day 1 生词扫除
Words and phrases
1.Incarcerateverb
Toput or keep someone in prison or in a place used as a prison
Thousands of dissidents have been
interrogated or incarcerated.
Tokeep someone in a closed place and prevent them from leaving it:
We were incarcerated in that broken elevator
for four hours.
2.No one’s idea没有人知道
3.Chronic pain慢性痛
4.Methamphetamine/ˌmeθ.æmˈfet.ə.miːn/
A drug that makes your mind and body more active . It
is addictive and some people take it illegally.甲基苯丙胺（刺激精神和身体的药物，容易让人上瘾）
5.Sober
Not drunk oraffected by alcohol
Are you sober enough to live, Jim?
I’d had no wine all evening so I was stone code sober
Serious and calm
In fact the whole wedding was a sober affair-no dancing,
just people standing around in groups chatting politely.
Anthony was in a very sober mood-I scarcely heard him laugh
all night.
Adj( not bright)
Clothes or coloursthat are sober are plain and not bright.
Verb.
To become more calmand serious, or to make someone do this
News of the tragedy sobered us
Sober (sb.) up
6.Draw a pension领取养老金
7.Absurd
Stupid andunreasonable, or silly in a humorous way
What an absurd thing to say.
Don’t’ be absurd! Of course I want you to come.
The absurd
Things that happenthat are stupid or unreasonable
The whole situation borders on the absurd.
She has a keen sense of the absurd.
8.Offendera person who is guilty of a crime
9.Tear it up撕碎
10.Muggera person who attacks people in order to steal their money
11.Keep sb. In check抑制，随时检查关着
12.The strong and selfish will prey on the weak.弱肉强食
13.Weak and without energy ,strength, or power
He was a feeble, helpless old man
The little lamp gave only a feeble light.
Not effective orgood
A feeble joke/excuse
14.Inmate
A person who is keptin a prison or a hospital for people who are mentally ill
Women make up about 6 percent of all inmates in the U.S.
15.Felony
Serious crime thatcan be punished by one or more years in prison
A felony charge
He was convicted of a felony
16.Deterrent
Something thatdeters people from doing something
A nuclear deterrent
Tougher prison sentences may act/serve as a deterrent to
other would-be offenders.
17.Outlier
A person, thing, orfact that is very different from other people, things, or facts, so that it cannot be used to draw general conclusions.
People who live past 100 are genetic outliers, whose
longevity is unreachable for most of us.
A place that is farfrom the main part of something
The survey showed about 125 outlier sties up to 100 miles
from Chaco.
18.Convict
To decide officially
in a law court that someone is guilty of a crime宣判有罪
He has twice been convicted of robbery/arson.
Someone who is in
prison because they are guilty of a crime囚犯
An escaped convict
19.Sociopath
A person who is completely unable or unwilling to behave in a way that
is acceptable to society反社会者
I am telling you he’s acomplete/total sociopath.
20.Recidivist累犯
A criminal who continues to commitcrimes even after they have been punished.
21.Fall
on deaf ears没有被听取；违背理睬
Day 3 Summarize
Prisons are an essential tool to keep society safe. But at some point, the cost of incarceration start to outweigh the benefit when Donald Trump’s attorney-general ordered the harshest punishment the law allows. American’s incarceration rate rose five fold from 1970 to 2008. But from 2010 to 2015, it fell by 8% and crime dropped by 15%. How to use prison intelligently? Leave prison for worst offenders. Divert the less scary ones to drug treatment, community service and other penalties, as well as tagging and justice systems also help, like cognitive behavioral therapy. Politician should word hard to make more paths back to productive citizenship.
