表达

We’d be camouflaged there.

to hide something, especially by making it look the same as the things around it, or by making it seem like something else

例句：The strain she was under was well camouflaged by skilful make-up.

造句：He tried to camouflage his real intentions by changing the subject.

He’ll go off on a drinking binge and then pop back up out of nowhere a week later.

any act of immoderate indulgence;

an occasion for excessive eating or drinking;

 binge and purge押尾韵的同义短语

to eat too much and then force yourself to vomit 

造句：This method will minimize candy binge drinking.

Where South Africa’s white countryside was lush and irrigated and green, the black lands were overpopulated and overgrazed, the soil depleted and eroding.

use up (resources or materials);

例句：Wars in the region have depleted the country's food supplies.

造句：He had depleted all the money he had.

My mom was an expert at cracking open a chicken bone and getting out every last bit of marrow inside.

　 骨髓；精华；活力

例句：Fear took the marrow out of him.

Back in Soweto, my mom enrolled in the secretarial course that allowed her to grab hold of the bottom rung of the white-collar world.

rung阶梯；横档；(社会、职业、组织等的)阶层

the bottom rung (of a ladder)原意：（梯子的）最下一级，引申：处于最底层

例句：Unemployment can push many to the bottom rung of societies.

造句：He is still on the bottom rung of the ladder.

but I would sit and pore through those.

在这里意思是熟读  study or give close attention to

例句：He had spent several hours in the library poring over those musty documents.

造句：It took me several months to pore through the thick book.

reflections

His mother once said，“Learn from your past and be better because of your past,but don’t cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don’t hold on to it. Don’t be bitter.”  She learned to live with pain. She never complained about the deprivations of her youth or the betrayals of her parents.She just take it. This is what I admire.

At high school,there were students and students. The school was very strict. The only difference was that every time some failed, they bounced back.I was one of them. I passed through a terrible ordeal that never want again. However,what didn't kill me make me stronger.

summary

He was nine years old when his mother threw him out of moving car to avoid the violence from a bus driver. It is just a small part of the difficulties of this book.  

Apartheid’s walls cracked and crumbled over many years. Before that ,in South Africa, his mother was the rebel , refusing to adhere to the unlogical apartheid system. She never complained about the deprivations of her youth or the betrayals of her parents. My mother wanted to get out from the shadow of her family, so she ran away the gettho and came into the city. She determined to sleep in public restrooms and rely on the kindness of prostitutes until she could make her own way in the world. She was lucky to pick up English and typing, which gave her job opportunities.Nothing allowed her to grab hold of the bottom rung of the white-collar world. She gave her son the childhood that she never had. As modestly as they lived , he never felt poor for what his mother educated him.