Vocabulary:
1.be (as) thick as thieves:if two people are as thick as thieves, they are very friendly with each other and seem to share a lot of secrets, making other people think they are hiding or planning sth
原文：Teddy and Trevor,thick as thieves.关系很好，形影不离
2. get on like a house on fire:表示“一见如故” “一拍即合”，像是干柴遇到了🔥。类似的常见表达还有hit it off, click。
原文：Teddy and I got along like a house on fire
Nick only has eyes for Diana. He's not interested in other girls. (have eyes for表示“看上” “相中”)
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3.hit the jackpot(头奖): to have a big success
/to win a lot of money
原文：We’d hit the jackpot. 巨大的成功
4. carve out/create a niche:do sth in a particular way that is different to and better than anyone else
carve out:to succeed in getting the job, position, life etc that you want
原文：I had carved out my niche, and was having a great time;找到了自己很棒的位置
5. give sb a makeover: make them look more attractive by giving them new clothes, a new hairstyle etc
give sp a makeover: make it look more attractive by painting the walls, putting in new furniture etc
原文：he made it his mission to give me a makeover让我改头换面，充满魅力
6.corner the market: to gain control of the whole supply of a particular kind of goods
原文：which is why Bongani was excited when he saw me mixing—he saw a way to corner the market.垄断市场
7.tap into:to use or take what is needed from something such as an energy supply or an amount of money
原文：All I had to do was tap into it.利用
造句：Google can not tap into the market in China due to the Great Firewall.
8.cuss sb out: to swear and shout at sb because you are angry
原文：I started cussing her out.生气地咒骂
9. insofar as/ in so far as/ in as far as:to the degree that
原文：My plan,insofar as I had one,在某种程度上 was to go to university to be a computer programmer
10. 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 逐渐减少and we’d wind down停下休息.
Summary:
In these chapters, Trevor recalled his various friendship and tuck-shop development.
Teddy and Trevor got along like a house on fire. They stole chocolates together. Unfortunately, Teddy was arrested, but Teddy did not confess him. Meanwhile, the police thought the guy in screen was the white, not Trevor.
Trevor once worked as a middleman for Bolo and Andrew for a year. Andrew was impressed by his personalities. So later, Andrew bequeathed unto Trevor his CD writer as thanks. With the CD writer, Trevor become a balling mogul.
Bongani and Tom were two middlemen of Trevor. Tom, opposed to Andrew, promised to help Trevor get a date with a beauty in order to get his free CDs and get with the sister. As a result, new outfit and cornrows hair gave Trevor a makeover. But Trevor found the girl could not speak English in the end not in the beginning since Tom's did not tell Trevor. This is just Tom's trick.
Selling pirated CDs is the place where his life of crime started off. Then it gradually evolved into hustling. After monitor was shot by cop, he ended his CDs business.
Reflection:
"I chose to live in that world, but I wasn’t from that world. If anything, I was an imposter. Day to day I was in it as much as everyone else, but the difference was that in the back of my mind I knew I had other options. I could leave. They couldn’t."
Trevor's mom helped Trevor see the real world, not only the Africa. So Trevor can dream of what he can imagine. He run fast, operated own successful tuck-shop, realized some theories from trivia, and could tell the right and wrong. He won in both the mental and physical. Therefore, he could leave, They couldn't.
I think owning the ability to leave from anything at anytime at anyplace is important. I like watching movies and reading fiction, even spend plenty of work hours on them. I couldn't leave them at the time when I should leave. So sometimes I couldn't accomplish my tasks on time. This just happened in my study since I was a student. But if I can not learn to leave, I will suffer irreversible damage to my career, even the life in the future.
