch. He felt mortified. So he never got to go to his matric dance. When the dance ended,he climbed back into the shitty car and drove home. He took her home and said goodbye. At last, his awkward and tragic relationship was over.

When Trevor was in grade nine, he got to know Andrew and Bolo. Andrew and Bolo pirated videogames and sold them at flea markets. He worked as a middleman for them for a year.  At last, Andrew bequeathed him the CD writer. So he started his own business. But technology kept evolving, and he kept reinvesting in the business. Then He made a fortune. With money, he experienced freedom and fell in love with McDonald’s. When Bongani and Trevor graduated from high school, they couldn’t get jobs. Trevor wanted to go to university, but he had no tuition. So Trevor and his friends earned money by making mix CDs, making party CDs and throwing DJ parties.

They ran their business in the hood. In any township in South Africa, if you had a bit of money, people would say, “Oh, you’re a cheese boy.” Bongani and his crew would never admit to being cheese boys. In the hood, even if you’re not a criminal, crime is in your life in some way or another , because there is a very subtle line between civilian and criminal. For example, some people had to stole things and traded them for supporting the family. The hood was also a low-stress, comfortable life, all their mental energy went into getting by. Then Trevor had stopped planning for school. One day, the cop broke into their DJ party and finally shot the monitor. Trevor’s all music collection got lost, so his business was over. They started eating into they savings. All they had left was the hustle, and they hustled even harder. Then, one evening after work, his friend came by and sold a camera to him. This time, after seeing the pictures, he felt guilty. He thought he had stolen someone’s memories and part of someone’s life. One night, they were arrested by some cops for a gun which didn't belong to them. By paying the money, they were bailed out . At last, they got out and everything was fine, but it rattled them. 

Finally, Trevor realized he had options to leave here but his friends haven't.