Born a Crime C1: 2017-10-02

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Summary：Run

In this chapter, the author, Trevor, born in South Africa, describled his family's religious church life and his entertaining run stories with his mother to us.

There were three main churches  in South Africa, including Black church, White church and mixed church. Black church was outdoor, rough and lenghty. One of those huge, supermodern, suburban megachurches is Mixed church. A very white and wealthy but kind of monotonous that was White church. Trevor's mother was such a religious woman that he had went to these churches with his mother reluctantly every-week. Although it was a monotone day, a series of interesting running stories happened between  them, just like the relationship of Tom and Jerry.

One of these amusing stories was that Trevor was threw out of the minibus by his mother. On the ground of continuously political violence  and the Apartheid in South Africa, there were different tribes in different area. Inkathe, a predominately Zulu party, was known as warrior and militant attitude. One day, Trevor and his mother were forced to take Zulu driver's  bus to church. Then his mother jumped out of the car with napping Trevor and ran as fast as possible to escape the kill of driver, which was partly because the divergence of party.

Indeed, nobody has ran and run stories as Trevor and his mother.

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词汇

It was an epic slog.

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As much as I loved church, the idea of a nine-hour slog,...

Slog

① 释义：a period of hard work or effort

✏️ hard slog 艰苦跋涉

例句：Writing the book took ten months of hard slog.

仿写：It is a hard slog across the desert.

② 释义：a long period of tiring walking:

例句：It was a long slog to the top of the mountain.

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I always had a blast at mixed church.

blast：

释义：fun：an enjoyable and exciting experience:

同义：good/great time， rejoicing，enjoyment，fun

例句：The concert was a blast.

仿写：Go skating is a blast

✏️ a blast from the past ：something from the past that you remember, see, or hear again, and that reminds you of that time in your life: 勾起回忆的事物

例句： That's a blast from the past. No one has called me that for years.

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The more time we spent at church, she reckoned, the more blessings we accrued

accrue：

释义：get those advantages overa period of time:  积累，增加  accrue blessing 积福

①accrue to

例句：Knowledge will accrue to you from reading

②accrue from

例句：This  advantages were  accrued from the introduction of new technolog

仿写：It's clear that the theory  accrues with experience.

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#宗教相关#

①虔诚的：religious, faith-based； 牧师：pastor

②sb is the Team Jesus all the way,

③ balanced her Christian faith with the traditional Xhosa beliefs .同时信奉两个宗教

④ abandoned their indigenous faith for Christianity.弃教A 信教B

⑤教堂活动：jubilant praise of the Lord. / deep analysis of the scripture. /passion and catharsis（受难曲，洗罪）

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#慢慢 一点点移动#

edge the car slowly .../ inch our way past ...

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Thought

有趣！即视感！Trevor和妈妈如同Tom 和Jerry的关系。可以想象趁机偷玩游戏机被逮后要挨打的场景，机智的母亲为了逮住Trevor 喊捉贼以让旁人帮忙，睡意朦胧一无所知的Trevor被扔出车外，因为妈妈吼了一声“Run”便习惯性的奔跑，事后才发现自己遍体鳞伤还和妈妈理论“At least they would have woken me up before they killed me.”哭笑不得呀。想想，那些我们那些类似蠢萌的童年往事。

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