Greenlights 读后任务 Chapter 1.1

Chapter 1.1

问题

1.    What does Greenlight mean?

2.    What do you think of the author’s father?

翻译

1.    I come from a family who took you across town to your favorite cheeseburger-and-milkshake joint to celebrate your lesson learned immediately following your corporal correction.

2.    Like a good southern boy should, I’ll start with my mom. She’s a true baller, living proof that the value of denial depends on one’s level of commitment to it.

要求：

1.尽量回答上面问题 

2.思考：

A denied expectation hurts more than a denied hope, while a fulfilled hope makes us happier than a fulfilled expectation. 请谈谈你对这一句话的理解。