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.
詞匯
It was an epic slog.
As much as I loved church, the idea of a nine-hour slog,...
Slog
① 釋義：a period of hard work or effort
?? hard slog 艱苦跋涉
I always had a blast at mixed church.
blast：
釋義：fun：an enjoyable and exciting experience:
同義：good/great time， rejoicing，enjoyment扑馁，fun
例句：The concert was a blast.
仿寫：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: 勾起回憶的事物
例句： That's a blast from the past. No one has called me that for years.
The more time we spent at church, she reckoned, the more blessings we accrued
accrue：
釋義：get those advantages overa period of time:? 積累搁料，增加? accrue blessing 積福
例句：Knowledge will accrue to you from reading
例句：This? advantages were? accrued from the introduction of new technolog
仿寫：It's clear that the theory? accrues with experience.
#宗教相關(guān)#
①虔誠的：religious, faith-based； 牧師：pastor
②sb is the Team Jesus all the way,
③ balanced her Christian faith with the traditional Xhosa beliefs .同時(shí)信奉兩個(gè)宗教
④ abandoned their indigenous faith for Christianity.棄教A 信教B
⑤教堂活動：jubilant praise of the Lord. / deep analysis of the scripture. /passion and catharsis（受難曲贝淤，洗罪）
#慢慢 一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)移動#
edge the car slowly .../ inch our way past ...
Thought
有趣柒竞！即視感！Trevor和媽媽如同Tom 和Jerry的關(guān)系播聪⌒嗷可以想象趁機(jī)偷玩游戲機(jī)被逮后要挨打的場景，機(jī)智的母親為了逮住Trevor 喊捉賊以讓旁人幫忙离陶，睡意朦朧一無所知的Trevor被扔出車外稼虎，因?yàn)閶寢尯鹆艘宦暋癛un”便習(xí)慣性的奔跑，事后才發(fā)現(xiàn)自己遍體鱗傷還和媽媽理論“At least they would have woken me up before they killed me.”哭笑不得呀招刨。想想霎俩，那些我們那些類似蠢萌的童年往事。
