BORN A CRIME-Day2

Part 1- 3句：

1. That's how a police state works - everyone thinks everyone else is police.

2. I have no idea how much danger I was putting everyone in.

累积句式（口语表达）：I have no idea+宾语从句

我完全没有意识...

例句：I have no idea how much I care about her.

3. I wasn't a lonely kid - I was good at being alone.

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Part 2- 3词：

1, true to

原文：so, true to her nature, she found an option that was not among the ones presented to her: she took a secretarial course, a typing class.

And my mother, true to her word, was prepared for him not to be involved.

例句：Ture to my word, I read English every morning.

2, piece on the side

原文：A lot of these men were foreigners, Germans and Portuguese who didn't care about the law/ and were happy to sign a lease/ giving a prostitute（hooker） a place to live and work/ in exchange for a steady piece on the side.

英文释义：not your girlfriend or boyfrined,but rather your piece on the side. You'll just hook it up once in a while in a non-committed type way.

例句：I just broke up with my girlfriend, but at least I still got my piece on the side. I'll sext her a booty call later.

3, exile

原文：The white parent smuggled them out through Lesotho or Botswana, and they grew up in exile.

ex=out

n.&v

n:  the state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons

背井离乡的人

a tax/political exile 移居低税国家的富人

流放

to live in exile

to be sent into exile

government-in -exile 流亡政府

v.

常做 be exiled

例句：Li Bai was exiled to the barren land.

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Part 3- 感想

    不得不讲，读完这一章，对作者的妈妈敬佩之情溢于言表。也通过作者的母亲对stubbron(stub+born) 这个单词有了更深的体会。有自己的想法，敢于去实践。遵从自己的内心，这样一位令人可敬的女性。在他妈妈坚定的想要一个孩子时，言语中的力量和内心的坚定，让人敬佩炸。也让自己想起了《一个陌生女人的来信》中那位女性。女性总是会迸发出让人觉得不可思议的力量。True to nature; ture to word.大概是作者妈妈最真实的写照。

今天最喜欢的一段话：

-"Why? Why didn't we just leave? Why didn't we go to Switzerland?"

-"Because I am not Swiss,” she said, as stubborn as ever. “This is my country. Why should I leave?"