臺灣籍旅美老師今天交給我們的句子是：

If you believe that people are basically good, you are likely to believe that poverty or bigotry or some other outside force causes people to commit violent crime. That's the only way you can make sense of the fact that some people commit crimes despite their basically good nature. Something drove them to it.
若你相信人性本善，你就很可能會相信是受到貧窮、偏執的觀念或某些外在因素的影響，才致使人們會去犯下暴行。只有這樣想，才能合理化某些人即使是本性善良，仍會去犯罪的這個事實：是某些事驅使他們這么做的。

學習重點：

1.basically 基本上
basically (adj.) 基本上
basic (adj.) 基本的

2.poverty 貧窮、窮困
poverty (n.) 貧窮、窮困

3.bigotry 盲從
bigotry (n.) 盲從

4.commit 犯(罪)
commit (v.) 犯(罪)
commitment (n.) 交付
commission (n.) 傭金

5.violent 殘暴的
violent (adj.) 殘暴的
violence (n.) 暴力

6.crime 犯罪行為
crime (n.) 犯罪行為
criminal (n.) 罪犯