Born A Crime - (16) The Cheese Boys

New Vocabulary:

1.insofar as/ in so far as/ in as far as: to the degree that

原文：My plan, insofar as I had one, was to go to university to be a computer programmer

造句：Insofar as I failed, I wasted plenty of precious time.

2. taper off: to decrease gradually

wind down: to rest and relax after a lot of hard work or excitement

/to gradually reduce the work f a business or organization so that it can be closed down completely

原文：Slowly the rush would start to taper off and we’d wind down.

造句：I wind down after the pressure tapers off.

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Thought:

"It’s easy to be judgmental about crime when you live in a world wealthy enough to be removed from it. But the hood taught me that everyone has different notions of right and wrong, different definitions of what constitutes crime, and what level of crime they’re willing to participate in."

There are two sets of rules, laws and morality, in our society. We human beings make laws to maintain the stable society, where everybody is constrained and punished by equal laws. The more advanced countries are, the more widespread the laws are, the more kinds of crime are judged. However, everyone has different notions of morality. Anyone can not add his or her morality to others. In rich areas, people are able to be the people they want. In poor areas, people can do whatever they want due to the poor.