台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是：

Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.
因为以前我读过的所有书里面的角色全都是外国人，所以我那时一直都认为，书中的角色本来就应该要有外国人，而且书的内容也必须要是关于我无法亲身体会到的事物。

学习重点：

1.character 角色
character (n.) 角色
characteristic (n.) 特质
characterize (v.) 以…为特征

2.foreign 外国的、外来的
foreign (adj.) 外国的、外来的
foreigner (n.) 外国人

3.convinced 被说服了
convinced (adj.) 被说服了
convincing (adj.) 有说服力的

4.identify 验证、认同
identify (v.) 验证、认同
identity (n.) 身份，正身